A federal appeals court on Tuesday allowed Indiana’s ban on gender-affirming care to go into effect, removing a temporary injunction a judge issued last year.
The ruling was handed down by a panel of justices on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. It marked the latest decision in a legal challenge the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana filed against the ban, enacted last spring amid a national push by GOP-led legislatures to curb LGBTQ+ rights.
Why wouldn’t they have a choice?
Because laws tell them what to decide. The courts are there to make sure the laws don’t infringe on constitutional rights, on federal laws etc., but they don’t create rules.
I see you’re unfamiliar with our court system and only know the idealized version.
If a court decides to interpret a law some way or another, it’s because the law’s wording allowed for some leeway.
That’s on the lawmakers.
Got it. Judicial decisions are always correct.