Judge tells agencies to restore webpages and data removed after Trump's executive order
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/judge-tells-agencies-to-restore-webpages-and-data-removed-after-trump-s-executive-order/ar-AA1yQ5pz?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=a1ea711f0e664797a1cb6233f16ec6d4&ei=20
Story by MICHAEL KUNZELMAN (11 Feb 2025)
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered government agencies to restore public access to health-related webpages and datasets that they removed to comply with an executive order by President Donald Trump.
U.S. District Judge John Bates in Washington agreed to issue a temporary restraining order requested by the Doctors for America advocacy group. The judge instructed the government to restore access to several webpages and datasets that the group identified as missing from websites and to identify others that also were taken down "without adequate notice or reasoned explanation."
On Jan. 20, his first day back in the White House, Trump signed an order for agencies to use the term "sex" and not "gender" in federal policies and documents.
During a hearing Monday, the judge asked plaintiffs' attorney Zachary Shelley if the removal of the online material harms the public. Shelley said the doctors' interests align with their patients.
"There is immense harm to the public," Shelley said. "There are massive threats to public health."
The judge concluded that the harm in this case ultimately trickles down to "everyday Americans" seeking doctors' care.
"If those doctors cannot provide these individuals the care they need (and deserve) within the scheduled and often limited time frame, there is a chance that some individuals will not receive treatment, including for severe, life-threatening conditions," Bates wrote.
Nice to hear some sane news for a change!
UPDATE: Trump officials ask CDC, FDA to use gender notice on restored websites
The Trump administration had directed health agencies to place a notice condemning "gender ideology" on health webpages that had been earlier taken down.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/02/14/cdc-fda-gender-ideology-health-webpages-trump/
Washington Post - Lena H. Sun, Rachel Roubein and Salvador Rizzo
February 14, 2025 at 10:56 a.m. EST
The Trump administration has directed the nation's premier health agencies to place a notice harshly condemning "gender ideology" on agency webpages that a federal judge ordered be restored online this week.
Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration were asked to place a notice on "any restored pages that were taken down due to their content promoting gender ideology," according to an email sent from an official at the Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday evening. The Washington Post obtained a copy of the email.
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I wonder if a judge can cite the President for Contempt of Court?