Trump administration refuses to release names of experts 'consulted' on trans military ban

[DonViejo]

By Jeff Taylor · Friday, March 23, 2018

The Department of Justice is refusing to cooperate with a federal judge’s order for the Trump administration to turn over the names of experts President Donald Trump claims to have consulted with before deciding to ban transgender soldiers from the military.

The DOJ asserted executive privilege in a five-page filing before U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman on Thursday, defying the judge’s order that it lacked standing to make such an assertion, because “the court cannot rule on a ‘potential’ privilege, particularly where the allegedly privileged information is unidentified.”

“While defendants need not disclose the substance of any communications or documents upon which they intend to rely, their initial disclosures, amended initial disclosures, and second amended initial disclosures are clearly inadequate,” Pechman wrote in a three-page order. “Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(a)(1), initial disclosures must identify ‘each individual likely to have discoverable information — along with the subjects of that information — that the disclosing party may use to support its claims or defenses’ as well as ‘all documents, electronically stored information, and tangible things that the disclosing party has in its possession, custody, or control and may use to support its claims or defenses.’”

“Defendants respectfully disagree and adhere to their position that judicial deference to executive decisions about the composition of the military is not dependent upon judicial review of the deliberative process that preceded the decisions at issue,” the filing reads, signed by Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division Chad Readler, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate, among other Justice Department officials. “In addition, defendants do not waive any executive privileges simply by arguing for judicial deference to the President’s military decisions.”

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[spanone]

1. IT'S ALL LIES TO FEED THE DEPLORABLE BASE

[RKP5637]

2. More things the Trump administration wants to do to destroy people. The ass in the White House!!!!

[workinclasszero]

3. It was Fox and friends of course

That's where Shitler gets most of his anti american ideas.

[D_Master81]

4. All the experts

were right wing think tank hacks if there were any at all. DJT thinks he's the smartest guy in the room wherever he goes, so I doubt they consulted anyone.