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MALDEF Issues Statement on Federal Court Block of Trump Order Banning Transgender People From Military Service
October 31, 2017
SAN ANTONIO, Oct. 31 -- The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund issued the following statement by Thomas A. Saenz, president and general counsel, on the decision by a federal court judge blocking the Trump administration's ban on transgender people serving in the military:

"In yet another blow to Donald Trump's ongoing pretensions to imperial power - often exercised by capricious tweet - a federal court has acted to block the presidential order to ban tr . . .

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