Trump-Appointed Judge's Dissent Is Called Out as 'Vulgar' in 9th Circuit Trans Rights Case

Rumored Alito Replacement Ninth Circuit Judge Just Dropped a Blistering Dissent That Trump Definitely Noticed

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals just forced a Christian-owned Korean women's spa to admit naked men. That ruling sat on the books while the court's left-wing majority hid behind legal jargon and euphemism. Then Judge Lawrence Van Dyke opened his dissent with three words that broke everything wide open – and now the left […]

Ruling in women’s spa case could shake up transgender lawfare

A judge’s dissenting opinion in a transgender case regarding access to female-only facilities ignited uproar within the federal judiciary last week over the intentionally provocative language he used to describe the crux of the legal fight. Judge Lawrence VanDyke, an appointee of President Donald Trump, declared in an opinion on Thursday that the appellate case out of Washington state is really about the government allowing, as he put it, “swing…

Trump-appointed judge’s dissent is called out as ‘vulgar’ in 9th Circuit trans rights case

Judge Lawrence VanDyke denounced the court's liberal majority as "woke judges" who had "collectively lost their minds" and sought to impose "Frankenstein social experiments ... on real women and young...

Ninth Circuit Judges Engage in a Public Spat Over ‘Swinging’ Body Parts

Ninth Circuit's heated dispute over spa access and religious rights exposes tensions in women's privacy and legal decorum.

Trump-appointed judge's dissent is called out as 'vulgar' in 9th Circuit trans rights case

Colleagues denounced Judge Lawrence VanDyke's use of crude language to describe the male anatomy in a ruling that dealt with a trans person's access to a women-only spa.

Lawrence VanDyke’s “Swinging Dicks” Opinion Has His Ninth Circuit Colleagues Horrified

Olympus Spa v. Armstrong is not, as Judge Lawrence VanDyke claimed last week in an honest-to-God federal court opinion, “a case about swinging dicks.”  Olympus Spa operates two Korean spas in Washington state that limit their services to “biological women,” and deny entry to trans women who haven’t undergone gender confirmation surgery. So in 2020, the state’s Human Rights Commission started investigating Olympus Spa for violating the state’s no…