He says the removal of public health data violated laws requiring advance notice.
U.S. District Judge John Bates issued a temporary order for federal health agencies to return public health data to the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Food and Drug Administration websites after it was removed due to President Donald Trump’s executive order to remove “gender ideology” language from the government.
The Office of Personnel Management issued the memorandum that resulted in the removal of information, stating that information was “being modified to comply with President Trump’s executive orders.“ The datasets removed included recorded information regarding youth drug risk, adolescent school health, and HIV/AIDS indexes.
As healthcare workers and researchers use these public data sets regularly, Doctors for America (DFA) sued President Trump’s administration for not notifying U.S. health organizations before slowly removing the datasets, a formal protocol required by federal law.
Judge Bates wrote, “This opinion has documented the harm DFA members have suffered and will continue to suffer absent intervention, but the harm extends beyond them.” He stated that the plaintiffs “are representative of the widespread disruption that defendants’ abrupt removal of these critical healthcare materials has caused.“
As the Lord Leads, Pray with Us…
- For President Trump and administration officials as they seek to adjust the terminology of government information and data.
- For federal judges to be prudent as they hear challenges to the administration’s actions.
Sources: The Hill, CBS News, MSN
