Oregon, My Oregon

I have to admit, this one's a little complicated, from John Sexton at Hat Hair, 9th Circuit Panel Overturns Ruling on Oregon Trans Prisoners

Last month I pointed out that there was an ongoing battle over the status of trans prisoners in Oregon. A pair of trans women prisoners had sued because they were being housed in a male prison. And back in April, Judge Mark D. Clarke ruled in favor of two trans women prisoners. He ordered that prisoners be housed with the gender they identify with absent extenuating circumstances.

But here's the obvious catch. The two prisoners who filed the lawsuit arguably represented a danger to other inmates if placed in a women's prison. The class action lawsuit included one plaintiff convicted of rape and another who beat his then-girlfriend to death. Another plaintiff was convicted of molesting a female child. But Judge Clarke apparently didn't consider any of these circumstances worthy of note.

Last week, a panel from the 9th Circuit reversed Judge Clarke's decision.

A federal appellate court Thursday threw out a lower court order that had directed the Oregon Department of Corrections to stop housing transgender women in men’s prisons.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark D. Clarke improperly concluded that the state corrections department had a default policy of placing all transgender prisoners in men’s prisons without individual evaluations or that officials were “deliberately indifferent” to the safety of transgender women.

“The district court improperly disregarded the overwhelming contrary evidence presented by Defendants in favor of baseless speculation,” 9th Circuit Judge Eric C. Tung wrote for the three-judge panel after hearing argument last month. 

Judge Clarke's decision was based on the idea that prisoners were not being given individual evaluations. He concluded this because 90 percent of prisoners were ending up being housed according to their birth sex. He basically tried to reverse this policy so that the majority would be housed according to their chosen identity. The appeals court said Judge Clarke had no evidence the evaluations were being handled improperly.

Tung wrote that Clarke incorrectly inferred a “default presumption” from the mere fact that more than 90% of transgender women are housed in men’s facilities.

The district judge assumed that a truly individualized process would not have produced such a lopsided outcome, but “no evidence supports the district court’s speculation,” Tung wrote.

In short, there's no proof of a systemic attempt to harm anyone.

...the appeals court said that the plaintiffs had failed to prove that Oregon had acted with deliberate indifference to transgender inmates. Tung wrote that Clarke had relied on outdated evidence and failed to consider counter arguments presented by the state.

“Nor have Plaintiffs shown that Defendants acted in a uniform way with deliberate indifference toward each of the class members,” Tung wrote. “At most, the record reflects that different officials acted in different ways toward different prisoners at different times.” 

Apparently the 9th Circuit's decision is notable for another reason. The SF Chronicle has devoted an entire article to the language it uses regarding trans people, specifically the use of quotes around "transgender."

When a federal appeals court ruled Thursday on the placement of transgender women in Oregon state prisons, the results were not surprising from a panel of judges appointed by President Donald Trump: that the inmates should remain in men’s prisons, reversing a lower-court order allowing them to be transferred. What was eye-catching, and perhaps unprecedented, was the way it was written.

Writing for a three-judge panel on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Eric Tung referred to transgender prisoners seven times in the 18-page decision, and six times he put “transgender” in quotes, apparently suggesting that he considered the status to be invented.

Tung made that even clearer in the first sentence of his opinion, when he described Oregon’s “more than a hundred ‘transgender women’ prison inmates” as “male inmates who claim to be female.”

That is, of course, perfectly clear and accurate language for what is happening in this case. But it was too much for the lawyers, even the ones who opposed the lower court ruling objected to it.

While the court “agreed with our core legal arguments” that Oregon carefully evaluates the needs and proper placement of transgender inmates, “we strongly disagree with the court’s harmful language,” said Jenny Hansson, spokesperson for the state attorney general’s office. “It does not reflect our brief or our values.”

At this point, speaking the truth ought to be the paramount concern, not expressing "values" that confuse the issue. But that's an argument lawyers in Oregon apparently aren't ready to hear.

It's heartening to find a little sense at the Circuit Court. 

Oregon, My Oregon

 At Hat Hair, Oregon to Sort Inmates by Gender Identity After Rapist and Murderer File Lawsuit

At the end of April a judge in Oregon ordered the state' Department of Corrections (ODOC) to adjust the way it segregates inmates. Prior to the judge's ruling, the decision was made on a case by case basis, however most trans-women wound up housed in male prisons. The judge ordered ODOC to reverse the presumption in these cases so that more trans-women would wind up housed in women's facilities.

Two prisoners sued the state, alleging it failed to protect transgender women from sexual and physical violence by housing them in men’s prisons where they faced dangerous and degrading conditions. They sued on behalf of a class of current and future transgender women prisoners.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark D. Clarke said his preliminary injunction ordering individual assessments for all transgender women in custody isn’t nearly as sweeping as it may appear because he’s requiring corrections officials to follow the same practice that they say they already use.

But he noted that despite the evaluations, more than 90% of transgender women in Oregon’s prison system are housed in men’s prisons.

The current system, he said, appears to begin with a presumption that transgender women should generally be housed in men’s prisons, with rare exceptions.

Instead, he ruled, the presumption should be that transgender women will be housed according to their gender identity.

The reason the judge issued this injunction while the case is still ongoing is because he was concerned that trans-women prisoners would be subject to violence in a male prison. The lawyers for the state pointed out that moving people with male genitals to a women's prison would also potentially expose women to sexual violence.

“ODOC has an important government objective in reducing potential sexual victimization by convicted and potential sexual predators at intake who may not be sincere in their asserted gender identity,” they argued.

Not mentioned in any of the court documents or in stories about the outcome were the identities of the trans-women who'd filed the lawsuit. Instead they were solely identified by initials. But the site Reduxx reports it was able to identify the plaintiffs in the case and their prison record calls into question the wisdom of the judge's decision,

The initial complaint, filed in September 2025 on behalf of men identified only as “S.D.” and “J.F.”, alleges that housing males who claim a transgender status in men’s prisons violates their constitutional rights...

Inmate “J.F.” is Jessica Anne Marie Foust, previously known as John Jay Chapman. He has been designated as a “vulnerable” inmate by the ODOC, and asserts that he is “a legal female.”

In 2008, Chapman was sentenced to 25 years in prison for raping a developmentally disabled woman who resided at an adult foster home in Gresham, Oregon, managed by his mother. While incarcerated, Chapman was convicted on four counts of assaulting a correctional officer. Three years later, in 2015, he began to identify as transgender...

The class action suit also includes the experiences of inmates identified as “Z.Z.” and “L.B.” Reduxx can identify Z.Z. and L.B. as “Zera Lola Zombie” and “Lillithia Moon Blood-Gaia.”

Zombie, born Daniel Lee Smith, is a violent trans-identified male who is classified as a “female” inmate in the Oregon inmate directory and is housed in women’s prison Coffee Creek Correctional Facility (CCCF). He is serving a 35-year sentence for charges including the brutal murder of his girlfriend, Samantha Brown. In 2014, Brown was beaten to death, her corpse left in the trailer home she and Zombie shared.

As for L.B., who also joined the lawsuit. Reduxx identifies him as “Lillithia Moon Blood-gaia.” L.B. is in prison for molesting a female child he was babysitting. In other words, he's a pedophile who was convicted and sentenced to 24 years. At the time he was arrested his name was Daniel and he had a full beard, but while awaiting sentencing he requested to be housed in a female prison on the grounds he was trans. He has since received breast implants, also on the order of an Oregon judge.

So there you have it. A convicted rapist, a murderer and a pedophile are paving the way for themselves and other convicts like them to serve out their sentences in a women's prison. These are literally the last people who should be anywhere near a women's prison but clearly the judge in Oregon doesn't agree.

As the Bard of Avon once suggested, "let's kill all the lawyers" presuming most judges are lawyers.

I have to say, I love the transgender prisoners names, Zera Lola Zombie and Lillithia Moon Blood-Gaia, Jessica Anne Marie Foust. Girls, I suggest you not break the law in Oregon.

Flotsam and Jetsam - Israel Strikes Iran, Secret Service Tackles Senator

If you live under a rock (not that there's anything wrong with that) you might not have heard that last night, after dark in the mid east, Israel launched a not unexpected pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear weapons facilities, as well as targeting senior leadership and nuclear scientists. I'm not pro-war, but I find it hard to fault Israel. Stacy McCain, ‘An Earth-Shattering Kaboom’: Israel Wipes Out Top Iranian Military Leaders UPDATE: ‘Decapitation Strike’ — List . Insty, IRAN DISCOVERS EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOMS: ISRAEL LAUNCHES MULTIPLE STRIKES IN IRAN. Driscoll, ISRAEL LAUNCHES MULTIPLE STRIKES IN IRAN and Israel Bombs Iran in Preemptive Strike (UPDATED). Cathy Salgado at PJM, Israel Bombs Iran in Preemptive Strike. Don Surber, Sucks to be Iran this morning, "Trump gave them a 60-day notice to negotiate." Israel says attacks will continue for several more days. Meanwhile, Israel is on watch for the expected volley of drones and missiles form Iranian counter strikes.

Yesterday Alex Padilla, a junior Senator from California, found himself in the same LA federal building where DHS Secretary Kristi Noem was speaking, and without identifying himself, began shouting and heckling and pushing toward the podium. Secret Service intercepted him, and while he struggled against them, pushed him out of the room, and onto the floor, where FBI agents cuffed him and searched him for weapons. He was later released, and met with Noem privately. Given two attempted assassinations of Donald Trump, and leftists currently burning the streets of LA and other, it's not surprising the security around Trump's cabinet is on a hair trigger. At Insty, NEW CIVILITY WATCH: Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_ "BREAKING: California Democratic Senator @AlexPadilla4CA just crashed DHS Secretary Noem’s press conference in LA and was forcibly removed." Matt Margolis at PJM, Democrats Melt Down Over Padilla’s Stunt — Here’s What Really Happened Dan Bongino "This was a calculated stunt by Sen. Padilla. He wasn’t there to ask questions or get answers. He was there to stage a media spectacle, and right on cue, the Democrat spin machine kicked into gear with prepackaged outrage and performative pearl-clutching." @FBIDDBongino "With regard to the incident in LA this afternoon, the Senator in question was not wearing a security pin and physically resisted law enforcement when confronted. Our FBI personnel acted completely appropriately while assisting Secret Service and we are grateful for their professionalism and service." At Insty, NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW (EXCEPT DEMOCRATS): Democrats Melt Down Over Padilla’s Stunt — Here’s What Really Happened. jimtreacher.substack.com @jtLOL "Never seen a U.S. senator bust uninvited into a press conference in street clothes spouting gibberish, either. It's a day of firsts." Quote Christopher Cadelago @ccadelago, "Never seen a U.S. senator shoved around like this by law enforcement." Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter "Hey, it's not like anyone has tried to, I dunno, murder a bunch of Republican congressmen, knife a Republican governor candidate, kill a Republican-appointed SCOTUS justice or attempt to kill (twice) a Republican president lately." DC_Draino @DC_Draino, "Notice how Democrats don’t show this longer video that clearly shows Alex Padilla getting violent with federal agents? This man committed a crime that J6ers got thrown in prison for years for." Matt Vespa at TownHall says DHS Kristi Noem Just Blew Up a Dem Senator's Sob Story About How He Got Manhandled at a DHS Presser. Ace, The Democrat-Media Party Goes All In on the Proposition That a Strange Man Should Be Permitted to Charge at a Female Office-Holder Without Consequence. "Is that the New Rule? I ask once again: Are you sure you can live with the consequences of all these New Rules you're creating?" And, NBC "News" Reports a Huge Scoop: There's a Left-Wing Movement to Encourage and Escalate Violence Update: California Democrat Senator Alex Padilla Arrested and Handcuffed for His #Resistance Efforts, "You don't say. You don't say."

James Antle at Am Con examines The Buchananite Moment in LA, "The riots have both the Democratic presidential front-runners and Donald Trump playing to their bases. We’ll see who wins." At Twitchy, Conservative Woman's EPIC Thread About 'Breaking Into Costco' Destroys Lefty Talking Points on ILLEGALS Traditionally Sarah @tradwifemom "So I went to Costco without a membership, I snuck around the card readers, I didn’t want to wait in line to get an actual membership or one day pass. They caught me in the store and asked me to leave or go to the service desk and get a membership. Instead of leaving I demanded free products and food and waved a Sam’s club flag in the middle of their store to show them just how much I love Costco and want to stay. When they still asked me to leave I began stealing whatever I could and threw frozen hamburger patties at security. They should have just let me shop there without a membership, I’m special!" At TNR, The Symbolic Power of Burning Waymo Robotaxis "It’s no accident that the vehicles that got torched during the Los Angeles protests were driverless cars." Beth Brelje at Da Fed reports a Mexican Illegal Alien Charged With Attempted Murder For Allegedly Throwing Molotov Cocktail During LA Riots. Driscoll, SUMMER RERUN SEASON: Amy Reichert @amyforsandiego "Anti-ICE activists are organizing a boycott of Independence Day. Because apparently celebrating freedom is now offensive." NYPo, NYPD vehicles torched in suspected arson attack as cops find undetonated explosive devices nearby.

Kurt Schlichter says On the Upside, Gavin Newsom Is Toast. At Declassified with Julie Kelly, Who Really is to Blame for Anti-Deportation Riots? "One can safely argue the trouble started on March 15 in the federal courtroom of Judge Jeb Boasberg." She's redoubtable, but I think she's wrong on this. They were going to riot this summer, all they needed was a barely plausible excuse. Matt Margolis, You Have to See Sen. John Kennedy Nuke Maxine Waters and Gavin Newsom. Breaking911 @Breaking911, "MAXINE WATERS: "Trump started this. Rioters should not be edged on, and you know, provoked..."" Capt. Ed at Hat Hair, YGBFKM: Gutless Gavin Hides 'First Amendment' Speech Behind Copyright Claims to Shut Down Critics. Reddit Lies @reddit_lies, "Redditors today: "A modern day Anne Frank is hiding from ICE" Redditors 4 years ago: "I got an entire church forcibly quarantined." Vicky Taft at PJM says the L.A. Mayor's Damning Response to Riots PROVES She Is All-In on Rioters' Extortion Racket. Tom Fitton @TomFitton "Sounds like @MayorOfLA just admitted to a criminal conspiracy...." Quote Mayor Karen Bass @MayorOfLA "We will not stand for this."

Insty says ROLL THEM UP: Michelle Maxwell @MichelleMaxwell "California Democratic Party Faces Scrutiny Over Brick Purchase Amidst LA Protests By Jonathan Gregory Los Angeles, CA — June 11 2025 A recent review of the California Democratic Party's May 2025 expense report has uncovered a significant and controversial expenditure: the purchase of 200 pallets of construction-grade bricks. Notably, this acquisition lacks any associated construction plans or public documentation, raising questions about its intended use. The absence of a clear purpose for such a substantial purchase has prompted calls for transparency and accountability from both political opponents and watchdog organizations. The timing of this purchase coincides with widespread protests in Los Angeles, which erupted in early June following aggressive immigration enforcement actions by the Trump administration. These demonstrations have been marked by clashes between protesters and law enforcement, with reports indicating that some individuals have thrown bricks during the unrest. While there is no direct evidence linking the pallets purchased by the Democratic Party to the incidents in Los Angeles, the proximity of these events has intensified public scrutiny." Capt. Ed, BREAKING: FBI Arrests Riot Supplier, Charges Conspiracy; UPDATE: 'Brown Berets'? Matt Finn@MattFinnFNC, "BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: The driver who vent viral for dropping off “bionic shield” face masks to LA rioters was arrested by the FBI in a sting at his home this morning. Alejandro Orellana was taken into custody on suspicion of Conspiracy to Commit Civil Disorders." Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok "BREAKING: The FBI arrested the guy who dropped off the bionic face shields for the rioters in LA." Ace, FBI Arrests Foreign Invader Who Distributed Anti-Gas-Mask Face Shields to Rioters; Man Is a Member of a Latino Gang Paramilitary "The Brown Berets." "You might have seen the "Bionic Shields" being handed out to rioters so that they could throw concrete at cops even when the cops used tear gas to disperse them. Photographs of the foreign soldier were taken, and that foreign soldier operating on US soil has now been arrested." And Josh Hawley Expands Insurrection Investigation, Notifying CHIRLA and PSL That They Will Be Subpoenaed, "Who's funding this insurrectionary violence? Well, ultimately, the taxpayer is. But the money is collected and paid out by revolutionary violence NGOs that this mentally-ill, suicidal country is actually paying for." Ace, Scumbag Woke Corporation Walmart Faces Boycott As Scumbag Heiress Christy Walton Promotes the Planned Democrat-Media Party Riots. "Scheduled for This Saturday I hate this corporation. Maybe we should have some fiery but mostly peaceful protests for Walmart."

From the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 06.12.25 (Afternoon Edition), Twitchy: Mollie Hemingway Wrecks Jake Tapper For Refusing To Testify About Biden Senility Claims, TikToker Exposes “No Kings Day” For Paying Influencers $200/Day To Support Riots, and Rep. Elise Stefanik Makes NY Gov. Hochul Face Tragic Effects Of Sanctuary Policies, Louder With Crowder: Mexican official calls for Mexico to take to TAKE BACK all the land America has conquered, Gavin Newsom fake cries through a “national address” blaming Trump for the riots, Criminal Alien Charged with Attempted Murder After Allegedly Throwing Molotov Cocktail at Police During LA Riots, Typical white liberal protesters mock a black woman as they block her from going to work, and “La manifestante muy grande” calls on LA rioters to bring leaf blowers, tells Trump to suck her left… wait, what? and Matt Taibbi: Activism, Uncensored – The LA Riots.

Nick Arama at RedState says Hoo Boy: Elise Stefanik Ends Gov. Hochul Over Sanctuary States, Leaves Her Stammering. Mike Davis @mrddmia "Has anyone done a wellness check on @GovKathyHochul? @EliseStefanik just ended Kathy's career." Ace, Rep. Elise Stefanik Grills Kathy Hochul on All the Illegal Aliens She Shielded from Deportation Who Went on to Rape Children or Burn Women to Death on the Subway, "What is even more galling is that she doesn't even know who these people are. It's absolutely worth your time to watch, but if you don't have the time or can't play a video at work, see the transcript here."

At PJM Stephen Kruiser sees A Feature, Not a Bug — Everything Trump Does Triggers the Press, Dave Manney notes Trump Speaks at Fort Bragg, and the Press Loses Its Mind and Matt Margolis hears Karoline Leavitt Goes Beast Mode on Reporter Defending Violent Rioters. At NewsBusters CNN’s Brownstein: Trump Sees LA as ‘Hostile Territory to Be Subdued’. Well, isn't it? Dan Chaitin at Da Wire, Bessent Identifies New Strain Of TDS, Reminds Dems They Lost The Election. "A higher decibel level does not give your statements more veracity." Matt Margolis, CNN Panel Melts Down After Batya Ungar-Sargon Drops Truth Bomb About Illegal Immigration. "“Rich people are now the base of the Democratic Party. They are the employers of low-wage labor. . . Of course, they are very upset that their jobs program of an open border is coming to an end,” Ungar-Sargon added, pointing out that illegal labor provides a convenient source of cheap, easily exploited workers." NewsBusters, Ana Cabrera Reports: ‘American Empathy’ Toward Illegal Immigration. From the Free Bacon, WHERE'S DONIE? CNN's Emmy-Nominated 'Extremism' Reporter Goes Missing Amid Outburst of Left-Wing Violence "Update: He was at a UFO conference."

James O'Keefe@JamesOKeefeIII "EXPOSED: CNN Jake Tapper Stage Manager Caught On Hidden Camera Revealing Tapper “Knew” About Joe Biden’s Decline During 2024 Presidential Campaign: “He Doesn’t Want to Reveal That in Front of Us” “Even Tapper wrote a book about it.” “Biden, I met him twice… He was sharper, [back then] for sure.”"

Bonchie @bonchieredstate, "The same people who claimed working out, the okay sign, and drinking milk are signs of white supremacy now want to claim it’s the right that has politicized everything." Quote Peter Baker@peterbakernyt, Replying to @ShawnMcCreesh "For those of us born and raised in the Washington area, the Kennedy Center was always a place to escape politics and enjoy some music or theater. Now it's been turned into just one more venue for the polarization of the current era.

From Redux Trans-Identified Male Killer Accused of Raping Female Inmate in Illinois Women’s Prison Remains at Facility Despite Officials’ Attempts at Transfer.

The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: September in Washington ready and willing to collect clicks.

Heather Has Two Mommies, Updated

 At Da Wire, Female Inmate Pregnant After Being Forced To Share Prison With Biological Men Claiming To Be Transgender

A female inmate in California is now pregnant after women’s prisons were forced to accept biological male prisoners claiming to be women without any questions asked.

The Blaze reported that a liberal women’s organization, Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF), has reported that at least one woman has become pregnant following California’s law that allows men to identify as women and get sent to a women’s prison – even if they were in prison for violence against women. As The Daily Wire reported last month, California began handing out condoms and Plan B to female inmates who were forced to accept sharing a prison with biological men claiming to be transgender. 

If you didn't see this coming, you don't deserve to vote. 

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