Chicago court keeps block on Florida suit over kids transgender medicine

Despite warnings from their colleague that they are ripping a hole in the U.S. Constitution and the concept of federalism, two Democrat-appointed federal appeals court judges have refused to put a hold on a Chicago federal judge’s order blocking Florida’s Republican state attorney general from using Florida state courts to enforce a Florida law against the Chicago-based American Academy of Pediatrics for allegedly misleading the public about the safety of child gender transitions.

On June 22, a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 to deny the request from Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier to stay the injunction entered by Chicago federal District Judge Matthew F. Kennelly.

Kennelly was appointed to the Chicago federal bench by former Democ...