Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita is leading an amicus brief in support of Trump's executive order that bans federal resources from paying for trans prisoners' medical procedures. (Getty Images/Fox News Digital)
Rokita is also helping his state fight a two-year legal battle brought on by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on behalf of a transgender inmate — convicted of killing his 11-month-old baby — to receive a sex-change surgery.
The federal judge in the case, Clinton appointee Richard Young, repeatedly ruled that the inmate must be given gender surgery at the "earliest opportunity," despite Indiana's law barring the state Department of Corrections from using taxpayer funds to cover sex reassignment surgeries for inmates. Rokita has filed an appeal of that decision.
"It's absolutely imperative that not only President Trump's executive orders stand, but that Indiana wins this case," Rokita said.
President Trump's ‘two-sexes’ executive order has faced opposition in courts. (Getty Images/AP Images)
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"The politics of some of these courts these days, and playing into this is really a head scratcher," Rokita said. "But the chaos that would ensue in the prison system, with all these jailhouse lawyers, all of a sudden… the expense of the taxpayer would be astronomical."
Jamie Joseph is a U.S. Politics reporter for Fox News Digital covering transgender and culture issues, the Departments of Education and Health and Human Services, and stateside legislative developments.
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