CHANGED MY MIND: ACLU attempts to yank its own case from Supreme Court docket. Here’s why

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FROM WASHINGTON EXAMINER: The American Civil Liberties Union asked the Supreme Court this week to dismiss a case the justices are scheduled to hear in their upcoming term about a transgender sports law, a move opponents claim is an effort to take the issue away from the high court to avoid another bruising loss for the transgender cause.

The ACLU, in a filing on the Supreme Court’s docket, stated Lindsay Hecox, the biological male who sued Idaho over a law restricting women’s sports to biological women, had filed for the claims to be dismissed in the federal district court with prejudice and that Hecox has “no live claim” against the state.

The ACLU, which has represented Hecox during the legal battle that began in 2020, claims Hecox, now a senior at Boise State University, has “firmly committed not to try out for or participate in any school-sponsored women’s sports covered by” the disputed law and claims the “negative public scrutiny from certain quarters because of this litigation” has distracted Hecox from schoolwork.

“Hecox’s unequivocal abandonment of [the] claims against petitioners renders this case moot, and since the dismissal is with prejudice, there is no possibility of the regeneration of the controversy by a reassertion of a right to litigate,” the filing stated.

“Because the issues presented are no longer live and because no controversy between the parties exists or has a chance of recurring, this case should be dismissed as moot,” the filing said.

 

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