Yesterday evening, federal district judge Indira Talwani issued a temporary restraining order that bars the Trump administration from enforcing the provision of the recently enacted law that defunds Planned Parenthood. Dan McLaughlin and Jeffrey Blehar wrote excellent posts immediately on the Corner, so I’m not going to undertake to review the matter in full here. Instead, I’ll simply reiterate what I said in my tweet thread yesterday—namely, how outrageous it is that Judge Talwani, within hours of receiving a cockamamie complaint that claims a violation of the bill-of-attainder prohibition as its lead count, would issue a TRO against a congressionally enacted provision without offering one iota of reasoning.

Judge Talwani is obviously exploiting the ill-founded rule that TROs are not generally appealable. One way or another, the Trump administration should get this TRO vacated as soon as possible.