Lawmakers just introduced a measure demanding President Obama be impeached for “recommendations” sent out to public schools “asking” that they cater to transgender students and allow them to use the restroom of the gender they identify as.
From Reuters:
Oklahoma’s Republican-dominated legislature has filed a measure calling for President Barack Obama’s impeachment over his administration’s recommendations on accommodating transgender students, saying he overstepped his constitutional authority.
Lawmakers in the socially conservative state are also expected to take up a measure as early as Friday that would allow students to claim a religious right to have separate but equal bathrooms and changing facilities to segregate them from transgender students.
The bill introduced on Thursday night could force schools into costly construction, which would be difficult for them to complete after lawmakers significantly cut education funding to plug a $1.3 billion state budget shortfall.
The impeachment resolution also introduced on Thursday night calls on the Oklahoma members of the U.S. House of Representatives to file articles of impeachment against Obama, the U.S. attorney general, the U.S. secretary of education and others over the letter.
State Representative John Bennett, a Republican, said in a statement the White House directive was “biblically wrong,” and a violation of state sovereignty.
I sincerely hope that there will be a wave of movement from other states. It is time to put Obama in his place. We as states still have a say in this country, and this measure that Obama has proposed is putting children in danger. He must be stopped.
H/T: Reuters