{"id":1608,"date":"2024-07-03T03:00:33","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T03:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/judge-rules-against-bidens-navy-secretary-in-seal-demotion-case\/"},"modified":"2024-07-03T17:04:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T17:04:05","slug":"judge-rules-against-bidens-navy-secretary-in-seal-demotion-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/judge-rules-against-bidens-navy-secretary-in-seal-demotion-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Rules Against Biden&#8217;s Navy Secretary in SEAL Demotion Case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>A federal judge has ruled against President Joe Biden\u2019s Navy secretary and ordered the military branch to at least explain in greater detail why it had denied sailor Ronny Rutledge\u2019s request to reinstate his Navy SEAL status.<\/p>\n<p>The military\u2019s Board for Correction of Naval Records \u201crelied on the undisputed fact that Rutledge had been counseled numerous times without addressing Rutledge\u2019s core contention that these counselings were improper, erroneous, and engineered to exact revenge for his suspected whistleblowing,\u201d U.S. District Judge\u00a0Christopher R. \u201cCasey\u201d Cooper wrote in his memorandum opinion. \u201cEven under the relaxed standard of review, this sort of summary denial that skips over the petitioner\u2019s primary allegation does not pass muster.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge has ruled against President Joe Biden\u2019s Navy secretary and ordered the military branch to at least explain in greater detail why it had denied sailor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1808,294,2293,423,2290,351,2292,2291],"class_list":["post-1608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-bidens","tag-case","tag-demotion","tag-judge","tag-navy","tag-rules","tag-seal","tag-secretary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1638,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions\/1638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}