By CatholicVote | Created at 2025-01-25 04:31:23 | Updated at 2025-01-27 17:18:52
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CV NEWS FEED // A federal judge Friday dismissed the criminal case the Biden administration had filed against Dr. Eithan Haim, a Texas surgeon who had exposed a secret and illicit program that subjected children to “transgender” procedures at the hospital where he once worked.
The Trump administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) had filed to dismiss the case against the whistleblower earlier Friday. Hours later, David Hittner, senior judge of the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of Texas, sided with the new administration and signed the order of dismissal.
Hittner wrote that “the Second Superseding Indictment and all open counts in the above-listed criminal case are hereby DISMISSED with prejudice.”
Dismissal against prejudice means the case cannot be opened or revisited again, and its current outcome is final.
Last June, the Biden DOJ had indicted Haim on four felony charges. If the doctor had been convicted on those charges, he would have faced up to 10 years in federal prison and a fine of up to a quarter of a million dollars.
At the time, conservative scholar Christopher Rufo had called the Biden administration’s indictment of Haim “an outrageous political persecution” that “must be resisted.”
Friday, Haim reacted triumphantly to the dismissal of his charges on X (formerly Twitter), posting a screenshot of the judge’s order and commenting: “WE DID IT!!!! WE WON!!!!!!!”
Marcella Burke, a defense attorney representing Haim, stated that Friday’s dismissal requested by the Trump administration “fully vindicates Dr. Haim.”
“The federal government can never again come after him for blowing the whistle on the secret pediatric transgender program at Texas Children’s Hospital,” she stressed. “The fight against the evils he exposed continues.”
Burke added that the dismissal “represents a repudiation of the weaponization of federal law enforcement and the first step in accountability for the misdeeds we have all witnessed in this case.”
>> JUNE 2024: BIDEN UNSEALS INDICTMENT AGAINST HAIM <<
National Review indicated that “Haim was set to go to trial” next month as Hittner “delayed the proceeding in early December.”
While celebrating his graduation from medical residency in June 2023, Haim was greeted by a “loud knock” on his apartment door, CatholicVote reported early last year. He opened the door to find a pair of officials from the Biden administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Unbeknownst to Haim, the bureaucrats’ unannounced visit would be the start of a series of events that continued with his indictment the following year, but fortunately concluded with the dismissal of the now-former administration’s case against him Friday.
At the time, the whistleblower told The Daily Wire “it’s obvious that this is a political investigation in order to prevent this from happening at other hospitals that might be lying to the public about the existence of their programs.”
>> JANUARY 2024: BIDEN ADMIN TARGETS DOCTOR WHO EXPOSED SECRET CHILD ‘TRANS’ CLINIC <<
The Daily Signal noted that the move, along with Trump’s moves earlier this week to pardon pro-life advocates and Jan. 6 protesters, aligns with the second-term president’s “promise to end the weaponization” of the DOJ. A chorus of critics have long argued that such “weaponization” was rampant under the Biden administration.
