A federal judge ordered Indiana to provide sex reassignment surgery to a man who murdered a baby

Richard Young , a Clinton -appointed federal district court judge in Indiana , ordered sex reassignment surgery to a man who wants to masquerade as a woman.

Jonathan Richardson is in prison for strangling his 11-month-old stepdaughter to death in 2001 .

Young is the same judge who in 2018 struck down an Indiana law that required healthcare providers to report complications to the state health department .

Hans von Spakovsky is a Senior Legal Fellow in the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation .

He says the Supreme Court declined to intervene at least for now in Department of State v. AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition.

In a dissent from the court's refusal to hear the case, Justice Samuel Alito wrote: Does a single district-court judge who likely lacks jurisdiction have the unchecked power to compel the Government of the United States to pay out (and probably lose forever).