"The rule of law is, according to him, something to navigate around or simply ignore," a Reagan-appointed judge said in reference to Donald Trump.

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, who was appointed by former Republican president Ronald Reagan in 1987, is presiding over a lawsuit filed in Washington, D.C., on behalf of three transgender women who were housed in women's facilities before Trump signed the order on his first day back in the White House on January 20.