The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the Trump administration can advance with a prohibition of members of the transgender military service for now, lifting a court order of the lower court against the policy after a judge ruled that it was a “policy of unbridled exclusion, dramatic and facially unfair.”
The court did not explain its decision apart from saying that the order would expire if the judges finally assume the case on the merits and would issue a ruling that drives it.
The litigation continues in the Court of Appeals for the ninth circuit.
Judges Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson indicated that they would have denied Trump’s request from a stay.
The United States Supreme Court building is observed on December 3, 2024 in Washington.
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During Trump’s first mandate, the Superior Court took a similar course, raising a court order against a prohibition of members of the transgender service after he was challenged. President Biden ended politics and around 1,000 transgender members of the military have provided an active service in the last four years.
At the end of April, the Trump administration made a new emergency request that sought an immediate suspension of a national court order that blocks the prohibition of members of the openly transgender military service.
General lawyer John Sauer said that the mandate, issued by a district court in Washington, Usurpes the president’s authority to determine who can serve in the Nation’s armed forces and goes against the decision of the Superior Court itself in the First Trump administration to allow the prohibition to advance.
The Trump administration policy on transgender soldiers would be a “general de facto prohibition” that seeks to “eradicate the transgender service”, the judge of the Circuit Court Benjamin Settle, one nominated for George W. Bush, wrote when issuing the preliminary judicial order in the case, Trump V. Shilling, March 27.
The case was presented by a group of seven members of the transgender service and a transgender person who wishes to enlist in the United States Marines.
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