The Supreme Court has just ruled that the Trump administration can enforce their transgender ban on the military while lawsuits against the policy work their way through the courts:
BREAKING: U.S. Supreme Court rules the Trump administration can begin barring most transgender people from serving in the armed forces https://t.co/wJrCxpdNks pic.twitter.com/JoqedAFPOo
— Bloomberg (@business) January 22, 2019
BREAKING: Supreme Court allows Trump administration to enforce transgender military restrictions while litigation continues pic.twitter.com/jS8uzRZ2qa
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) January 22, 2019
Breaking: Supreme Court allows President Donald Trump’s transgender military ban to go into effect.
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) January 22, 2019
We told you a couple of weeks ago that a Federal Appeals court had come to the same conclusion about the transgender ban. However, because other courts had injunctions on the same case, the court was unable to lift the ban. Now that is moot.
I’m not sure this ruling by the Supreme Court is any indication of how they would rule on the policy once it gets there, but it does seem like a positive move on their part.
UPDATE:
Here’s the actual ruling which was 5-4, with Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan all voting against:
NEW: The US Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to enforce its ban on transgender people serving in the military while the case works through the courts. pic.twitter.com/QbVnPYtiNH
— Matt Largey (@mattlargey) January 22, 2019