The Justice Department told the Supreme Court on Friday that it was dropping its challenge to Tennessee’s law shielding children from transgender medical procedures.
In a letter to the clerk of the Supreme Court, Deputy Solicitor General Curtis Gannon said that the DOJ no longer took the position that Tennessee’s SB 1, which banned transgender medical procedures on minors, violated the Fourteenth Amendment. The court heard a challenge to the law in December from both the Biden administration and the ACLU.
“Following the change in Administration, the Department of Justice has reconsidered the United States’ position in this case,” Gannon wrote. “The purpose of this letter is to notify the Court that the government’s previously stated views no longer represent the United States’ position.”
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