The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration’s ban on transgender military service to move forward on Tuesday.
Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, asserting they would have allowed the pause to stay in place.
The high court struck down a nationwide injunction from a district judge, but it will likely revisit the case of Shilling v. United States. The high court didn’t yet rule on the merits of the policy.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January stating transgender service allowed under the Biden administration is harmful to military readiness and stated it “conflicts with a soldier’s commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle, even in one’s personal life.”
In response to Trump’s executive order, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave the services 30 days to…
