To say that a lot of things are changing since President Donald Trump took office for the second time is like saying a hurricane has rearranged some features of a neighborhood.
In addition to rescinding scores of President Joe Biden’s executive orders and cancelling ideological policies across executive branch agencies, the Trump administration is changing its position on some important court cases.
For example, take the case United States v. Skrmetti, which is a constitutional challenge by both parents and the federal government to Tennessee’s law banning so-called “gender-affirming” medical interventions for minors. The U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the law and the Supreme Court heard arguments in the government’s appeal on Dec. 4, 2024.
In a letter dated Feb. 7, 2025, the Justice Department informed the court that “the government’s previously stated…
