The United States Supreme Court has given President Donald Trump the green light to proceed with his policy that excludes openly transgender individuals from the military.
This decision represents a significant triumph for Trump as it removes a nationwide injunction and permits the policy to remain active while the current legal matters are addressed.
In a closely observed decision on Tuesday, the Supreme Court granted an emergency request made by the Trump administration to put an end to the injunction that had prevented the implementation of the military policy excluding openly transgender individuals.
The court’s action effectively overturned a previous ruling by a U.S. District judge in Washington.
The activist judge had issued a temporary injunction against the ban in March.
This ruling is pending an appeal in the Ninth Circuit, as well as a potential further appeal to the Supreme Court.
Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, expressing their opposition to lifting the stay.
Opposition to the policy involved concerns that halting it might impact U.S. military preparedness.
The Trump administration successfully forwarded its argument that maintaining the policy aligned with national security interests through the Supreme Court’s lifting of the injunction.
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