Trump administration asks Supreme Court to immediately take up transgender military ban

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: Washington Post

Courts & Law
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to immediately take up transgender military ban

By Robert Barnes
November 23 at 1:44 PM

The Trump administration on Friday once again asked the Supreme Court to bypass the usual legal process to take on another controversial issue -- President Trump's decision to ban transgender people from military service.

Solicitor General Noel J. Francisco asked the justices to consolidate the challenges to the ban -- which so far have been successful in lower courts -- and rule on the issue in its current term.

The challenges are to the administration's order that would prohibit transgender men and women from enlisting, possibly subject current service members to discharge and deny certain medical care. The order reverses an Obama administration policy allowing transgender men and women to serve openly and to receive funding for sex-reassignment surgery.

Federal judges so far have prohibited the Trump order from being implemented. ... "The decisions imposing those injunctions are wrong, and they warrant this Court's immediate review," Francisco wrote. (1)
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Robert Barnes has been a Washington Post reporter and editor since 1987. He joined The Post to cover Maryland politics, and he has served in various editing positions, including metropolitan editor and national political editor. He has covered the Supreme Court since November 2006. Follow https://twitter.com/scotusreporter

(1) https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/18/18-676/73010/20181123102318117_Trump%20v.%20Karnoski%20Pet..pdf

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/trump-administration-asks-supreme-court-to-immediately-take-up-transgender-military-ban/2018/11/23/6cf11b32-ef39-11e8-8679-934a2b33be52_story.html

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WhatCouldGoWrongHat Retweeted

https://twitter.com/Popehat

The Trump administration wants to reverse-integrate the military as to transgender people. Transgender people are serving currently, and the Trump administration wants to end that. It's a remarkable position, and courts have called it out for what it is.

Link to tweet

[SWBTATTReg]

1. Bigotry in all of its dirty, filthy, pathetic forms...I suspect that the courts will deny this ...

motion by rump cronies since the lower courts have already ruled and banned the implementation of these bigoted rulings/motions by the rump crowd.

[pangaia]

2. One reason that our slowly losing the courts to fascist bigots is so dangerous.l

[Solly Mack]

3. POS

[CentralMass]

4. I'd wager that he is mad at the miltary for refusing to adopt his manical orders without modificatio

[SummerSnow]

5. Only a very unhappy person could have this must hate

[Paladin]

11. trump is having the time of his life, inflicting this much misery. (nt)

[safeinOhio]

6. If you are not allowed to serve

because of it, let’s make so you are not taxed either. Seems they wouldn’t want their money either.
Of course republicans would be lined up for surgery to get out of being taxed.

[machoneman]

7. He's pissed at everyone now.

The military for not kowtowing to his demands, The Supremes for not agreeing with his bans and travel blocking, the lower courts for that and not going along with EPA's roll-backs.

Good grief, what until the Dotard runs into that blue wave of investigations come January!

Bwahahahaha! Suck it, Dotard!

[area51]

8. I'm guessing Pence is behind this.

I doubt Trump even knows how to spell Transgender.

[eggplant]

9. just more red meat for his base.

when they turn him down, he'll be able to yell about activist judges some more.

[RKP5637]

10. He's filled with vile hatred. A hateful and disgusting POS. He strikes out to harm all those he can.

His track record well demonstrates his hatred his entire life in harming all those he can. There is something fundamentally wrong with the American democracy when a narcissistic and sociopathic individual like tRump becomes president.

[rurallib]

12. This woman stole Trump's heart and he has never been the same

Oh what I wouldn't give for a Trump free world.

[paleotn]

13. He wants to try out his shiny new court appointment.

Am I mistaken or wasn't Kavanaugh an Omega at Faber College?

[haele]

14. Why would the Supreme Court review it? Because the Appeals courts won't let him ban them?

That's not a good enough reason.
What legitimate reason is the Administration supposedly banning Transgendered people from serving?
Lots of social issues go up before the Supreme Court, but SCOTUS is not going to hear such an issue just because someone in power thinks they have a greater Constitutional right than "those people" they don't like or approve of.
There has to be some compelling Constitutional reason, such as Due Process, or Equal Protection under the Law, for them to hear it.


Haele

[kimbutgar]

15. This is another evil distraction to take away the negative news coming out shortly

The orange maggot is a revengeful prick. I want him to be destroyed so that the family name is the new Benedict Arnold or Adolph Hitler.

[Auggie]

17. +1 ... also pandering to the deplorables crowd IMO

[BigmanPigman]

16. This is another distraction from the murder of the journalist and

Climate Change. He will be on a "working vacation" until after New Year's so he will be watching TV non-stop (well, more than he usually does) and will be creating tons of distractions as the walls close in on him more and more now.

[truthisfreedom]

18. Anything to distract from making America a Saudi bitch.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

19. Because Trump cannot waste a moment in showing bigotry.

And playing to his base of bigots.

[Ms. Toad]

20. November 20, 2019 - Transgender Day of Remembrance

Honoring and remembering the 419 trans individuals murdered around the world since last year's Transgender Day of Remembrance, because they were trans: https://tdor.translivesmatter.info/reports?from=2017-10-01&to=2018-09-30&country=all&view=list&filter&fbclid=IwAR3nLc2QNMirinm-EGS9LVKz_uTC2OBU4hftjrlxg3ohg2zbyQY_LrrAXzQ

November 23, 2019: Trump ramps up the anti-trans sentiment in the US, again.

Yup. You're a real friend to the LGBT commnity.

But on Monday, he sought to draw a contrast with presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, portraying himself as the "real friend" of the gay community.

https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/13/politics/donald-trump-lgbt-community/index.html

[catbyte]

21. I hope that Caitlyn Jenner is ashamed of herself & feels like a goddamned fool, her weak Op Ed

not withstanding. Willful ignorance is despicable and she knew what he was, but that R after his name was more important. Well, here you go. You wanted him, you got him.

[colsohlibgal]

22. Really

She came off completely misguided.

[tonekat]

25. I'm Trans and Hate Her.

She's an idiot. It was a big mistake to give her a TV show when she was in "The Pink Cloud" on the beginning of hormones. She had a chance to show that even your white jock next door could be trans, but blew it. Her unquestioning support of trump made me want to slap her around!

[riversedge]

23. Nothing but Cruelty from the bigoted Trump Admin

[tonekat]

24. So This Is A Priority?!

Who knew that there was no more urgent challenge to the very existence of the U.S. than this?

[Cal Carpenter]

29. If you look upthread you'll see the poster you are responding to is trans too

I read their post as being a criticism of Trump for prioritizing this. I think you are on the same side and maybe misreading their post.

Sorry to butt in.

[Oneironaut]

30. I'm sorry. You are totally correct.

I need to learn to read, apparently.

[MFM008]

27. Hes Soooooooooo

Confident that SCOTUS is going to give him everything he wants......

[Just a Weirdo]

31. Roberts Courts to Trump: FUCK OFF!

Yer on yer own, baboon.