WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to fast-track cases on the president’s decision to prevent certain transgender people from serving in the military.
The administration asked the court on Friday to take up three cases on the issue. Lower courts had blocked the administration from implementing the policy.
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in one of the cases in October but hasn’t ruled.
The administration had warned that it would ask the high court to step in if the appeals court didn’t rule before Friday. The administration wants the Supreme Court to be able to rule on the issue before the summer.
The justices don’t typically take cases before federal appeals courts rule on them.
I hate this administration so much. Apparently their mantra is “Do Evil.”
They have no respect for the rule of law, not even for the processes of the rule of law. Donnie doesn’t like the 9th Circuit, so they try to just skip over it to get to Trump’s hand-picked justices. We can only hope that Roberts actually cares about protecting the processes of the court (if not his own legacy) going forward.
Fast track an abortion case and everything else, too. May as well get the 5-4 dictatorship thing out in the open for everyone to finally acknowledge.
Brilliant negotiating strategy. Publicly insult someone then turn around and ask them for a favor the next day.
Trump is just looking for a political win and he thinks he will get one here
Will just go once again behind the curtain…there have been trans folks in every conflict, starting with the very first.