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President Trump asked the Supreme Court to intervene after a lower court temporarily blocked his ban on transgender troops.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, stacked with leftist judges, denied the Trump Administration’s stay of injunction on the transgender troop ban last Friday evening.
The three judges: Wallace Tashima (Clinton), John Owens (Obama), and Roopali Desai (Biden) denied the request for a stay.
In January President Trump signed the “Restoring America’s Fighting Force” executive order and the “Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness” executive orders, which direct every element of the U.S. military to “operate free from any preference based on race or sex” and root out gender insanity and made up pronoun usage, respectively.
US District Judge Benjamin Hale Settle in Washington State issued a nationwide preliminary injunction last month.
Judge Settle, a George W. Bush appointee, said the Trump DOJ’s arguments have not been persuasive.
President Trump’s DOJ filed an appeal, and the DC Circuit Court denied the administration’s motion to stay Judge Settle’s preliminary injunction.
“Appellants have not demonstrated that they will suffer irreparable harm absent a stay,” the appeals court said in a Friday evening order.
Last month the same three judge panel in the 9th Circuit Court denied the Trump DOJ’s request for an administrative stay.
Additionally, Judge Ana Reyes, a Biden appointee from Uruguay, previously issued a temporary nationwide injunction blocking Trump’s transgender military ban.
Trump’s DOJ asked the Supreme Court to intervene and block the lower court’s ruling.
Fox News reported:
The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to review a lower court’s ruling that temporarily blocked its ban on transgender troops in the military.
In a filing on Thursday, the Justice Department requested that the high court stop the lower court’s injunction and allow the military to disqualify from service “individuals who have gender dysphoria or have undergone medical interventions for gender dysphoria.”
“Absent a stay, the district court’s universal injunction will remain in place for the duration of further review in the Ninth Circuit and in this Court – a period far too long for the military to be forced to maintain a policy that it has determined, in its professional judgment, to be contrary to military readiness and the Nation’s interests,” lawyers for the Trump administration argued.
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