The Trump administration is urging the Supreme Court to hear its appeal of a lawsuit over its policy barring transgender people from the military, a policy for which the high court handed the administration an interim win last year.The Department of Justice filed a petition for writ of certiorari to the justices late last week, asking the Supreme Court to look at whether the Department of War policy, which bars people with gender dysphoria from serving in the military, violates constitutional equal rights protections, as lower federal courts have found. A federal district court in Washington, D.C., along with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, ruled that the policy was arbitrary and implemented with animus against transgender people. Solicitor General D. John Sauer implored the high court to take up the appeal of the ruling and reverse the “gravely erroneous holding,” asserting that the military must have deference to determine mental and physical health standards for troops.
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