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Timestamp: 2019-04-18 23:30:20+00:00

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday granted the Trump administration’s request to temporarily vacate two national injunctions that have prevented a ban on transgender people in the military from going into effect.
But the order denied the administration’s request that the Supreme Court immediately take up the matter of whether President Trump’s proposed ban is constitutional, and some LGBT legal activists say an injunction in another case keeps the ban intact.
“As a practical matter, this is bad for transgender people currently in service,” said Jennifer Levi, director of the Transgender Rights Project for the GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (aka GLAD). She said it “strengthens the government's position that it may be permitted to exclude people from serving,” but she said the order is “very limited” and declined the Trump administration’s request to have the high court hear arguments on the constitutionality of the ban itself before the litigation winds through the normal court process.
Tuesday’s order affected three of the four lawsuits challenging President Trump’s proposed ban on transgender people in the military: Karnoski v. Trump, Stockman v. Trump,andJane Doe v. Trump. Only two of those cases (Karnoski andStockman) had injunctions in place against the ban. Both are pending argument before the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.
There is some confusion on that last point. Numerous media reports say Tuesday’s order sets the Trump administration free to implement its ban.
Renn said that, while Tuesday’s order did not affect the Stoneinjunction, the U.S. Department of Justice will probably move very quickly to urge the district court in that case that it should stay its injunction now, too, given the Supreme Court’s order today.
NCLR and GLAD are representing numerous transgender service members in two of the cases involved Tuesday: Stockman v. Trumpin Los Angeles, which is awaiting action by the Ninth Circuit appeals court, and Jane Doe v. Trumpin Washington, D.C., which is pending before the federal appeals court for D.C. The third lawsuit involved in the Jan. 22 order is Karnoski v. Trump, another Ninth Circuit case, led by Lambda Legal.
The Stone v. Trumpcase is being led by the ACLU on behalf of service members in Maryland and will eventually come before the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.
The January 22 order from the Supreme Court indicated that the vote on the Karnoskiand Stockmanpetitions had been 5 to 4, with Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan saying they would have denied the petitions.
LGBT legal groups had argued against the Trump administration petitions to vacate the injunctions, saying that it was too soon for the Supreme Court to become involved in the litigation. They noted that no federal appeals court had yet to rule on the constitutionality of the proposed ban or on the injunction against the ban. Three federal appeals courts made preliminary rulings that the injunctions could stand until a full hearing on their merits and the ban could be played out. The fourth case, Stone,is still before a district court.

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