DOJ asks Supreme Court to allow transgender troops ban enforcement

The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow President Trump to enforce his ban on transgender troops serving openly in the military. 

The emergency application asks the justices to lift a Seattle-based federal judge’s nationwide injunction blocking the policy.  

“The district court’s injunction cannot be squared with the substantial deference that the Department’s professional military judgments are owed,” Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote in the application. 

At minimum, Sauer told the high court it should limit the judge’s nationwide order so it only blocks enforcement of the policy against the eight transgender service members suing. 

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