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The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow the Pentagon to remove 29 transgender service members from the military, arguing that federal courts are improperly interfering with the military’s authority to determine who is eligible to serve.
Solicitor General John Sauer urged the justices to take up the case before a trial scheduled for January, describing the dispute as a matter of “exceptional importance.”
“The authority of the U.S. military to determine who may serve in the Nation’s armed forces is a matter of exceptional importance,” Sauer wrote in the government’s petition.
The dispute involves a Trump administration policy restricting military service by individuals with a history or diagnosis of gender dysphoria.
The Supreme Court last year allowed the administration to implement the policy while litigation continued. But in a separate lawsuit, U.S. v. Talbott, lower courts prevented the Pentagon from discharging the individual service members challenging the policy.
Sauer called that decision “gravely erroneous” and argued that it conflicts with Supreme Court precedent requiring substantial judicial deference to military decision-making.
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