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Trump asks Supreme Court to hear challenge on transgender military ban
The Hill ^ | 11/23/18 | Chris Mills Rodrigo

Posted on 11/23/2018 2:16:27 PM PST by yesthatjallen

The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to take up the president's transgender military ban.

Solicitor General Noel Francisco filed a petition to Supreme Court justices Friday asking them to hear the issue currently being debated in three lower courts in order to have the case decided quicker, according to CNN.

Francisco also argued that the injunctions issued by lower courts warrant review for harming the military.

Trump first announced on Twitter his intention to ban transgender people from serving in the military in July 2017. In March of this year he signed a memo written by Defense Secretary James Mattis that banned most transgender people from serving in the military “except under certain limited circumstances."

However, the policy has been blocked by district courts around the country, including the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in August.

According to Francisco, because of the injunctions "the military has been forced to maintain that prior policy for nearly a year" despite a determination by Mattis and a panel of experts that the "prior policy, adopted by [Defense Secretary Ash Carter], posed too great a risk to military effectiveness and lethality."

Normally, the Supreme Court waits for cases to make their way through lower courts before taking them up.

Groups involved in the lower level court challenges against the transgender ban sounded off on Trump’s move to involve the Supreme Court on Friday.

“There is no urgency here and no reason for the Court to weigh in at this juncture,” said Jennifer Levi, LGBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders’ Transgender Rights Project Director.

“The injunctions preserve the status quo of the open service policy that was thoroughly vetted by the military itself and has been in place now for more than two years. This is simply one more attempt by a reckless Trump administration to push through a discriminatory policy. The policy flies in the face of military research and dozens of top military experts.”


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1 posted on 11/23/2018 2:16:27 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Jeeeeez....why?

Let’s just let SCROTUS run everything.


2 posted on 11/23/2018 2:22:11 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Cocked, locked and ready to ROCK!)
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To: yesthatjallen
"This is simply one more attempt by a reckless Trump administration to push through a discriminatory policy. The policy flies in the face of military research and dozens of top military experts.”

The left views the military as nothing more than yet another platform for social engineering, much like a Boy Scouts for grown ups. Warfighting is way further down on their list as a function of the military.

In deference to the credentialed "experts", common sense gets thrown out.

3 posted on 11/23/2018 2:30:01 PM PST by bkopto
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To: Electric Graffiti

Agree this is huge mistake. When they rule against Trump it will have ripples and we won’t be able to keep the creeps out of the girls locker rooms and showers.


4 posted on 11/23/2018 2:31:06 PM PST by gibsonguy
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To: yesthatjallen

Why is he asking a civilian court to rule on what seems to me to be a military domain?


5 posted on 11/23/2018 2:36:45 PM PST by Kalamata (How to interpret The Revelation: http://bibleresearchtools.com/bible-study-video-series/)
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To: yesthatjallen

Will drive the Fudge Report and Frank Fudge crazy.
He will throw a hiss fit.


6 posted on 11/23/2018 2:49:49 PM PST by ZULU (Jeff Sessions should be tried for sedition.)
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To: Kalamata

Roberts will rule its unconstitutional to preclude men that think their women and women that think their men from the Armed Forces. The reason is simple, in all likelihood he’s a homosexual and his lesbian cousin said he would always make her happy on the court. She was exactly right.

He dissented in the Obergefell v. Hodges case in which Kennedy wrote for the majority, again 5-4, that same-sex couples had a right to marry.[73] In Pavan v. Smith, the Supreme Court “summarily overruled” the Arkansas Supreme Court’s decision that the state did not have to list same-sex spouses on birth certificates thus siding with same-sex couples who filed the lawsuit; Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch dissented but Roberts did not join their dissent leaving open speculation that he ruled with the majority.[74]


7 posted on 11/23/2018 2:50:19 PM PST by NKP_Vet ("Man without God descends into madness”)
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To: Electric Graffiti
Jeeeeez....why?

Because Trump is sworn to uphold the Constitution, and the Constitution established three separate but equal branches of government. For the Executive branch to ignore the Judicial branch would be a direct affront to the oath every president takes. Like it or not, you have to work within the system if you want to fix the system rather than destroy it (which is what the left always tries to do).

That's why appointing constitutionalists to SCOTUS is key. SCOTUS needs to reign in the overreach of the lower courts until Congress provides clear limits on their jurisdiction, something that's also long overdue.

8 posted on 11/23/2018 2:59:59 PM PST by AustinBill (consequence is what makes our choices real)
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To: NKP_Vet

Did not know that, thank you, NKP_Vet.

I am praying he is next to step down.


9 posted on 11/23/2018 3:05:03 PM PST by Kalamata (How to interpret The Revelation: http://bibleresearchtools.com/bible-study-video-series/)
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To: AustinBill

“For the Executive branch to ignore the Judicial branch would be a direct affront to the oath every president takes.”

I wasn’t aware that the Executive took an oath to the Supreme court. Btw, The branches aren’t equal, either. Are you sure you’re a conservative? What reality are you living in?


10 posted on 11/23/2018 3:07:41 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Cocked, locked and ready to ROCK!)
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To: yesthatjallen

If they require the military to keep them the cost of hormone treatment should come out of the judicial budget. Any cost of surgery should come out of the congressional budget


11 posted on 11/23/2018 3:15:18 PM PST by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jefferson)
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To: AustinBill

Translating your post...The courts, judges can violate the Constitution all day long and the Executive must grin and bear it while our republic is destroyed. I smell ozone.


12 posted on 11/23/2018 3:16:15 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Cocked, locked and ready to ROCK!)
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To: AustinBill

Thank you for bringing reason to the thread.

The ignorance of some Freepers is downright embarrassing.


13 posted on 11/23/2018 3:20:35 PM PST by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: yesthatjallen
SCOTUS' ruling should be short and sweet, that it is the COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF'S DECISION TO MAKE AND HIS ALONE.

PERIOD!

14 posted on 11/23/2018 3:29:52 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: Balding_Eagle

Downright embarrassing are the so called conservatives that think the court is the final arbiter of what is constitutional.


15 posted on 11/23/2018 3:32:09 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Cocked, locked and ready to ROCK!)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Don’t hold your breath.


16 posted on 11/23/2018 3:33:42 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Cocked, locked and ready to ROCK!)
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To: gibsonguy
When they rule against Trump it will have ripples and we won’t be able to keep the creeps out of the girls locker rooms and showers.

They can keep the creeps out now?

17 posted on 11/23/2018 3:39:18 PM PST by libertylover (I'm not against immigration; I'm against ILLEGAL immigration.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Congress has the sole authority on the rules and regulations of the military.


18 posted on 11/23/2018 3:40:49 PM PST by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: AustinBill

Good Post.


19 posted on 11/23/2018 3:43:18 PM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west))
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To: AustinBill

For the JUDICIAL branch to ignore the EXECUTIVE branch would be a direct affront to the oath every judge takes.


20 posted on 11/23/2018 3:47:50 PM PST by Kalamata (How to interpret The Revelation: http://bibleresearchtools.com/bible-study-video-series/)
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