The Trump administration filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to decide whether its ban on transgender military service members passes constitutional muster, setting up a major clash over who controls military personnel standards.
Solicitor General D. John Sauer filed the petition on Friday, seeking to overturn a divided D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that barred the Pentagon from enforcing the ban against transgender service members who had challenged the policy in court. Sauer called the appellate decision “gravely erroneous” and framed the dispute as one touching the core authority of the commander in chief over the armed forces, SCOTUSblog reported.
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