A panel of judges on the ninth Circuit Court docket of Appeals on Monday denied the Trump DOJ’s request to pause a decrease court docket’s block on the administration’s transgender army ban.
A second federal decide final week temporarily blocked President Trump’s ban on transgender troops.
In January President Trump signed the “Restoring America’s Fighting Force” govt order and the “Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness” govt orders, which direct each component of the U.S. army to “function free from any choice based mostly on race or intercourse” and root out gender madness and made up pronoun utilization, respectively.
US District Choose Benjamin Hale Settle in Washington State, issued a nationwide preliminary injunction final week.
Choose Settle, a George W. Bush appointee, mentioned the Trump DOJ’s arguments haven’t been persuasive.
Trump’s DOJ filed an attraction on Friday.
BREAKING: Trump Administration information attraction from decrease court docket choice that enter an injunction prohibiting army from excluding these with gender dysphoria. https://t.co/ixGvRgLuC9 pic.twitter.com/y1RJ4Z8L6O
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) March 28, 2025
A 3 decide panel within the ninth Circuit Court docket denied the Trump DOJ’s request for an administrative keep.
The three judges: Wallace Tashima (Clinton), John Owens (Obama), and Roopali Desai (Biden) denied the request for a keep.
JUST IN: The ninth Circuit Court docket of Appeals has *denied* the Trump administration’s request to permit quick elimination of transgender troops from the army. pic.twitter.com/28lKq9oPRK
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) March 31, 2025
Two weeks in the past, Choose Ana Reyes, a Biden appointee from Uruguay, issued a temporary nationwide injunction blocking Trump’s transgender army ban.