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Megathread: Supreme Court Allows Trump’s Transgender Military Ban to Take Effect - Politics


Megathread: Supreme Court Allows Trump’s Transgender Military Ban to Take Effect

Posted: 22 Jan 2019 07:55 AM PST

The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed President Trump's broad restrictions on transgender people serving in the military to go into effect while the legal battle continues in lower courts.

The justices lifted nationwide injunctions that had kept the administration's policy from being implemented.

It reversed an Obama administration rule that would have opened the military to transgender men and women and instead barred those who identify with a gender different from the one assigned at birth and who are seeking to transitio

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High court lets military implement transgender restrictions AP News
US Supreme Court allows Trump military transgender ban BBC
Supreme Court Allows Trump's Transgender Military Ban to Take Effect Bloomberg
Supreme Court allows Trump administration to enforce transgender military ban NBC News
Supreme Court Revives Ban on Transgender Military Service New York Times
Supreme Court allows Trump restrictions on transgender troops in military to go into effect as legal battle continues Washington Post
Supreme Court reinstates Trump's ban on trans servicemembers in the military Think Progress
The Supreme Court Allows Trump To Implement His Transgender Military Ban Buzzfeed News
Supreme Court rules for Trump's ban on transgender troops in the military LA Times
Supreme Court will let Trump administration enforce transgender troop ban while court battles continue CNBC
Supreme Court allows Trump Trans Military Ban to be enforced The Guardian
U.S. Supreme Court backs Trump's restrictions on transgender troops in military CBC
Supreme Court rules that Trump's transgender military ban can move forward Politico
Supreme Court allows transgender military ban to go into effect CNN
Supreme Court Permits Trump's Transgender Military Ban To Move Forward Huffington Post
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I’m an ACLU lawyer fighting for abortion rights. Ask me anything about reproductive rights for the 46th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

Posted: 22 Jan 2019 06:53 AM PST

That's a wrap! Thank you for your questions!!

On January 22, we're reflecting on 46 years of legal abortion in the U.S.. But across the country, anti-abortion politicians have been pushing abortion care out of reach in state after state. Brigitte Amiri, deputy director of the ACLU reproductive freedom project is here to answer your questions on the state of abortion rights in the U.S.

Proof: https://twitter.com/brigitte_amiri/status/1087687727452164096

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