A panel of judges on the ninth Circuit Court docket of Appeals on Monday denied the Trump DOJ’s request to pause a decrease courtroom’s block on the administration’s transgender navy ban.
A second federal choose 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 factor of the U.S. navy to “function free from any choice primarily based on race or intercourse” and root out gender madness and made up pronoun utilization, respectively.
US District Decide Benjamin Hale Settle in Washington State, issued a nationwide preliminary injunction final week.
Decide Settle, a George W. Bush appointee, mentioned the Trump DOJ’s arguments haven’t been persuasive.
Trump’s DOJ filed an enchantment on Friday.
BREAKING: Trump Administration recordsdata enchantment from decrease courtroom determination that enter an injunction prohibiting navy from excluding these with gender dysphoria. https://t.co/ixGvRgLuC9 pic.twitter.com/y1RJ4Z8L6O
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) March 28, 2025
A 3 choose 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 rapid removing of transgender troops from the navy. pic.twitter.com/28lKq9oPRK
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) March 31, 2025
Two weeks in the past, Decide Ana Reyes, a Biden appointee from Uruguay, issued a temporary nationwide injunction blocking Trump’s transgender navy ban.