Updated at 3:50 p.m. ET
The Supreme Court has reinstated President Trump’s order placing restrictions on transgender persons enlisting and serving in the military, by granting a stay of two lower court injunctions that had blocked the president’s policy. The justices voted 5-4, reflecting the high court’s conservative majority.
The decision allows the Pentagon to prevent many transgender persons from joining or, in some circumstances, remaining in the military while the lower court rulings that had blocked the policy are appealed. The justices did not allow the Trump administration to leapfrog the appeals court, as it had requested.
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