The Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to begin enforcing a ban on transgender military service while legal challenges continue in lower courts. In a brief, unsigned order issued May 6, the justices lifted a nationwide injunction blocking the policy. The three liberal justices—Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson—dissented but did not publish their reasoning.

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