Calling for Ruling on Transgender Military Ban

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By DANIEL POLITI
NOV 24, 201810:54 AM

... On Friday, the White House asked the Supreme Court to take on the issue even though it is just federal district courts that have entered injunctions against the new policy. Federal appeals court have yet to rule on the measure.

This is hardly the first time the White House has implied the regular order of things shouldn’t apply. The Trump administration has also called on the Supreme Court to rule on its decision to end the DACA program, which protects young immigrants from deportation. It has also demanded justices step in early on a case regarding climate change, and another on a decision to include a question about citizenship in the 2020 census. The Supreme Court typically doesn’t get involved until at least one appeals court has ruled on the issue, but in all these cases the administration has implied the issue was so urgent that the justices could skip that step ...

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/11/transgender-military-ban-trump-administration-calls-on-supreme-court-to-issue-quick-ruling.html

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1. Pandering to his base, yet again...

He knows his base thinks being trans is "icky" so he plays to them, shamelessly.

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2. Furthermore!

I would guess that growing up and living as an adult in NYC, transpeople are nothing new to him and never bothered him until political expediency gave him a reason to throw them under the bus.