SEATTLE — One of the four federal judges who blocked President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender people entering the military has a chance to consider the implications of the president’s new policy on the topic, issued just days ago.
SEATTLE — One of the four federal judges who blocked President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender people entering the military has a chance to consider the implications of the president’s new policy on the topic, issued just days ago.
U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman in Seattle had scheduled a hearing for Tuesday on Trump’s decision last year to overturn an Obama-era directive allowing transgender troops to serve openly.
But late Friday, Trump issued a new policy following a Pentagon review, saying that transgender troops would be banned with limited exceptions.
The Justice Department is asking Pechman to dissolve her December order blocking the president’s previous decision. The DOJ says her order is moot in light of the new policy issued Friday.
Democratic Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson says Trump’s “last-minute maneuvering does nothing to save his unlawful and discriminatory policy.”
