Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) urged the Supreme Court Friday to move forward with a major case on state laws banning child sex change procedures, despite the change in administrations.
While the Biden administration challenged Tennessee’s law as a violation of the Equal Protection Clause, the Trump administration informed the court it would not take the same position, suggesting the court should keep the case to clarify such laws are constitutional.
“The Department has now determined that SB1 does not deny equal protection on account of sex or any other characteristic,” Deputy Solicitor General Curtis Gannon wrote. “Accordingly, the new Administration would not have intervened to challenge SB1—let alone sought this Court’s review of the court of appeals’ decision reversing the preliminary injunction against SB1.”
The DOJ still argued that the case, United…
