The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a loss on its emergency docket on Wednesday, declining to lift a lower court’s block on a new regulation for federal prisons that would stop providing inmates with transgender surgeries and procedures.
The high court ruled 7-2 against granting the Department of Justice’s emergency petition to allow the policy to go into effect while litigation continues. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito said they would have lifted the lower court’s injunction. The brief order did not include any explanation from either the majority or the dissent.
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