The government filed an emergency appeal to the justices in the name of “military readiness and the Nation’s interests.”

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration to begin executing its ban on transgender military service members, at least for now. The justices blocked a lower court order that temporarily halted the ban's enforcement. The court's ...

The Supreme Court is allowing President Donald Trump’s administration to enforce a ban on transgender people in the military, while legal challenges proceed.

The ruling allows the armed forces to discharge the thousands of current transgender troops and reject new recruits while legal challenges play out.