Thankfully, the other 6 justice have brains.
The administration sought to ban the use of "X" as a gender option for transgender passport holders, but a lower court attempted to block the move. On Thursday, the highest court in America said law should be based in reality, not fantasy.
More details from The Hill:
It hands another legal victory for Trump in his efforts to eviscerate what his administration calls 'gender ideology.' The Justice Department brought the emergency appeal after lower courts blocked the passport policy for being rooted in 'irrational prejudice.'
'Displaying passport holders' sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth — in both cases, the Government is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting anyone to differential treatment,' the majority wrote in its unsigned ruling.
The ruling was 6-3 along the usual lines.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said ... something in her dissent.
'Such senseless sidestepping of the obvious equitable outcome has become an unfortunate pattern,' wrote Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor.
'So, too, has my own refusal to look the other way when basic principles are selectively discarded,' the dissent continued.
The three liberal justices said it is their conservative peers who "misunderstand the assignment" of the Court:
(That's actual language in a Supreme Court dissent! 😂)
No word on whether Jackson has figured out what a woman is yet.
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