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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/us/politics/supreme-court-transgender-rights-case.html?_r=0

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday announced that it would not hear a major case on transgender rights at all, acting after the Trump administration changed the federal government's position on whether public schools had to allow transgender youths to use bathrooms that matched their gender identities.

In a one-sentence order, the Supreme Court vacated an appeal's court decision in favor of a transgender boy, Gavin Grimm, and sent the case back to the appeals court for further consideration in light of the new guidance from the Trump administration.

The Supreme Court had agreed to hear the case in October, and it had been scheduled to be argued this month. It would have been the court's first encounter with transgender rights, and there was a good chance the case would have been one of a fairly sleepy term's biggest decisions.

The question in the case was whether Mr. Grimm could use the boys' bathroom in a Virginia high school.

The Virginia case concerned the Obama administration's interpretation of a federal regulation under a 1972 law that bans discrimination "on the basis of sex" in schools that receive federal money.

 

[Maxim726X]

Yep, going back to the states.

Get ready to see a lot more of this after Trump has a few picks on the SC...

But her emails, indeed.

 

[excelsiorlef]

Trump held up dat rainbow flag though

 

[Vincent Alexander]

Fuck. Trump.

 

[PeakPointMatrix]

Waiting for that checks and balances thing to kick in any day now.

 

[LionPride]

Is this shocking?

 

[Slayven]

Yep, going back to the states.

Get ready to see a lot more of this after Trump has a few picks on the SC...

But her emails, indeed.

Nothing says unity like your humanity varying state by state

 

[Wilsongt]

This fucking administration.

 

[FrodoYolo]

Fuck you Supreme Court. You can make up laws about abortion, but you can't allow people to go to the bathroom? Seriously Kennedy would have gone for it, ya assholes.

 

[BrutishMrFish]

Is this shocking?

No. Still bullshit though.

 

[WedgeX]

So the Supreme Court is not going to consider it because Trump dropped the guidance?

Got dang.

 

[sphagnum]

Why?

 

[Link]

Why?

From the Post's article:

The 4th Circuit had relied on the federal government’s guidance that school should let transgender students use the bathroom that corresponds with the student’s gender identity.


The Trump administration withdrew that guidance, which was issued by the Obama administration.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-sends-transgender-case-back-to-lower-court/2017/03/06/0fc98c62-027a-11e7-b9fa-ed727b644a0b_story.html

 

[MarionCB]

I didn't realise the Executive had so much influence on the Supreme Court over its specific cases.

Fuck Trump, indeed.

 

[davepoobond]

I didn't realise the Executive had so much influence on the Supreme Court over its specific cases.

Fuck Trump, indeed.

When the decision is made on something that isn't valid anymore the Supreme Court can't use the lower court decision in any substantial way.


I think it is a mixed blessing

 

[Bruce Springsteen]

Yep, going back to the states.

except when it comes to issues like weed of course

 

[Maxim726X]

Nothing says unity like your humanity varying state by state

Hey, to all those 'both parties are the same' ignoramuses:

They clearly aren't. And you're about to find out just how damaging this election will be for the social progress of this country over the next 30 or so years.

Can't say we didn't try.

 

[Steel]

Nothing says unity like your humanity varying state by state

Maybe the states will bend to the power of NFL boycotts... Hopefully.

Yeah...

 

[silvon]

So Trump's removal of the guidance is a ploy to delay SC hearing on the case?

 

[Mortimer Brewster]

Maybe the states will bend to the power of NFL boycotts... Hopefully.

Yeah...

You are crazy if you think Goodell is going to risk pissing of Jerry Jones and his huge faction of owners by telling him he can't have the Super Bowl at Jerry's World over the bathroom issue. The NFL is not the NBA.