Coming into Donald Trump’s second presidency, it was often assumed that the U.S. Supreme Court would act as a rubber stamp for whatever Trump wanted to do. After all, there are six conservatives on the court,

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to lift a lower court's order blocking the Pentagon's transgender military ban from going into effect.

The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to allow its ban on transgender service members in the military to proceed. The emergency application to the high court follows multiple rulings by lower courts thwarting the administration’s efforts to purge transgender service members from the armed forces.