Trump Asks Judge to Toss Out ACLU Suit Over Trans Soldier Ban

By Erik Larson, Bloomberg News

The U.S. Justice Department asked a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit over the government’s planned ban on transgender military personnel, arguing the case by the American Civil Liberties Union is premature because new rules prohibiting their service haven’t taken effect.

The suit by the ACLU and six transgender soldiers would fail even if it weren’t premature because the courts have a long history of deference to Congress and the president on the development of military personnel policy, the Justice Department said late Thursday in a filing in federal court in Maryland.

The plaintiffs ...