The Supreme Court said it would allow President Donald Trump to move forward with his ban on transgender members of the U.S. military.
In a court order on Tuesday, the conservative justices granted the Trump administration's request to lift a nationwide injunction against the move to ban transgender people in the military. The court's liberal justices disagreed with the order.
Seven service members had sued the administration to block the anti-transgender policy.
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The Trump administration relied on a Pentagon report from the president's first term claiming that transgender service members were a threat to "military effectiveness and lethality."
"An unprecedented degree of animus towards transgender people animates and permeates the ban: it is based on the shocking proposition that transgender people do not exist," lawyers for the service members wrote.