While it was once rare for an administration to change its position in cases before the high court, Trump did so in his first term and has signaled he will do it again.

President Donald Trump’s administration is switching positions in a major Supreme Court case on transgender rights, backing away from the Biden administration’s opposition to Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors.

President Donald Trump's administration told the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday that Tennessee's Republican-backed ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors is not unlawful, reversing the position taken by the government under his Democratic predecessor Joe Biden.

An administration lawyer said a Tennessee law barring some medical treatments for transgender youths is constitutional and urged the justices to say so.

Longmaid and Emily Kennedy of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP discuss a key case before the U.S. Supreme Court that continues to consider the limits and discretion of authority of federal agencies.

President Trump’s Justice Department on Friday abandoned the Biden administration’s Supreme Court challenge to gender-affirming care bans for minors, but the new administration urged the justices

The Supreme Court also refused to pause briefing in a consolidated case involving appeals of two lower court decisions, Oklahoma v. EPA and PacifiCorp v. EPA. Both cases center on EPA’s denial of 21 state implementation plans for slashing ozone pollution that crossed state lines.

The Justice Department's new position was expected because President Trump had made opposition to transgender rights a central campaign theme.

The federal government no longer backs transgender minors and their families in Tennessee who are challenging a state ban on gender-affirming care, the Trump administration told the Supreme Court Friday.

The U.S. Department of Justice under the Trump administration is withdrawing its challenge of a Tennessee law – argued before the U.S. Supreme Court – that blocks gender-affirming care for children. A deputy solicitor general for the Department of Justice notified the nation’s highest court Friday that it no longer believes the state law denies