The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to issue an unusually quick ruling on the Pentagon’s policy of restricting military service by transgender people.
All sides pressed toward an agreement by Monday night, which would pave the way for a House vote on Wednesday. Action is needed by midnight Friday to avert another government shutdown.
The announcement means the case affecting “Dreamers” will have to work its way through the lower courts before any Supreme Court ruling is possible, though the case could also become moot if Congress takes action in the meantime.
The vote, 54-45, scuttled what had seemed the likeliest chance for sweeping immigration legislation to make it through the Senate this year. Trump’s own plan fared even worse as 60 senators voted no and just 39 voted for it.
