Article snippet: The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to take up the president's transgender military ban. Solicitor General Noel Francisco filed a petition to Supreme Court justices Friday asking them to hear the issue currently being debated in three lower courts in order to have the case decided quicker, according to CNN. Francisco also argued that the injunctions issued by lower courts warrant review for harming the military. Trump first announced on Twitter his intention to ban transgender people from serving in the military in July 2017. In March of this year he signed a memo written by Defense Secretary blocked by district courts around the country, including the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in August. According to Francisco, because of the injunctions "the military has been forced to maintain that prior policy for nearly a year" despite a determination by Mattis and a panel of experts that the "prior policy, adopted by [Defense Secretary Ash Carter], posed too great a risk to military effectiveness and lethality." Normally, the Supreme Court waits for cases to make their way through lower courts before taking them up. Groups involved in the lower level court challenges against the transgender ban sounded off on Trump’s move to involve the Supreme Court on Friday.“There is no urgency here and no reason for the Court to weigh in at this juncture,” said Jennifer Levi, LGBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders’ Transgender Rights Project ... Link to the full article to read more