Jurisprudence

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In an unsigned order on Wednesday, the Supreme Court denied the Trump administration’s request for permission to implement what is, even by the Trump administration’s standards, a remarkably barbaric element of its anti-trans agenda: a blanket denial of gender-affirming healthcare to transgender people in federal prison for the first time in three decades .…