{"id":23524,"date":"2026-06-02T15:22:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/hegseth-says-see-you-at-scotus-after-appeals-court-rules-trump-admin-illegally-banned-active-transgender-troops\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T15:22:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T15:22:19","slug":"hegseth-says-see-you-at-scotus-after-appeals-court-rules-trump-admin-illegally-banned-active-transgender-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/hegseth-says-see-you-at-scotus-after-appeals-court-rules-trump-admin-illegally-banned-active-transgender-troops\/","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth says &#8216;see you at SCOTUS&#8217; after appeals court rules Trump admin illegally banned active transgender troops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday indicated that he is willing to take a federal appeals court decision restricting his transgender military ban to the Supreme Court.  Earlier in the day, a divided federal appeals court panel ruled that the Trump administration, under a policy implemented by Hegseth last year&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5905031-defense-secretary-transgender-ban-appeal\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday indicated that he is willing to take a federal appeals court decision restricting his transgender military ban to the Supreme Court. Earlier in the day, a divided federal appeals court panel ruled that the Trump administration, under a policy implemented by Hegseth last year&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}