Supreme Court Allows Trump Policy Requiring Passports to Match Biological

In its brief statement, the Court wrote that showing a traveler’s sex at birth “no more offends equal-protection principles than displaying their country of birth.” The majority framed the issue as one of historical recordkeeping, not discrimination.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, joined by the Court’s two other liberal justices, issued a sharp dissent. She called the decision a “senseless sidestepping of the obvious equitable outcome,” warning that it would cause “immediate injury without adequate justification.”

Because the order was issued on the Court’s emergency docket, it is temporary — the case will continue through the lower courts. But for now, the Trump policy is in effect nationwide.

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