U.S. Supreme Court and Civil Rights

The Supreme Court heard challenges to Idaho’s and West Virginia’s laws that bar transgender women and girls from competing in female sports, with justices probing whether the statutes discriminate based on transgender status or on sex. President Trump afterward attacked justices he thought sympathetic to the plaintiffs—saying any justice who would allow “men to be able to play in women’s sports” should “lose a lot of credibility”—while in‑court observers noted moments such as Justice Clarence Thomas appearing disengaged and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson pressing the states’ solicitors general on disparate treatment.