( May 6, 2025, 12:17 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A stay of a trial court’s March 27 preliminary injunction granted to servicemembers and an organization that sued in a federal court in Washington challenging President Donald J. Trump’s executive order (EO) banning transgender people from the military is necessary as the federal government is likely to succeed on the merits of its claims, the questions presented warrant high court review, the injunction causes irreparable harm to the government and the public and the balance of equities favors a stay, the federal government argues in its reply supporting its stay application filed in the U.S. Supreme Court....