Right is still right, even if you stand by yourself.

Mr. Chief Justice, may it place the court.

Hans Hans Pasky or Mr. A.C. Point.

The title of our episode today is Passports and the Single Girl, or maybe not.

Now, that title is a riff on a 1964 movie starring Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood called Sex and the

Single Girl. But today, I guess it might be sex and the guy who thinks he's a single girl. There is a

passport dispute going on between the Trump administration, the ACLU, and a number of other plaintiffs,

over the issuance of passports by the U.S. State Department.

This reached the Supreme Court on November 6th when they stayed or suspended

an injunction had been issued by a lower court, a federal district court judge in

Massachusetts named Julia Kobach, who no surprise is a Biden appointee. She issued a preliminary

injunction telling the Trump administration, specifically the State Department, that they could not require

anyone applying for a passport to list, if you can believe this, their biological sex on the

passport. No, really, that's what a federal judge, former clerk for Ruth Bader Ginsburg,

told the government. Now, unfortunately, this injunction, which I consider to be pretty bizarre,

was upheld by the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.

So the government really didn't have any choice other than to try to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court,

and the U.S. Supreme Court did issue a injunction

temporarily for this measure. Now, to talk about this, oh, I'm sorry, I should say, the Supreme Court,

in issuing the stay or suspension, said. Requiring passport holders to list their sex at birth, no more offends

equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth. In both cases, the government

is merely attesting to a historical fact without subjecting

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