South Carolina is asking the Supreme Court to let it enforce a ban on transgender students using restrooms aligned with their gender identity at school.

In an emergency appeal Thursday, the state asked the justices to lift a federal appeals court's ruling blocking it from putting into effect a budget proviso that requires the state Department of Education to withhold some funding from districts that violate the policy.

South Carolina Solicitor General Thomas Hydrick acknowledged that the case implicates a question "fraught........

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