Military draft: Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to male-only registration requirement

The court’s order means that for now even though the draft is not implemented, only men will still be required to register for the selective service.

Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen Breyer and Brett Kavanaugh wrote to explain their vote noting that Congress may take up the issue in the short term.

“At least for now,” Sotomayor wrote, “the court’s longstanding deference to Congress on matters of national defense and military affairs cautions against granting review while Congress actively weighs the issue.”

The group had asked the justices to reconsider a 1981 decision that upheld the…