Posted on 06/19/2024 5:25:02 PM PDT by T Ruth
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita told Newsmax on Wednesday that the recent court ruling to block the implementation of the Biden administration's new Title IX rules is a "big step" for the states fighting against the changes.
A federal judge on Monday issued a preliminary injunction that temporarily blocks the Biden administration's new Title IX rule, which would have expanded protections for LGBTQ+ students, in six states involved in a lawsuit over the changes: Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
The decision came only a few days after another federal judge issued a similar order preventing the rule from taking effect in four states: Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Montana.
Rokita said on "National Report" that because of the preliminary injunction, schools in the states that joined in the lawsuit against the Department of Education "don't have to worry about losing their funding" if they don't follow the new Title IX rules, "at least preliminarily."
Rokita described the ruling as "a huge step," noting that "a lot of these cases are decided at these very early stages, through things like a preliminary injunction and so forth."
He went on to say that the Department of Education "promulgated rules to help interpret and define what the decades-old Title IX law was, and they tried to rewrite the law through these rules, and that's called bureaucrats trying to be lawmakers." Rokita said that he and other state attorneys general "will continue to litigate the case on these successful grounds as the Department of Education tries to push back, but we're now into … the regular merit stage of the lawsuit, we'll see if the Department of Education continues to push."
***
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
Sadly this only helps in 6 states.
Like the Climate BS the states should not rely on the courts to save them. When they lose we’re screwed. They should tell the feds to themselves. If all the red states did there would nothing the rats could do about it.
The Tenth District Court ruled against the six sorority sisters in Wyoming.
All of this is a gigantic sh1t show with different courts going in different directions. We will probably have 50 years of this crap like Roe v Wade.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.