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Activist AGs Join Forces to Fight the Feds
For those who fear that no one is fighting to protect our rights, I have great news for you: our Attorneys General are fighting the good fight:
The prominence of coordinated multistate lawsuits to challenge federal policy is a relatively recent phenomenon. While states have a long history of suing the federal government, these were typically single-state efforts claiming specific harm to that state. Now, partisan coalitions of AGs have used multistate lawsuits as a way to both block federal policies and to prompt national action.
The AGs finally figured out there is strength in numbers and there are at least 18 lawsuits pending against the Biden Administration. At least ten of them have multiple states suing the government. Since we are only seven months into Biden’s term, rulings are still pending. But I am hopeful that at least some government bureaucrats are challenging the unlawful, dangerous, and outrageous actions of the feds.
The latest lawsuit, filed by the state of Tennessee, was joined by West Virginia and 20 other states: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and South Dakota.
Attorneys general from 20 states, including West Virginia, sued President Joe Biden’s administration Monday seeking to halt directives that extend federal sex discrimination protections to LGBTQ people, ranging from transgender girls participating in school sports to the use of school and workplace bathrooms that align with a person’s gender identity.
Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Knoxville, arguing that legal interpretations by the U.S. Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission are based on a faulty view of U.S. Supreme Court case law.
The lawsuit challenges the following interpretations, in part:
The lawsuit asks a judge for a number of declarations about Title IX in schools and Title VII in the workplace: that they don’t prohibit schools and employers from having showers, locker rooms, bathrooms and other living facilities separated by ‘biological sex’; that they do not require employers, school employees or students to use a transgender person’s preferred pronouns; that they do not prohibit having school sports teams separated by ‘biological sex’; and that they do not prohibit workplace dress codes based on ‘biological sex.’
Let’s hope that this will be one powerful step in restoring states’ rights, our cultural mores, protecting our children, and stopping the onslaught of the misguided compromising of our civil rights.
Published in Domestic Policy
Where’s Texas? Texas should be participating.
Maybe they’re stretched too thin with all their other lawsuits!
Uphill fight. Even a GOP Congress will not seriously clarify Title IX and would SCOTUS require a sane application of the law?
Feminists who fought for an expansive use of Title IX now find guys in women’s sports and bathrooms as a direct result.
I think anything any of us take on will be an uphill battle, @oldbathos. The Left has so undermined our belief systems that bringing this country to sanity will be a struggle. But we either try to make a difference, or simply give up. I’m glad some AGs are not giving up. And I realize that you’re not saying to give up. But it will be very, very difficult.
Sadly, it may take a feminist icon like Gloria Steinem to be sexually assaulted in a health club locker room to wake these idiots up . . .
Of course, if this approach starts to become too effective, our esteemed Court will simply decide that groups of states don’t have standing. (I’ll even predict here that it will be either a 7-2 decision or an 11-2 decision. I’ll come back and narrow that down by the end of the year.)
Maybe they’ll be too busy fighting other battles to notice?? I’d love to think of their being “too effective,” though! Fun to contemplate!
The new Sex Ed Class;
https://www.reddit.com/user/BurnLoot_Murder/comments/omd9i4/petrona_a_biological_male_and_father_of_the_child/
Good grief. Some people have clearly gone over the edge.
This is what people do when they don’t have enough to do.