Attorney General Tim Griffin issued the following statement announcing that he and 19 other state attorneys general have filed an amicus brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in support of a Tennessee-led coalition’s lawsuit against the Biden-Harris administration’s Title IX rule:
“Congress enacted Title IX to protect and promote educational opportunities for women and girls. I am proud to have filed our successful lawsuit challenging the Biden-Harris administration’s election-year effort to go around Congress and allow men into women’s and girl’s locker rooms, restrooms, and showers. That is also why I am leading this coalition of states to bolster our fellow states’ efforts to halt this unlawful Title IX rule.
“The Biden-Harris Title IX rule breaks the law Congress has written and violates the Constitution.”
In June, Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti secured a preliminary injunction against the implementation of the Biden-Harris Title IX rule for his state and the states of Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Virginia, and West Virginia. Griffin’s amicus brief asks the Sixth Circuit to affirm the preliminary injunction and rule that the new attempt to rewrite Title IX is unlawful.
In July, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri issued a preliminary injunction in Arkansas v. U.S. Department of Education to stop the Biden-Harris administration’s new Title IX rule from being implemented in Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
To read the amicus brief filed by Griffin and the attorneys general of Alabama, Alaska, Idaho, Iowa, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming.
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