Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is not stopping the fight against federal overreach by the Biden-Harris administration. Earlier this year Marshall filed a preliminary injunction against the administration’s Title IX rule change that would ban discrimination and harassment based upon sexual orientation and gender identity, which many believe will negatively impact women’s sports.
Marshall discussed the issue Wednesday on “Rightside Radio.”
“The thing that I’ve appreciated the most about being in this role is truly the opportunity to have an influence in ways that I didn’t really probably appreciate or or even understand when I got here,” Marshall said. “But there’s no doubt when I came in the door back in February of 2017 did I somehow think that I’d be fighting over who’s a boy and who’s a girl. I mean…I thought that was pretty settled.”
Marshall said the federal government is using funding mechanism to infringe on states’ rights.
“One of the things I think is an important point for us…when we look at the way that we conduct state government, is that 10th amendment is a wonderful tool for us to be able to use, to be able to push back against federal overreach,” he argued. “But here’s the federal government key to unlock that door is that when they have the power of the purse string and they’re giving money to the states, you then become obligated, to some extent, to implement the rules that they have with regards the use of that money. It’s how we got into the national COVID vaccine fight.”
He explained how the Dept. of Agriculture tried to take away school lunch programs from schools who didn’t comply with an expanded definition of sex and gender.
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“This was broadening for the plaintiff bar and others to use this as a discrimination action against school systems, other institutions, consistent with what Washington wanted,” he said. “And we pushed back, along with some other states, and Department of Agriculture
retracted that rule, but yet it’s still part of this sort of whole of government approach to the Biden administration to use everything at their disposal in their power to enforce their their own ideology.”
On Thursday afternoon, Marshall announced an unprecedented legal win in the fight after the Eleventh Circuit ruled to grant a motion halting the Biden-Harris administration’s attempt to fundamentally alter the law. But the fight continues, Marshall said.
“Now, seven district courts, three courts of appeals, and all nine Justices of the Supreme Court have held that this radical rewrite of Title IX is likely unlawful. We will continue to fight the good fight for Alabama’s schoolchildren,” Marshall said.
Yaffee is a contributing writer to Yellowhammer News and hosts “The Yaffee Program” weekdays 9-11 a.m. on WVNN. You can follow him on X @Yaffee
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