Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday declined to let the Biden administration enforce portions of a new rule that includes protections from discrimination for transgender students under Title IX while legal proceedings continue.
The high court left intact two separate orders from federal courts in Kentucky and Louisiana, which blocked the Department of Education from enforcing the entirety of the rule across 10 states.
The Justice Department had asked the Supreme Court to put part of the decisions on hold, but it declined the requests.
The measure at issue in the disputes was announced by the Biden administration in April and expanded Title IX's protections to LGBTQ students.
But in the challenge from Louisiana involving the four states, Republican officials told the Supreme Court in a filing that the Biden administration's rule would "radically impact" schools, teachers and families.
In addition to the Louisiana and Kentucky cases, a number of other challenges to the Biden administration's Title IX rule are pending in the lower courts.
The constitutionality of one of those laws, from Tennessee, will be reviewed by the Supreme Court in the fall. »
