BATON ROUGE, LA – In another legal victory for Louisiana
Attorney General Jeff Landry over President Joe Biden – a federal judge in the
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee has enjoined the
Biden Administration from enforcing new, expansive, and unlawful guidance on
federal antidiscrimination laws.
The legal action comes after Attorney General Landry joined
his colleagues from 19 other states in suing to stop Biden’s Department of
Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from their attempts
to force schools to allow males to compete on girls’ sports teams, to prohibit
sex-separated showers and locker rooms, and to compel individuals to use
biologically inaccurate preferred pronouns.
“I am proud to have helped thwart yet another of Joe
Biden’s radical overreaches,” said Attorney General Landry. “Redefining sex is
Biden’s latest attempt to force states to comply with his woke agenda;
fortunately, the court agreed with us and the rule of law.”
“The District Court rightly recognized the federal
government put Tennessee and other states in an impossible situation: choose
between the threat of legal consequences including the withholding of federal
funding- or altering our state laws to comply. Keep in mind these new, transformative
rules were made without you- without your elected leaders in Congress having a
say, which is what the law requires,” said Tennessee Attorney General Herbert
H. Slatery III who led the lawsuit. “We are thankful the Court put a stop to
it, maintained the status quo as the lawsuit proceeds, and reminded the federal
government it cannot direct it’s agencies to rewrite the law.”
Joining Louisiana and Tennessee in the legal victory were
Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky,
Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota,
and West Virginia.