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Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin joins multi-state suit seeking to block Biden administration Title IX rule
Summary
Attorney General Tim Griffin and Missouri Attorney General Bailey announced a multi-state lawsuit filed in the Eastern District of Missouri to challenge the Biden administration's Title IX rule change; the complaint raises statutory, First Amendment, major-questions and arbitrary-and-capricious claims and seeks a stay on enforcement.
Attorney General Tim Griffin of Arkansas and Missouri Attorney General Bailey announced onstage that they and other state attorneys general have filed suit in the Eastern District of Missouri to challenge the Biden administration's recent Title IX rule change.
Griffin told reporters the coalition comprises about six states and said the suit rests on multiple legal theories: statutory-construction arguments that the administration has misread Title IX, First Amendment protections against compelled speech, the major questions doctrine and arbitrary-and-capricious review of administrative action. "I could tell you that, we're gonna win this suit," Griffin said.
General Bailey, a co-lead in the litigation, said the…
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