DOJ Asks Supreme Court to Allow Some Blocked Title IX Rule Changes

Published on July 23, 2024

The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed an emergency application on July 22 asking the Supreme Court to allow some parts of the changes the federal government made to Title IX rules related to sex discrimination, which were blocked by a lower court. The DOJ is arguing that the preliminary injunction the wholesale pause to the rule changes was “more burdensome” than necessary, asking the Supreme Court to limit the district court’s injunction to 10 states and only to those changes related to gender identity. In the emergency application, U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar argues that the more than two dozen states challenging the expansion of Title IX rules focused their objections on three provisions related to “gender identity,” leaving the vast majority of the Department of Education’s (DOE) expanded rules alone....

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