August 17th, 2024 by WCBC Radio

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey issued a statement Friday following the U.S. Supreme Court’s denial of the government’s bid for a partial stay of a preliminary injunction against the Biden administration’s recent Title IX regulation. That injunction restrains the U.S. Department of Education “from implementing, enacting, enforcing, or taking any action in any manner to enforce the Final Rule, Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Sex in Education Programs or Activities Receiving Federal Assistance…“

“The Supreme Court sees that the Title IX revisions being pushed by the Biden administration would have ended sex-based protections for biological women in locker rooms, bathrooms, sports and elsewhere, plain and simple,” Attorney General Morrisey said. “This radical agenda from this administration is a retreat from the progress women have made.”

The Attorney General co-led a six-state coalition in suing the DoE, challenging its overhaul of Title IX of the Educational Amendments Act, which would harm West Virginia students, families and schools. In dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor noted how “[e]very member of the Court agrees [the States] are entitled to interim relief as to three provisions of that Rule” confirming the states are likely to succeed in their challenge.

“We will always be on the side of fairness when it comes to opportunities for women in sports and education,” Attorney General Morrisey said."