Texas Federal Judges Block LGBTQ Student Protections

July 12, 2024 Christianists, Hate Groups

Reuters reports:

Two conservative federal judges in Texas have blocked President Joe Biden’s administration from enforcing new anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ students, preventing the rule from taking effect in the Republican-led state and a school district represented by a Christian legal rights group.

Thursday’s rulings by U.S. District Judges Matthew Kacsmaryk in Amarillo and Reed O’Connor in Fort Worth followed decisions by three other Republican-appointed judges in Kansas, Kentucky and Louisiana blocking the regulation in 14 other states.

The school district’s lawyers at conservative Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom had urged O’Connor to go even further and put on hold the rule’s Aug. 1 effective date, a remedy the judge said would potentially have to be applied nationwide.

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Kacsmaryk, a former lawyer for an anti-LGBTQ hate group, was exposed last year for failing to disclose millions in stock holdings. Kacsmaryk was previously exposed for failing to disclose viciously anti-LGBTQ interviews and acting to hide his authorship of an anti-abortion article ahead of his Senate confirmation hearing. It was Kacsmaryk who issued the ruling on abortion pills that was just sent back to lower courts by the US Supreme Court.



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