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Attorney backs Texas school district over Biden administration's Title IX changes: 'We expect to win'
An attorney is confident her client’s lawsuit against the Biden administration will strike down its new Title IX changes as unconstitutional.
“We want and we expect to win the lawsuit and have these rules, this regulation be determined to be unconstitutional because it is unconstitutional,” Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) President and CEO Kristen Waggoner told Fox News Digital.
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday on behalf of the Texas-based Carroll Independent School District challenging the Biden administration’s updates to Title IX, which expanded protections for LGBTQ+ students. The rule changes, effective Aug. 1, will allow discrimination and harassment claims based on gender identity and sexual orientation.
BIDEN DISMANTLES TRUMP-ERA TITLE IX RULES, SIDESTEPS ISSUE OF TRANS ATHLETES IN GIRLS’ SPORTS
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced his state will not be implementing changes to Title IX protections propagated by President Biden’s administration. (AP Photo/LM Otero) (SUZANNE CORDEIRO / AFP) (Photo by SUZANNE CORDEIRO/AFP via Getty Images)
“We want to see Title IX return to the original intent and what the law actually says, which is that the Title IX law was designed to ensure equal opportunities for women and girls, and at the same time, that law recognizes that to have those equal opportunities, you don’t provide identical treatment to men and women,” Waggoner said.
“In order to provide those equal opportunities, we recognize the enduring differences between men and women and boys and girls,” she continued.
The Department of Education’s overhaul of Title IX of the Educational Amendments Act has caused major backlash, prompting pushback from activists and public officials, including Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who announced that his state would not be implementing changes to Title IX protections.
More than half of the states, all GOP-led, have filed suits against the Biden administration over the Title IX changes.
GOP LAWMAKERS SLAM BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S NEW TITLE IX PROTECTIONS FOR ‘GENDER IDENTITY’
ADF is representing five lawsuits, challenging the Biden administration’s reinterpretation and “radical agenda on gender identity,” Five of those are represented by ADF, Waggoner told Fox News Digital.
“I think it just underscores the radical agenda that the Biden administration is putting in place through this rule that is redefining Title IX and the school districts themselves,” she said.
Waggoner said the Title IX changes suggest to school districts that employees could face “firing, punishment, and harm.” She added that students are subject to harm as well “if they don’t go along with this agenda.”
“We want to see Title IX return to the original intent and what the law actually says,” Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) President and CEO Kristen Waggoner told Fox News Digital (iStock)
“That includes schools having to sacrifice their locker rooms, their showers, their privacy, their safety, as well as, obviously, the equal opportunities that come from being able to participate in scholarships and athletic opportunities as well,” Waggoner said.
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The Department of Education sent Fox News Digital a statement saying the department went through a “rigorous process” on the new rules.
“The Department crafted the final Title IX regulations following a rigorous process to give complete effect to the Title IX statutory guarantee that no person experiences sex discrimination in federally-funded education,” the statement reads. “As a condition of receiving federal funds, all federally-funded schools are obligated to comply with these final regulations, and we look forward to working with school communities all across the country to ensure the Title IX guarantee of nondiscrimination in school is every student’s experience.”
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A man armed with a knife was shot by L.A. police officers responding to an assault with a deadly weapon call overnight, authorities said.
According to the Los Angeles Police Department, officers with the Hollenbeck Division responded to an apartment complex in the 3000 block of Glenn Avenue in Boyle Heights at 1:45 a.m. Saturday after callers reported a male suspect was armed with a knife and had just assaulted someone in the complex.
Arriving officers found the suspect in front of the residence, but he did not comply with officers’ commands to drop the weapon. He then advanced toward the officers and an officer-involved shooting occurred, LAPD confirmed.
“The suspect was struck by gunfire and remained non-compliant,” the LAPD Public Information Officer said on X early Saturday morning. “Officers deployed a 40mm foam round and ultimately took the suspect into custody.”
Video obtained by KTLA shows the man being loaded into an ambulance and taken to a hospital; officials said he was transported in stable condition, adding that his knife was recovered at the scene and booked as evidence.
No officers or community members were injured during the incident. The man’s name was not released.
Dangerous rip currents and high surf are forecast for Los Angeles County beaches, including the Malibu Coast this weekend.
The National Weather Service has issued a hazardous beach statement, warning of the potentially deadly beach conditions. The dangerous conditions are forecast to last from Saturday evening to Monday morning.
“There is an increased risk of ocean drowning,” the NWS forecast reads. “Rip currents can pull swimmers and surfers out to sea. Waves can wash people off beaches and rocks, and capsize small boats nearshore.”
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A guide to surviving rip currents from the National Weather Service (NWS)
Minor Beach erosion and coastal flooding is possible through the weekend. The flooding is most likely to occur during evening high tides from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Beachgoers are advised to stay out of the water and remain near lifeguard towers. Jetties and tidepools are also especially dangerous during the weekend forecast.
“Rock jetties can be deadly in such conditions, stay off the rocks,” the NWS forecast reads.
Similar hazardous beach conditions are also in the forecast for Santa Barbara County. A high surf advisory is also in effect for Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties this weekend, where 10 to 15-foot waves will be possible.
If you live or want to live in Los Angeles, the city controller has released a new dashboard highlighting some of the city’s most notorious problem rental properties, a tool designed to help renters avoid future headaches.
“This project comes at a time when tenants are reporting harassment and illegal evictions violating the City’s Rent Stabilization Ordinance, Just Cause for Eviction Ordinance and Tenant Anti‑Harassment Ordinance, but very few of the complaints end up leading to strong enforcement or real accountability,” L.A. City Controller Kenneth Mejia said in a media release Thursday.
The new Top 100 Problem Rental Properties dashboard includes a searchable database of all residential addresses with reported housing violation cases within the city of Los Angeles, a ranked list of the 100 addresses with the most violations and an interactive map.
“There has never before been an uncomplicated way for anyone to look up years’ worth of violations by address,” Mejia said in the release.
Data for the dashboard was compiled from multiple sources, including the Los Angeles Housing Department, Los Angeles City Planning and the L.A. County Assessor’s Office, according to the controller’s office.
The release also identified the top three addresses with the highest number of reported housing violations:
1. 636 1/2 North Hill Place, Chinatown
192 housing violation cases
2. 11700 West Wilshire Boulevard, Sawtelle
166 housing violation cases
3. 6650 West Forest Lawn Drive, Hollywood Hills
113 housing violation cases
“Our new dashboard is an easy‑to‑understand public tool that we hope will help renters and organizers document patterns of harm, as well as put pressure on both landlords and the City to act,” Mejia said. “Everyone deserves safe, stable and dignified housing.”
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