The Biden administration cannot enforce new protections for LGBTQ+ students in Ohio, Virginia and four other states, a federal judge ruled Monday, becoming the latest court to rebuff efforts to expand the scope of a decades-old law that prohibits sex-based discrimination.

US District Judge Danny Reeves said in a 93-page ruling that the new protections – which are set to take effect August 1 – cannot be enforced in Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Virginia and West Virginia while a lawsuit brought by those states’ attorneys general plays out.

The new rules require schools to protect students from all sex discrimination, including sexual violence and sex-based harassment, expanding that definition to include discrimination based on pregnancy or pregnancy-related conditions like childbirth, termination of pregnancy or recovery from pregnancy. Compliance with the new rules is required to receive federal education aid.

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    Have the GOP achieved anything, anywhere over the last 5 years that wasn’t an attempt to take away people’s voting rights, to take away their reproductive rights, or to take away their human rights? Has any Republican ANYWHERE done anything to make the lives of their constituents better? Or are they just virtue signalling obstructionist assholes to the very last one?

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      They cut taxes once. That’s like the one traditional-conservative achievement of the Trump Administration.

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          Non wealthy people had their taxes cut for a time, but raised permanently. The trump tax cuts were a wealth transfer from the working class to the owner class.

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            It’s easy to cut taxes on the poor. You raise the non-taxed income limit then the upper limits of each of the tax brackets. That would give virtually all of the benefit of the tax cuts to the 99.9%. Across the board tax cuts and corporate tax cuts are designed to transfer wealth to the wealthy.

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      The latter. Republicans can’t govern for shit. They’re the equivalent of the class bully back in highschool who would beat up anyone that got above a C grade.