The Supreme Court on Friday rejected the Biden administration’s request to partially reinstate its Title IX rule expanding protections to include sexual orientation and gender identity.
The 5-4 ruling leaves in place a lower court’s decision to block an expansion of sex discrimination rules for schools that many states have opposed. The Biden administration had argued that the updates should be allowed to take effect as scheduled on August 1.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by the court’s two other liberal justices and conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch, dissented, agreeing with the Biden administration that the lower rulings were “overbroad.”