Biden-era DOE officials defied the law to protect – Latest News
A pack of Biden-era Department of Education bigwigs covertly defied federal courtroom orders, even after a colleague tried to blow the whistle — and are nonetheless on the job, although the division has admitted the violations.
The story begins in 2021, with President Joe Biden’s govt order that banning “discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation” throughout the whole federal authorities.
The of us at Education ran with that, sending out “guidelines” to state officials warning that “Title IX’s ban on sex discrimination” extends to “discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity” — refuse to go alongside, and your federal funding is at risk.
Yet Title IX says no such factor — “gender identity” was a fringe idea when Congress wrote that law in the ’70s.
And respecting “gender identity” claims threatens different Title IX ensures: E.g., you’re not, in most Americans’ eyes, defending ladies’s rights to privateness if organic males can use their bogs, locker rooms and so forth.
Twenty states sued to block enforcement of Education’s diktats, and in 2022 received an injunction blocking the division from implementing its mandates.
Yet Education’s Office for Civil Rights ignored that order, launching a number of investigations of “gender identity” grievances in the supposedly-protected states.
OCR employee Timothy Mattson tried to report this defiance in 2022 — triggering a coverup.
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His superiors stalled impartial investigators from the federal Office of Special Counsel till after the 2024 election, concealing a 25-page memo from a Kansas City regional director that independently backed up many of Mattson’s considerations.
By early 2025, the courts fully tossed the Biden “guidances,” and Education’s new management has now confirmed Mattson’s claims.
But most of the “civil servants” at fault are nonetheless on the job. This “circumvention of a binding federal injunction over multiple years and across multiple offices” cries out for “accountability,” warns OSC Chief Counsel Charles Baldis.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon wants to see that heads begin rolling.
