15 States Now Suing Over Final Title IX Rule

Attorneys general from six Republican-leaning states — Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Ohio, Virginia and West Virginia — filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the U.S. Department of Education over its Title IX rule released last month. The nearly 800-page lawsuit follows three others already filed, totaling at least 15 states to have taken the administration to court so far over the new policy.  The latest filing echoes much in those that came before it. It claims the Education Department was “arbitrary and capricious” in finalizing the Title IX rule and that the agency acted outside of its power under the Constitution.