Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is fighting back in court against the Biden administration’s heavy-handed attempt to leverage federal school nutrition funding as a way to force schools into complying with its identity politics agenda.
(Video: Fox News)
“This time, the fight isn’t over curriculum or masking — it’s whether states still possess the paltry authority to require boys to use the boys’ bathroom at school,” Marshall, who is up for reelection in November, wrote in an op-ed on the Fox News website.
As BPR previously reported, the Biden regime is metaphorically trying to steal kids’ lunch money by eventually withholding various programmatic U.S. Department of Agriculture nutrition assistance funding from public schools that don’t go along with the gender ideology narrative.
“These programs both tug at the heart strings and come with a hefty price tag for states, so the Biden administration has found them to be ideal vehicles for forcing genderlessness into our state governments, and more particularly, our public schools,” AG Marshall explained.
“By issuing a USDA memorandum and accompanying administrative rule, the administration has waged a campaign to impose the left’s extremist ‘gender identity’ agenda on schoolchildren with the implied threat that if states resist, their programs and public schools will get less money from the federal government.”
Some 22 red states are reportedly part of the resistance.
“The United States Constitution leaves no doubt as to the states’ broad authority over their own public schools, but the Biden administration supposes that everything — even schoolchildren — has a price,” Marshall declared in his editorial.
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“Alabama parents — the taxpayers who fund our schools — do not share the Biden administration’s goal of genderlessness in our classrooms. That is why the people of Alabama have supported laws that protect girls’ sports and girls’ bathrooms, as well as laws that prohibit sexual indoctrination in the classroom.
Marshall implied that he and his colleagues are speaking truth to the power of the purse.
“The Biden administration’s actions seeking to impose the left’s gender identity agenda on schoolchildren are illegal and unconstitutional. But even if they were not, and federal funding was at risk, the duty of state leaders is not to dollars. We are meant to serve the interests of the people of our states — and the people of Alabama have clearly spoken, through their elected representatives, that they do not wish for sexual politics to be thrust on their children by the far-left in Washington.
“While I hope to preserve every penny of federal funding being threatened by this administration, Alabama’s sovereignty is not for sale,” his essay concluded after earlier noting that states have become too dependent on the federal dollar and thus federal coercion.
On Thursday morning, Marshall reaffirmed that Alabama’s sovereignty “isn’t for sale” during an interview with “Fox & Friends First” co-host Carley Shimkus.
He went on to say that “We have a broader obligation to our citizens to make sure that we’re enforcing our own policy. Clearly, this administration is acting beyond their authority, attempting to impose their specific agenda that they can’t do at the ballot box in Alabama…”
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Robert Jonathan is a staff writer for BizPac Review. He is a longtime writer/editor for news aggregation websites and has also developed content in the legal and financial publishing sectors as well as for online education. He earned a Juris Doctorate from the University of Connecticut School of Law, “a law school the basketball teams can be proud of.”
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