As the nation grapples with a growing border crisis, the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban, and a stagnating economy, President Joe Biden's Department of Education is working on something even more important: suing local school districts that do not allow boys in girls' locker rooms.
In a "Back to School" video released by the Department of Education and the Department of Justice, senior officials reminded children that if their school does not take steps to accommodate their feelings about their gender, the Biden administration is more than happy to step in.
Kristen Clarke, the DOJ’s assistant attorney general for civil rights, told transgender students that the federal government will fight for them against "discrimination."
“In some places, people in positions of authority are putting up obstacles that would keep you from playing on the sports field, accessing the bathroom and receiving the supportive and life-saving care you may need. We’re here to say that’s wrong and it’s against the law,” she said.
Suzanne Goldberg, acting assistant secretary for civil rights in the Department of Education, said that her department “and the entire federal government stand behind you.”
“The Department of Justice is here, along with the Department of Education, to investigate complaints about discrimination or harassment based on sexual orientation or gender identity. We want you to know that we are looking out for you, and we’re here to protect your civil rights,” she said.
In other words, schools that refuse to go along with the Biden administration's transgender ideology can expect to fight waves of expensive lawsuits in court. Most schools, as we saw during the Obama administration, would rather acquiesce to this blatant federal overreach than risk bankrupting their districts.
This is how federal overreach works: rather than pass a law through Congress, the executive branch uses their legions of lawyers and bureaucrats to bully the rest of America into submission. The people's representatives in Congress play no part in this process. The White House issues a simple, threatening video, and state and local governments fall in line.
This kind of lawmaking without representation is exactly why the Founders took up arms in 1776. But we don't have to resort to violence. We have a tool the Founders didn't have: an Article V Convention of States.
A Convention of States is called and controlled by the states and has the power to propose constitutional amendments that limit the power, scope, and jurisdiction of the federal government. These amendments can clarify that Congress--and only Congress--has the power to create laws, and prohibit the executive branch from imposing policy via executive fiat.
The White House will never cede the power it's accumulated over the last 100 years. We must take it away ourselves, and our most powerful tool is in Article V of the Constitution.
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