Talking back to Betsy

Here's a story from last week that's worth noting: Oregon's attorney general, Ellen Rosenblum (pictured), is taking a lead in challenging some Trump-era regulations that attempt to give religious schools a free pass from a lot of Title IX. These rules were promulgated under Orange Caligula's grotesque secretary of "education," Betsy De Vos.

Rosenblum led a coalition of 19 states and the District of Columbia in filing an amicus brief in support of students who brought a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon opposing the U.S. Department of Education’s (“DOE”) implementation of religious exemptions from Title IX anti-discrimination laws, which prohibit sex discrimination in federally-funded higher education institutions.

The amicus brief challenges DOE rules issued in 2020 under the Trump administration that broadened eligibility criteria for what it means for a school to be “controlled by a religious organization” and therefore eligible for exemption under Title IX. The DOE also eliminated a requirement that colleges seeking to claim a religious exemption under Title IX advise the DOE of their intent in writing, which the AGs claim effectively allows for schools to invoke the exemption without notice at any time.

I wonder whether Rosenblum has made up her mind about whether she's running for governor. A couple of weeks ago her campaign fund dished out another monthly stipend to Blue Wave Political Partners, LLC. This time, the tapper was for $6500. The primaries are only about six months away.