Attorney General Lynn Fitch issued the following statement yesterday.
Attorney General Lynn Fitch and 21 Attorneys General filed a lawsuit today
against the Biden Administration, challenging its new guidance on sex
discrimination for schools and programs that receive federal nutrition
assistance. The lawsuit was filed in the Eastern District of Tennessee.
“Children and families in need rely on these programs for sustenance,” said Attorney General Lynn Fitch. “This
is not the place or time for President Biden to be playing politics and
pushing an agenda far out-of-step with the American people.”
On May 5, 2022, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Services issued guidance to
Mississippi and other States applying the Administration’s novel
reading of discrimination on the basis of sex discrimination into the
Food and Nutrition Act. The Administration has sought to apply the
Supreme Court’s holding in Bostock v. Clayton County
very expansively to include discrimination on the bases of sexual
orientation and gender identity to a wide variety of government
programs. The USDA guidance at issue in this case puts Mississippi's
Title IX and SNAP school lunch funding at risk.
In the lawsuit, the Attorneys General argue the USDA’s Guidance is unlawful because:
- It was issued without providing the States and other stakeholders the opportunity for input as required by the Administrative Procedures Act (APA).
- The USDA premised its Guidance on an obvious misreading and misapplication of the Supreme Court’s holding in Bostock v. Clayton County.
- The
Guidance imposes new and unlawful regulatory measures on state agencies
and operators receiving federal financial assistance from the USDA.
This will inevitably result in regulatory chaos that threatens essential
nutritional services to some of the most vulnerable citizens.
The National School Lunch Program services nearly 30 million school children each day, many who rely on it for breakfast, lunch, or both. Approximately
100,000 public and non-profit private schools and residential childcare
institutions receive federal funding to provide subsidized free or
reduced-price meals for qualifying children. On June 14th, General Fitch joined a coalition of 26 state Attorneys General calling on President Biden to withdraw the USDA’s guidance.
Joining
today’s lawsuit, led by Tennessee Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery
III and Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, are the Attorneys General
of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma,
South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and Virginia.
22 comments:
AG Lynn Fitch for President 2024!
Wow, the USA is literally in shambles and on the cusp of financial ruin and this clown is worried about people that don't know what gender they are. President Biden and anyone who voted for him are all clowns. I hope you all are proud of putting him in office. You are getting 110% of what you deserve, and I hope he breaks you financially.
Why is EVERYTHING free? Free rent, free food, free cell phones, free medical care, free child care etc....
I have never been given a THING in my life. Hard work and perseverance is what got me where I am. What are we teaching people?
It is called Socialism.
We woke yet?
Does Fitch have any lawyers that know how to draft a lawsuit, or are they only there to keep the ink pad wet to rubber stamp the work from other states?
11:31- I am not going that far in your endorsement yet, but lets screw with the Feds! They deserve it more than anybody else.
So stop the school lunches! In Jackson, I have often seen free lunches delivered in summer by a giant school bus, 5 times a week, in upper-middle-class residential neighborhoods.
How many of us ate peanut butter sandwiches, an apple, a handful of Fritos and two cookies in a brown bag from home, at school, where we PAID FOR a small carton of milk or had similar on a plate in summer?
Is it hubris to steal your press tactics from a Red Letter Bible?
11:38 Sorry but "free" ain't socialism. Far from it. Under socialism you will work your ass off, you simply do not profit from your labor. The fruits of your labor are divided according to government formula. All this free stuff is not designed to create socialism. It's designed to create dependence whether capitalist or socialist.
We don’t need handouts from the federal government. We are a conservative state that doesn’t believe in such things. Clearly Fitch is a RINO who is actually a closeted communist probably getting paid by bill gates.
Does Brett Favre or the WWE need to our kids’ lunch money too? Why else would a Republican care about it?
You folks want it both ways, you can make your laws but you have to live with the consequences. I really don’t get what everyone is crying about, the economy is just fine my income has risen with prices. My stock portfolio took a correction but is on the rebound.
Lynn better try to claw every penny she can from the Feds. The welfare fraud bill is coming !
Dear Lynn,
Please focus your efforts on prosecuting and recovering the almost $100 million in food stamp money that was stolen in this state over the last several years.
What just gets to ke, though, is how so many of y'all don't understand that Biden just wants to help the people.
Biden's masters in San Francisco are bent on reshaping America to suit their changing will. Discrimination is whatever does not adhere to their latest perversion. When the rules preventing discrimination based on sex was written it was never explained that it could be so expansive as to include those who "think" they are of a different gender or sex than the one they were born. Dreams and thoughts count more than reality. That is not the end. There is no end to it. Madness.
12:46, Clearly Fitch is a RINO who is actually a closeted communist probably getting paid by bill gates."
Hahahaha! Watch it, your INSANITY is showing!!! Do you even realize how all over the place you are? Lynn a "RINO"? She is falling off the far right cliff into Trump's lap!
If Lynn was AG 50 years ago she would be a bigger joke. The problem is that in our modern political system, you don’t need to have an original thought, you just need to be on the party special interest list-serv. They say here, State X, file this law suit our folks drafted. Then here other states, we sent State X a complaint for you to join.
It is the same problem in State legislature. You think anyone actually elected in Mississippi wrote the heart beat bill? Nope, Right to Life or some other group sent the draft to the states. Which is why that year, we coincidently had 34 states with identical bills.
Both parties are equally guilty. Just don’t have any Dem examples because there are none here and the few that are could not get the national trend stuff off out a committee. It is just sad that none of our elected officials do their own work. They take orders. Which is why Lynn doesn’t do press conferences because she couldn’t explain this lawsuit if her life depended on it.
I assume the words in red are Lynn's contributions to the statement?
There is something seriously wrong when nearly 30 million school children depend on the schools to provide two out of three meals a day for them. Many schools will deliver meals during the summer for school kids. Even pack a sack full of snacks for the family at home.
Exactly what do the parents of those school children provide for the children they decided to bring unto this world?
People on here continually bitch about "socialism" and all of the government giveaway program. The truth is that Mississippi could not function without federal money.
Federal funds represent about 45 percent of Mississippi's total budget. In the fiscal 2020 budget, 44.5 percent of Mississippi's revenues ($9.38 billion out of $21 billion) came from federal funds. In fiscal 2019, 44.9 percent of the state's revenues ($9.37 billion out of $20.86 billion) originated from federal funds.
https://mspolicy.org/mississippi-no-longer-the-state-most-reliant-on-federal-aid/#:~:text=Federal%20funds%20represent%20about%2045%20percent%20of%20Mississippi's%20total%20budget&text=In%20the%20fiscal%202020%20budget,billion)%20originated%20from%20federal%20funds.
For every $1.00 in income taxes paid, Mississippi gets $2.53 in federal funding.
https://smartasset.com/data-studies/states-most-dependent-on-the-federal-government-2022
Some of you might want to rethink how you feel about "government handouts".
I am surprised. I thought free lunch was a description of Lynn's career
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