TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jul 18, 2022

Charles AtchleyA Tennessee-based federal judge has blocked the Biden administration from enforcing an executive order designed to protect the LGBTQ community from discrimination in schools and the workplace. Tennessee Lookout reports. The decision by U.S. District Judge Charles Atchley Jr., issued on Friday, was in response to a case filed by Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery and 19 other state attorneys general. Atchley agreed with the group that the January 2021 executive order went too “too far and too quickly, stretching the U.S. Supreme Court’s employment-based decision beyond its ‘narrow’ holding, usurping the authority of Congress and state Legislatures and failing to give lawmakers and the public a say on the issue." The ruling means the order will be unenforceable while the states pursue their challenge. Read the ruling and Slatery's response.