An order blocking a rule to help LGBTQ+ kids applies to hundreds of schools. Some want to block more

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} A federal judge's order blocking a Biden administration rule for protecting LGBTQ+ students from discrimination applies to hundreds of schools and colleges across the U.S., and a group challenging it hopes to extend it further to many major American cities. U.S. District Judge John Broomes' decision touched off a new legal dispute between the Biden administration and critics of the rule, over how broadly the order should apply. But in a filing last week, attorneys for Moms for Liberty called compiling a list of schools for its 130,000 members “an impossible task” and asked Broomes to block the rule in any county where a group member lives. Biden administration attorneys said the request would apply to dozens of schools without children of Moms for Liberty members for every school with such students.