GOP cheers blocked transgender bathroom mandate

Congressional Republicans on Monday hailed a federal judge’s decision to halt implementation of Education Department guidance that effectively requires public schools to let transgender students use the bathroom of their choice, and said the ruling is a rebuke of President Obama’s “executive overreach.”

“No school wants any student to be bullied or discriminated against, but the Department of Education does not have the authority to operate as a national school board and impose their specific solutions on every district,” Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., said in a statement to the Washington Examiner.