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Jonathan Skrmetti, the Republican attorney general of Tennessee, has pledged that he will sue the Department of Health and Human Services under President Joe Biden if it finalizes a rule forcing gender ideology on foster parents.\nSkrmetti laid out the legal arguments against the rule in a conversation Wednesday with "The Daily Signal Podcast."\n"This is a federal agency making law, treading on both the prerogatives of Congress and really the prerogatives of the state legislatures," Skrmetti said.\n"Family law has always been a state issue," he explained. "The states have developed a rich body of family law dealing with issues like foster care. This is a really heavy-handed intrusion by the federal government in pursuit of a political end but at the expense of kids. So constitutionally, there's a structural problem with a federal agency making law in an area where the states should be making the law and where the states have been making the law."\nHHS\u2019 Administration for Children and Families proposed a new rule Sept. 28 on \u201cSafe and Appropriate Foster Care Placement Requirements\u201d and allowed Americans to submit public comments by Nov. 27. Skrmetti submitted a comment as Tennessee's attorney general, and 16 other state attorneys general signed on to it.\nEnjoy the conversation with Skrmetti.\n Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.