Landor v. Louisiana Dept of Corrections and Public Safety · ¶39

Mr. Landor and the dissent also point to Grove City Col lege v. Bell, 465 U. S. 555 (1984), a Title IX case. Brief for Petitioner 32–33; post, at 15–16, n. 7. But there, too, the only penalty was the traditional one—the “terminati[on]” of federal funding. See Grove City College, 465 U. S., at 561. Subsequent events illustrate as much: After losing the case, the college decided “to exit the federal [funding] programs rather than surrender its autonomy,” a choice it was free to make because Title IX binds only those who have freely elected to accept federal funds. Grove City College, Forty Years Ago, Supreme Court Case Changed GCC Forever (Feb. 26, 2024) (archived at https://perma.cc/2AQU3PME). Pretty plainly, neither Rust nor Grove City College purported to reimagine the Spending Clause’s terms or to rewrite our precedents construing them.

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