New York Attorney General Letitia James on Wednesday joined 18 other states in suing U.S. Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to stop her from repealing an Obama-era rule that seeks to protect students from for-profit colleges’ predatory marketing.

Calling the Education Department’s repeal of the rule both “unjustified and illegal,” James is part of a 56-page lawsuit that asks a federal court to declare DeVos’ repeal, set to take effect July 1, both “arbitrary and capricious” and to vacate the repeal as “unlawful,” according to a news release from James’ office Wednesday and the newly filed complaint.

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