Red States Are Rolling Back the Rights Revolution | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
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Google-News-Wire
- September 10, 2023
- ban books
- civil liberties
- civil rights
- college professors
- coming years
- conservative Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
- constitutional right
- control of the federal government
- court’s six-member Republican-appointed majority
- emergency care
- enforcement of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis
- Erwin Chemerinsky
- federal cases
- federal courts
- federal district judge
- federal judge
- federal Justice Department
- floor of civil rights
- free speech
- gender affirming care
- Justice Department
- key early federal rulings
- last year’s Dobbs decision
- late July
- legal abortion
- legislature’s laws
- me.This broad red-state push
- new restrictions
- President Joe Biden’s election
- public protest
- recent rulings
- red-state actions
- red-state agenda
- red-state drive
- Republican-controlled states
- school libraries
- state courts
- state laws
- state legislature
- state’s six-week abortion ban
- strong baseline of civil rights
- supreme court
- Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision
- supreme courts
- surprising number of decisions
- swarm of laws
- U.S. Supreme Court
- underlying conservative lean of their electorates.Opponents
- voting rights
- west virginia
The struggle over the sweeping red-state drive to roll back civil rights and liberties has primarily moved to the courts. Since 2021, Republican-controlled states have passed a swarm of laws to restrict voting rights, increase penalties for public protest, impose new restrictions on transgender youth, ban books, and limit what teachers, college professors, and employers […]
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