As Mariposa Plaza set for makeover, Fresno mayor reveals more plans for downtown
Once the central public square of downtown Fresno, Mariposa Plaza is finally getting a long-awaited makeover. City leaders broke ground Thursday afternoon on an over $4 million project to awaken the plaza on Fulton and Mariposa Streets, just a block from the future high-speed-rail station, as the premiere public space for downtown residents and visitors. […]
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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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Alabama Is Defying the Supreme Court on Voting Rights | #elections | #alabama
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Google-News-Wire
- July 28, 2023
- additional Black-majority
- Alabama
- backstop legislature
- black voters
- congressional districts
- conservative complaints
- conservative justices
- conservative movement
- conservative-dominated Court’s directive
- Court
- Court’s liberal critics
- coziness of the Republican-appointed justices
- free market
- free speech
- fundamental freedoms
- john roberts
- John Roberts’s long gameAll
- law of the land
- legal martyr
- liberal criticism of the Court
- liberal majority
- liberals
- majority-minority populations
- Matt Ford
- midst of a conservative campaign
- open challenge
- partisan motive
- political campaign
- political control
- political donors
- political strength of a critique of the Court
- quarter of Alabama
- Racial discrimination
- right wing
- right’s view
- Roberts Court’s defenders
- rule of law
- single district
- southern states
- state’s Republican majority
- substantive public criticism
- supreme court
- Supreme Court order
- supreme court ruling
- Supreme Court rulings
- verbal criticism of powerful institutions
- voting rights act
- Wall Street Journal
- Wall Street Journal’s editorial page
- Yellowhammer State’s Republican-controlled legislature
Supreme Court rulings are meant to be the law of the land, but Alabama is taking its recent opinion on the Voting Rights Act as a mere recommendation. In an echo of mid-century southern defiance of school desegregation, the Yellowhammer State’s Republican-controlled legislature defied the conservative-dominated Court’s directive to redraw its congressional map with an […]
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Librarians, Publishers, Bookstores Join Lawsuit Over Arkansas Library ‘Obscenity’ Law
Some 17 plaintiffs—including the ALA’s Freedom to Read Foundation, the Association of American Publishers, the American Booksellers Association, and the Authors Guild—will file a federal lawsuit over a recently passed law in Arkansas, Act 372 of 2023 (also known as SB 81), which exposes librarians to criminal liability for making allegedly “obscene” books available to […]
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The issues the US Supreme Court will rule on next and how they could change the country | Americas | North and South American news impacting on Europe | DW | #elections | #alabama
The US Supreme Court is on break right now. Chief Justice John Roberts formally announced the start of the judicial body’s summer recess on June 30. Its next term will start on October 3. The break comes after a tumultuous past few weeks. The nine justices have made a number of decisions that have caused […]
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