Maine’s attorney general tells Republican AGs their policies make shield laws necessary • Arkansas Advocate
The national debate over what sorts of health care are legal and protected has centered on Maine, with some state attorneys general condemning a bill that would ensure out-of-state patients and Maine medical professionals who provide reproductive health services and gender-affirming treatments aren’t penalized by other states’ laws. On Tuesday, Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey […]
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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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Arkansas Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Minors Struck Down by Judge
The first state law banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors has become the first one struck down in court. In 2021, Arkansas legislators overrode then-Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s veto to pass a law banning the provision of puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and surgeries for people under 18 for the purpose of gender transition. It banned referrals […]
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Decision striking down Arkansas law banning ‘gender reassignment’ for minors replaces fact with fantasy
On Radiohead’s 2000 album, Kid A, a song contains the refrain, “You’re living in a fantasy world.” Much of our current discussion on matters of sexual identity so resides. We have distorted and confused our biological and psychological nature as male and female, encouraging some to do permanent physical harm to their own bodies through […]
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A look at the restrictions on transgender people that are moving forward | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
In the video player above: Gender-affirming care further explainedFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis has highlighted efforts by Republican governors and statehouses across the country to embrace proposals limiting the rights of transgender people, signing new restrictions as he moves closer to a presidential bid.The restrictions are spreading quickly despite criticism from medical groups and advocates who […]
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W.Va. House committee takes up bills on immigration enforcement, gender affirming care | News, Sports, Jobs | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
<!– SHOW ARTICLE –> CHARLESTON — A West Virginia House of Delegates committee took up multiple bills Monday tackling issues important to conservative Republicans but opposed by Democratic lawmakers. The House Judiciary Committee recommended three bills for passage to the full House Monday afternoon that had wide support from the Republican majority but not without […]
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Jon Stewart Nails Arkansas AG On Ban Of Gender-Affirming Care For Trans Youth
Political commentator Jon Stewart isn’t a lawyer, but he did a masterful takedown of an Arkansas law preventing gender-affirming medical care for children ― and he did it right to the face of the state’s attorney general. Although a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit temporarily blocked the state […]
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