Alabama
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
The Inevitable Prosecutions of Women Who Obtain Abortions | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Back when Donald Trump was just a presidential candidate, he was asked by Chris Matthews if he thought abortions should be dealt with under the law, like any other crime. He replied, “There has to be some form of punishment,” specifically saying he meant that the women who obtained abortions should be punished. After his […]
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