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The American Medical Association (AMA) and other mental and health care organizations are supporting transgender individuals in demanding specific laws against workplace discrimination. A joint amicus brief the American Medical Association Litigation Center filed alongside 13 other organizations asked the United States Supreme Court to recognize the workplace discrimination transgender…
Mississippi Prosecutor Doug Evans tried really hard to pin the murders of four people on a Black man named Curtis Flowers in Mississippi in 1996. The case was blatantly racist and even Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh could see it. “In 1996, Curtis Flowers allegedly murdered four people in Winona,…
Prominent Republican redistricting strategist Thomas Hofeller died in August without much fanfare – until his estranged daughter found hard drives belonging to him and then shared them with the organization Common Cause, according to the Washington Post. The files show what many have long guessed — a 2015 study concluded…
The new majority Supreme Court had its first chance to take on an abortion rights case coming from the states and it compromised on it. The hotly-contested case comes from Indiana. On Tuesday, The Supreme Court upheld a part of Indiana’s 2016 law that places new restrictions on the disposal…
Transgender students in the Pennsylvania Boyertown Area School District are protected for now. They can continue to use bathrooms that align with their gender identity after the Supreme Court decided Tuesday not to hear the case. The conservative Christian Alliance Defending Freedom represented a group of students in the casesaying…
Henry Montgomery, now 72, was convicted in 1963 for killing an East Baton Rouge sheriff’s deputy named Charles Hurt. Montgomery, who was 17 at the time, was caught skipping school by Hurt. Montgomery was sentenced to death until the Louisiana Supreme Court said he didn’t get a fair trial. His…
North Carolina, a state with its own long history of racism, has just sworn in Cheri Beasley, the first female Black Chief Justice on the State Supreme court. Beasley hopes her appointment will bring “a lot of hope and promise” to the state and to young people, since the bench…
In four states Illinois, Florida, Texas, Virginiaattorneys reported that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent their clients, who are accused of being in the country illegally, an official Notice to Appear (NTA) in court on Jan. 31. Hundreds showed up, only to learn it was a fake court date. A…
The Supreme Court has allowed President Trump to move forward with his ban of transgender people from military service, as the case continues to make its way through lower courts. The nation’s highest court ruled 5-4 in favor of allowing the ban to take effect. Conservatives voted in favor of…
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced that Jazmine Headley, age 23, would not face charges related to her Friday arrest, and called for her immediate release. Justice Craig S. Walker of the State Supreme Court ordered her release. Headley was arrested after the NYPD ripped her infant son from her…
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