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'Rights for me, not for thee': Justices Alito and Thomas slammed for hypocrisy in rulings
6 days, 19 hours ago

'Rights for me, not for thee': Justices Alito and Thomas slammed for hypocrisy in rulings

Raw Story  

Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas have again tipped their hands and shown that ideology guides their Supreme Court judgments more than legal philosophy, according to a report. The conservative jurists issued conflicting decisions last week in a pair of cases involving parental rights and gender identity, offering contradictory analyses that Slate columnist Hila Keren said "reveal a position of …

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Supreme Court’s transgender care fight creates conservative ‘reckoning’ over parental rights
3 weeks, 5 days ago

Supreme Court’s transgender care fight creates conservative ‘reckoning’ over parental rights

CNN  

CNN — Conservative groups have for years sought to reduce the government’s sway over parents’ childrearing choices, particularly when it comes to decisions about school and health care. But the Supreme Court’s upcoming and potentially explosive transgender care case is dividing conservatives, with many of those same groups backing Tennessee’s ban on puberty blockers and hormone treatments, which critics say …

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Supreme Court’s transgender care fight creates conservative ‘reckoning’ over parental rights
3 weeks, 5 days ago

Supreme Court’s transgender care fight creates conservative ‘reckoning’ over parental rights

CNN  

CNN — Conservative groups have for years sought to reduce the government’s sway over parents’ childrearing choices, particularly when it comes to decisions about school and health care. But the Supreme Court’s upcoming and potentially explosive transgender care case is dividing conservatives, with many of those same groups backing Tennessee’s ban on puberty blockers and hormone treatments, which critics say …

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Commentary: Beware of ‘parental rights’ candidates
2 months ago

Commentary: Beware of ‘parental rights’ candidates

LA Times  

Fellow teachers at Newport Harbor High School join English teacher Matthew Armstrong in asking voters to avoid candidates for Newport-Mesa Unified who want to bring divisive national issues to the local table. In 2014, a student’s father contacted me with a concern about “In Cold Blood,” a book in the Newport Harbor AP Language curriculum. With that in mind, the …

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2024 election: one powerful group is trying to reshape America. It's working—and it's just beginning.
2 months, 1 week ago

2024 election: one powerful group is trying to reshape America. It's working—and it's just beginning.

Slate  

If you heard about a well-funded right-wing group with a detailed plan to achieve conservative policy goals, you’d likely think of Project 2025. Yet Waggoner told Politico in March that “ADF has never advocated for limitations on access to contraception”—that’s because the organization views emergency contraceptives and IUDs as “abortion-inducing drugs and devices.” Cases: Conestoga Wood Specialties v. Burwell, Alliance …

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Parental Rights Face a Surprising Moment of Truth at the Supreme Court
3 months ago

Parental Rights Face a Surprising Moment of Truth at the Supreme Court

Slate  

As a new term of Supreme Court rulemaking approaches, minors’ access to gender-affirming care is on the chopping block. When the 6th Circuit dismissed these two claims, the plaintiffs from Tennessee and Kentucky filed separate petitions for Supreme Court review of the ruling’s reasoning regarding discrimination and parental rights. Indeed, a rising number of red states have recently worked to …

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Trump taps into culture war issues, seeks to energize base at Moms for Liberty event
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Trump taps into culture war issues, seeks to energize base at Moms for Liberty event

Raw Story  

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump late Friday rarely touched on education issues during the third conference of Moms for Liberty, a conservative parental rights group that has ties to Project 2025, the far-right playbookTrump has tried to distance himself from. “And your schools and your children are suffering greatly because they’re going into the classrooms … they don’t even …

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Moms For Liberty Goes All In On Transphobia
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Moms For Liberty Goes All In On Transphobia

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON ― Hundreds of mostly white women gathered at a swanky downtown hotel to hear prominent conservative speakers and strategize with other moms about how to spread their message across the country. “I think the federal government pushing child abuse really concerns American parents,” Justice said when asked why there was so much focus on trans issues …

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Inside the secret organization of wealthy Christians trying to change the country
5 months, 1 week ago

Inside the secret organization of wealthy Christians trying to change the country

Raw Story  

A network of ultrawealthy Christian donors is spending nearly $12 million to mobilize Republican-leaning voters and purge more than a million people from the rolls in key swing states, aiming to tilt the 2024 election in favor of former President Donald Trump. In a member briefing video, one of Ziklag’s spiritual advisers outlined a plan to “deliver swing states” by …

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As Michigan legalizes surrogacy, here's how families found ways around the ban
8 months, 3 weeks ago

As Michigan legalizes surrogacy, here's how families found ways around the ban

NPR  

As Michigan legalizes surrogacy, here's how families found ways around the ban Enlarge this image toggle caption The Portenga-O'Neill family The Portenga-O'Neill family The first time Tammy and Jordan Myers held their twins, the premature babies were still so fragile, their tiny faces were mostly covered by oxygen masks and tubing. Sponsor Message Enlarge this image toggle caption The Myers …

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How sex abusers who target their own children keep parental rights
9 months ago

How sex abusers who target their own children keep parental rights

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. But London’s victims’ commissioner, Claire …

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California governor launches ads to fight abortion travel bans
9 months, 3 weeks ago

California governor launches ads to fight abortion travel bans

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. The so-called “abortion trafficking” bill Newsom told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that similar restrictions modeled on a law that has already passed in Idaho are also being proposed in Oklahoma and Mississippi. But they’re also determining their fate as it relates to their future in life by saying they can’t even travel.” People who support …

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he won’t sign a proposed ban on tackle football for kids under 12
11 months ago

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he won’t sign a proposed ban on tackle football for kids under 12

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California will not ban tackle football for children under 12 after Democratic Gov. “I will not sign legislation that bans youth tackle football,” Newsom said in a statement late Tuesday. Newsom pledged to work with lawmakers “to strengthen safety in youth football — while ensuring parents have the freedom to decide which sports are most appropriate for …

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The Gay Pastor, The Conservative Megachurch And The Fight Ripping Apart A Suburb
11 months, 3 weeks ago

The Gay Pastor, The Conservative Megachurch And The Fight Ripping Apart A Suburb

Huff Post  

PLACER COUNTY, Calif. ― Pastor Casey Tinnin leads a congregational church in the Sacramento suburb of Loomis. “Parents don’t want me talking ― encouraging this lifestyle,” Tinnin conceded to Kyle and Alley. “That quickly became a focal point in the school boards ― books, material, curriculum, what’s being taught, and the lack of transparency and accountability to parents,” DiBella said. …

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Federal judge puts Idaho’s ‘abortion trafficking’ law on hold during lawsuit
1 year, 1 month ago

Federal judge puts Idaho’s ‘abortion trafficking’ law on hold during lawsuit

Associated Press  

BOISE, Idaho — A federal judge has temporarily blocked Idaho’s “abortion trafficking” law from being enforced while a lawsuit challenging its constitutionality is underway. Grasham agreed with the state’s attorneys that there is no court-protected right of travel within the state under existing case law in Idaho, and she dismissed that part of the lawsuit. But she said the other …

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Moms For Liberty's School Board Takeover Attempts Fizzled Out On Election Day
1 year, 1 month ago

Moms For Liberty's School Board Takeover Attempts Fizzled Out On Election Day

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING This article is part of HuffPost’s biweekly politics newsletter. Moms for Liberty, the right-wing extremist group that aims to bring a conservative agenda to public education, set out to take over school boards across the country in Tuesday’s elections. Less concerned with traditional public school issues like teacher retention and funding, Moms for Liberty champions anti-LGBTQ policies …

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How conservatives are waging a coordinated, anti-LGBTQ+ culture war in California schools
1 year, 2 months ago

How conservatives are waging a coordinated, anti-LGBTQ+ culture war in California schools

LA Times  

In May 2022, Bryce Henson stood up to speak at a San Diego school board meeting. “This is foisted on them.” Miran Magptyan, left, supported a parental notification policy outside an Orange Unified School District board meeting in September, while Micki Simon, right, opposed the policy. Friday helps lead the international anti-transgender group Our Duty, which calls itself a support …

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An Ohio ballot measure seeks to protect abortion access. Opponents’ messaging is on parental rights
1 year, 3 months ago

An Ohio ballot measure seeks to protect abortion access. Opponents’ messaging is on parental rights

Associated Press  

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The wording of a proposed constitutional amendment on Ohio’s fall ballot to ensure abortion rights seems straightforward: It would enshrine the right “to make and carry out one’s own reproductive decisions.” Yet as the campaigning for and against the nation’s latest tug-of-war over abortion begins in earnest this weekend, voters are getting a different message from the …

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The Moms Who Started The School Board Wars Are Now Presidential Kingmakers
1 year, 5 months ago

The Moms Who Started The School Board Wars Are Now Presidential Kingmakers

Huff Post  

The Moms for Liberty convention drew hundreds of protesters this week who object to the group's efforts to ban books. Nikki Haley stated in an apparent reference to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s designation of the right-wing mom group: “When they mentioned this was a terrorist organization, I said, ‘Well then count me a mom for liberty!’” Moms for Liberty …

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Top Dems ignorant of ‘extremist’ Moms for Liberty — despite warnings the group is dangerous
1 year, 5 months ago

Top Dems ignorant of ‘extremist’ Moms for Liberty — despite warnings the group is dangerous

Raw Story  

There’s a new face of the far-right: moms. Ron DeSantis speaks during the inaugural Moms For Liberty Summit at the Tampa Marriott Water Street on July 15, 2022, in Tampa, Fla. Octavio Jones/Getty Images “The left isn't even in tune to some of these groups that are getting very powerful at the grassroots level,” former Rep. Denver Riggleman tells Raw …

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Louisiana ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill for public school classrooms advances in the legislature
1 year, 6 months ago

Louisiana ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill for public school classrooms advances in the legislature

Associated Press  

— A bill that would broadly ban K-12 public school employees in Louisiana from discussing sexual orientation or gender identity in the classroom is nearing final passage after securing the endorsement of a key Senate committee Thursday. Louisiana’s legislation, which already passed the House and advanced from the Senate Committee on Education to the GOP-dominated Senate floor on Thursday, is …

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He's rattled Donald Trump. Could Ron DeSantis's 'war on woke' take him to the White House?
1 year, 8 months ago

He's rattled Donald Trump. Could Ron DeSantis's 'war on woke' take him to the White House?

ABC  

There are several easily recognisable ways of knowing when Donald Trump feels threatened by a political opponent. First came the nicknames — "Ron DeSanctimonious", among others — followed by Trump's claim the governor would be working in a pizza parlour without his earlier endorsement. It's a reference to the winning political playbook DeSantis has honed in his home state, including …

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Idaho Is About To Be The First State To Restrict Interstate Travel For Abortion Post-Roe
1 year, 8 months ago

Idaho Is About To Be The First State To Restrict Interstate Travel For Abortion Post-Roe

Huff Post  

Idaho already has some of the most extreme abortion restrictions on the books, with nearly all abortions banned in the state and an affirmative defense law that essentially asserts any doctor who provides an abortion is guilty until proven innocent. House Bill 242, which passed through the state House and is likely to move quickly through the Senate, seeks to …

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Italian government limits parental rights of gay couples
1 year, 9 months ago

Italian government limits parental rights of gay couples

Associated Press  

MILAN — Gay rights activists on Tuesday denounced as homophobic moves by Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni’s far-right-led government to limit recognition of parental rights to the biological parent only in families with same-sex parents. It is insulting to hundreds of thousands of families with two same-sex parents.” Yuri Guaiana, of the activist group All Out, said the move “throws thousands …

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