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Across the Country, Republican Legislatures Are Keeping Trump’s Agenda Alive
A wave of bills cracking down on voting, protesting, transgender protections, and more are sweeping GOP-run states.
Iowa Bills Would Ban Teachers From Talking About Trans Issues
The bills could be challenged by the Biden administration, following an executive order the president issued last month.
Biden Reversed Trans Military Ban, But States’ Attacks on Trans Rights Continue
A raft of new legislation on the state level targets trans people in education, health care, and more.
Senate Democrats Can Still Block Barrett Confirmation by Slowing Down Process
They should use every procedural method available to them to slow the process, says Zephyr Teachout.
Barrett Could Well Be the Decider in a 2020 Replay of “Bush v. Gore”
Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s record of attacks on civil rights, workers’ rights, and more is crystal clear.
I Was a Student of Amy Coney Barrett. She Isn’t an LGBTQ Ally.
As a professor at Notre Dame Law Judge Barrett made her anti-LGBTQ sentiments very clear to her students and peers.
Pence’s Handling of COVID Is Straight Out of the Christian Right Playbook
The tendency to lie to advance an agenda is not something Pence needed to learn from Trump.
Clarence Thomas Screed Suggests Supreme Court Should Overturn Same-Sex Marriage
Supreme Court Justices Thomas and Alito argue “the Court has created a problem that only it can fix.”
DeVos’s Attack on Trans Athletes Is Not About Equity — It’s About Social Control
The Education Department is pulling resources from underfunded districts to punish them for trans-inclusive policies.
Trump Administration Erases LGBTQ People From Major Foreign Aid Policy
A new version of USAID's gender policy omits any mention of transgender people.