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The Supreme Court allowed Texas to ban most abortions & LGBTQ people are speaking out
The law allows anyone in Texas to sue for a $10,000 bounty if they think someone has performed an abortion or helped with one – like the Uber driver who drove a woman to a clinic.
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Conservatives rage at “Amy Commie Barrett” after she sides with college’s vaccine mandate
Senate Republicans rushed to get Amy Coney Barrett confirmed to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg last year, but some are now calling her a “disaster” for supporting the COVID-19 vaccines.
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Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer is dragging his feet about retiring. Why?
The longer the justice takes to step down, the likelihood that the conservative majority on the Court will grow even stronger becomes even more likely.
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Supreme Court hands victory to transgender students by declining to hear critical bathroom case
Gavin Grimm’s years-long legal battle with the Gloucester County School Board is finally over.
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Supreme Court unanimously agrees that Catholic adoption agency can ban LGBTQ parents
The Supreme Court has decided that religion matters more than the law, at least when it comes to LGBTQ rights.
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Supreme Court upholds male-only military draft by refusing men’s rights group’s suit
The ACLU called it “one of the last sex-based classifications in federal law” and it doesn’t take trans people’s identities into account. But the Supreme Court isn’t going to touch it.
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Pride in Pictures 2010s: Historic progress & frightening backlash
With increasing transgender visibility came conservative backlash at both the state and national levels.
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Supreme Court rejects Texas’s lawsuit against California over LGBTQ adoption law
Texas allows adoption agencies to refuse to work with LGBTQ parents. California banned state-funded travel to Texas in response. Texas cried discrimination.
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Biden administration overturns Trump’s worst anti-LGBTQ policy for students
Joe Biden appointed legendary lawyer Pamela Karlan to a key civil rights position. She’s already helping LGBTQ students.
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The Electoral College is now the weak link in American democracy
The Electoral College tally ultimately decides the President. In the process, it screwed LGBTQ rights twice in the last 20 years – and it was almost close enough for a third time, too.