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  • State laws targeting LGBTQ rights have a new foe: federal judges

    07/09/2023 11:05:09 PM PDT · by fwdude · 23 replies
    NBC News ^ | July 9, 2023 | Jo Yurcaba and Tyler Kingkade
    A record number of bills aimed at restricting the rights of LGBTQ people have become law in the past three years, but the majority of those that have faced legal challenges haven’t held up in court, according to an NBC News analysis, legal experts and the American Civil Liberties Union, which has filed legal challenges against some of the laws. Just this year, state representatives introduced 491 bills aimed at restricting LGBTQ rights, with 77 of them becoming law, according to the ACLU. The majority of bills proposed and passed focused on limiting the ability of transgender youth to receive...
  • Fearing political violence in 2024, judges sentence Jan. 6 defendants to probation through the next election

    03/15/2022 9:17:00 AM PDT · by jimjohn · 27 replies
    WaPo ^ | Washington Post
    U.S. judges including those appointed by Republican presidents are increasingly sentencing defendants who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the Capitol to three-year terms of court supervision, fearing they could be misled into committing political violence in the 2024 presidential election.