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  • ACLU, Once a Defender of Free Speech, Goes After a Whistleblower

    03/18/2024 1:53:04 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 15 replies
    Reason ^ | 3.18.2024 | J.D. Tuccille
    The former civil liberties group continues morphing into a progressive organization.Among the unfortunate changes of recent years has been the transformation of the American Civil Liberties Union from an advocate for free speech and other individual rights into just another progressive political organization. Historically, despite much pushback, the group defended the right of people from across the political spectrum to advocate and protest. But the organization has become unreliable on the issue; most recently in the very 21st century debate over gender identity, which sees the ACLU of Missouri targeting a whistleblower who is critical of medical transitions for minors....
  • NJ lawmakers pull bill that would give them power to block info from public after backlash

    03/15/2024 10:08:16 AM PDT · by lowbridge · 8 replies
    nypost.com ^ | March 15, 2024 | Steve Janoski
    New Jersey state lawmakers did an about-face on a controversial bill that critics said would have given government bureaucrats and politicians more power to block information from the public. Some Garden State Democrats had looked to fast-track the bill to change the state’s open records law but backed off on Thursday, pulling the proposal before a key committee could vote to advance it. The decision was hailed as a victory for open-government advocates who fought tooth and nail to kill it — even though it may not be gone for good. “Democracy only functions when the voice of the people...
  • Indiana parents warn nation after child is removed from home for improper pronoun usage: ‘Can happen anywhere’

    02/20/2024 12:48:56 PM PST · by Republican Wildcat · 36 replies
    Fox News ^ | 2/20/2024 | Kendell Tietz
    Parents ask Supreme Court to hold Indiana reponsible for removing transgender child from their home ... In 2019, Mary and Jeremy's son told them that he identified as a girl, but in line with their Catholic religious beliefs that God created human beings with an immutable sex, male or female, they did not believe in referring to him using pronouns and a name inconsistent with his biology. ACLU SUES CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOR HALTING ADULT TRANSGENDER SURGERIES In addition, the Coxes believed their son was struggling with underlying mental health conditions, including an eating disorder, so they sought therapeutic care for...
  • Transgender Muslim inmate serving 55 years for killing baby files $150K lawsuit for not being allowed to wear hijab

    02/20/2024 12:54:52 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 60 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 02/20/2024 | Jamie Joseph
    A transgender inmate serving a 55-year sentence for strangling her 11-month-old stepdaughter to death filed a civil lawsuit against the prison chaplain for allegedly prohibiting her from wearing a hijab outside her immediate bed quarters, despite identifying as Muslim. Autumn Cordellionè, also known as Jonathan C. Richardson, is currently serving out her sentence at the Branchville Correctional Facility, an Indiana Department of Correction state prison for men. According to the lawsuit filed Nov. 30 and obtained by Fox News Digital, a prison chaplain told Cordellionè the hijab was not allowed to be worn outside her immediate bed area. Cordellionè is...
  • Actress Busy Philipps named new ACLU ambassador for abortion

    01/19/2024 8:04:04 PM PST · by Morgana · 19 replies
    Live Action News ^ | January 18, 2024 | Bridget Sielicki
    The ACLU announced on January 16 that actress Busy Philipps is its new “Artist Ambassador for Reproductive Freedom.” Philipps is known for her roles in “Dawson’s Creek,” “Freaks and Geeks,” and “ER,” but in recent years she has become an outspoken advocate of abortion. In 2019, her autobiography revealed that she had an abortion at age 15. In 2020, she spoke at a pro-abortion rally, screaming that because she was able to kill her preborn child, she had a successful career and now has a “beautiful life.” “I have all of this… all of it… because, because, because I was...
  • Trump demands recusal of Maine secretary of state in 14th Amendment determination

    12/27/2023 11:57:51 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 12 replies
    The Hill ^ | 12/27/2023 | ZACH SCHONFELD
    Former President Trump on Wednesday demanded the Maine secretary of state recuse herself from her upcoming decision on the former president’s ballot eligibility under the 14th Amendment, citing her past statements about the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Unlike other states, where plaintiffs have sued over Trump’s eligibility in court, Maine’s system first allows the secretary of state to weigh in. Challengers can then appeal in state court. In response to three petitions challenging Trump’s ballot eligibility, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat, is set to issue a decision in the coming days.
  • ACLU of Montana challenges law defining the word ‘sex’ in state code as only male or female

    12/19/2023 2:35:08 PM PST · by Olog-hai · 23 replies
    Associated Press ^ | December 19, 2023 | Amy Beth Hanson
    The ACLU of Montana has filed a lawsuit challenging a law that defines the word “sex” throughout state code as either male or female, based on a person’s biology at birth. The plaintiffs argue the law denies legal recognition and protections to people who are gender non-conforming. The plaintiffs — a transgender man, a two spirit Native American, a nonbinary person, an intersex individual and a nurse practitioner — also moved for a summary judgement in Monday’s filing in state court in Missoula, asking for the law to be declared unconstitutional. Republican lawmakers who supported the bill “seem to think...
  • Texas sued over new immigration law

    12/19/2023 12:40:22 PM PST · by DFG · 40 replies
    Fox 4 Dallas ^ | 12/19/2023 | Steven Dial and FOX 4 Staff
    The state of Texas is facing a lawsuit over a new law that allows state and local law enforcement to arrest people who enter Texas illegally. Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 4 into law in Brownsville on Monday. "We expect a dramatic drop well over 50%, maybe 75%, of the people coming across the border illegally will stop entering through the State of Texas," Abbott said Monday. On Tuesday, the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, the ACLU, and the Texas Civil Rights Project (TCRP) filed a lawsuit in an Austin federal court to challenge the bill. The...
  • Censorship Is Un-American; Free Speech Is the Answer

    12/18/2023 9:46:45 AM PST · by Rev M. Bresciani · 2 replies
    New American Prophet ^ | December 18, 2023 | Jeff Crouere
    Americans are blessed to have constitutional rights, especially the First Amendment right of free speech. As Benjamin Franklin once wrote, whoever “would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation, must begin by subduing the Freeness of Speech.” Free speech is central to liberty, and this belief underpins the necessity of the First Amendment. This amendment holds the powerful to account and protects the right of Americans to express themselves freely.
  • The Complete Richard Higgins Memo

    08/10/2017 8:17:47 PM PDT · by BRK · 19 replies
    Circulating | May 2017 | Richard Higgins
    Here is the entire memo... POTUS & POLITICAL WARFARE   May 2017   BACKGROUND.  The Trump administration is suffering under withering information campaigns designed to first undermine, then de legitimize and ultimately remove the President. Possibly confusing these attacks with an elevated interplay of otherwise normal D.C. partisan infighting and adversarial media relations, the White House response to these campaigns reflects a political advocacy mindset that it is intensely reactive, severely under-inclusive and dangerously inadequate to the threat. If action is not taken to re-scope and respond to these hostile campaigns very soon, the administration risks implosion and subsequent early...
  • Siding with Trump, the ACLU says a judge’s gag order in Jan. 6 case is too sweeping

    10/25/2023 11:38:51 AM PDT · by Tench_Coxe · 19 replies
    The American Civil Liberties Union sued former President Donald Trump or his administration more than 400 times during his tenure in the White House.But now the ACLU is siding with Trump in the criminal case that charges he conspired to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power — telling a judge that a gag order she’s imposed sweeps too broadly in restraining Trump’s speech.“[I]f we allow his free speech rights to be abridged, we know that other unpopular voices — even ones we agree with — will also be silenced,” said Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the ACLU. “As much...
  • BREAKING: Judge Engoron Puts Trump on Witness Stand, Fines Him $10,000 For ‘Violating’ Gag Order – Then Warns, “Don’t Do It Again Or It’ll be Worse”

    10/25/2023 12:18:45 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 117 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | Oct. 25, 2023 1:57 pm | By Cristina Laila
    Far-left Judge Engoron put Trump on the witness stand after he blasted the former president and accused him of potentially violating the gag order with his remarks to the press. He also fined Trump $10,000. Radical Marxist New York Attorney General Letitia James is seeking $250 million in ‘damages’ when there is no victim in this fraud case and she is also seeking to ban Trump and his sons from operating any businesses in New York. President Trump briefly spoke with the press during the mid-morning break. He criticized Michael Cohen as a “discredited witness” and called Arthur Engoron a...
  • Judge orders Trump to take the stand for violating gag order (fined 10,000)

    10/25/2023 11:43:36 AM PDT · by janetjanet998 · 38 replies
    TRUMP FINED $10,000 FOR VIOLATING GAG ORDER IN CIVIL FRAUD TRIAL -- COURT HEARING
  • Gag Order Violates Freedom of Speech [semi-satire]

    10/21/2023 9:56:42 AM PDT · by John Semmens · 5 replies
    Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 22 October 2023 | John Semmens
    This week at the request of Special Counsel Jack Smith, Judge Tanya Chutkan imposed a "gag order" on former President Donald Trump. She cited the risk that "allowing Trump unfettered freedom of speech could taint the jury pool and undermine the Special Counsel's efforts to gain a conviction against the leader of a huge domestic terrorist cell that is trying to subvert the authority of President Biden. Trump's contention that preventing him from speaking about a rigged 2020 election is itself an attempt to rig the 2024 election is rejected." Smith hailed the order, saying that "Trump has abused freedom...
  • ‘A Devastating Ruling For The Trans Cult’: Matt Walsh Breaks Down Federal Court’s Quashing Of ACLU In TN Trans Case

    10/05/2023 5:03:26 AM PDT · by Roman_War_Criminal · 10 replies
    Daily Wire ^ | 9/29/23 | Zach Jewell
    Daily Wire host Matt Walsh dove into the “huge” ruling from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals that upheld Tennesee’s and Kentucky’s bans on puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender surgeries on gender-confused children. In its 2-1 ruling rejecting a challenge to the laws from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and families of trans-identifying children, the federal court “thoroughly dismantled, point-by-point, every disingenuous argument from trans activists,” Walsh said in a thread posted to X. “The case arose because of laws in TN and KY banning the use of puberty blockers and sterilizing cross-sex hormones on children. The laws...
  • Matt Walsh takes SAVAGE victory lap after ACLU fails to block TN's gender-affirming care for kids ban

    09/29/2023 8:26:28 AM PDT · by NetAddicted · 9 replies
    Twitchy.com ^ | 9/29/2023 | Sam J.
    ACLU is mad. BIG mad. They really really really want little kids to be able to mutilate their bodies because the adults around them are mentally ill and need their children to somehow justify their own, warped beliefs about gender for them. It's really a sad and ugly movement when you think about the damage that is being done to children ... for adults. We're so glad they lost. BREAKING: The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected our request to block Tennessee's ban on gender affirming care for transgender youth. This fight is far from over. We'll never stop fighting...
  • ACLU sues State of Indiana for refusing to spend taxpayer cash on sex change for transgender child killer

    08/31/2023 4:46:56 PM PDT · by fruser1 · 26 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 8/31/2023 | Ruth Bashinsky
    The transgender inmate, Jonathan C. Richardson, also known as Autumn Cordellione, admitted to killing 'the little f**king b*tch' after he was arrested for the strangulation death of his 11-month-old stepdaughter. Richardson was sentenced to more than five decades behind bars. The lawsuit comes after a new law that was passed this summer during the 2023 legislative session, which prohibits the Indiana Department of Corrections from providing gender-affirming medical care to incarcerated transgender people. But, the ACLU contends that the new law is a violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, Fox News reported. On August 28,...
  • HUGE REVELATION IN FULTON COUNTY IN WAKE OF FOIA RECORDS: REPORT

    08/27/2023 6:44:03 PM PDT · by SoConPubbie · 96 replies
    RSBNetwork ^ | August 25, 2023 | Summer Lane
    Photo: AlamyA new revelation from Real Clear Investigations Senior Reporter Paul Sperry has the potential to rock the political world from top to bottom, revealing that hundreds of anti-Trump Democrats were allegedly deputized by election officials to process absentee ballots during the 2020 election in Fulton County, Georgia.This shocking information was retrieved from FOIA records, Sperry noted on X.He wrote, “New FOIA records reveal Fulton election officials in 2020 deputized 100s of anti-Trump Dems from ACLU, gave them power to process absentee ballot apps rec’d thru online portals & then equipped ACLU poll workers w/ iPads to cancel absentee ballots...
  • Gabe Sterling Bragged About Hiring ACLU Operatives to Process Absentee Ballots – Paul Sperry Reveals HUNDREDS Were Hired in Fulton County (VIDEO)

    08/25/2023 7:26:13 AM PDT · by CFW · 15 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | 8/25/23 | Jim Hft
    In November 2020 The Gateway Pundit published information on a little known YouTube video with only 50 or so views at the time. In the video Gabriel Sterling shows up to discuss a number of things regarding the election process. Gabriel Sterling was appointed the COO of the Secretary of State’s office by Brad Raffensperger shortly after Raffensperger was elected to the position in November 2018. Sterling, as COO, would be in charge of budgetary, human resources and administrative operations for the Secretary of State’s office. Sterling, strangely, has also been referred to, in multiple, recent media accounts, as Georgia’s...
  • A NATIONAL DISGRACE: Photos Leaked of Horrific January 6 Prisoner Abuse – Tortured 5 Months in Isolation in a Closet Room with Light on and a Bucket for a Toilet

    08/17/2023 7:13:45 AM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 109 replies
    January 6 political prisoner Ryan Samsel has been held in prison without trial now since January 2021. During his two-and-a-half years without trial Ryan has been moved around to 17 different facilities. Ryan has been beaten, abused, tortured, and neglected since his arrest in January 2021. Earlier this week The Gateway Pundit received exclusive photos from Ryan Samsel’s prison cell at the FDC in Philadelphia. The cell was a size of a closet with a light on all of the time. The cell had a thin blue mattress, no sheets or blankets, no clothing, and he was kept here for...