4th Circuit rules for school that nixed child s essay on acceptance of transgender people
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A federal appeals court has ruled for an elementary school that removed a 10-year-old girl s essay on acceptance of transgender people from an essay collection placed in the classroom and distributed to parents.
In a March 2 opinion, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Richmond, Virginia, said the South Carolina school and its principal had properly exercised their authority to regulate school-sponsored student speech.
The girl had written: “I don’t know if you know this but peoples view on tran’s genders is an issue. People think that men should not drees like a women, and saying mean things. They think that they are choosing the wrong thing in life. In the world people can choose who they want to be not being told that their diction is wrong. I hope people understand that people can hurt themselves from others hurting their feelings. People need
SCOTUS will review rule banning abortion referrals by clinics receiving federal funds
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review a Trump administration rule that barred abortion referrals by programs that receive federal funds.
The Supreme Court agreed to review the rule, enacted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in three consolidated cases.
The rule applies to a Title X grant program for family planning services. The measure allows the federal government to withhold federal funds from clinics that provide abortions or referrals for the procedure. Clinics may provide lists of health care providers to women under the regulations, but they can’t identify which ones perform abortions.
well, lauren? for now it s just in north carolina. this has been a tradition for 50 years, now, as you said, the federal court ruled that the commissioner prayer and meeting is unconstitutional. it could pave the way for a showdown in the supreme court. they had opened the commissioner s meeting with prayer that often ended with in jesus name and invited people to join in. if it opens in a way that makes me feel like i m not one of those people that this board of commissioners is speaking to and for, i feel sort of disenfranchised in a way. on friday, the 4th circuit court of the u.s. court of appeals ruled 10-5 against the prayer and giving the majority opinion, the prayer served with
jarrett is in richmond, virginia for us tonight. that s where the 4th circuit court of appeals. 10 of the 13 federal judges were appointed we should point out by democratic presidents. what happened? that s certainly true, wolf. but both sides face some really tough questioning from the court this afternoon. the judges jumped right in, pressing the justice department to explain exactly how they are supposed to ignore statements from then candidate donald trump on the campaign when he spoke about muslims. one of the judges said this is the most important issue in the case. another saying this is almost willful blindness. take a listen. surely after the executive order 2 was signed, sean spicer said the principles remain the same. trump s statement concurrent with that time, you know my plans, spicer, president trump
said, you know, i ll hear your legal gotcha and one up you, which is the united states constitution. that s what i was following. and you know, it didn t work. look, not every attempt to kind of get at what she was trying to do went as bumpily as that one, but that was certainly one to remember. ted cruz is the legal expert. he s a very, very smart guy. exactly. but he met his match. he did, but what he went on to say, and this is the crux of his argument and his complaint is that he believes she s making the argument that a litigant should be making in court, not what the acting attorney general should be making after the office of legal counsel had ruled on this. i m just saying, he sort of agreed that she had an argument to make. he just thought she was making it in the wrong venue in that position. that s fair. what they re trying to do is disqualify her as a liberal, right? the whole point of asking about