Новости за 07.05.2022

A Tennessee school said that it was taking "severe disciplinary action" after a student was seen in a video wearing a white hood and yelling racial slurs. In a video obtained by WBIR, a Grace Christian Academy student is seen in a white hood that resembles the outfit of a Ku Klux Khan member.  The...

Earlier this week, a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion indicating that the high court would eliminate federal-level abortion protections rattled the country as a final ruling on the matter is expected within the next two months. It is not clear if the opinion, written by Justice Samuel Alito purportedly in February and reported by Politico,...

An Alabama judge is considering issuing an injunction over a law signed last month that will criminalize providing transgender youth with gender-affirming care like hormone therapies and puberty blockers. A three-day hearing was held this week over whether an injunction should be issued to halt that law, known as the Alabama Vulnerable Child Compassion and...

TikTok users have planned a week-long women’s labor strike set to begin on Mother’s Day in protest of the leaked Supreme Court opinion set to overturn Roe v. Wade. The strike aims to push the government to enact the Women’s Health Protection Act, which would establish a statutory right for health care providers to provide, and patients to...

Justice Clarence Thomas said people must “live with outcomes we don’t agree with” or the judiciary would be threatened, citing recent Supreme Court events as “one symptom of that.” While speaking to judges and lawyers at the 11th Circuit Judicial Conference in Atlanta on Friday, Thomas said he was growing concerned about declining respect for...

Chief Justice John Roberts's stewardship of the Supreme Court was placed in a harsh light this week after a leaked draft opinion showed the court's conservative justices are poised to overturn Roe v. Wade. Among critics, there was a sense that the court had reached the low point of Roberts’s 16 years as chief. The...

More than a year into the Biden administration, the FCC remains deadlocked in a 2-2 partisan split due to a vacant commissioner’s seat. This vacancy has impacted the Commission’s ability to tackle issues like expanding broadband into underserved and rural communities or restoring net neutrality rules. President Biden’s nominee to this seat, Public Knowledge co-founder...

There are few things more heartbreaking than when a child is sick, and unfortunately, because of tailpipe pollution, millions of parents across our country are preventably sent running for their kids’ inhalers, or worse, to the hospital. That’s why May, which is Asthma Awareness Month, is so important every year—as the weather warms up, it...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) said on Friday that the State Bar of Texas is planning to sue him and his top deputy over a lawsuit aimed at overturning the 2020 presidential election results, a development coming several weeks ahead of his primary runoff. “I have recently learned that the Texas State Bar -...