#constitution

#constitution

This provision ignores scientific consensus that conditions like depression don't "cause" someone to be trans.These screenings don't provide access to gender-affirming care for trans youth; rather, they erect a formidable barrier to even obtaining mental health care.StockRocket / Getty Images In a concerning turn of events, Ohio has become the newest addition to the growing list of states progressing gender affirming care bans for transgender youth out of legislative committees.

Nusrat Choudhury, a civil rights lawyer, was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday as a federal judge in New York, making her the first female Muslim American and first Bangladeshi American to hold that distinction in U.S. history.Judge Choudhury, mostly recently the legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, was confirmed by a vote of 50-49, with every Democrat but one supporting her.

A group of Democratic lawmakers has reintroduced a joint resolution to negate a clause in the 13th Amendment of the Constitution that permits slavery or involuntary servitude as a punishment for crime.The Abolition Amendment was introduced on Wednesday ahead of Juneteenth the national holiday commemorating the end of slavery by Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon, Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Rep. Nikema Williams of Georgia.

[ NB: check the byline, thanks./~Rayne]
Two days after a warrant was served on Mar-a-Lago last August, I wrote this:

We could have seen it coming after all this time.They're reliably predictable, no crystal ball required.Trump appears to be in trouble: The FBI serves a warrant on Mar-a-Lago, seizing papers.

A landmark climate change trial was set to begin Monday in Montana, where a group of youths has sued government leaders, accusing them of embracing fossil fuels in ways that are destroying the environment and robbing the futures of the state's young residents.The lawsuit, more than a decade in the making, is the first of a number of similar efforts to go to trial in the United States.

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It's a decades-old pursuit that's been attempted, thus far, unsuccessfully - but a group of El Dorado County residents are hoping to finally get their shot at breaking free from California.The new effort to separate from one of the largest states in the U.S. is brewing in one of its smallest counties.

Congregants arrive at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif.The megachurch founded by Rick Warren was one of two churches affected by a vote Wednesday at the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting.Allison Dinner/AP The Southern Baptist Convention voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to uphold earlier decisions to expel two churches because they have women pastors.

Mike Pence is the most conservative candidate competing for the presidency.The former vice president wants abortion banned from the point of conception.He's the only major candidate calling for cuts to Social Security and Medicare.And he has the most hawkish foreign policy, especially on confronting Russia.

Sign up for our amNY Sports email newsletter to get insights and game coverage for your favorite teams Former Mayor Bill de Blasio has been ordered to cough up nearly $500,000 by the city's Conflicts of Interest Board (COIB) for improperly billing New York taxpayers for his NYPD security detail's out-of-state travel expenses during a failed 2019 presidential bid.

The House turned back a Republican effort on Wednesday to formally censure Representative Adam B. Schiff, Democrat of California, for his role in investigating and impeaching former President Donald J. Trump.The vote was 225 to 196 to table, or kill, a resolution by Representative Anna Paulina Luna, a Florida Republican who has allied herself closely with the former president.

Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets is an eye-opening docuseries about reality TV stars The Duggars.Prime Video It was the week the artist who sang an era-defining song walked to the sea, looking straight ahead, not at h/sh/me.It was the week the recent wave of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation first began to crash against the shield-wall of sandbags that is the U.S. Constitution.

A year ago, Democrats were taken to task by New York's highest court for attempting to gerrymander the state's congressional districts, and saw their tilted map replaced by more neutral lines that helped Republicans flip four House seats.Now, with a 2024 rematch approaching, Democratic leaders in Washington and Albany are reviving a legal battle to reopen the mapmaking process and potentially pull the lines back in their direction.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday called for a U.S. constitutional amendment on gun control that would ban assault weapons and mandate background checks and waiting periods for purchasing firearms, a longshot proposal with little chance of passing in a nation deeply divided on the issue.

The bigots' latest rallying cry is a crude, transphobic and embarrassingly low-quality rap song littered with slurs.A customer shops through Pride Month accessories at a Target store on June 6, 2023, in Austin, Texas.Brandon Bell / Getty Images When Newsweek reported that an anti-Target novelty song had topped the iTunes charts on May 30, besting pop star Taylor Swift's latest single in the process, both political journalists and music fans were left scratching their heads - surely no one was actually enjoying this sonic garbage?

The House is expected on Wednesday to take up a censure resolution against California Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff for his role in investigations of the former president.The resolution, sponsored by GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, is expected get called up at the end of an afternoon vote series around 3:45 p.m. ET.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' crass stunt of flying desperate immigrants to California and dumping them on the doorstep of a Catholic Diocese headquarters showed us one thing: He's not fit to be America's president.It's not because of his sensible view that we must gain more control of our southern border.

Even while raising concern over free speech, however, Warnock praises the law enforcement involved in the case.Sen. Raphael Warnock speaks at a press conference on Gun Safety legislation outside the U.S. Capitol Building on May 18, 2023, in Washington, D.C.Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images After months of silence on the violent repression of activists organizing against a massive planned police militarization compound in Atlanta known as Cop City, Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock (D) has spoken up about the issue, sending a letter this week to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) expressing concern over the potentiality of activists' First Amendment rights being trampled by the extremely dubious terrorism charges being hurled against them.

The ban on gender-affirming treatments for trans youth in the state likely violates the Constitution, the judge wrote.People hold signs during a joint board meeting of the Florida Board of Medicine and the Florida Board of Osteopathic Medicine, on November 4, 2022, in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, to establish new guidelines limiting gender-affirming care in Florida.