This court decision pushes Alabama one step closer to the modern age, whether they like it or not. (Sure enough, the state's attorney general plans to appeal.) Alabama is one of the eight remaining U.S. states that require transgender people to undergo...
Women’s (In)Equality Day: Don’t Celebrate, Take Action
On the 100th anniversary of women receiving the right to vote, women still remain unequal under United States law. That won't change until the Equal Rights Amendment is added to the Constitution, writes Rachel Scott Everett. On August 26, 1970, over 50,000 women...
Asking For Race On Marriage License Application Is Unconstitutional, Judge Rules
52 years after Loving v. Virginia, the Commonwealth was still requiring couples to state their race when seeking a marriage license. That's why three Virginia couples filed suit against the state government. Last month, Brandyn Churchill and Sophie Rogers, a Lexington...
Confirmed: Trump Is Using the State Dept to Wage War on Legally Married American Same-Sex Families
Last week, we reported on a legally-married same-sex couple who are in court – again. After having won their case months ago, the federal government appealed. They are battling the U.S. State Dept., which is insisting one of their twin boys is not a U.S. citizen, even...
Trump Wants To End Citizenship By Birth. Can He?
Donald Trump has made clear throughout his campaign and administration that he has no respect for the conventional norms of United States government. From his calamitous attempt, just after his inauguration, to institute a travel ban for several countries with...
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