The Supreme Court wants to hear from the state in Arkansas Times’ challenge of law compelling a pledge about Israel as a condition of getting state business.
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Meet the victims of Arkansas legislature’s anti-transgender law
A personal look at the plaintiffs in the challenge of the Arkansas ban on transgender care for minors.
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Jesus takes the wheel at trial over Arkansas’s trans health care ban
Jesus and bottom surgery dominated the testimony Wednesday as attorneys for the state rolled out two formerly transgender people who described gender reassignment operations in graphic detail and said heavenly voices called them to return to the sexes of their birth.
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Arkansas calls controversial sociologist and former plastic surgeon to defend state’s ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth
Two men with traditional views on the gender binary took the stand Tuesday to defend Act 626, despite plaintiff’s protests that Mark Regnerus and Patrick Lappert have little to no pertinent experience or expertise. Only two more days of testimony are expected in the trial over whether state lawmakers’ attempts to block doctors from providing gender-affirming medical care to minors is constitutional.
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Can the state get away with screwing inmates? The ACLU has questions
ACLU sounds warning on state’s refusal to honor plea bargain agreements.
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It’s a cliffhanger; trial over ban on medical care for trans youth will pick back up Nov. 28
The state called its first three witnesses Friday as Arkansas attempts to defend the first ban on medical gender-affirming care for transgender youth in the nation.
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Courthouse dispatch: state asks judge to throw out case against trans care ban, no dice
Arkansas deputy solicitor general Dylan Jacobs seemed to sense going in that he would not prevail, but powered through his arguments that attorneys for the plaintiffs hadn’t made their case and that the case should be tossed out.
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ACLU asks U.S. Supreme Court to review decision against Arkansas Times in challenge of state’s Israeli boycott law
On to the highest court for challenge of the Arkansas law that punishes speech of which the legislature disapproves.
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Proud dads’ stories headline second day of trial over Arkansas ban on gender-affirming care
In testimony that should have come with Kleenex boxes and free hugs, the fathers talked about the learning curves they scaled to educate themselves and support their children through hormone treatments they said were literally life-saving.
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Doctors testify at first day of trial over ban on medical treatments for transgender youth
A long first day of testimony in the trial over Arkansas’s ban on medical treatments that experts said won’t cost any lives, but will definitely save some. A psychiatrist attests to knowledge gained and suicides prevented in his 30 years in the field, and an endocrinologist says benefits from puberty blockers and hormone therapies are often worth the risks.