Members of the Arkansas Senate’s City, County & Local Affairs Committee faced off Thursday with an eclectic crowd of people who listed reasons cultural, spiritual, religious and constitutional for why Senate Bill 43 has it wrong. The committee passed the bill anyway.
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UPDATE: Crawford County library is book banners’ latest target
The library board is meeting tonight to review finances, the board chairwoman said.
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Eighth Circuit again tells Arkansas to lay off trans kids
The 8th Circuit this week upheld the injunction U.S. District Judge James Moody put in place in the summer of 2021 to keep a ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth from taking effect, at least until opponents of the new state law get to finish challenging it in court.
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Well-known attorney keeps an eye on trans harassment in Conway Schools
“The school board needs to quit worrying about trans kids and bathrooms and start focusing on education,” Tom Mars said today.
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ACLU talks tougher on Conway School District
Anti-transgender policies adopted last week by the Conway School Board are unconstitutional, the head of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas said in a statement.
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Arkansas ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth goes on trial
“Trans youth like Sabrina and families like ours have endured relentless attacks by politicians who dehumanize them and deny them the medical care they need,” mother Lacey Jennen said. Jennen is one of the plaintiffs headed to court next week to fight Arkansas’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for people under 18.
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Attorneys for transgender youth and their advocates in Arkansas call Thursday’s ruling ‘a critical victory’
The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Arkansas issued a statement touting the victory and looking ahead to the trial set to begin on Oct. 17, 2022, in U.S. District Court in Little Rock.
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Attorney General Leslie Rutledge signs certification prohibiting abortion in Arkansas
“We were prepared in 2019 for this court’s opinion,” Rutledge said. “It’s almost as if we had a crystal ball.”
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Leslie Rutledge’s lawyers work to keep her emails on transgender issues private
Attorney General Leslie Rutledge doesn’t want to turn over some of her emails about the 2021 push to pass anti-transgender laws in Arkansas. A federal judge will decide in the next day or two whether or not she has to.
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Arkansas redistricting might break the law, but my hands are tied, federal judge says
While there’s evidence that Arkansas’s new legislative maps punish Black voters in violation of federal law, those voters don’t have standing to sue over it, a judge says.