“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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ACLU of Arkansas criticizes Conway School Board’s actions targeting transgender students
School Board’s action dangerous, ACLU says.
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And speaking of the fight for equal rights: ACLU buttresses argument in suit over discriminatory legislative redistricting
ACLU finds support from judges in Georgia for its challenge of legislative redistricting in Arkanas.
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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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Eighth Circuit judges keep gender-affirming care for transgender teens available in Arkansas (for now)
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion today upholding an injunction from July 2021 that keeps a mean-spirited and scientifically dubious measure passed by Arkansas lawmakers from going into effect.
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Anti-boycott laws like Arkansas’s defy U.S. Constitution
When the anti-boycott laws first began appearing, I did not take them seriously, writing them off as just more culture war grandstanding. I was wrong. The anti-boycott laws are dangerous. They are a template that is being used against multiple targets.
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UPDATE: ACLU rips Washington County Quorum Court for supporting jail medicine practices
Republican JPs in Washington County stand up for medical experimentation on jail inmates.
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Judge Lee Rudofksy’s judicial activism may kill meritorious Arkansas redistricting case and perhaps many more
The judge cooked up a fresh theory to deny Black people in Arkansas protection under the Voting Rights Act, even though even he conceded they’d made a case.
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Another blow to voting rights of minorities in offing in Arkansas? It’s up to a Republican judge
ACLU has conclusively won the challenge of Arkansas’s House redistricting. But the final decision is up to a Republican judge who sent a distressing signal.
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Something is rotten at the Washington County Jail
Treatment of inmates with Ivermectin without their knowledge isn’t the first allegation of poor medical care for prisoners in the Washington County Jail.