Sec. of State John Thurston rejected the Arkansas Abortion Amendment based on a paperwork error, but women’s health advocates are not going away without a fight.
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Trans youth win in court, federal judge strikes down Arkansas ban on gender-affirming medical care
The first state to ban medical gender-affirming care for youth, Arkansas now becomes the first state whose ban has been ruled unconstitutional.
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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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Yawner testimony concludes landmark trans rights trial, verdict tbd
Now, we wait.
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A closer look at megapastor Ronnie Floyd’s hand in Arkansas anti-trans legislation
A team of legislators and their attorneys is working to keep a long list of documents about the 2021 transgender youth health care ban out of the public eye. Among those documents is an email from Ronnie Floyd.
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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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Voting rights advocates appeal decision on Arkansas state House map that shorts Black voters
Voting rights advocates gear up for the next step in the battle against racial gerrymandering in Arkansas.
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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.
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More evidence piles up that state House maps silence Black voters
There’s no doubt white Arkansas voters gained more political power at the expense of Black voters under the newly adopted state legislative district maps. There’s plenty of doubt about whether anything will be done about it.