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Another View: Court ruling another threat to democracy

The Claremore Daily Progress 29 Nov 2023
A federal district judge in Arkansas rejected the idea that civil rights groups or individuals could sue under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act that prohibits discrimination in voting laws based on race ... in 1982 that the intent was to allow groups and individuals to bring suit.
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Judge dismisses liberal watchdog's claims that Wisconsin impeachment panel violated open meeting law

Times Union 29 Nov 2023
(AP) — A judge dismissed on Tuesday a liberal watchdog group's claims that a panel researching the possible impeachment of a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice violated the state's open meeting laws ... Five days after filing the request the group filed a lawsuit alleging the justices violated the law and demanding records related to their work.
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Judge dismisses liberal watchdog’s claims that Wisconsin impeachment panel violated open meeting law

Wtop 29 Nov 2023
(AP) — A judge dismissed on Tuesday a liberal watchdog group’s claims that a panel researching the possible impeachment of a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice violated the state’s open meeting laws ... Five days after filing the request the group filed a lawsuit alleging ...
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Jewish groups sue University of California over ‘unchecked’ antisemitism

Fox31 Denver 29 Nov 2023
The suit accuses nearly two dozen student organizations at UC Berkeley Law of practicing policies that force Jewish students to go against their Jewish identities in order to participate in such groups ... In the Women of Berkeley Law, the Queer Caucus at Berkeley or the Asian ...
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Judge dismisses liberal group’s claims Protasiewicz impeachment panel violated open meetings law

FDL Reporter 29 Nov 2023
MADISON — A judge has dismissed a liberal watchdog group’s claims that a panel researching the possible impeachment of Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz violated the state’s open meeting laws ... Five days after filing the request the group filed a lawsuit alleging ...
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UC Berkeley, law school sued over ‘unchecked’ antisemitism

East Bay Times 29 Nov 2023
Two Jewish groups sued the University of California at Berkeley and its law school over the “longstanding, unchecked spread of antisemitism” they say has escalated since the Oct ... At the law school, at least 23 student organizations have enacted policies to “discriminate against and exclude Jewish students, faculty and scholars,” the groups said.
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Final debates begin in Hong Kong's largest security trial

Paulding Progress 29 Nov 2023
Hong Kong's largest-ever national security trial began final arguments Wednesday, more than 1,000 days after authorities filed charges against 47 democracy activists under a law imposed by China to quell dissent ... The national security law was "meant to be a strong law" and should not be narrowly interpreted, he added.
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Gun control bills bring heated testimony to Beacon Hill

Boston Herald 29 Nov 2023
However, some of the would-be gun laws might make Massachusetts safer and potentially save lives, if advanced to the full Legislature and given the governor’s signature, gun safety advocates told the same group of lawmakers ... “So here we are talking about passing more laws that are not going to be used.
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Should we be fearful of the ACP-EU agreement?

Jamaica Observer 29 Nov 2023
... to retain the law against abortion ... And in the middle we have the Government of Jamaica who can no longer say the ACP-EU agreement will have no effect on our laws and the future of our children, because why else would the Christian groups and the LGBT groups be at odds about it?.
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Mysterious group backing ‘phantom candidates’ in N.J. revealed in new election report

NJ 29 Nov 2023
When a mysterious dark money group known as Jersey Freedom started pushing “conservative” candidates late in this year’s election cycle, many suspected South Jersey Democrats were behind the nonprofit group ... Mysterious group backing ‘phantom candidates’ in N.J.
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Iowa LGBTQ students file lawsuit over new state law

News-Press Now 29 Nov 2023
28—DES MOINES — Seven Iowa students are named as plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday that challenges a new, sweeping state law that places restrictions on LGBTQ students and school materials ... Education groups criticized the proposed rules — in the same way they did the law itself — as being too vague.
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Nepal registers first same-sex marriage in South Asia

La Prensa Latina 29 Nov 2023
The society is a group advocating for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer/questioning, and asexual rights ... Now, we will exert pressure to enact the law through parliament.” ... “There are still hundreds of such couples who don’t want to come out openly in society due to the lack of law for marriage,” said Maya ... “The law has accepted us.
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Justin Marceau is defending a new generation of animal rights activists

Vox 29 Nov 2023
If you’re going to break the law in order to change it, you need a good lawyer ... That’s why, from the 1990s to the 2010s, meat producers aggressively lobbied for “ ag-gag ” laws to criminalize such investigations. But thanks to the work of animal lawyers like Justin Marceau, ag-gag laws have largely been struck down as unconstitutional.
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Opponents want judge to declare Montana drag reading ban unconstitutional without requiring a trial

Longview News-Journal 29 Nov 2023
(AP) — A group of people, organizations and businesses opposed to a law that restricts drag performances and bans drag reading events at public schools and libraries asked a federal judge to declare Montana's law unconstitutional without requiring a trial ... Greg Gianforte as several states passed laws targeting drag performances.
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Supreme Court Case Challenges SEC’s Enforcement Powers

Market Watch 29 Nov 2023
“A lot of business groups would like to challenge the SEC’s internal proceedings,” says Ronald Levin, an administrative law professor at Washington University in St ... SEC powers were expanded after the 2008 financial crisis, under the Dodd-Frank Act, and the agency has had good success in cases it brings before its own administrative law judges.

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