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The US government announced on Monday that it will settle a 2018 class-action lawsuit that challenged the Trump administration’s family separation practice at the US-Mexico border. The parties filed a joint petition asking the court to approve the settlement. The proposed settlement would create a process to reunify families who were separated. Additionally, the government [...]

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Governor Gavin Newsom of California vetoed anti-caste discrimination bill SB 403 Saturday amidst an increase in anti-caste discrimination laws and ordinances in the US. SB 403 would have outlawed discrimination based on “ancestry” and “caste.”  The bill defined ancestry as “lineal descent, heritage, parentage, caste, or any inherited social status,” and caste as “an individual’s [...]

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The North Carolina House and Senate voted Wednesday to override Governor Roy Cooper’s veto of three bills related to LGTBQ+ youths. The bills, SB49, HB808 and HB574, each target a different LGTBQ-related issue. SB49, which limits discussion of gender and sexual identity in classrooms, has been compared by Cooper to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill. [...]

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Two teachers’ unions joined six professors in Idaho to bring a lawsuit Tuesday challenging the constitutionality of the No Public Funds for Abortion Act (NPFAA), an Idaho law that prohibits the use of public funds to provide, promote, or counsel in favor of abortion. According to a press release from the plaintiffs’ counsel the American [...]

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Abortion rights advocates in Arizona filed the initial paperwork on Tuesday to put a proposed amendment to the state constitution on the ballot in 2024 that would affirm the right to an abortion in Arizona. The group that filed the amendment, Arizona for Abortion Access, is supported by a coalition of groups, including Planned Parenthood [...]

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The US President’s Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB) released a report Monday in support of the reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) while also recommending restrictions to prevent abuse. Section 702 is a controversial provision of FISA that allows for “the targeting of persons reasonably believed to be located outside the [...]

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The US Department of Education’s (DOE) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced in a Monday letter that it is looking into whether Harvard University’s donor and legacy admissions preferences perpetuates racial discrimination. The announcement comes after a complaint was filed against Harvard University three weeks ago with the DOE, which alleged the university’s preferential admissions [...]

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A federal judge in California struck down a Biden administration asylum policy on Tuesday that created a “rebuttable presumption of asylum ineligibility” if someone seeking asylum in the US has did not first seek out a lawful, safe and orderly path to the US. The ruling found that the rule, which was set to take effect [...]

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