A US federal judge Friday temporarily restrained Texas from investigating doctors or parents over gender-affirming care for minors. The order includes families who are a part of LGBTQ+ organization PFLAG. Ken Paxton, the state’s attorney general, released an opinion which prompted the investigation in February. The opinion states that under Texas law any gender-affirming care provided to [...]
In a 14-page decision, the Supreme Court of New York Friday rejected the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) attempt to stop the state’s investigation into the organization. New York Attorney General (NYAG) Letitia James brought an investigation against the NRA in 2020. James alleged that the group was violating non-profit laws and committing tax fraud, and [...]
A Grand Rapids, Michigan, police officer Friday pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder for fatally shooting a Black immigrant during a traffic stop. The officer’s lawyer said that his client was “justified” in the amount of force used during the incident. As bodycam footage shows, on April 4, Patrick Lyoya was pulled over for an allegedly [...]
The US Supreme Court Wednesday refused to postpone the execution of an Arizona man. Frank Atwood received a death sentence in Arizona after he murdered an 8-year-old girl in 1984. In the released order, the court denied Atwood’s request to postpone his execution. Atwood was convicted for the murder of 8-year-old Vicki Lynne Hoskinson in [...]
A North Carolina sheriff’s office Monday announced it will pay a $3 million settlement to settle a case brought by the family of a Black man who was fatally shot by police. The family of Andrew Brown Jr. filed a federal lawsuit in July of 2021 seeking $30 million against Pasquotank Sheriff Tommy Wooten and [...]
The US Justice Department Monday charged former leaders of the Proud Boys with seditious conspiracy relating to the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. Enrique Tarrio, a former chairman of the Proud Boys, was previously indicted on charges of conspiracy for his involvement in the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol on March [...]
The United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana Monday enjoined the use of a new congressional redistricting map that included one majority-black district. A coalition of black voters and organizations, including the NAACP, filed a lawsuit after Louisiana’s legislature overturned Governor John Bel Edwards’ veto and passed the maps. According to the plaintiffs, [...]
The man suspected of killing 10 people by shooting in a Buffalo, New York, supermarket has pleaded not guilty to the 25 charges against him. Payton Gendron, an 18-year-old from Conklin, New York, is reported to have entered a supermarket that was three hours from where he lived, in a predominantly Black neighborhood, on May [...]
A US federal judge in Georgia Thursday ruled that employers who exclude gender-affirming medical care from their healthcare insurance coverage violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Anna Lange, a sheriff’s deputy, brought the case against her boss, Cullen Talton, and Houston County, Georgia. Lange, who began her gender transition in 2017, [...]
The state of New York Thursday passed 10 gun-related bills that will create restrictions such as increasing the minimum age for purchasing or possessing a semiautomatic rifle to 21. Two of the other bills passed will prohibit people from buying bulletproof vests, unless they are law enforcement, and allow health care providers to “file an application for an [...]
