Case Challenges Michigan “Emergency Manager” Law Flint, MI –(ENEWSPF)–March 31, 2017. Today, a coalition of Michigan residents, organizations, and civil rights attorneys asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case challenging Michigan’s controversial Emergency Manager Law. The law allows the State to replace all local elected officials and elected[Read More…]
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U.S. Supreme Court Sends Gavin Grimm Case Back Down to Appeals Court
Gavin Grimm WASHINGTON —(ENEWSPF)–March 6, 2017. The Supreme Court announced today that it is sending a landmark transgender rights case back to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to be reconsidered in light of the Departments of Justice and Education rescinding of a Title IX guidance clarifying protections for transgender[Read More…]
National Leaders, Groups, Individuals File Briefs in Supreme Court Supporting Gavin Grimm and Transgender Rights
Transgender High School Student, Gavin Grimm Business Leaders, Educators, Students, Medical Professionals Among the Diverse Range of Voices Urging Support for Trans Rights WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–March 2, 2017. Today, individuals and institutions from across the country representing a diverse and extraordinary cross-section of interests, perspectives, and concerns filed friend-of-court briefs in[Read More…]
ACLU Statement on Revoking of Title IX Guidance for Transgender Students & Impact on Gavin Grimm Supreme Court Case
NEW YORK — (ENEWSPF)–February 23, 2017. The Trump administration yesterday informed the Supreme Court that they are revoking guidance from the Departments of Education and Justice that clarified that transgender students are protected from sex discrimination by Title IX, the federal law that bars gender discrimination. The guidance, which was[Read More…]
Florida Supreme Court Upholds Block of State’s 24-Hour Mandatory Delay for Abortion
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. —(ENEWSPF)–February 17, 2017. In a victory for abortion access, the Florida Supreme Court yesterday blocked a law that prevents a woman who has decided to have an abortion from obtaining the procedure for at least 24 hours after meeting with her doctor and forces her to make an[Read More…]
Washington State Supreme Court Rules Florist Discriminated Against Same-Sex Couple by Refusing Wedding-Related Service
OLYMPIA, Wash. —(ENEWSPF)–February 16, 2017. The Washington Supreme Court today ruled that a florist in Richland violated the state’s anti-discrimination law when she denied service to a same-sex couple for their wedding. Curt Freed and Robert Ingersoll were refused service by Arlene’s Flowers because they are gay. The American Civil[Read More…]
People’s Action Responds to Donald Trump Nominating Neil Gorsuch for Supreme Court Justice
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 1, 2017. Starring in a prime-time television show as president of the United States, Donald Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch on Tuesday to be the next justice of the Supreme Court. LeeAnn Hall and George Goehl, co-directors of People’s Action, provided this response: “Trump said during his address, ‘I[Read More…]
Democrats Hold Rally Against Trump’s Anti-Muslim Order on the Supreme Court
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 30, 2017 By Hunter Democratic lawmakers held a rally on the steps of the Supreme Court this evening to condemn Trump’s anti-immigrant, anti-refugee executive order; included were House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi: “What the president did is not constitutional, and in the view of many of us is[Read More…]
Democrats Take the Fight Over Trump’s Muslim Ban to the Supreme Court, House and Senate floors
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 30, 2017 By Joan McCarter House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi has organized a rally at the Supreme Court for Monday evening to protest the Trump regime’s Muslim ban. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer will be joined by their colleagues and immigrants[Read More…]
Supreme Court News: Texas’s Strict Photo ID Law Still Blocked
High Court Declines to Hear Case, Letting Appeals Court Decision Striking Down Discriminatory ID Law to Still Stand Washington, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–January 23, 2017. The U.S. Supreme Court announced today it will not hear arguments at this time over Texas’s strict photo ID law, which the full Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down[Read More…]
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