Do not fool yourself to think that the same sex marriage is safe, Imani Gandy warns in her last op-ed Rewire News Group. The Supreme Court could eliminate the equality of marriage as abrupt as it ended the rights of abortions – and, given the probability, will probably do so.
It can soon get this opportunity. Last week, a conservative Christian activist submitted a report formally asking the court to overthrow Obergefell by HodgesThe milestone 2015 decision that legalized the same sex marriage. The plaintiff is Kim Davis, a Kentucky Court employee, who once refused to marry a gay couple, referring to “religious freedom” and led that freedom to prison.
Gandy, our content employee, is a legal oracle: Call the end of Roe v. Wade Before the court overturns it in 2022. “People said I was dramatic,” Gandy writes. “That I have to stop being scared.”
But, of course, he was right.
Thus, when Gandy states that “the same sex marriage is absolutely in the fragment of cut”, the threat is real. Click here to find out why marriage equality is based on an unstable legal basis.
Anti -democratic acts
- Texas Democrats announced this morning That they returned to the state, ending their two -day stance with state Republicans over a new map of Congress that required the Trump favored by the GOP. The bill will now have the required quorum of legislators who will be passed in a second special legislative session called Greg. Greg Abbott of Texas.
- Three democratic states will Develop members of the National Guard in Washington, DCThe Washington Post reported the weekend, adding about 500 troops to the weekly occupation of the Nation’s Capitol. Administration says it protects public security but Data from the Department of Justice It shows that violent crime on DC hit last year 30 years last year. On August 15, US Attorney General Pam Bondi cancels an order The provision of the federal government of the DC Police Department after a federal judge threatened to intervene. At the moment, the city’s police chief will remain responsible.
- Trump on August 18th said he would sign an executive order Moving on to eliminate the vote on the basis of his false claim that the mail ballots contributed to the fraud in the 2020 elections, which he lost.
- Trump’s candidate to run the Statistical Work Office (BLS) I told Fox News On August 4 that the organization “must suspend” its monthly work reports. EJ Antoni, an economist at the Think Think Tank Heritage Foundation, claimed-with few elements-that the reports have data quality problems. Trump shot BLS’s previous head Earlier this month after the July report showed a weak job market. Economists on both sides of the corridor questioned Antoni’s understanding of economic concepts and data, In accordance with New York Times.
Wins democracy
- The National Science Foundation must restore some of the grants suspended by UCLA, a federal judge who decided on August 12th. Money was “Regardless of the vague” in July As part of the unprecedented attack of Trump administration in higher education. It targets universities that say they use dei practices in hiring and imports and allow anti -Semitism to bloom in their campuses. In his lawsuit against UCLA, Trump administration has requested an abnormally high amount, $ 1 billion.
Reproductive rights
- Misinformation about Costco had briefly had the internet last week after Multiple stores reported That retail giant pharmacies will not sell the drug to abortion mifepristone after a pressure campaign against abortion groups. The resulting discussion often did not have a basic detail, such as Washington Post explained: Costco is currently selling mifepristone. His 500 pharmacies are not certified to distribute the drug and the wholesaler reported a “lack of demand” as a reason not to look for it. Nevertheless, a journalist Susan Rinkunas wrote about MSNBCAgainst abortion teams claim that the victory in their push to persuade national pharmacy chains, including CVs, to stop selling the drug.
- Trump’s administration was neglected to report reproductive rights in the annual human rights report issued on August 12, According to the Center for Reproductive Rights. Administration also appeared Get adverse information about human rights violations from reports on countries with which the US today has a favorable relationshipIncluding El Salvador, Israel and the United Arab Emirates. The reduced rights report is similar to those stated during the first White House Trump, according to Political.
Lgbtq+ rights
- The Trump administration human rights report could also make it difficult for LGBTQ+ people to persuade immigration officials to meet asylum conditions, both in the US and abroad, according to HuffPost. “The standard to determine if one is worth asylum or is a refugee is if they have a well -founded fear of persecution,” said an expert in the store. “Thus, these reports are historically critical for documenting the conditions that people are experiencing in their countries.”
- Nearly 300 people kept in agriculture sued the state, arguing that the Law of May 2025 preventing gender care in prison is harsh and unusual punishment according to the eighth modification, 19th referenced.
- An Arkansas Law prohibiting the care confirmed by gender for minors can stand, A Federal Court of Appeal decided on August 12. The law prohibits hormones, hormone inhibitors and gender -confirming surgery for people under 18. United States by Skrmettiwhich found that the prohibition on the sex -confirmed care for minors in Tennessee was not equivalent to gender -based discrimination. The Federal Court of Appeal also held that parents have no inherent right to gain access to health care for their children that laws have considered inappropriate, referring to “history and tradition”.
Migration
- A former prison in the rural Tennessee can soon open its doors again – to prison immigrants, the Reported the Associated Press. Aldermen’s Board of Aldermen in Mason, Tennessee (population: 1,300) voted last week to convert the closed facility into an ice detention center run by Corecivic, a private prison body that often sued for financial mismanagement. The news caused strong boos from upset residents. “I don’t like what Ice represents, how they treat people,” said Virginia Rivers Board member.
- The ruler of Florida Ron Desantis announced last week that the state would open the second immigration detention centernamed “deportation warehouse”, in a state prison near Jacksonville. The construction of the first Florida ice installation, located in Everglades, is currently pause While a judge considers an action by environmental groups.
- Paraguay agreed to hold asylum seekers While making their affairs to the US government. The agreement, Signed by Foreign Minister Marco Rubio In the context of the suppression of Trump’s migration, it appears to include sending asylum seekers to the US to Paraguay. Supporters Said to the Associated Press The agreement raises concerns about “controversial deportations”.
Health and science
- The perpetrator who shot over 180 shots At the Atlanta Centers in Atlanta on August 8 prior to taking his life, he was motivated by a “mistrust” of COVID-19 vaccines, Political Reported last week. The news, confirmed by law enforcement officials, questioned the claims of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Not enough information was known about the motivation of the shooter. Kennedy, a long -term anti -vaccine fighter who now oversees CDC, has criticized his service to COVID-19 Pandemic.
- More than 600 research projects seeking to understand racial and socio -economic inequalities in US health results were terminated by the National Institutes of Health, a New analysis of federal data from New York Times has revealed. It is not clear what all projects will be done, some of which are involved in continuing disputes about Trump’s administration expenditure cuts. But “repetitions represent an earthquake shift for health scientists and the hobby of a long campaign to unfold the causes of poor health in minority communities, low -income areas and rural areas and among Americans with disabilities.” Times The journalists wrote.
Rewire recommends
- Trump’s management “wants more babies”, and has the economic policies it has implemented to boost the birth rate. But like many of the policies of this president, there is a fishing: the economic benefits do not apply to parents who are reducing pregnant women, transfer this pregnancy to term and give birth – to a mortal baby. Jill Wieber Lens, a professor of law and mortality parent, explains why Trump’s “baby bonus” and tax credit, which only applies to live birth, adds “injury insult” and reveals the “hypocrisy of so -called policies”.
- This week in Boom! Lawyer summer meeting, Imani and Jess Interview Lourdes Rivera, president of the Defense Team of Pregnancy, which strongly links attacks on the nationality of the birthday with legal arguments of “personality”. “If a pregnant woman carries another” person “, right then the government may intervene to protect the” person “you carry,” Lourdis explains. “This essentially means that the pregnant woman has no other rights.” Catch Boom! Lawyer Note and YouTube.
Unwind
- This week, a pleasant video A young boy and his tiny goat took the internet. Milo Garza and Goat Teddy’s teddy bear came in fourth place in a goat in Texas. But the 5 -year -old couldn’t have been proud. He sang tenderly hugging and kissing coffee and white teddy bear after the competition. Garza’s favorite thing for Teddy Bear is “his legs”, he said Tom llamas of NBChis eyes sparkling. “It’s fat.”
Author’s note: This story has been informed to correct Gov’s name. Ron Desantis and accurately describe the process by which Washington police, DC police chief, regained control of the city’s police force.
