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On Monday, a judge temporarily blocked Missouri’s unprecedented ban on gender-affirming care for people of all ages, warning that the rule would cause significant harm if it were to go into effect.

Tucker Carlson thought that Fox Nation’s website “sucks” and that people don’t even watch it anyways.

The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it would decide next term whether to eliminate or rewrite the Chevron doctrine, a major, long-standing legal precedent that allows federal agencies—in the absence of clear instruction from Congress—to interpret laws as it sees fit. Scrapping the doctrine, long a goal of the conservative legal movement, would make it far easier for the courts to block and overturn federal regulations—anything from Clean Air Act restrictions to food safety requirements to workplace health mandates. Читать дальше...

Folks, the kids are, yet again, alright.

Iowa high school student Clementine Springsteen got up onstage during an academic honors ceremony, posed smiling next to Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds, and bellowed to the audience: “Trans rights are human rights!” In March, Reynolds signed bills banning gender-affirming care for people under the age of 18 and restricting what bathrooms transgender students can use.

Springsteen’s proclamation came during a ceremony for this year’s Iowa Governor’s Scholars... Читать дальше...

The ACLU announced Monday it is suing on behalf of Montana’s first and only transgender representative, whom state Republicans censured last week after she slammed their anti-trans legislation.

“No.” This is what Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema said when asked if there’s an ideological through line in the votes she has taken in the Senate.

Regulators took over First Republic Bank on Monday, marking the third bank collapse since the start of this year.

This is still entirely hypothetical, I realize, but it seems to me that it’s about time for someone to start asking Republican elected officials: If this jury in New York finds in favor of E. Jean Carroll, are you going to be okay with having a rapist as your presidential candidate?

After Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank went bust in March, liberals and conservatives argued over the cause. Liberals blamed a 2018 law that weakened oversight of midsized banks under the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial-reform law, and also an ill-considered 2019 regulation by the Federal Reserve Board that weakened oversight still further. Conservatives blamed incompetence on the part of bank regulators, especially at the San Francisco Fed, on whose board sat Silicon Valley Bank chief executive Greg Becker. Читать дальше...

Machaela Cavanaugh has filibustered the Nebraska state legislature for nine weeks straight, all to make sure a bill banning gender-affirming care for minors never makes it to a final vote.

In early February, Texas state Representative Shelby Slawson filed a bill in the state legislature that would prevent local governments from enforcing any eviction protections such as those adopted at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic—up to and including free legal aid programs or temporary pauses in the case of a natural disaster or other emergency. Texas is already regarded as a landlord-friendly state, but this bill’s broad language would shift the balance considerably by making it even easier... Читать дальше...

When New York Governor Kathy Hochul first took office, New York Democrats had reason for hope. Hochul rose to power after a report conducted by the state attorney general’s office found that her scandal-plagued predecessor, Andrew Cuomo, had sexually harassed at least 11 women, triggering his resignation. Cuomo’s fall was all the more striking for having come so soon after the peak of his popularity in 2020, when media outlets crowned him “America’s Governor,” the “King of New York,” and “Crisis... Читать дальше...