(The Center Square) - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case challenging compliance with nondiscrimination policies for preschools that received public funds.
(The Center Square) – The U.S. Senate has adopted the House’s 10-day extension of the expiring Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, leaving Republican leadership less than two weeks to win over hardliners.
(The Center Square) – The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of New Richmond Parents for Good Schools over the school district’s policy on gender identity and the use of bathrooms at the school.
By Christina Lengyel | The Center Square Contributor
(The Center Square) – A controversial bill Ohio Republican lawmakers say is aimed at protecting children is rankling free speech and LGBT advocates as it awaits consideration in the Senate.
(The Center Square) – The U.S. Supreme Court, in an 8-1 decision, ruled that a 2019 Colorado law banning conversion therapy violates the First Amendment.
(The Center Square) – Pro-life organization Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America is disappointed that mention of what it considers a dangerous mail-order abortion pill was absent from Tuesday evening’s State of the Union, after earlier in the day releasing its own “State of the Unborn” address.
By Chelsea Marr and Trisha Walker
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Commentary: A shocking act of political violence this year reignited debates about free speech. I write as someone who grew up in Germany. There, the line between free expression and speech that harms is not abstract but part of common sense. Germans learned, painfully, that words can prepare the ground for brutality.