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(The Center Square) - Parental rights organizations applauded the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to withhold blocking a Texas law preventing minors from making app store purchases.
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Free news: Oregon’s U.S. Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden joined a resolution led by U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) to acknowledge and apologize for the mistreatment of and discrimination against LGBTQ+ individuals who have served in the uniformed services, as civil servants, or in the Foreign Service.
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(The Center Square) – The University of Minnesota is facing a lawsuit alleging school policies on gender violate students’ First Amendment rights.
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(The Center Square) - The U.S. Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, sided with a nonprofit pregnancy center in a federal lawsuit.Â
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(The Center Square) - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case challenging compliance with nondiscrimination policies for preschools that received public funds.Â
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(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.
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(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.
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(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.
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Commentary:Â 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.
