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The Supreme Court dealt with some of the most politically charged issues in the nation on Tuesday. National Law Journal’s Marcia Coyle joins Judy Woodruff to discuss why the Court's removal of the injunction on banning transgender military service people was "a little surprising," as well as an upcoming gun case with broad implications for...
Army Chief of Staff and incoming Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Mark Milley told a congressional hearing last year he agreed. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.: Have you since heard anything how transgender service members are harming unit cohesion? Mark Milley: No, I have received precisely zero reports ...
... years ago service members could be discharged from the military for being transgender. That changed under President Barack Obama. The military announced in 2016 that transgender individuals already serving in the military would be allowed to serve openly. And the military set July 1, 2017 as the date when transgender ...
... serve in the Nation's armed forces." In a statement, Peter Renn, an attorney for Lambda Legal, which brought one of the challenges to the transgender military policy, called the Trump administration's action Friday a "highly unusual step" that is "wildly premature and inappropriate." The Pentagon initially lifted its ...
Medicaid expansion was another multistate topic on the ballot. Nebraska and Idaho voters approved measures to expand Medicaid health coverage to tens of thousands of low-income residents.
... others are an attempt to ban them from military service; a memo from Attorney General Jeff Sessions concluding that civil rights laws don't protect transgender people from discrimination on the job; and the scrapping of Obama-era guidance encouraging school officials to let transgender students use school bathrooms that ...
"The whole world is looking at this as a historic moment for a transgender candidate, but that's not what Vermont looked at," Hallquist said. "Vermonters looked at, 'What's Christine and her team going to do for Vermont?'" "Look to Vermont," she said. "We continue to demonstrate leadership ...
... the state, find jobs and afford homes."Vermonters are going to elect me on the platform. They are not going to elect me because of the fact that I'm transgender — that's the reality," Hallquist said, conceding: "Obviously, nationwide it's significant, the first transgender governor. It is pioneering."
Jackson Bird came out as a transgender man at 25. Growing up without any role models, he felt as if he were alone in the world. Now he makes YouTube videos and hosts the podcast "Transmission" to help everyone better understand the transgender community. Bird offers his Brief but Spectacular ...
... involving transgender people’s use of sex-segregated facilities. Both Boyertown and Dallas (Oregon, not Texas) were cases brought against school districts with policies allowing transgender students to use bathrooms that correspond with their gender identities. In both cases, the plaintiffs were non-transgender students and their parents who alleged ...
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