Nebraska Supreme Court upholds anti-trans care, anti-abortion law
The law bans most abortions after 12 weeks and restricts gender-affirming care for trans people under 19.
July 26, 2024
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The law bans most abortions after 12 weeks and restricts gender-affirming care for trans people under 19.
The regulations were combined into one bill, which opponents say violates the state constitution's requirement for all bills to be single-subject.
Hell hath no fury like a furry scorned.
Minors in Nebraska will be able to access gender-affirming care, but only after attending 40 hours of therapy that could push back on their identity.
Leonard Steven Grasz is on the board of directors of a group that opposes marriage equality and supports "ex-gay" therapy.
Constitutional amendments to protect abortion will be brought to vote in November in 10 states.
The Supreme Court denied the appeal of John Lotter, who sits on Nebraska's death row for killing Brandon Teena, a transgender man, in a grisly 1993 triple murder depicted in the film Boys Don't Cry.
Two women, formerly a couple, are suing because the state wouldn't list both of them on their sons' birth certificates.
Sasse, a Republican senator from Nebraska, is under consideration to become the University of Florida's next president.Â
A state Supreme Court judge suspended a circut court judge's ruling striking down the state's birth certificate law as unconstitutional.
Although officials aren't specifying how they will update the documents, they confirm a process to include both parents regardless of gender is under way.
Failing to list both parents is clearly unconstitutional, so a federal court should order the state to do so without a trial, the couples say.
Same-sex couples are fighting to have both spouses's names on their children's birth certificates.
Justices rule on Friday that the law is "rationally related to legitimate state interests."
Klobuchar is getting criticized particularly for a vote to confirm David Ryan Stras, who has objected to the Supreme Court ruling striking down antisodomy laws.
As gay and lesbian couples prepare to walk down the aisle for the first time in Iowa, Steven Thrasher looks back on a time when Iowa was one of the few states that would marry his black dad and white mom.