Louisiana LGBTQ+ activist exonerated after 3 years of unconstitutional prosecution
Matthew Humphrey has been exonerated three years after his wrongful arrest for speaking out against book bans during a local library board meeting.
February 18, 2025
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Matthew Humphrey has been exonerated three years after his wrongful arrest for speaking out against book bans during a local library board meeting.
"Gender identity is real," Judge Robert Hinkle wrote in finding the ban violated federal law and the U.S. Constitution.
A conservative group in Virginia said Tuesday it would oppose Supreme Court nominee John Roberts's confirmation because of his role in the 1996 Supreme Court case Romer v. Evans, which repealed an antigay amendment to the Colorado constitution
Five Republican lawmakers in Iowa have filed court documents urging the state supreme court to overturn a Polk County judge's decision that struck down a law banning same-sex marriage.
The state had asked Judge Robert Hinkle to put his June ruling against the restrictions on hold, but he said no.
George W. Bush
tilted young and conservative with Judge John G. Roberts,
filling his first Supreme Court vacancy with a 50-year-old
jurist who could leave an indelible right-leaning
imprint on the nation's judiciary. Gay rights groups
are cautious about the nominee.
John Roberts is taking his place as the next leader of the Supreme Court, with a commanding majority of the Senate backing him to lead the court through cases involving controversial social issues that will affect generations to come.
“As a parent, it is heartbreaking to see my right to make healthcare decisions for my child taken away by political bullies, and the hurt and harm that has caused my child,” one parent of a trans youth said in a new legal brief.
President George W. Bush chose Harriet Miers, White House counsel and a loyal member of the president's inner circle, to replace retiring justice Sandra Day O 'Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Judge Robert Hinkle trashed the rationale behind Florida's ban on gender-affirming care for trans minors.
Robert Fehring suffered a heart attack earlier this year.
News that John G. Roberts Jr., President Bush's pick to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court, helped to win a landmark gay rights case in 1996 has drawn strong reactions from both supporters and opponents of the conservative nominee.
Terrence Franklin got engaged the day of the Parkland massacre. To him and his partner, it made perfect sense.