Committed to LGBTQ+ empowerment: School of Law members unite through Outlaw Outlaw, a national organization comprised of LGBTQ+ communities and allies, provides awareness, education on legislation and a safe space. 04/24/2024 - 3:53 am | View Link
What do changes to Title IX mean for LGBTQ students? NPR's Michel Martin talks to Emma Grasso Levine of the youth advocacy organization Know Your IX, about what recent changes to the federal rule means to LGBTQ students. 04/23/2024 - 2:13 am | View Link
Ron DeSantis says new law limiting book challenges will stop liberals from abusing the system According to the AP, DeSantis was referring not to “frivolous” book challenges made by racist and anti-LGBTQ+ folks but to liberals “abusing” the system to make a political point about the absurd ... 04/17/2024 - 6:00 am | View Link
Two Florida law schools were just ranked among the nation’s top 50 by U.S. News Florida now boasts two law schools ranked in the nation’s top 50 — and five schools in the top 100, according to U.S. News and World Report. But meanwhile, FSU’s law school surged into the ... 04/15/2024 - 11:10 pm | View Link
LGBTQ advocates in Florida schools are celebrating another win. Here’s why A federal judge has blocked part of the Parental Rights in Education law as it applies to one teacher in the state. 04/11/2024 - 2:18 am | View Link
Although Donald Trump complains that his criminal trial keeps him off the campaign trail, he spent Wednesday — the day when court isn’t scheduled — playing golf and not campaigning, CNN reports.
Critics say the justice should not judge Trump's election-subversion case, because his wife supported overturning the election, attended Trump's Jan6 rally.
“The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday voted to restore ‘net neutrality’ rules that prevent broadband internet providers such as Comcast and Verizon from favoring some sites and apps over others,” the AP reports.
“The move effectively reinstates a net neutrality order the commission first issued in 2015 during the Obama administration.
“Lawmakers in Alabama passed legislation that could lead to the prosecution of librarians under the state’s obscenity law for providing minors with ‘harmful’ materials,” The Hill reports.
During Thursday's Supreme Court hearing, Trump lawyer John Sauer was made to look foolish trying to defend his claim that the president would get immunity even if he assassinates his political rival.
Justice Sotomayor was not amused.
Sotomayor: Your answer below, I'm going to give you a chance to say if you stay by it – if the president decides that his rival is a corrupt person and he orders the military or orders someone to assassinate him, is that within his official acts for which he can get immunity?
Sauer: It would depend on the hypothetical, but we can see that could well be an official act.
Sotomayor: It could.