SC Senate proviso would ban transgender students’ bathroom choices at public schools Students in public schools would only be allowed to use bathrooms matching their gender assigned at birth, according to a proviso added to the state budget the Senate passed on Wednesday. 04/26/2024 - 6:42 pm | View Link
Transgender students would be banned from preferred bathroom under SC Senate proviso Biological girls and boys can not enter the opposite sex’s bathroom in public schools under a new S.C. state Senate proviso that passed Wednesday. This means transgender students in South Carolina ... 04/25/2024 - 11:00 pm | View Link
Louisiana House approves transgender 'bathroom bill' Legislation to restrict the use of bathrooms in schools, prisons, and domestic violence shelters to one’s birth gender passes in the Louisiana House on a 79-16 vote. 04/13/2024 - 4:00 am | View Link
Louisiana House passes transgender 'bathroom bill.' It now heads to the Senate. The bill would effectively ban transgender people from using school bathrooms, as well as facilities in domestic violence shelters and prisons, that align with their gender identity. 04/11/2024 - 10:55 am | View Link
Transgender student bathroom ban bill passes out of Ohio House Higher Education Committee A bill that would ban transgender students from using the bathroom and locker room that matches up with their gender identity passed out of the Ohio House Higher Education Committee Wednesday by a ... 04/11/2024 - 3:12 am | View Link
“Donald Trump falsely claimed Thursday that he is not allowed to testify in his own defense at a criminal trial in Manhattan over his alleged falsification of business records,” CNN reports.
Said Trump: “I’m not allowed to testify. I’m under a gag order. I guess, right? I’m not allowed to testify, because this judge, who’s totally conflicted, has me under an unconstitutional gag order.”
He continued by complaining that he’s “not allowed to talk” even when others attack him, then said again, “So I’m not allowed to testify because of an unconstitutional gag order.”
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) “signed into law a repeal of the state’s 160-year-old abortion ban, rescinding one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion laws after weeks of hard-fought political negotiation at the state capitol,” the Arizona Republic reports.
Former Michigan House speaker Lee Chatfield (R) and his wife “pleaded not guilty Thursday to financial charges arising from an investigation of how they spent money from unregulated political funds,” the AP reports.
They are accused of using money for personal travel, housing and other benefits when he was in office.
Tom Nichols: “One problem has been around as long as the republic: Americans don’t pay attention to politics, and when they do, they frequently blame the current president for whatever is going wrong in their lives. For most people, economic cause and effect is mostly notional; if gas prices are high today, or if someone is still not working despite low unemployment rates, it’s because of the guy at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
New York Times: “To recap, the jury just heard a very important recording, made by Michael Cohen during the 2016 campaign and extracted from his phone. On the recording, Trump discussed a hush-money payment with Cohen, asking him specifically about the financing of the deal. The payment in question went to Karen McDougal, not Stormy Daniels.
A longtime lieutenant and criminal co-defendant of far-right Chinese fugitive mogul Guo Wengui has agreed to plead guilty to fraud charges ahead of their upcoming trial. This development strengthens the position of federal prosecutors in a case in which they have called Steve Bannon, a vocal Guo ally, a “co-conspirator.”
Yvette Wang, Guo’s former chief of staff and alleged co-conspirator in defrauding thousands of Guo supporters of more than $1 billion, pleaded not guilty after her arrest in March 2023.