BREAKING: The Arkansas legislature overrode Governor Hutchinson’s veto on HB 1570, a bill that would ban health care for trans youth.
We are preparing litigation as we speak.
This decision ignores dozens of local doctors, national medical experts, as well as trans youth and their parents.
Gender-affirming care is life-saving care.
Banning it will have devastating — and in some cases, deadly consequences.
This bill will drive families, doctors and businesses out of the state, and sends a terrible and heartbreaking message to transgender people who are watching in fear.
Trans youth in Arkansas: We will continue to fight for you.
We will always have your back, and we’ll be relentless in our defense of your rights.
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BREAKING: We're suing on behalf of Ahmad Chebli, a Michigan father of two, because the government violated his constitutional rights when it placed him on the No Fly List after he refused to become an FBI informant.
For two years, Ahmad has been banned from flying to see family and friends, do his job, or fulfill his religious obligations as a Muslim.
The government has refused to give Ahmad the reason it put him on the No Fly LIst, or a fair process to get off it — and he's not alone.
Ahmad's ordeal is emblematic of the government's abusive use of the No Fly List, especially against Muslims, and the multiple constitutional violations that result.
As vaccination efforts ramp up in the states, so have the idea of so-called "vaccine passports," or credentials to prove vaccination status.
But little is known about how these systems would be implemented.
Rushing to develop a vaccine passport system could be bad for transparency, privacy, and user control.
This is precisely what we need to prevent.
We don't oppose the principle of requiring proof of vaccination in certain contexts. After all, vaccination is often required for school enrollment and some medical or other jobs.
There's no reason to believe that the existing system of proof is deeply broken.
Recent headlines have suggested that there’s a “crisis” at the border. They’re wrong.
What we’re currently seeing is the predictable response to the right to seek asylum being systematically denied for years.
The Trump administration tried to all-out end asylum through multiple cruel and illegal policies.
These policies deliberately endangered lives and violated people’s right to seek safety in the US.
Because of these policies, tens of thousands of asylum seekers were denied entry and instead forced to pursue claims from Mexico — or were returned to the country from which they fled.
Many asylum-seekers have reported harsh, dangerous conditions.
President Biden just announced a massive infrastructure plan — including $100 billion to ensure everyone in this country can access broadband.
It’s encouraging that our leaders are finally starting to treat broadband as the basic necessity it is.
Broadband access is about more than the internet – it’s an issue of systemic equality.
People without broadband are more likely to be people of color, rural, and low-income. Without broadband, many opportunities in employment, education — even vaccine access — are out of reach.
COVID-19 showed us how important internet access is to our everyday lives — but the digital divide existed long before the pandemic and will continue unless our government takes necessary action.