by Carl P. Leubsdorf A year after the murder of 19 students and two teachers at Uvalde’s Robb Elementary School, the Texas legislature could be trying to curb the state’s easy access to deadly firearms. As thousands of poor people lose the temporary access to Medicaid ...
The U.S. Supreme Court recently declined to reinstate West Virginia’s trans-athlete ban after Attorney General Patrick Morrisey requested an emergency injunction to put the law back into effect as the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals considers the case. In response, Morrisey said ...
State Attorney General Patrick Morrisey says his team will once again focus its efforts on the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals where the state’s transgender sports law is being argued after the U.S. Supreme Court denied Morrisey’s emergency request to have injunction that puts the law ...
MORGANTOWN – State Attorney General Patrick Morrisey announced on Thursday that he is applying to the U.S. Supreme Court to vacate a preliminary injunction against enforcing the 2021 transgender athlete bill. The bill, HB 3293, reflected the Legislature’s sense that “the people ...
A federal judge upheld West Virginia’s law affecting the participation of transgender athletes on school sports teams. “The question before the court is whether the legislature’s chosen definition of ‘girl’ and ‘woman’ in this context is constitutionally permissible. I find ...
by Bryan Clark Idaho’s transgender athlete ban has been on hold pending a federal court case for two years. Now we know how lucky Idaho’s female athletes have been. Our neighbor to the south, which briefly implemented a ban modeled on Idaho’s before it, too, was blocked by a ...