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(The Center Square) – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit denied California’s emergency request to modify a U.S. Supreme Court decision involving a policy that allowed public schools to withhold information from parents about a student’s gender transition. California filed an emergency motion seeking to revise the language of a permanent injunction against the policy, citing the need to address situations involving parents who might engage in abuse. Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the California policies violated the First and 14th Amendments. The decision vacated a 9th Circuit stay order that had paused a lower court injunction blocking the gender policy. “Parents and guardians have a federal constitutional right to be informed if their public school student child expresses gender incongruence, teachers and school staff having a federal constitutional right to accurately inform the parent or guardian of their student when the student expresses gender incongruence,” the permanent injunction states. “These federal constitutional rights are superior to any state or local laws, state or local regulations, or state or local policies to the contrary.” In its order, the 9th Circuit said any effort to modify the injunction in Mirabelli v. Bonta must be addressed by the district court, not the appellate court. “The district court retains jurisdiction to modify its injunction during the pendency of the appeal,” the order states. In an interview with The Center Square, Paul M. Jonna, special counsel for the Thomas More Society, described California’s motion as a “desperate attempt.” “It was obviously a very desperate attempt to have the 9th Circuit improperly rewrite the injunction,” Jonna said. “It would have been an error on the part of the 9th Circuit to do so.” “We’re glad that the 9th Circuit did not accept that invitation into error,” Jonna added. Jonna also pointed to language in the Supreme Court’s ruling indicating that the injunction does not prevent the state from protecting children in cases of abuse. “The injunction … permits the state to shield children from unfit parents by enforcing child abuse laws and removing children from parental custody in appropriate cases,” Jonna said, quoting the ruling. The Center Square reached out to the California Department of Education, which said it “cannot comment on pending litigation.” In December, U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez certified the case as a class action and issued a permanent injunction against the state’s policies. The Supreme Court’s ruling keeps in place a statewide block on school policies that allow educators to withhold information from parents about a student’s gender transition while litigation continues. The Center Square reached out to California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office for comment, but did not receive a response.

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(The Center Square) – A state House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee heard testimony on a pair of bills poised to fund the after-school programs of community schools across the state. Schools part of a federally funded program have had roughly $18.5 million in federal grant funding revoked over Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion concerns. The bills, HB5362 and HB5363, propose to allocate $20 million from the Illinois General Revenue Fund to be provided as a grant to the Afterschool for Children and Teens Now, or ACT Now, Coalition to support full-service community schools. The first bill sets requirements for the disbursement of the funds to the 32 partner schools in the state. Executive director of the coalition, Susan Stanton, spoke of positive impact programs in community schools across the state, in both urban and rural settings, which included improved educational outcomes. “Members of this committee, this is not about creating a new system. It's about strengthening and sustaining one that already delivers results across Illinois.,” Stanton said. Funding for the programs was abruptly pulled by the U.S. Department of Education, citing a July 2025 memo from U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, which guided federal agencies to revoke grants over language relating to DEI, which the memo classified as discriminatory. State Rep. Blaine Wilhour, R-Louisville, questioned proponents on whether the program is a DEI program, to which proponents said it was not. “Just get rid of the DEI language. Just get rid of it and you probably won’t have a problem,” Wilhour said. Multiple proponents testified that it would not be as simple as removing such language from their grant application, citing that there are no new applications being taken and saying the program’s application did not include DEI language. Instead, advocates said the program helps to solve issues from the community level. The subcommittee did not hold a vote on the bills, but they could move to the House Appropriations Committee, where they could be amended, for a vote based on Wednesday’s testimony and any future hearings.

(The Center Square) – Following a press conference in which Republican legislators and victim advocates called on the California Board of Parole Hearings to deny the release of a convicted child molester on elderly parole, the board postponed its decision. In an email sent to the media on Wednesday afternoon, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said the parole board's decision will come at a hearing that could take place in four to six months. In a press conference held Wednesday morning outside the Board of Parole Hearings’ office in downtown Sacramento, Republican legislators urged the board to deny elderly parole for Gregory Lee Vogelsang. Vogelsang, 57, was convicted in 1999 on dozens of counts of child molestation. That case involved the kidnapping and sexual assault of five boys, according to the California Assembly Republican Caucus. He was sentenced to 355 years in prison and served 27 years before being granted a parole hearing. “This issue is not abstract for me,” Assemblyman Jeff Gonzalez, R-Indio, said during the press conference. “I understand firsthand the lifelong impact the abuse leaves behind. It doesn’t end when the crime ends. It follows you.” A parole hearing for Vogelsang followed the press conference, in which a panel of commissioners heard testimony from victims of sexual assault. While it wasn’t clear if all of them were victims of Vogelsang, many spoke about being victims of sexual abuse and the impact that had on their lives. “Vogelsang has admitted he’s still attracted to young boys,” Ross Huggins, a former prosecutor on Vogelsang’s case in the 1990s, told the parole board. “Approximately three years ago, he claimed he’d ‘eradicated’ his deviant thoughts. Of course, that wasn’t true, and the commissioners at that hearing understood that.” Vogelsang has no genuine insight into his disorder, Huggins said. “He is not deserving of parole,” Huggins said. “Vogelsang is a substantial risk of re-offending, as he has not sufficiently had the time to reflect on his pedophilia.” In the press conference before Vogelsang’s hearing, victim advocates criticized the parole board for recently granting release to another middle-aged child molester who was expected to serve life in prison for charges related to child molestation. David Allen Funston, who was set to be released on parole under California’s elderly parole laws in recent weeks, was turned over to the Placer County authorities early on the morning of his release to face new charges in the county related to a separate charge of child molestation. “To my shock and disgust, I realized that despite the fact that he was sentenced to multiple life terms, this parole board thought it was appropriate to let a pedophile who readily acknowledges that he’s still sexually attracted to children out of prison,” Anne Marie Schubert, a former Sacramento County district attorney and current president and CEO of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, told reporters. According to the Legislative Analyst’s Office, California’s taxpayers pay $127,788 a year per inmate incarcerated in the state’s prisons. That includes costs such as security, health care, facility operations, clothing, activities and education. Lawmakers who discussed Vogelsang’s case on Wednesday said that despite the rising costs of keeping aging inmates incarcerated, the expense is worth it for those convicted of violent crimes. “I don’t give a damn about the rising costs. I give a damn about these victims,” Gonzalez said at the press conference. “But when we say, ‘What about the rising cost?,’ that is so disconnected to the problem that we have," said the Republican Assembly member from Indio. "The rising costs – they don’t matter.” Democratic lawmakers were not at the press conference on Wednesday. Representatives from UnCommon Law, a law firm that has recently advocated for the state’s elderly parole laws, previously told The Center Square that convicted child molesters were often the victims of child molestation themselves. “With the new charges from 30 years ago, they have nothing to do with the determination that he’s not the person today that he was then,” Keith Wattley, founder and executive director of UnCommon Law, previously told The Center Square. “The parole consideration is really based on one’s capacity for change, regardless of how reprehensible we find their crimes to have been.” Wattley was not available to comment before deadline on Wednesday.

A federal appeals court upheld a lower court’s ruling that tossed out a lawsuit by Arizona Republicans that accused the state of violating federal law and sought to purge up to 1.27 million voters from the rolls.  In 2024, then-Arizona Republican Party Chairwoman Gina Swoboda, who is now running for the nomination of her party […]

Illinois’ 2026 primary election season was dizzying, even for seasoned political reporters. Some of Brenden Moore’s takeaways.

No puedo imaginar lo que está pasando a la señora Dolores. La fortaleza que ha tenido por tantos años, y yo sin saber que ella llevaba un dolor tan profundo en su corazón. Y ahora va a cumplir 96 años, pero nunca es tarde. Y Dolores nos ha demostrado eso.

မတ် ၁၂ ရက်နေ့ညက ဖမ်းဆီးခဲ့ပြီး ချုပ်နှောင်စစ်ဆေးနေစဥ် နှစ်ရက်အကြာ အစာအိမ် သွေးကြောပေါက်ပြီး သေဆုံးသွားဟုဆို။

A ministra do Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) Cármen Lúcia disse nesta terça-feira (18) que foi comunicada sobre uma ameaça de bomba para matá-la. A declaração foi feita durante uma palestra proferida, na manhã de hoje, a estudantes de direito do Centro Universitário de Brasília (UniCEUB). Notícias relacionadas:Fux suspende regras da Alerj para eleição indireta para governo do Rio.AGU dá parecer contrário à flexibilização do estupro de vulnerável.Regras do ECA Digital acabam com desordem normativa, diz Gilmar Mendes.Ao discursar sobre representação feminina e o enfretamento da violência política de gênero, a ministra disse que foi informada de que poderia ser alvo de um atentado à bomba. Ela não deu detalhes sobre a ameaça. "Vindo para cá, me comunicaram que mandaram uma bomba para me matar. Estou no meio de estudantes, eles viram meus advogados em dois minutos. Pior para quem mandar. Melhor não mandar. Não sei se é fato, mas estão me ligando. Eu estou vivíssima, cada vez mais", afirmou. A ministra também citou o aumento da violência de gênero no Brasil e disse que o assassinato constante de mulheres precisa parar. "Parem de nos matar, porque nós não vamos morrer. Nós, mulheres, decidimos que não vamos morrer, embora os homens tenham decidido que vão nos matar. Tentam nos matar de várias formas. Todas as manhãs há notícia de assassinato de mulheres", completou.

FRANKFORT — The GOP-controlled Kentucky Senate unanimously passed its version of the two-year state budget Wednesday providing less money than the House for public schools but substantially more for Medicaid, while cutting a number of state agencies’ budgets.  State senators also passed budget bills funding the state’s legislative and judicial branches, along with a bill […]

Community meeting outlines plans for Santa Barbara North segment, with construction set to begin in the coming weeks The post Final stretch of Highway 101 widening project comes into focus appeared first on Santa Barbara News-Press.

နိုင်ငံ့အကျိုးစီးပွားထိခိုက်နိုင်သူဟု သတ်မှတ်ခံရသူနှင့် ပြစ်ဒဏ်ကာလမပြည့်တဲ့ လွတ်ငြိမ်းများ လျှောက်ခွင့်မရှိ။

Rachel Small and Kara Anderson discuss Canada’s decided shift toward militarism, its deep connections to mining, and solidarity organizing against arms and extractivism. The post Mining, militarism and organizing against the march to war appeared first on rabble.ca.

Israel widened the scope of its attacks on Iran late on March 18, saying it launched air strikes in the north of the country and with Israeli media saying Iranian naval vessels were being hit on the Caspian Sea cost.

Apesar das tensões em torno da guerra no Oriente Médio, o Banco Central (BC) cortou os juros pela primeira vez em quase dois anos. Por unanimidade, o Comitê de Política Monetária (Copom) reduziu a Taxa Selic, juros básicos da economia, em 0,25 ponto percentual, para 14,75% ao ano. A decisão era esperada pelo mercado financeiro. […] Fonte

Nesta quarta-feira (18), estudantes da Universidade do Distrito Federal Jorge Amaury Maia Nunes (UnDF) deram início ao ato OcupaUnDF, no Campus Norte, no Lago Norte. A mobilização marca o início de uma paralisação estudantil em defesa da educação pública e da permanência estudantil, motivada por decisões administrativas da reitoria que, segundo o movimento, ignoram o […] Fonte