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Amy Coney Barrett Is A Threat To Civil Rights
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(Blog)
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... hich concluded: 'Judges cannot-nor should they try to-align our legal system with the Church's moral teaching whenever the two diverge".
However, also reported by Ms. Magazine, as a 7th Circuit Court ...
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Created on 30 September 2020
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Ida B. Wells To Be Honored In Art Installation At D.C. Union Station Next Week
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(Feminism)
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... from the first class, ladies’ section of a train (which she had purchased a ticket for), to the smoking section. The train crew forcibly removed her, leading Wells to take legal action and subsequently ...
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Created on 21 August 2020
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Korryn Gaines' Death Anniversary Just Passed, And It’s Important To Remember Her Story
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(Feminism)
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... failure to appear in court led to an arrest warrant and officers showed up to her apartment to serve that warrant.
When the officers showed up, Gaines grabbed a legally-owned firearm, saying she wa ...
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Created on 06 August 2020
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Chrystul Kizer, A Teenager Sentenced For Killing Her Alleged Trafficker, Is Out Of Jail On A $400,000 Bond
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(General)
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... hed for defending themselves," the Community Bond Fund said in a statement. "Chrystul's case highlights the urgent need for the criminal legal system to stop prosecuting survivors of domestic violence and ...
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Created on 26 June 2020
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What Kesha’s Legal Battle Shows Us About the Treatment of Sexual Assault Survivors in the Court ...
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(Music)
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... from BUST
Kesha Has Risen, And Dr. Luke Better Start Praying
Lady Gaga Defends Kesha In Legal Battle Against Dr. Luke
Why Is Kesha Missing From Time's "Silence Breakers" Person Of The Year Issu ...
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Created on 10 February 2020
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Why Are Women Still Being Blamed For Their Own Murders?
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(Feminism)
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... as the LGBTQ+ Panic Defense. Described as a legal tactic by the LGBT Bar, this defense is used when a perpetrator of a violent crime claims "a victim’s sexual orientation or gender identity not only explains—bu ...
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Created on 24 January 2020
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A Moroccan Journalist's Prison Sentence For Premarital Sex And Having An Abortion Is Met With Protest
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(Feminism)
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A Moroccan journalist was sentenced to one year in prison last week after being found guilty for allegedly obtaining an abortion and having premarital sex, both of which are illegal in the North African ...
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Created on 07 October 2019
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Last Night's Democratic Debate Boiled Down To One Thing
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(General)
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... e illegal border crossings and give unauthorized immigrants free health care? Are Democrats going too far to the left?
We’ll see if CNN handles night 2 any differently (doubtful). But I'll still be watching- ...
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Created on 31 July 2019
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Sued For Blocking Critics On Twitter
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(General)
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... filed an additional lawsuit of his own after being blocked by Ocasio-Cortez, clearly precluding the list in Hikind’s lawsuit from being exhaustive.
These legal proceedings were set in motion mere hours ...
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Created on 10 July 2019
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Supreme Court Will Not Hear Alabama’s Second-Trimester Abortion Challenge
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(Feminism)
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... not the same as the even more restrictive Alabama law entirely criminalizing abortion, which was signed by Republican Governor Kay Ivey in May. Although that ban is also facing legal challenge, it has ...
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Created on 28 June 2019
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Joe Biden Opposes Hyde Amendment—After Supporting It For Forty Years
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(Feminism)
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... trying to all but outlaw abortion, do we want someone who is just catching up? Someone who only in 2019 realizes, “hey, maybe all women should have access to safe, legal abortion instead of just the ones ...
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Created on 07 June 2019
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12 Women and Non-Binary Asian Americans You Should Know About
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(Feminism)
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... helping to assure a legal response, guaranteeing that federal civil rights charges would be brought to those who commited the crime. All in all, Helen Zia proves that one woman can actually do it all ...
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Created on 31 May 2019
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From Blasey Ford to Kavanaugh: The Highs And Lows Of TIME’s 100 List
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(Entertainment)
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... estimated 3,000 lives. Nixon concluded, “she’s making it clear that the organization is not backing down from the fight to protect the right to safe, legal abortion.” Michelle Obama: Tribute by Beyoncé ...
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Created on 17 April 2019
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How Olympic Runner Caster Semenya Is Fighting Back Against A Discriminatory Testosterone Limit
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(Feminism)
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... competing.
This proposed rule was supposed to be introduced on November 1, 2018, but was postponed until after Semenya’s legal challenge. According to the Guardian, the court has promised a ruling by ...
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Created on 21 February 2019
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Supreme Court Allows Trump's Terrible Transgender Military Ban To Go Into Effect
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(Feminism)
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... of this case from the Court. They have not decided on its legality once and for all, but rather, are allowing it to go forward while the lower courts deal with it. The United States Court of Appeals for ...
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Created on 22 January 2019
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Kentucky Is Trying To Pass A Law That Would Ban Abortion At Six Weeks—Before Most People Know They're Pregnant
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(Feminism)
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... with legal practices put in place by the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe vs. Wade ruling, Kentucky’s latest anti-abortion bill seems to have taken priority in the state Senate. The bill was introduced Tuesday ...
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Created on 11 January 2019
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Cyntoia Brown's Case Shows Just How Broken The US Justice System Is
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(Feminism)
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... was changed so that children under 18 could no longer be tried for prostitution. These legal changes meant that if Brown had been tried six years later, she would have been treated as a child sex trafficking ...
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Created on 12 December 2018
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15-Year-Old Claudette Colvin Refused To Give Up Her Bus Seat, Nine Months Before Rosa Parks
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(Feminism)
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... uted.
Claudette watched Jeremiah’s arrest from her classroom window. She saw his countless fruitless legal appeals. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, and the whole NAACP fought for his freedom, which ...
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Created on 03 December 2018
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The Real Betty Boop Was Whitewashed Out Of History
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(Feminism)
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... ’d served her purpose as a legal defence, she was dropped. No efforts were made to recompense her (or in her absence, her family). There would be no revival of her work.
BABY ESTHER HAD BEEN LITERALLY W ...
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Created on 17 September 2018
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“Roseanne” Gets Canceled In Response To Roseanne Barr’s Racism: Link Roundup
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(TV)
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... rt Rejects Kesha’s Appeal To Get Out Of Dr. Luke Contract
Kesha continues her legal battle to be free of a contract requiring her to work with her former producer Dr. Luke, who she says raped her. Yesterd ...
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Created on 30 May 2018
