In July 2022 Meuser said protecting same-sex and interracial marriage was an easy call that hurt nobody's religious rights. In December he voted no, saying the bill threatened religious freedom. The only thing that changed was that the bill added religious freedom protections.
"It's a transsexual leftist illegal alien named Salvatore Ramos." Every word of that was false. The claim started on 4chan, and the photos being passed around belonged to a 20-year-old woman in Georgia who spent the next days proving she was alive.
Days into the job, South Carolina's appointed senator says she'd blow up the filibuster to pass the SAVE Act — the opposite of her brother's position. Her introductory ad is two culture-war lines. Her primary is August 11.
Paxton's settlement with Texas Children's Hospital is finalized: $10 million, five doctors permanently stripped of privileges, and the nation's first 'detransition clinic' due to open by October. A Stanford pediatrician calls it a clinic built by legal intimidation.
Roger Wicker backed him. So did two Republican governors. One senator killed the nomination by refusing to hand in a slip of paper — using a procedure a Mississippi segregationist invented to keep civil rights judges off the bench.
Hours after an 82-year-old man was left with a fractured skull in his own home, the congresswoman from New York's 24th District shared a photoshopped meme about it and laughed. Three years later, when someone broke a window at her house, she said attacks on public officials 'have no place in our society.'
House Bill 752 took effect in Idaho on July 1. A first offense is a misdemeanor. A second one within five years is a felony. Gov. Brad Little signed it, along with a second law fining schools $100,000 for not reporting kids to their parents.
Equality Ohio's 2026 scorecard rates Ramaswamy as having a 'poor record and likely to harm LGBTQ+ civil rights.' At DOGE, his staff searched federal grants for the keyword 'LGBTQ' to decide what to cancel.
The Education Department and DOJ gave Ann Arbor schools until Aug. 10 to change its policy or face enforcement — using a student privacy law that experts say doesn't require what the government claims.