All posts tagged "Lgbtqrights"

The Supreme Court's likely rulings in its new term are "looming disasters" for voting laws and LGBTQ issues — but also pose a mystery, wrote Vox legal correspondent Ian Millhiser in an analysis Monday.

The mystery, writes Millhiser, is whether the conservative-majority court will strike down President Donald Trump's controversial tariffs regimen. The writer points out that the court had struck down several Biden policies on the basis that they were of "enormous economic and political significance."

"The tariffs are clearly illegal under a doctrine the Republican justices used to halt many of President Joe Biden’s policies," he writes....

Sen. Dianne Feinstein died Friday. Here are the some of her most notable moments: 1969: After becoming active in prison issues, Feinstein wins a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1969. 1978:Becomes acting mayor of San Francisco after Mayor George Moscone and Councilman Harvey Milk are assassinated by former Supervisor Dan White. A year later, she won her first full term, becoming the city’s first woman to be elected mayor.. Feinstein would serve another term and survive a 1983 recall attempt. 1984:Helps bring the Democratic National Convention to San Francisco and is seriously ......

NEW YORK — A Colorado man accused of tearing down LGBTQ rainbow flags by NYC’s historic Stonewall Inn during a Pride month hate crime was arrested Monday on charges police said were part of a pattern of attacks in the area. Cops charged Patrick Murphy, 25, of Denver, with committing criminal mischief as a hate crime for the June 10 vandalism incident by the West Village national monument. Joined by two others, Murphy and his fellow hatemongers allegedly tore down several rainbow-colored flags displayed on a fence by the Stonewall National Monument in Christopher Park on Christopher St. before ......

Fla. Gov. Ron DeSantis is hitting back at Vice President Kamala Harris for criticizing the state’s curriculum that includes the claim that African-American slaves actually benefitted from their own enslavement. The Republican presidential candidate called out Harris for “perpetrating a hoax” when she accused the Sunshine State of whitewashing the history of slavery and racism in America. “She’s here to push a fake narrative,” DeSantis said Tuesday in an interview with Fox News’ Jesse Watters. “She (came) to Florida to spew this hoax.” Harris jetted into Florida last week to denounce the new cu......

Days after a controversial anti-LGBTQ video boosted by the DeSantis campaign was pulled from the web, a new mailer with a similar message is hitting mailboxes in Iowa. The Iowa political blog Bleeding Heartland reported Saturday that the mailer, from the mysterious group “Advancing Our Values,” seemingly praises former President Donald Trump for having “stood up for marriage equality and trans rights.” A large “Thank you, President Trump” is underlined in rainbow colors, while a banner in the transgender flag colors calls Trump “a transgender trailblazer,” Bleeding Heartland reported. The ad a......

NEW YORK — Aubrey O’Day says the first time she had sex with Donald Trump Jr. was in the bathroom of a gay club while attending “one of the biggest gay parties” in New York City. The former “Danity Kane” member opened up about her rumored relationship with the eldest son of former President Donald Trump in a candid conversation with Michael Cohen. Cohen — Trump’s former attorney who once famously vowed to take a bullet for him — chatted with the 39-year-old singer and reality TV personality about her “torrid love affair with Don Jr.” That “juicy” conversation was featured in the latest episode......