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Today — 9 April 2025Main stream

A New Push to Open the Doors on Childhood Sexual Abuse

A man abused as a child at a Missouri Christian camp agreed to remain silent, and took his own life. His sister is pushing several states to ban such nondisclosure agreements.

The childhood desk of Trey Carlock inside his family home in Dallas. Mr. Carlock died by suicide after he was sexually abused at a summer camp.
Yesterday — 8 April 2025Main stream

In Texas, Misdemeanor Defendants Routinely Face Charges Without an Attorney

In some parts of the state, misdemeanor defendants routinely face charges without representation.

© Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times

County officials and stakeholders gathered for a press conference on the steps of the Texas State Capitol to recognize need for indigent defense funding in the state.

Transgender Woman Arrested After Using Bathroom at Florida State Capitol

8 April 2025 at 02:17
Marcy Rheintgen said she was held in jail overnight after she deliberately challenged a state law by entering a women’s bathroom in the government building.

© Marcy Rheintgen, via Associated Press

Marcy Rheintgen said she deliberately broke a Florida law to challenge a ban against transgender people from using bathrooms consistent with their gender identity in government buildings.
Before yesterdayMain stream

A Split on the Right Over Whether Teenagers Can Have Guns

7 April 2025 at 17:03
Conservative judges have come to opposite conclusions on what the Second Amendment has to say about limiting the gun rights of those under 21.

© Eduardo Munoz/Reuters

The Supreme Court will consider next week whether to hear a case involving a Minnesota law that makes it a crime for people younger than 21 to carry guns in public.

He Said He Would Ban Congressional Stock Trading. Now in Office, He Trades Freely.

6 April 2025 at 00:05
Representative Rob Bresnahan Jr., who campaigned on prohibiting stock trading by members of Congress, has emerged as one of the most active stock traders in the freshman class.

© Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press

Since he took office, Representative Rob Bresnahan Jr. has reported 264 stock trades, according to Capitol Trades, a site that monitors the stock market activity of lawmakers.

Lawsuit Challenges Trump’s Legal Rationale for Tariffs on China

By: Tony Romm
4 April 2025 at 09:25
A nonprofit group said the president misapplied a law in imposing those levies and portrayed its filing as the first lawsuit to challenge the Trump administration over its tariffs.
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