* Law school applications up 33 percent. Or " nearly half" as some lawyers would say. [ Reuters] * Supreme Court's voting rights argument reveals justices more than willing to roll back the law to 1950s. [ Bloomberg Law News] * Michigan State Title IX investigators may have collaborated with university lawyers. [ State News] * The lawyer-to-blacksmith pipeline is alive and well. [ CBS News] * Trump DOJ wastes tons of taxpayer money on frivolous cases, but the costs to the accused matter almost as much winning. [ NPR]
A chaotic school board meeting in Maine on Wednesday night confirms a trend among anti-trans MAGA activists desperate for attention in Donald Trump's crusade against trans identity: stripping in public. The Augusta School Board devolved into partially-nude anarchy last week when local MAGA activist Nick Blanchard, who led the stunt, delivered an angry speech from the podium as two women stripped down to their underwear next to him and yelled at board members and the audience.
These radical gender policies are not just some abstract fight over politics they are hurting real children in Fairfax County schools every day. We are working with the U.S. Department of Education to reverse these policies and protect girls in our schools but every Virginia parent needs to understand this: @winwithwinsome will fight with you, and @SpanbergerforVA will fight against you," Youngkin wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
deeply concerned about NYC DOE's Guidelines to Support Transgender and Gender Expansive Students ... the text of which authorizes discrimination on the basis of sex in violation of Title IX,
We've made it very clear: Only women in women's sports under Title IX, Bondi says in the video. An example in California? A boy who was in track and field. He would have lost every race, yet in women's sports, he won over three dozen medals. Those medals should be returned to the women.
The Trump administration has officially declared June as Title IX month, shifting the focus from Pride month to commemorate the 53rd anniversary of Title IX.
It's unfortunate that my office had to resort to federal court just to get USDA to comply with the law and its own regulations, but we are pleased that the lawsuit has now been resolved and that Maine will continue to receive funds as directed by Congress to feed children and vulnerable adults.
The letter said FIU's Office of Civil Rights Compliance and Accessibility has received multiple reports with credible concerns of ongoing inappropriate sexual misconduct, including but not limited to showing students animal genitalia.