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Doctors and families with transgender children seek injunction against Alabama bill criminalizing gender-affirming care to minors

JURIST

Two doctors joined two parents on behalf of their minor children to file a complaint Tuesday in federal court against the governor and the district attorneys of Alabama, Shelby County, and Jefferson County, to block Alabama’s Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act (“VCCPA”) from going into effect on May 8, 2022.

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Alvin Bragg has his Trump trial, All he Needs Now is a Crime

JonathanTurley

It was the criminal theory itself that seemed crafted around the standard for obscenity famously described by Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart in the case of Jacobellis v. James declined to explain how this law could be used against other businesses since actual losses or injuries are not viewed as necessary. Ohio , 378 U.S.

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Victimization vs. Criminalization: The Trump Predicament 

The Crime Report

Criminologically speaking, how does a schism exist between his 2024 supporters who believe in Trump’s persecution by the state and those who oppose the habitually corrupt former president’s third run for POTUS as Trump continues to provoke violence in violation of court orders not to?

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