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Policing Pronouns: How “Misgendering” is Becoming the New Battleground Over Discrimination

JonathanTurley

The courts, including the state supreme court , ruled for Cross, noting that he could keep his job, adhere to his faith and satisfy the policy by avoiding pronouns altogether. Religious families have said such a rule would require them to leave the public school system as a threshold exclusionary condition for public education.

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Democratic Governor Calls For Criminalizing “Lying” About Election Results

JonathanTurley

” He would make such comments a gross misdemeanor subject to incarceration. Such a criminal law would be ripe for abuse and would create a chilling effect that would be positively glacial. Indeed, this seems like an effort to evade the constitutional limits placed on incitement crimes by the courts.