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June 3, 2023 at 7:01 am

Trump-appointed judge rejects Tennessee’s anti-drag law as too broad, too vague

A federal judge says Tennessee’s first-in-the-nation law designed to place strict limits on drag shows is unconstitutional.

June 1, 2023 at 10:10 pm

In gun law push, Tennessee governor’s office memo says NRA prefers to ’round up mentally ill people’

Documents obtained by The Associated Press show Tennessee Gov_ Bill Lee’s administration accused the National Rifle Association of wanting to use involuntary commitment laws “to...

May 25, 2023 at 9:36 am

Tennessee’s transgender care exclusions are discriminatory, a federal lawsuit alleges

A federal lawsuit alleges that Tennessee’s decision to deny its employees gender-affirming care is unconstitutional and discriminatory.

FILE – Advocates for transgender youth rally outside the New Hampshire Statehouse, in Concord, N.H., Tuesday, March 7, 2023. A nonprofit that launched last year to oppose diversity initiatives in medicine, has evolved into a significant leader in statehouses to ban gender-affirming care for transgender youths, producing model legislation that an Associated Press analysis found has been used in at least three states. (AP Photo/Holly Ramer, File) NY908 NY908

May 20, 2023 at 2:50 pm

Many transgender health bills came from a handful of far-right interest groups, AP finds VIEW

Legislation to restrict gender-affirming care is often pre-written and shopped out by a handful of interest groups.

May 19, 2023 at 9:46 pm

Meet the influential new player on transgender health bills VIEW

A nonprofit that describes itself as a collection of doctors and others uniting to “protect healthcare from a radical, divisive, and discriminatory ideology” has become...

May 19, 2023 at 9:36 pm

Transgender health: Comparing model bills to real proposals

An Associated Press analysis has found that many of this year’s statehouse proposals to restrict gender-affirming care for youths are identical or very similar to...

May 18, 2023 at 2:34 pm

Lawsuit: FBI failed to protect man slain amid Tennessee political scandal decades ago

The son of a key federal witness who officials gunned down decades ago during a major Tennessee political scandal is suing the FBI, saying it...

May 17, 2023 at 2:22 pm

South Carolina moves closer to abortion ban, a Southern trend that puts pressure on Virginia VIEW

As more Southern states pass new restrictions on abortion, Virginia is poised to become an outlier in the region for its relatively permissive laws.

Protesters on both sides of the issue hold signs as North Carolina House members debate, Tuesday, May 16, 2023, in Raleigh, N.C., on whether to override Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of a bill that would change the state’s ban on nearly all abortions from those after 20 weeks of pregnancy to those after 12 weeks of pregnancy. Both the Senate and House had to complete successful override votes for the measure to be enacted into law. The Senate voted to override the veto earlier and the House also voted to override. (AP Photo/Chris Seward) NCCS111 NCCS111

May 17, 2023 at 7:33 am

Here are all of the abortion debates happening this week in US courts and statehouses VIEW

Here are key things to know about the latest abortion-related developments in courts and state legislatures.

May 8, 2023 at 2:19 pm

Tennessee governor schedules special session to address guns

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has announced that he will call lawmakers back on August 21 for a special session after the Republican-led Legislature adjourned earlier...