Several election lawsuits in Pennsylvania continue to argue over whether to count undated or wrongly dated mail-in ballots. The disagreement lives on a week after the State Supreme Court ordered county boards of elections to refrain from counting any undated or incorrectly date absentee and mail-in ballots received for the Nov. 8 general election. In…

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—Unlike most dads, Aaron Jennen is accustomed to being in court. But Jennen, an assistant U.S. attorney in federal court, Fayetteville, found himself in an unusual role in another federal court here, about 200 miles away from where he works. He became a witness, offering emotional testimony on behalf of his child in…

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—Two doctors testified on Oct. 17 in support of child transgender procedures as part of the opening day of the nation’s first federal court challenge of a statewide ban on the controversial treatments. Transgender-identifying teens who were born female often seem “’over-the-moon’ happy” after mastectomies, as they see their bodies better “aligned” with…

Combatants on both sides of the war over gender-altering drugs and surgeries for minors are crying out: “We’ve got to help these distressed children!” But trying to chart a course toward that goal is like trying to see clearly through a dust storm. Arguments over medical standards, morality, and money are swirling through statehouses and…

Combatants on both sides of the war over gender-altering drugs and surgeries for minors are crying out: “We’ve got to help these distressed children!” But trying to chart a course toward that goal is like trying to see clearly through a dust storm. Arguments over medical standards, morality, and money are swirling through statehouses and…

Texas school boards are being pressured to adopt policies giving transgender students the right to use preferred pronouns, school bathrooms, locker rooms, and showers, according to conservatives who feel schools are stepping on parental rights. The Texas American Civil Liberties Union presented a “best practices” program on transgender student legal issues based on Biden’s Department…

LOS ANGELES—A Los Angeles federal judge has signed off on a temporary restraining order addressing what the American Civil Liberties Union called “abysmal” conditions at the county jail system’s booking center, where mentally ill detainees were reportedly kept shackled to chairs for days at a time and others were crammed together, sleeping head-to-foot on concrete…

Actor Johnny Depp won his defamation battle against his ex-wife Amber Heard last month, with the jury awarding him $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages. But now, Depp owes the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) $38,000 for the attorneys’ fees in complying with a subpoena for evidence he used in…

Actor Johnny Depp won his defamation battle against his ex-wife Amber Heard last month, with the jury awarding him $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages. But now, Depp owes the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) $38,000 for the attorneys’ fees in complying with a subpoena for evidence he used in…

Three Texas families are suing in a bid to block the state from investigating them for child abuse in relation to “gender reassignment surgeries” for transgender children. The lawsuit names Gov. Greg Abbott (R-Texas), the state’s Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS), and its commissioner Jaime Masters. The families claim they are providing their transgender…