Tag: constitutional rights

Health Care Worker Says ‘Hell No’ to the Jab; Plans on Quitting

A health care worker in North Carolina said he’s preparing to quit his job after President Joe Biden’s ultimatum to withhold funding from nursing home facilities that don’t mandate vaccines. On Aug. 18, Biden announced his plan to deny Medicare and Medicaid funding to nursing home facilities if they don’t require their employees to get…


North Carolina Task Force Reports Themes of Critical Race Theory in K-12 Schools

Race shaming and allusions to surgical castration in children’s literature—as well as accusations of xenophobia against political figures—are among the themes found in Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s “Indoctrination in North Carolina Public Education” report. Robinson previously told The Epoch Times that he created the Fairness and Accountability in the Classroom for Teachers and Students task…


Goldman Sachs Requires COVID-19 Vaccine for Anyone Entering US Offices

Goldman Sachs has become the latest Wall Street firm to ramp up its COVID-19 protocols, with anyone entering its U.S. offices required to be vaccinated, according to an internal memo obtained by Reuters and confirmed by a spokesperson. The banking giant will also require masking in its offices, regardless of vaccination status, starting Wednesday, according…


North Carolina Court Restores Voting Rights to Felons on Probation or Parole

Some 56,000 North Carolina felons who are on parole, probation, or supervised release, will have their voting rights restored, a judicial panel said on Monday. The 2–1 ruling, in a state Superior Court in Raleigh, immediately reinstates voting rights to North Carolina residents convicted of felonies but whose current punishments don’t include prison time. The…


Democratic Bill Would Ban 3D Printing Firearm Schematics

Sen. Ed Markey’s (D-Mass.) little-known 3D Printed Gun Safety Act (S. 2319) would criminalize sharing firearm schematics for 3D printers online. 3D printing describes a process that allows people to “print” 3D models for various items. These models range from small tools, art projects, and shapes up to functional firearms. Critics of the practice have…


Healthcare Workers Pack Hearing to Support Bill to Ban Vaccine Mandates in Michigan

LANSING, Mich.—A public hearing on a proposed new law to ban employers from requiring workers to be vaccinated against the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus drew hundreds of people, many dressed in hospital scrubs, to the state capital on Thursday morning. The overwhelmingly supportive crowd jammed into a hearing on the bill conducted by the…


Guided by Faith, Divinity Student Fought His ‘Anti-Racist’ Princeton Seminary—and Won

Timothy Keiderling’s decision to enroll in the Princeton Theological Seminary reflected his commitment “to give my life to work for justice and to live out the values of the Kingdom of God.” In a letter to the seminary’s president, Craig Barnes, he wrote that he “would sacrifice anything to make sure that my brothers and…


Largest SC Schools Get Greenlight from Supreme Court to Mandate Masks

On Tuesday, the South Carolina Supreme Court decided in the case of Creswick v. University of South Carolina that public universities in the state were permitted to mandate masks (pdf). On July 30, University of South Carolina (USC) Interim President Harris Pastides told students and staff that masks would be required inside all University buildings…


Largest South Carolina Schools Get Greenlight from Supreme Court to Mandate Masks

On Tuesday, the South Carolina Supreme Court decided in the case of Creswick v. University of South Carolina that public universities in the state were permitted to mandate masks (pdf). On July 30, University of South Carolina (USC) Interim President Harris Pastides told students and staff that masks would be required inside all University buildings…


Texas Ban on Common 2nd-Trimester Abortion Method Upheld by Appeals Court

A Texas law effectively banning an abortion procedure commonly employed during second-trimester pregnancies in the United States was upheld by the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday, reversing a ruling last year by a three-judge panel of the same court. The 2017 law, which imposes civil and criminal penalties on physicians who perform dilation and evacuation abortions…