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☆ Courts Strike Down Gun Control Measures in Two States
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-23 | by ( David W. Chen | More About David W. Chen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In the wake of a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision last year that significantly limits what the government can do to restrict guns, states led by Democrats have scrambled to circumvent or test the limits of the ruling. A few have approved new gun restrictions. Oregon even passed a ballot initiative to ban high-capacity ammunition magazines. But this week, supporters of the new gun measures suffered a pair of setbacks, underscoring the rippling effect of the court’s decision. On the same day, a state judge in southeastern Oregon concluded that a ballot initiative approved by voters in 2022 that would prohibit high-capacity magazines and require background checks and training to obtain gun permits violated the State Constitution.

Organizations: Supreme, Democrats, U.S ., Appeals, Fourth Circuit Locations: U.S, Oregon, Richmond , Va, Maryland

☆ ‘I’m Not Superwoman’: Philadelphia’s Likely Mayor Urges Teamwork
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-05 | by ( David W. Chen | More About David W. Chen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

As one urban gardener after another beseeched Cherelle Parker to prevent the green spaces that they had spent years nurturing from being gobbled up by developers, she furiously took notes in her trademark spiral notebook and barely said a word. Eventually, Ms. Parker, the Democratic nominee for mayor, did address the neighborhood groups that had gathered on a chilly afternoon at Las Parcelas garden in north central Philadelphia. Yes, she would convene as many stakeholders as possible to come up with a solution. “I’m not Superwoman — I can’t fix everything up by myself,” she said as nearby construction clanged in the background. “I want to manage expectations.”Ms. Parker was talking about Philadelphia’s 450 community gardens, but she might as well have been referring to her 142-square-mile hometown.

Persons: Cherelle Parker, Parker, “ I’m, ”, ” Ms Organizations: Democratic Locations: Philadelphia

Nov. 1, 2023Jonathan Robertson was preparing to start the workday on his family cattle farm when a campaign ad in the race for agriculture commissioner of Kentucky flashed across his television. He couldn’t hear the narrator, but he noticed that the candidate — the name was Shell, he believed — was shown on the screen baling hay and driving farm equipment. “I haven’t heard anything about who’s running,” Mr. Robertson, 47, recalled a few hours later, stopping with his brother for the $5.99 lunch special at the Wigwam General Store in Horse Cave., Ky. “Who’s his opponent?”Neither Mr. Robertson nor his brother, Josh, 44, knew who was in the race, but they had no doubt how they would vote: “I’m a straight-ticket Republican,” Josh said.

Persons: Jonathan Robertson, —, Mr, Robertson, “ Who’s, Josh, “, ” Josh Organizations: Shell, Wigwam Locations: Kentucky, Cave, Ky

☆ Hawaii Settles Sex Discrimination Case With High School Female Athletes
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( David W. Chen | More About David W. Chen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Hawaii education officials on Friday agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by female athletes at the state’s biggest public high school alleging widespread and systemic sex discrimination, as well as retaliation against the girls who raised those concerns. The lawsuit filed by the athletes and their families from James Campbell High School, located in Ewa Beach, a Honolulu suburb, had accused school officials of forcing water polo athletes to practice in the ocean, sometimes battling whipping winds and choppy waves, because the school had failed to provide them a pool. Closer to campus, female athletes had to run to a nearby Burger King to use the bathroom, or change clothes under the bleachers or on the bus. The case was notable because much of the attention with Title IX has focused on opportunities for women to participate in college sports, while high school programs were seldom challenged. First filed in 2018, after Honolulu Civil Beat, a nonprofit newsroom, detailed gender disparities at Campbell, the case gained momentum in July 2022, when a federal judge ruled that the case could proceed as a class action.

Persons: James, IX, Campbell Organizations: James Campbell High School, Honolulu Civil Locations: Hawaii, Ewa Beach, Honolulu, Burger

☆ Georgia Supreme Court Allows State’s Six-Week Abortion Ban to Remain in Effect
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( David W. Chen | More About David W. Chen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Georgia’s Supreme Court upheld the state’s prohibition of abortion Tuesday, rejecting arguments made by doctors and advocacy groups that the law was unconstitutional when the state legislature approved it in 2019, more than three years before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The ruling means that abortion remains banned in the state, with limited exceptions, after the sixth week of pregnancy — a point when most women have not yet even realized they are pregnant. The Georgia case is not over, because the court addressed only the question of whether the state ban should have been voided because of when it was enacted. The court sent the case back to a lower court for a trial on the separate question of whether the state constitution protects a right to privacy, and whether that right encompasses abortion. Still, the latest ruling in Georgia is a reminder that state constitutions have become key arbiters in the nation’s state-by-state abortion battles.

Persons: Roe, Wade Organizations: U.S, Supreme, North Locations: Georgia’s, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Virginia, Illinois, Georgia

☆ Federal Appeals Court Further Limits Abortion Access on Guam
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( David W. Chen | More About David W. Chen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Though abortion is legal in Guam up to 13 weeks of pregnancy, and later in certain cases, the last doctor who performed abortions left the island in 2018. BackgroundAbortion has long been a taboo topic on the culturally conservative island where about 80 percent of the inhabitants are Catholic. A federal court ruled that the ban was unconstitutional and blocked the territorial government from enforcing it, but the attorney general is fighting to try to revive the ban. That law was then blocked by a federal judge, allowing the doctors to send abortion pills. But with the momentum of the Supreme Court decision last year that overturned the national right to abortion, the Guam attorney general’s office said the injunction should be lifted.

Persons: Douglas Moylan, Vanessa L, Williams, general’s, Donald J, Trump, George W, Bush, Alexa Kolbi, “, ”, Moylan, Roe, Wade, Guam’s Organizations: Republican, New York Times, American Civil Liberties Union Locations: Guam, San Francisco, Hawaii, Honolulu, ”

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