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The Scopes monkey trial took place 100 years ago, but the fight isn’t over

By Kimberlee Kruesi, AP

March 13, 2025

Tennessee became the first state in the country a hundred years ago to ban the teaching of evolution in public school classrooms. The rift over evolution and creationism has never fully been put to rest. And questions over how students should be taught life’s origins still linger today.

Filed Under: Education, WPLN News Tagged With: ACLU, Associated Press, evolution, SCOTUS, Tennessee Supreme Court, U.S. Supreme Court

Under Trump, DOJ withdraws support for transgender youth in Tennessee case at the Supreme Court

By Marianna Bacallao

February 8, 2025

The U.S. Department of Justice notified the high court Friday that the U.S. is now backing the state of Tennessee and its ban on care.

Filed Under: Health Care, Politics Tagged With: ACLU, General Assembly, Jonathan Skrmetti, legislature, lgbt, lgbtq, Tennessee Attorney General, Tennessee Legislature, tnleg, tnpol, transgender

How TN Republicans could overturn a landmark SCOTUS immigration case

By Marianna Bacallao

February 6, 2025

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Tennessee schools would be able to refuse undocumented students, under a new proposal from Republican leaders in the statehouse. The measure goes against U.S. Supreme Court precedent by design.

Filed Under: Education, Politics, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: 114th Tennessee General Assembly, ACLU, Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom, immigrants, Immigration, Rutherford County Schools, Supreme Court, tnleg, tnpol, U.S. Supreme Court, undocumented students, William Lamberth

First transgender attorney to argue before the Supreme Court, challenging Tennessee’s health care ban for minors

By The Associated Press

December 4, 2024

The issue of transgender rights animated the presidential campaign. Now it has made its way to the Supreme Court, and in more ways than one.

Filed Under: Politics, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: ACLU, gender-affirming care, sex and gender, Tennessee Attorney General, transgender

Tennessee families and physicians urge SCOTUS to allow gender-affirming care

By Marianna Bacallao

August 27, 2024

Transgender teens and their parents are urging the nation’s highest court to block a Tennessee law that bans gender-affirming care for the state’s youth.

Filed Under: Politics, Race & Equity Tagged With: 113th Tennessee General Assembly, 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, ACLU, anti-lgbt, anti-lgbt legislaton, General Assembly, Jonathan Skrmetti, legislature, lgbt, lgbtq, Tennessee Attorney General, Tennessee Legislature, tnleg, tnpol, transgender

Tennessee won’t purge voter rolls of people who disregard a letter asking them to prove citizenship

By Jonathan Mattise, APandKimberlee Kruesi, AP

July 18, 2024

Tennessee elections officials say any state registered voters among the thousands recently asked to prove their citizenship can stay on the voting rolls even if they don’t respond to the request.

Filed Under: Politics, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: ACLU, Associated Press, Elections 2024, immigrant, immigrants, voter registration in Tennessee, Voters

U.S. Supreme Court to hear gender-affirming care case from Tennessee

By Marianna Bacallao

June 24, 2024

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case about whether restrictions limiting gender-affirming care for minors are constitutional.

Filed Under: Health Care, Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: ACLU, anti-lgbt, anti-lgbt legislaton, gender-affirming care, General Assembly, Jonathan Skrmetti, legislature, lgbt, lgbtq, Tennessee Attorney General, Tennessee Legislature, tnleg, tnpol, transgender

Moms sued for the right to hold up signs in the TN House. A new proposal would take that option away.

By Marianna Bacallao

January 31, 2024

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From a sign ban during the fall’s special legislative session, to this session’s new ticketing process, spectators have taken issue with Tennessee statehouse rules made behind closed doors. Now, a new proposal could eliminate one of the only avenues that constituents have for recourse: the courts.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: 113th Tennessee General Assembly, ACLU, General Assembly, Tennessee Attorney General, Tennessee General Assembly, tnleg, tnpol

Tennessee families appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, petitioning for an end to the state’s gender-affirming care ban

By Marianna Bacallao

November 1, 2023

Two people wrapped in a pride flag attend a vigil Nashville for the victims of a mass shooting at an LGBT+ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado on Nov. 19, 2022.

Families of transgender teens in Tennessee are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to block a state law that bans gender-affirming care for minors.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: 113th Tennessee General Assembly, 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, ACLU, anti-lgbt, anti-lgbt legislaton, General Assembly, Jonathan Skrmetti, legislature, lgbt, lgbtq, Tennessee Attorney General, Tennessee Legislature, tnleg, tnpol, transgender

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