Source: restorativeactionalliance.org [Note from Janice: Please consider being a part of this] Restorative Action Alliance is excited to introduce Many Truths: Breaking Down False Dichotomies, a unique creative expression program designed to empower people affected by cycles of harm and the criminal legal system. This initiative invites crime survivors, family members, and system-impacted people to share their experiences and creativity, fostering healing and community connection. We invite submissions of original visual art, photography, poetry, or short stories (no more than 500 words) for inclusion in a curated collection and online gallery. …
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Ninth Circuit upholds nationwide block of Trump birthright citizenship order (lower courts shouldn’t issue blanket blocks)
Source: courthousenews.com 7/23/25 The panel found a nationwide injunction of the executive order doesn’t run afoul of a recent Supreme Court decision that lower courts shouldn’t issue blanket blocks on the president’s orders. A Ninth Circuit panel on Wednesday upheld a federal judge’s nationwide preliminary injunction of President Donald Trump’s Day 1 executive order that denied citizenship to children who are born in the U.S. but whose parents are unlawfully or only temporarily in the country. In a split decision, the panel found the four states that brought the lawsuit…
Read MoreTN: Woman Removed From Sex Registry Banned from Speaking About Case
Source: tba.org 7/21/25 The state of Tennessee agreed to permanently remove a woman from the sex offender registry months after a judge found she had been “falsely labeled as a sex offender.” But state officials included a stipulation in the agreement forbidding her and her attorneys from discussing the agreement and her lawsuit with the media, The Tennessean reports. They also are barred from speaking to lawyers involved in “sex offender litigation.” That limitation could be unconstitutional, according to a First Amendment lawyer. The woman, who is not named, was…
Read MoreUK: The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived
Source: wired.com 7/25/25 Starting today, UK adults will have to prove their age to access porn online. Experts warn that a global wave of age-check laws threatens to chill speech and ultimately harm children and adults alike. Beginning today, millions of adults trying to access pornography in the United Kingdom will be required to prove that they are over the age of 18. Under sweeping new online child safety laws coming into force, self-reporting checkboxes that allow anyone to claim adulthood on porn websites will be replaced by age-estimating face scans, ID…
Read MoreWA: Mandatory reporting law includes conversations from confession if child abuse is suspected
Source: abajournal.com 7/21/25 Mandatory reporting laws are considered important tools in the fight against child abuse and neglect, according to a court filing by the Washington state attorney general’s office. (Image from Shutterstock) Is a new Washington state law, which requires priests to report suspected child abuse or neglect, including information from confessions, an assault on the Catholic Church and thousands of years of religious doctrine and practice? That’s what the U.S. Justice Department says, asserting that it won’t sit “idly by when states mount attacks on the free exercise…
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