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July 2022
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State’s near-total abortion ban to take effect next month
The Supreme Court issued its judgment in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Tuesday, initiating the 30-day countdown on Tennessee’s abortion ban.
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June 2022
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Near-total abortion ban takes effect in 30 days, but a ‘heartbeat bill’ could come sooner
The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has caused a number of states’ “trigger laws” banning abortion to take effect, including Tennessee’s. The state’s attorney general wants another abortion ban, a six-week “heartbeat bill,” to become law sooner than the trigger law.
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Tennesseans react to Supreme Court decision on abortion
Responses to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling Friday, June 24, overturning the nearly 50-year old Roe v. Wade decision fall along party lines in Memphis and across Tennessee.
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Near-total abortion ban takes effect in 30 days, but a ‘heartbeat bill’ could come sooner
The closest state to Memphis with abortion access? Illinois.
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TN Attorney General asks to reverse order aimed at LGBTQ discrimination
The USDA announced last month it could stop funding food aid organizations that discriminate on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation.
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February 2022
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Lee’s state Supreme Court appointee recuses in school voucher case
In her recusal, Sarah Campbell cited a rule that says, “A judge shall disqualify himself or herself in any proceeding in which the judge’s impartiality might reasonably be questioned.”
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December 2021
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Pervis Payne resentencing centers on consecutive or concurrent life sentences
The Monday, Dec. 13, resentencing in Shelby County Criminal Court comes after prosecutors took the death penalty off the table in a retrial for a 1987 double murder in Millington. At stake is whether the life sentences will run consecutively or concurrently. If concurrently, Payne would be eligible for parole.
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December 2020
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Tennessee joins Texas lawsuit seeking to overturn election results in 4 states
The lawsuit seeks to invalidate the 62 electoral votes in the four battleground states that would go to President-elect Joe Biden.
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September 2020
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Federal court temporarily blocks state medical abortion law
A federal court has blocked temporarily a state law that forces abortion clinics to tell patients about the potential to “reverse” a medical abortion.
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Barrett nomination spurs call for Rhodes community to rise to ‘great challenges’
Rhodes College President Marjorie Hass urges the college to rise to the “great challenges” of Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, and others praise the the Notre Dame law professor’s commitment to equality and women’s rights.
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June 2020
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Plaintiffs push state to follow chancellor’s vote-by-mail ruling
A group of Memphis and Nashville residents challenging the state’s absentee ballot law is trying to force the state to follow a chancellor’s ruling for universal vote-by-mail during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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State likely to challenge chancellor’s decision allowing expanded absentee voting
The state is planning to challenge a court ruling requiring expanded absentee voting during the COVID-19 pandemic and could be violating a chancellor's order to immediately send applications to any voter who requests one.
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April 2020
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Email vote for Towns’ settlement draws dissent
A Tennessee Registry of Election Finance member is raising questions about the validity of an email vote the board took amid the COVID-19 pandemic when it approved a settlement for civil penalties against state Rep. Joe Towns of Memphis.
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