This is the petition of the Supreme Court that could put an end to same -sex marriage

Don’t fool yourself to think that same-sex marriage is safe, Imani Gandy warns in her latest on-ed Rewire News Group. The Supreme Court could eliminate the equality of marriage so abruptly if it put an end to abortion rights – and, given the chance, that will probably do.

It can get that chance soon. Last week a conservative Christian activist submitted a petition that was officially asked to overthrow the court Obergefell v. HodgesThe historical decision of 2015 that legalized same -sex marriage. The plaintiff is Kim Davis, the clerk of Kentucky Court who once refused to give a wedding permit to a gay pair, with reference to ‘religious freedom’ and that freedom completely drove to prison.

Gandy, our co-chief content officer, is a legal oracle: she called the end of Roe v. Wade Well before the court annulled it in 2022. “People said I was dramatic,” writes Gandy. “That I have to stop fooling.”

But of course she was right.

So when Gandy explains that “the marriage of the same sex is absolutely on the chopping block,” the threat is really. Click here to find out why the equality of marriage is based on shaky legal foot.

Antidemocratic actions

• Texas Democrats announced this morning That they returned to the state and their two -week impasse with state republicans ended up a new congress card requested by Trump that the Gop would favor. The bill will now have the required quorum of legislators to be voted in a second special legislative session called by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.
• Three states led by the Republicans will Members of the National Guard Betting in Washington, DCthe Washington Post Reported during the weekend and add around 500 troops to Trump’s week -long occupation of the capitol of the nation. The administration says it protects public safety, but Ministry of Justice Data shows that violent crime in DC reaches a low of 30 years last year. A federal judge on 15 August restored the command of the local police to her police chiefThe rejection of attorney -general Pam Bondi’s federalization of the local police, referring to the home Rule Act of 1973. It was the first time a judge ever had to talk about the law, that Washington, DC gives some autonomy.
• Trump on August 18 said he would sign an executive order Moving to eliminate post-voices based on his false claim that Mail-in ballot papers have contributed to fraud in the 2020 elections, which he lost.
• Trump’s nominated to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) FOX NEWS told On August 4, the agency must ‘suspend’ its monthly task reports. EJ Antoni, an economist at the Right-Wing Think Tank Heritage Foundation, claimed little evidence that the reports of data quality problems have. Trump shot the previous head of the BLS Earlier this month after the July report, a weak labor market showed. Economists on both sides of the aisle have questioned Antoni’s understanding of economic concepts and data, According to the New York Times.

Pro-democracy wins

• The National Science Foundation must restore part of the subsidy financing that it has been suspended from UCLA, a federal court ruled on 12 August. The money was “Suspended for an indefinite period in July” as part of the unprecedented attack of the Trump government on higher education; It focuses on universities that, according to her, use dei practices in hiring and admission and allow anti-Semitism to flourish on their campuses. In its lawsuit against UCLA, the Trump administration has asked for an unusually high amount, $ 1 billion.

Reproductive rights

• Wrong information about Costco last week had short internet -abuzz Multiple points of sale reported That the retail giant pharmacies will not sell the abortion medication Mifepristone after a pressure campaign of anti-abortion groups. The resulting conversation often lacked an important detail, such as the Washington Post explained: Costco is currently not selling Mifepristone. The 500 pharmacies are not certified to hand over the medicine, and the wholesaler called “lack of question” as the reason not to look for it. Nevertheless, journalist Susan goes to the written for MSNBCAnti-abortion groups claim the victory in their urge to convince national pharmacy chains, including CFS, to stop selling the medicine.
• The Trump government has failed to refer to reproductive rights in its annual human rights report, issued on 12 August, According to the Center for Reproductive Rights. The administration also appeared Comic unfavorable information about human rights violations from reports about countries with which the US currently has a favorable relationshipIncluding El Salvador, Israel and the United Arab Emirates. The reduced report of rights is comparable to that during the first Trump Witte Huis, according to Politics.

LGBTQ+ Rights

• The scarce human rights report of the Trump government can also make it more difficult for LGBTQ+ people to convince immigration officials that they are eligible for asylum, both in the US and abroad, according to Huppost. “The standard to determine whether someone earns asylum or is a refugee is if they have a well -interrupted fear of persecution,” an expert told the outlet. “So these reports have been crucial to document the conditions that people experience in their country.”
• Nearly 300 people who are locked up in Georgia, prosecute the state and claim that the law of May 2025 is blocking gender -confirming care in prisons, cruel and unusual punishment under the eighth amendment, The 19th reported.
• An Arkansas law that can stand by gender-confirming care for minors, can stand, A Federal Court of Appeal ruled on 12 August. The law prohibits hormones, hormone blockers and gender -confirming operations for people under the age of 18. The ruling repeated a large part of the ruling of the Supreme Court United States v. SkrmettiThey discovered that a ban on gender -confirming care for minors in Tennessee did not amount to sex -based discrimination. The Federal Court of Appeal also ruled that parents have no inherent right to gain access to health care for their children who have deemed legislators inappropriate, with reference to ‘history and tradition’.

Immigration

• A former prison in the Tennessee countryside will soon be able to reopen his doors – for prison migrants, the Associated Press reported. The board of aldermen in Mason, Tennessee (population: 1,300) voted last week to make the Shutter facility in an ice detention center run by Corecivic, a private prison operator who was often charged for financial maladministration. The news led to loud anger of upset residents. “I don’t like what ice cream stands for, how they treat people,” said board member Virginia Rivers.
• Government of Florida Rick Desantis announced last week that the State will open its second immigration -DeTentiecentrumcalled ‘Deportation Depot’, in a state prison near Jacksonville. The construction of the first ice facility of Florida, located in the Everglades, is currently on a break While a judge regards a lawsuit by environmental groups.
• Paraguay has agreed to hold asylum seekers While they make their affairs to the US government. The agreement, Signed by State Secretary Marco Rubio As part of the Trump government’s immigration performance, sending asylum seekers seems to be sending to Paraguay in the US. Plead for told The Associated Press The deal calls concern about ‘questionable deportations’.

Health and Science

• The shooter that shots more than 180 shots In the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Headquarters in Atlanta, on August 8, before he took his own life, it was motivated by an “mistrust” of COVID-19 vaccines, Politics Reported last week. The news, confirmed by law enforcement officials, refuted claims of health and human service secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Not enough information was known about the chock motif. Kennedy, an old anti-vaccine campaigner who now supervises the CDC, has criticized the reaction of his own desk to the COVID-19 Pandemie.
• More than 600 research projects that wanted to understand racial and social -economic differences in health results in the US were terminated by the National Institutes of Health, A New analysis of federal data by the New York Times has unveiled. It is unclear what will be of all projects, some of which are involved in continuous lawsuits about the cuts of the Trump government. But “the turning back represent a seismic shift for health scientists and the hobes of a long campaign to unravel the causes of poor health in minority communities, low incomes and rural areas, and among Americans with disabilities,” ” Time Reporters wrote.

Rewire recommends

• The Trump administration ‘wants more babies’ and it praises the economic policy it has introduced to increase the birth rate. But as much of this president’s policy, there is a catch: the financial benefits do not apply to parents who become pregnant, who wear pregnancy and give birth – to a stillborn baby. Jill Wieber Lens, a professor of rights and stillbirth parent, explains why Trump’s “Baby bonus” and tax credit, who only apply to living birth, add “insult to injury” and reveal the “hypocrisy of the so-called” pro-life “policy” of the administration.
• This week in Boom! Lawyered Summer Session, Imani and Jess Interview Lourdes Rivera, president of the Advocacy Group pregnancy Justice, who potentially connects the attacks on the citizenship of the birthright with legal arguments of anti-abortion. “If a pregnant person wears a different ‘person’, the government can intervene to protect the ‘person’ you are wearing,” Lourdes explains. “Which in fact means that the pregnant person has no rights anymore.” Catch tree! Consulted on Spotify And YouTube.

Relaxed

• This week, a wonderful one video The internet took over from a young boy and his little goat. Milo Garza and his goat Teddybeer came in fourth place in a goat show in Texas. But the 5-year-old could not have been more proud. He was tenderly cuddled after the competition and brown-white teddy bear kissed. Garza’s favorite thing about Teddybeer is “his legs,” he said NBC’s Tom LlamasHis eyes sparkling. “They are fat.”