Florida State Representative and U.S. House congressional candidate Anthony Sabatini (R) on Saturday is pushing Gov. Ron DeSantis to prohibit mask mandates for the upcoming school year before Dr. Anthony Fauci or local school districts move to make masks mandatory. “Tyrannical school boards have gone rogue and are holding our children hostage. It’s disgusting, and we’re going to stop it,” Anthony Sabatini told Breitbart News. “I wish we would have started this over a year ago, but you know it’s never too late to do the right thing. We should be stripping them of that ability,” Sabatini continued . Upon the potential decision of the federal government or school districts to move to make masks mandatory, DeSantis is now considering calling lawmakers back to the Florida State Capitol. “And I talked to Chris Sprowls, if we need to bring them back in to be able to do something from the legislative perspective, he’s all in to be able to do it,” DeSantis stated . On July 20, … [Read more...]

Democrats are confounded by what they see as the GOP’s shifting rhetoric on vaccines, which in their view has changed as the delta variant has swept through unvaccinated populations in disproportionately Republican areas. More Republicans and conservatives this week — from House Minority Whip Steve Scalise Stephen (Steve) Joseph Scalise The Hill's Morning Report - Pelosi considers adding GOP voices to Jan. 6 panel McConnell pushes vaccines, but GOP muddles his message Overnight Health Care: Biden officials says no change to masking guidance right now | Missouri Supreme Court rules in favor of Medicaid expansion | Mississippi's attorney general asks Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade MORE (R-La.) to leading personalities on Fox News — have come out with calls for people to get vaccinated as cases and hospitalizations have risen. “Delta COVID is really hitting these ruby red districts,” said Democratic strategist Max Burns. “I think the physical reality of … [Read more...]

0 Schools See the latest announcement from UCLA. Press Release Desk Posted Reply Press release from UCLA: July 20, 2021 Alison Hewitt When a same-sex marriage ban was overturned in California, a federal court cited research from UCLA's Williams Institute 30 times. Former president Barack Obama used Williams' research in an executive order prohibiting workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. And after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of marriage equality, Justice Anthony Kennedy described the institute's research as the deciding factor. In these and countless other instances over 20 years, research by the Williams institute at UCLA School of Law has served as a bellwether of where LGBTQ rights are headed. Using rigorous, empirical research to respond to the critical issues of the day, Williams has been filling in knowledge gaps that were previously filled by assertion and … [Read more...]

House Democrats’ frustration is mounting as they wait for the Senate to act on infrastructure legislation and on the ever-growing pile of bills they’ve passed that are stalled in the face of the filibuster. This week marked 200 days since the start of the current session of Congress, in which House Democrats have passed dozens of bills ranging from pandemic relief, expanded background checks for gun sales, voting rights, labor union protections, immigration reform, addressing the gender pay gap and infrastructure investments. Yet all but a handful of those bills are gathering dust in the Senate, where Republicans can use the filibuster to block them despite Democrats’ control of Congress. ADVERTISEMENT And when it comes to infrastructure, many House Democrats are irritated by the prospect of potentially being asked to rubber-stamp whatever legislation comes out of the delicate bipartisan Senate negotiations. A group of 31 Democrats, led by House Transportation and … [Read more...]