EXCLUSIVE: Medical Group Backs State AG’s Emergency Order on Transgender Interventions Amid Legal Threat

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey issued an emergency regulation Thursday restricting the use of experimental transgender interventions on minors. An organization of doctors, nurses, and health care professionals supported Bailey’s order, despite pro-transgender activist groups condemning it as based on “debunked claims” that ignore “medical evidence” and threatening a lawsuit to block it. “We absolutely support the efforts of Attorney General Bailey and his efforts to restrict transgender medical interventions,” Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, chairman of Do No Harm, told The Daily Signal in a statement Friday.…

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This group says the federal government, for all the auctions, is still a spectrum hog

A technology trade association is urging Congress to update the law that lets the [Federal Communications Commission (FCC)] auction off radio spectrum held by the government. In fact, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation basically said the government continues to hog much spectrum that could be more efficiently used by industry. For details,  Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with Joe Kane, ITIF’s Director of broadband and spectrum policy, Joe Kane. Interview transcript: Tom Temin It seems like we’ve been talking about spectrum for 25 years now. Joe Kane Yeah,…

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Apparent Victory Rings Hollow for Group Opposing School Choice

The effort to block a massive expansion of education choice in Arizona appears to be running out of steam. Beth Lewis, executive director of the anti-school choice group Save Our Schools Arizona, or SOS, put on her best game face Friday afternoon as she announced that her group has gathered enough signatures to put the recent expansion of Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Account program on the ballot for voters to decide. But it wasn’t hard to detect Lewis’ disappointment. Earlier this summer, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, a Republican, signed a bill…

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Supreme Court Hands Short-Term Win to Pride Group, but Encourages Yeshiva University to Return

Another conflict is brewing between the constitutional right to freely exercise religion and the civil right to be free from discrimination. Like several such cases in recent years, the Supreme Court is likely—or so we hope—to decide this one favorably in the end. Yeshiva University, located in New York City, includes America’s largest Jewish undergraduate institution. Yeshiva advocates living in accordance with “Torah values,” including opposition to sexual relations between members of the same sex. Yeshiva denied the application of the YU Pride Alliance, a group opposed to and hoping…

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South Dakota’s Noem Indignant After State Lawmakers, Pro-Life Group Stop Her Heartbeat Bill

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem sharply criticized state lawmakers for denying the introduction of her pro-life bill—a bill lawmakers fear could affect the outcome of the state’s major legal battle against Planned Parenthood. South Dakota’s House State Affairs Committee declined Wednesday to allow the governor’s draft bill, modeled after widely discussed Texas legislation banning abortions of babies with a detectable heartbeat (after as early as six weeks of gestation). State lawmakers and the South Dakota Right to Life reportedly expressed concerns that the bill is premature and could affect the…

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Biden meets with bipartisan group of senators to discuss Ukraine

President Biden on Wednesday met virtually with a bipartisan group of senators to discuss Russia’s military buildup along the Ukraine border, the White House said. “President Biden and the senators exchanged views on the best ways the United States can continue to work closely with our allies and partners in … The Washington Times stories: White House

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