“There’s been a war on childhood coming from a million different directions,” said Robertson, who is the current Republican nominee for Alabama attorney general. “We recognize that parents and youth are fighting a battle against a bunch of different platforms. They’re manipulating kids to get addicted to their product, essentially.”
The lawsuit itself claims that Trump’s sanctions on the ICC exceed the president’s powers and are predicated almost entirely on a false claim of a “national emergency,” which was itself triggered by the court’s routine work and investigations.
In a press conference, Uthmeier said that the Times’ credibility has been hurt by alleged “anti-Isarel bias” in its coverage of the ongoing conflict between the Israeli state and Gaza-based Hamas.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, characterized the Trump administration’s agreements with Bluepoint Wind and Invenergy as an “unlawful pay-to-play scheme.”
Murrill’s motion, if approved, would dismiss the lawsuit with prejudice—meaning that the conference will no longer be able to sue over the same allegations, even if it refiles or amends its complaint.
The lawsuit, filed by James’s office, claims that Polymarket’s “prediction markets” meet the legal definition of gambling because “the outcomes of the events on which its users are betting are uncertain and outside the control of the bettor or hinge on a game of chance.”
“In all its iterations over the last 33 years it has been maintained, IHSAA’s minority quota has operated a n express, discriminatory racial classification,” the lawsuit alleges. “It categorizes all individuals into two groups—those who are ‘white’ and those who are not—for the sole purpose of allocating seats on IHSAA’s governing Board. It excludes white males and white females from eligibility for the reserved minority seats solely because of their race.”
“Presidents from the earliest days of the Republic have disagreed with and complained about the tenor and content of press coverage of their administrations,” the lawsuit says, but notes that “the Constitution protects the liberty and property interests that news organizations and White House reporters have in their press credentials and the access those credentials afford them to cover the White House for the benefit of the public.”
Alabama settlement adds new TikTok restrictions and parental controls for minors.
“Reporting such a poll during a presidential and congressional election year is speech about a matter of public concern, occupying the summit of the pyramid of First Amendment values,” Beattie said. “The First Amendment has its fullest and most urgent application to speech uttered during a campaign for political office.”