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This list of the first women lawyers and judges in each state of the United States includes the years in which the women were admitted to practice law. Also included are women of other distinctions, such as the first in their states to graduate from law school. Part of a series on.
In 2017, the United States Department of State reported the following, concerning the status of LGBT rights in Bahrain: [20] The law does not criminalize same-sex sexual activity between consenting persons who are at least age 21, but discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity occurred.
The Alliance Defending Freedom ( ADF ), formerly the Alliance Defense Fund, is an American conservative Christian legal advocacy group [ 6] that works to expand Christian religious liberties and practices within public schools and in government, [ 7][ 8] outlaw abortion, [ 9][ 10] and oppose LGBTQ rights. [ 11]
A judge barred an indicted, election-denying lawyer from being involved in one of Dominion Voting Systems’ 2020 election defamation cases after she publicly leaked the company’s internal emails.
Trump’s Save America political action committee has paid nearly $37 million to more than 60 law firms and individual attorneys since January 2022, Federal Election Commission records show.
The League of Women Voters ( LWV) is an American nonprofit, nonpartisan political organization. Founded in 1920, its ongoing major activities include registering voters, providing voter information, boosting voter turnout and advocating for voting rights.
Kris William Kobach (/ ˈ k oʊ b ɑː k / KOH-bahk; born March 26, 1966) is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the attorney general of Kansas since 2023. He previously served as the 31st secretary of state of Kansas from 2011 to 2019.
February 17: A state judge in Travis County, Texas, rules that Texas' ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and recognizes the common law marriage of two women. [367] Two days later, another state judge orders the Travis County clerk to issue a marriage license to two women, one of whom is seriously ill.