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Jul 23, 2024 | 19thnews.org | Karen Hawkins |Flora Peir

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May 1, 2024 | 19thnews.org | Jasmine Mithani |Flora Peir |Mariel Padilla

Published When the 19th Amendment was ratified, citizenship was still available to only Black and White communities — and its full benefits largely to only White people. The Page Act and Chinese Exclusion Act were still being enforced, and in 1922 the Supreme Court denied Takao Ozawa citizenship because he wasn’t Caucasian. The following year, the same court reversed its logic and stripped Bhagat Singh Thind of his citizenship because his skin was too dark to qualify as White.

Dec 8, 2023 | 19thnews.org | Eleanor Klibanoff |Flora Peir

Published Paxton’s office petitioned the high court just before midnight Thursday, after a Travis County district judge granted a temporary restraining order allowing Kate Cox, 31, to terminate her nonviable pregnancy. Paxton also sent a letter to three hospitals, threatening legal action if they allowed the abortion to be performed at their facility. On Friday evening, the state Supreme Court temporarily halted the lower court’s order but did not rule on the merits of the case.

Dec 5, 2023 | 19thnews.org | Flora Peir

Aug 25, 2023 | 19thnews.org | William Melhado |Flora Peir

Published A state district court judge has temporarily blocked a Texas law banning transgender youth from accessing puberty blockers and hormone therapy. In her injunction Friday, Judge Maria Cantú Hexsel wrote that Senate Bill 14 “interferes with Texas families’ private decisions and strips Texas parents … of the right to seek, direct, and provide medical care for their children.” The 19th thanks our sponsors. Become one.