Jeff Brumley

3 days ago | baptistnews.com | Jeff Brumley

The Trump administration may deport undocumented immigrants to countries other than their own, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled June 23. The unsigned order reverses a lower court ruling granting unauthorized noncitizens an opportunity to demonstrate the risk of persecution, torture or even death in the event of “third country removal” by the U.S.“Fire up the deportation planes,” responded Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for public affairs at the Department of Homeland Security.

3 days ago | baptistnews.com | Jeff Brumley

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed legislation mandating Ten Commandments displays in public school classrooms beginning Sept. 1 despite the threat of litigation from civil liberties groups.

5 days ago | baptistnews.com | Jeff Brumley

Americans who originally backed President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign are having a change of heart due to protests, military involvement and the targeting of immigrants without criminal histories, migrant advocates and new polling suggest. “It seems the deportation operations that set off the protests could alienate many Americans — as could Trump’s latest move to apparently involve troops in Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations,” CNN’s Aaron Blake observed.

5 days ago | baptistnews.com | Jeff Brumley

A Louisiana law requiring Ten Commandments displays in public school classrooms was ruled unconstitutional by a unanimous federal appeals court June 20. “Parents and students challenge a statute requiring public schools to permanently display the Ten Commandments in every classroom in Louisiana. The district court found the statute facially unconstitutional and preliminarily enjoined its enforcement,” the three-judge panel of the U.S. Fifth District Court of Appeals proclaimed in Roake v. Brumley.

1 week ago | baptistnews.com | Jeff Brumley

The U.S. Supreme Court abandoned science, fairness and common sense in its June 18 decision upholding a state’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth, civil rights and legal experts said. The 6-3 ruling in U.S. v. Skrmetti found Tennessee’s 2023 measure does not violate the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee of equal protection in denying medical treatment to a certain group of people — in this case those with gender dysphoria.