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14th Amendment

The Founders Didn’t Believe Your Sacred Freedom Means You Can Do Whatever the Hell You Want

October 21, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 27 Comments

Gen. George Washington, center, ordered smallpox inoculations for his soldiers, saying there was ‘no possible way of saving the lives of most of those who had not had it, but by introducing innoculation generally.’ Ritchie, Alexander Hay, engraver; Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

The founders agreed on one principle: They were unrelenting on the notion that circumstances often emerge that require public officials to pass acts that abridge individual freedoms. Even George Washington forced his troops to be vaccinated.

The Freedom to Vote Act Is No ‘Compromise.’ It’s an Imperative.

October 17, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

A very old ballot box preserved at the Flagler County Supervisor of Elections' Office in Bunnell. (© FlaglerLive)

The Freedom to Vote Act was introduced in the Senate as the successor to the For the People Act, which was shot down twice by Republican filibusters. The new act, which has the support of all 50 Democrats in the Senate, is sometimes described as a “compromise bill,” but let’s be clear: The bill is no compromise when it comes to essential protections for voting rights.

Amid Uptick in Anti-Asian Hate, Florida Democrats Want Students to Learn More Asian American History

October 16, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The other pandemic. (Viviana Rishe on Unsplash)

Following 18 months of hate, violence and discrimination against Asian Americans and Asian immigrants, three Florida lawmakers want to incorporate the history of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders into the state’s curriculum. If approved by the Legislature and the governor, the AAPI courses and other materials would be added to required instruction under Florida law, such as history of African Americans and the history of the Holocaust.

Hey, GOP: There’s a Museum Up in Montgomery Y’All Really Ought to See

August 29, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

You walk out of the fierce summer sun into a shadowy forest of rectangular steel columns, row upon row of them, six or seven feet tall, covered in rust the color of dried blood. (© Pierre Tristam/FlaglerLive)

Diane Roberts reports from the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala., a silent but devastating testimony to how Americans terrorized and murdered other Americans for wanting to live as full citizens of this country. The Equal Justice Initiative is here to remind us that Jim Crow isn’t gone. Our history still warps our present.

In Maskless Flagler, We’re All Covid’s Sitting Ducks

August 26, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 64 Comments

The prevailing mood at last week's Flagler County School Board meeting. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler County is in the worst public health crisis it has known in its history, with at least 10 covid deaths a week as many school infections in 3 weeks as all of last year combined, yet the debate remains immobilized by a war on masks that defies science and daily grim realities.

Full Appeals Court Will Hear St. Johns School District Transgender Bathroom Fight

August 23, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

But will the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals allow it to stay that way? (© FlaglerLive)

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday vacated a July 14 ruling by a three-judge panel that said a St. Johns County School Board policy preventing Drew Adams from using boys’ bathrooms was “arbitrary” and violated equal protection rights.

St. Johns School District Again Fighting Ruling Allowing Transgender Students to Use Bathroom of Their Choice

August 9, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

The St. Johns County school district reads the 14th Amendment in a peculiarly institutional way. (© FlaglerLive)

The St. Johns County School Board is asking a federal appeals court to again consider a years-long battle about whether a transgender male student should have been allowed to use boys’ bathrooms.

Is It Time to Retire the ‘My Body, My Choice’ Slogan?

August 4, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

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Whether talking about reproductive health or COVID-19, choices involving health care are not only freedoms from external control. They also rely on the ability to access necessary care. As abortion rights make their way back to the Supreme Court during an ongoing global pandemic, it is a good time to reconsider whether “my body, my choice” is the right slogan for a right to health care.

Catholics for Choice Condemns U.S. Bishops for Urging Supreme Court to Restrict Abortion Rights

August 4, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Catholics for Choice, which uplifts and amplifies the voices of the majority of Catholics who believe in reproductive freedom, denounced the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) today for asking the Supreme Court to uphold a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks.

DeSantis Adds Florida to 11 States’ Play to Overturn Roe v. Wade’s 2-Semester Abortion Standard

August 2, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

"Kenneth Conner, director-at-large for Florida Right To Life, Inc., holds up the cover of Newsweek magazine, left, and pro-life ad graphic barred from 1987 state government telephone directory. Conner held up the comparisons during a Thursday news conference at which the group announced their support of Republican Paula Hawkins for the U.S. Senate."

The governors filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of a 2018 Mississippi law banning abortions after 15 weeks. The filing doesn’t make these states party to Mississippi’s defense of its statute, but voices their legal support for that state’s case.

Bias Is Natural. How You Manage it Defines Your Ability to Be Just.

July 19, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Detain from "Figure," by Varvara Stepanova, 1921. (© FlaglerLive)

We all have biases to some degree, whether we care to admit this or not. Our biases remain innocuous until our assumptions impact our behaviors toward other people. By acknowledging our biases we can find ways to mitigate their impact on our decision making.

Critical Race Theory: What it Is and What, Gov. DeSantis, It Is Not

July 6, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 26 Comments

Ron DeSantis does not understand critical race theory. (YouTube via News4Jax)

Americans are used to viewing their history through a triumphalist lens, where we overcome hardships, defeat our British oppressors and create a country where all are free with equal access to opportunities. Obviously, not all of that is true.

Supreme Court Blunts Voting Rights in Arizona, and Potentially Nationwide, in Consequential Ruling

July 1, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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Arizona may keep two voting laws that Republicans say protect election integrity and Democrats believe will make it harder for some residents to cast ballots. That’s the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, one of the decade’s most important voting rights cases.

Biden Signs Law Making Juneteenth a New Federal Holiday

June 17, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Maurice D. McRae, 86th Communications Squadron commander support staff noncommissioned officer in charge, poses for a photo during a Juneteenth dance celebration at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, June 19, 2020. (Staff Sgt. Nesha Humes Stanton)

“Throughout history, Juneteenth has been known by many names—Jubilee Day, Freedom Day, Liberation Day,” Vice President Kamala Harris said at the White House signing ceremony, noting that the White House was built by slaves. “And today, a national holiday.”

Florida Bill Proposes Abortion Ban After 5 Months

January 13, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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Anti-abortion proponents are eager to test Roe v. Wade and other precedents in light of the the more conservative new make-up of the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Trump Administration’s Final Push to Make It Easier for Religious Employers to Discriminate

December 28, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

Unequal treatment ahead. (photos.de.tibo)

Last-minute policies on religious freedom clear the way for employers to hire on the basis of faith. Some of the changes won’t be easy for Biden to undo.

Local Governments Seek Re-Hearing in Federal Case That Allowed ‘Conversion Therapy’ Targeting LGBTQ Youths

December 23, 2020 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

In May 2017 then-Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy signed into law legislation protecting LGBTQ youth in the state from what his office called "the destructive and discredited practice of conversion therapy. The so-called treatment, which seeks to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity, has been discredited by nearly every credible medical and psychiatric group in the country and oftentimes includes destructive practices that are harmful to children, such as electric shock therapy. The legislation is House Bill 6695, An Act Concerning the Protection of Youth from Conversion Therapy."

Local Florida ordinances that a federal court found unconstitutional had barred therapists from providing treatment or counseling that is designed to change minors’ sexual orientation or gender identity. Critics of such therapy say it harms minors who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.

Trevor Tucker, in Remarkable Shift, Provides 3-2 Majority to Add ‘Gender Identity’ to Long-Sought School Protections

December 15, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

Flagler County School Board Chairman Trevor Tucker. (© FlaglerLive)

The Flagler County School Board this evening reversed its April vote and added “gender identity” to its anti-discrimination policy, ending a year-long and at times controversial and embittered debate over the identity and rights of LGBTQ students.

Oral Arguments on Alachua’s Mask Mandate Evoke Hijabs, Nazis, KKK, Crime and, Finally, Public Health

November 24, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

The appeal was argued on Zoom before, Judges (© FlaglerLive)

Oral arguments about Alachua County’s mask mandate before a three-judge panel of the First Circuit Court of Appeal Monday was a spectacle of audacious leaps and strange analogies that nevertheless illustrated the sharp and far from resolved divide between mask proponents and anti-maskers, including on the judicial bench.

Federal District Court in Jacksonville Honors 2 Flagler Palm Coast High Students in 19th Amendment Essay Contest

November 14, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Flagler Palm Coast High School junior Sean Gilliam with, from left, District Judges Timothy Corrigan, Marcia Morales Howard and and Brian Davis. Corrigan and Morales were appointed by President George W. Bush, Davis by President Obama. (Allison Elledge)

Sean Gilliam, a junior and International Baccalaureate candidate at Flagler Palm Coast High School, was the second-place winner Friday in the 2020 high school essay contest sponsored by the federal court for the Middle District in Jacksonville, taking home a $1,000 check, and junior Kenny Logan won honorable mention and $50. Both are students of FPC history teacher Allison Elledge.

Holland and Klufas Hold On, Staly Wins Re-Election, Don O’Brien and Andy Dance Win County Commission, Ed Danko, Victor Barbosa Win Council Seats

November 3, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Palm Coast Mayor Milissa Holland held on. (© FlaglerLive)

With all early voting results counted, Sheriff Rick Staly had an insurmountable lead to win re-election to his second term, as did County Commissioner Donald O’Brien. Andy Dance, the school board member, also had an insurmountable lead to win the County Commission seat Charlie Ericksen opted not to contest.

ACLU Condemns Flagler County Administrator Jerry Cameron Over ‘Disdain Toward Voters’

October 31, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 22 Comments

Flagler County Administrator Jerry Cameron refused to suspend a construction project impeding access to the Supervisor of Elections' office, a drop box and early voting location, for the two weeks of early voting. (© FlaglerLive)

Cynthia Fisher, President of the Volusia/Flagler Chapter of the ACLU of Florida, called Flagler County Administrator Jerry Cameron’s refusal to suspend a construction project around the Government Services Building for the two weeks of early voting a voter-suppression tactic, and his attitude toward voters “condescending.”

Election Supervisors Are Told Felons Must be Allowed to Cast Regular Ballots, Not Provisional

October 30, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

A boon for voting advocates. (© FlaglerLive)

Attorney Ron Labasky sent an email to supervisors after lawyers for voting-rights advocates raised an alert about possible problems encountered by felons trying to cast ballots during the early voting period, which ends Sunday.

Emails Threatening Democrats to Vote Trump in Flagler County and Elsewhere Originated With Iran

October 21, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 44 Comments

A Trump election flag getting unfurled at the Flagler County Public Library early voting site earlier this week. (© FlaglerLive)

The emails that several Flagler County Democrats, hundreds of Floridians and others across the country received today, threatening recipients to vote for Donald Trump or else, were the work of Iran, according to a federal investigation.

The Bigotry Behind Judge Barrett’s Judicial Hijab

October 18, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 23 Comments

Judge Barrett and Donald Trump at the White House on Sept. 26. (White House)

We don’t have to imagine what Amy Barrett’s jurisprudence will look like regarding gay rights, abortion, women’s rights, sex discrimination, even human rights and the separation of church and state. Reactionaries can party like it’s Deuteronomy again.

Flagler Elections Supervisor Lenhart Issues Sharp, ‘Zero-Tolerance’ Warning Against Voter Intimidation

October 13, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

Local Democrats and Republicans have both contributed evidence of signs that have been defaced locally in the primary and the general election.

Responding to concerns about voter intimidation days from early voting in Flagler, both Supervisor of Elections Kaiti Lenhart and Sheriff Rick Staly are sending strong messages to would-be disrupters at polling places, and preparing for polling days with 39 poll deputies–civilians sworn in just for the election period.

Judge Refuses to Extend Florida’s Voter-Registration Deadline Even as He Calls System Broken

October 9, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

The voter-registration books have closed for good for the November election. (© FlaglerLive)

Saying “this court cannot remedy what the state broke,” a federal judge on Friday reluctantly refused to give Floridians more time to register to vote after a state online system crashed in the hours before Monday’s deadline to sign up for the November presidential election.

Federal Judge Weighs Extending Florida’s Voter-Registration Deadline After State System Crashes

October 7, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Useless: the state's online registration web page performed no better than the state's jobless benefits system.

A federal judge has fast-tracked a lawsuit seeking to extend the period of time for Floridians to register to vote in the November presidential election, after the state’s online system repeatedly crashed in the hours leading up to a registration deadline Monday.

Why Are Republicans Listed First on Election Ballots? Democrats Want Full Federal Court to Hear Challenge.

September 28, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

In partisan races, the candidate from the ruling party--that is, the governor's party--has been listed first since 1951, when Democrats, dominant at the time, enacted that law. Above, the ballot for the coming election. (© FlaglerLive)

The petition was the latest move in a legal battle about a state law, initially passed in 1951, that requires candidates who are in the same party as the governor to appear first on the ballot. The law was passed during a time of Democratic dominance of Florida politics.

Bloomberg Seeks to Pay Felons’ Outstanding Fines So They Can Vote. DeSantis Wants Him Investigated.

September 24, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 47 Comments

Gov. Ron DeSantis is pushing Attorney General Ashley Moody to investigate Michael Bloomberg's plan to contribute money toward the outstanding fines of felons so they can have their voting rights restored. (NSF)

Attorney General Moody at the request of DeSantis asked the FBI and FDLE to investigate Bloomberg raising at least $16 million for the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, contending it could be a violation of state laws against offering incentives to people or groups in exchange for voting in a particular manner.

DeSantis Calls for Criminalizing Numerous Acts By Protesters While Protecting Those Who Hurt Them

September 21, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 46 Comments

A peaceful protest in Flagler Beach in June, one of innumerable protests like it across the state and the country, in June. (© FlaglerLive)

DeSantis, a staunch supporter of Trump, calls for new felony crimes when property is damaged or when people are injured as a result of protests while drivers would not be liable for injuries or deaths “caused if fleeing for safety from a mob.”

Motorized March to Flagler Courthouse Friday Marks 1963 March on Washington and Justice Reform

August 27, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

Linda Sharpe-Matthews, who heads the Flagler Branch of the NAACP, at a Black Lives Matter march in June in Palm Coast, will be among the speakers at Friday's motorized march. (© FlaglerLive)

After the motorized march wends its way into the parking lot, speakers on the steps of the Flagler County courthouse commemorating the 1963 March on Washington will talk on criminal justice issues, voting rights and police reform.”

Hundreds of Thousands of Nursing Home Residents May Not Be Able to Vote in November Because of the Pandemic

August 27, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Market Street, one of Palm Coast's many assisted living facilities. (© FlaglerLive)

Swing states such as Florida and Wisconsin have suspended efforts to send teams to nursing homes to assist with voting. Despite a federal law that residents must be “supported by the facility in the exercise of” their rights, some states prohibit staff from actively doing so.

Federal Court Freshly Stocked With Former DeSantis Picks In Showdown Over Florida Felon Voting

August 19, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals about to hear arguments Tuesday in a case that will decide whether hundreds of thousands of felons in Florida may vote. (© FlaglerLive)

As Floridians went to the polls in Tuesday’s primary elections, an Atlanta-based appeals court held arguments in a showdown over voting rights that could determine whether hundreds of thousands of convicted felons will be able to cast ballots in the November presidential election.

As Trump Steps Up Vote-By-Mail Attacks, Postal Officials Warn Florida of Ballot Deadline Problems

August 16, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 29 Comments

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With millions of Floridians seeking to vote by mail amid the coronavirus pandemic, postal officials have warned Secretary of State Laurel Lee that the state is at risk of having ballots go uncounted in the November presidential election.

St. Johns Schools Discriminated Against Transgender Student, Appeals Court Rules in Case with Local Implications

August 10, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Define men. (© FlaglerLive)

On the heels of months of debate over Flagler schools’ stance on transgender students, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Friday that the St. Johns County school district discriminated against a transgender high school student by denying him the right to use the boys’ bathroom.

The Fight for LGBTQ Equality Just Won a Huge Victory

June 24, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

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This historic decision achieved by an astonishing 6-3 vote in a conservative court, written and delivered by Trump appointee Justice Neil Gorsuch, codifies that LGBTQ individuals deserve human and civil rights.

Landmark Ruling Spurs Calls for LGBTQ Protections in Florida, Where No Law Bans Discrimination

June 16, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Charlene Cothran, right, a pastor in Flagler, successfuylly lobbied the Flagler County School Board to keep the words v"gender identity" out of an anti-discrimination policy earlier this year. Cothran is seen above during demonstrations for and against protections for LGBTQ students Nathaniel Wilcox, a member of Cothran’s board

Florida is one of more than two dozen states that do not have laws banning discrimination based on gender, and Republican legislative leaders during the past several years have thwarted efforts to pass such measures.

Stunning Victory for Transgender and Gay Rights as Supreme Court Makes Protections Explicit

June 15, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Randall Bertrand, who has a transgender son, has led the fight for LGBTQ rights in Flagler County schools since last year. He was among the marchers in an LGBTQ demonstration last Friday in Flagler Beach. (Randall Bertrand)

The decision will have far-reaching consequences regarding LGBTQ rights beyond employment, as it now explicitly lays out a prohibition against discrimination that cannot apply in employment situations without also applying in housing, education, the military and elsewhere.

In Georgia, Voter-Suppression Becomes Systematic

June 11, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

Endless lines in Georgia Tuesday. (Facebook)

What Georgia did Tuesday was criminal, a racist crime against our democracy, and it’s time to criminalize voter suppression once and for all, argues Thom Hartman.

Throngs Impassion Flagler Beach March Against Racism as Teach-In Forms Around Bullhorn

June 4, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

The second march of the day, in Flagler Beach, drew upwards of 300 people and featured a series of speakers at Veterans Park, among them Henry. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler Beach’s late afternoon march Wednesday to protest the murder of George Floyd at police’s hands drew upwards of 300 people and briefly turned into a teach-in at Veterans Park.

A Perfectly Legal Lynching in Georgia?

May 12, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 28 Comments

Ahmaud Arbery, from a Facebook tribute page.

Killings of black men by whites are 8.5 times more likely to be ruled “justified.” That’s the reality behind a South Georgia prosecutor who’d said there was insufficient evidence to arrest two white men involved in the fatal shooting of black runner Ahmaud Arbery.

Flagler School Board Adopts Anti-Discrimination Policy Without Specified Protections for Transgender Students

April 23, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Last February's demonstration outside the Government Services Building, before a school board meeting, which drew proponents and oppnents of the words "gender identity," proposed for a policy the board adopted on Tuesday--without the two words. (© FlaglerLive)

In contrast with months of raucous public debate on the issue, the Flagler school board in a virtual meeting on Tuesday adopted a policy without two words–gender identity–that had triggered intense controversy.

Lawsuit Challenging Florida’s “Poll Tax” on Felon Voting Rights Expanded to Hundreds of Thousands

April 13, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Desmond Meade of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, which led the fight to restore voting rights for felons who have served their sentence, after regaining his own right to vote in January 2019. Meade is now helping lead the fight against the new restrictions the Florida Legislature imposed on felons' rights. (Facebook)

U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle issued an order last week after saying he intended to grant class certification to plaintiffs, who allege that the 2019 law amounts to an unconstitutional “poll tax.”

In Stunning Reversal, Florida Supreme Court Rules Juvenile Prison Sentences May Exceed 20 Years

March 13, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

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The 4-1 decision stunned public defenders, who expressed concern not only about its implications for juvenile sentencing but also about a reshaped court emboldened to revisit issues the legal community had considered settled.

Volusia/Flagler Chapter Marks ACLU’s Centennial With “Future Voters Essay Contest” and $500 Prize

March 9, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Lin-Manuel Miranda, his father Luis Miranda, and John James have a message on the ACLU's 100th birthday. (ACLU)

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) ‘s Volusia/Flagler chapter is celebrating the ACLU’s 100th birthday with an essay contest open to all students, with a $500 prize and publication of the winning essay in FlaglerLive.

Florida House Speeding Toward Proposal to Allow Stadium-Wide Prayers at High School Games

March 8, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

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Amid a long-running legal battle, the Florida House on Friday moved forward with a proposal that could allow schools to offer prayers over public-address systems before events such as high-school championship football games.

Stop Cloaking Bigotry in Veils of ‘Religious Freedom’

March 2, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

A Supreme Court case could open the door to even more legal discrimination in the name of religious freedom. The intolerant should rethink their claim to piety and morals, which contradict their ends.

Rebuking DeSantis, Federal Appeals Court Rules Florida Can’t Bar Felons From Voting Over Unpaid Fees

February 19, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Desmond Meade --- a felon who garnered international acclaim for his advocacy for the constitutional amendment --- warned that the appeals-court ruling and Hinkle’s preliminary injunction applied only to the 17 plaintiffs in the case. (Desmond Meade/Facebook)

The Florida law enacting Amendment 4 “unconstitutionally punishes a class of felons based only on their wealth,” the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a unanimous decision. But it applies only to 17 felons named in the suit for now.

Religious Leaders Defend Parochial Schools’ Shunning of LGBTQ Students on Taxpayers’ Dime

February 5, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 7 Comments

From the late medieval period. (© FlaglerLive)

Religious leaders and some black lawmakers on Tuesday escalated a fiery debate over anti-LGBTQ policies at private schools that receive state-funded scholarships, fueling discussions of religious freedom, discrimination and politics.

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