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PIERRE, SD – Gov. Kristi Noem’s administration issued contradictory reasons for terminating a transgender advocacy group’s contract with the state Department of Health. A Friday letter from the department alleged numerous contract violations committed by the group, while the governor’s spokesman told the conservative media outlet that first reported on the letter that Noem does not support the group’s […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Attorneys general from 20 states – including South Dakota – have sued President Joe Biden’s administration seeking to halt directives that extend federal sex discrimination protections to LGBTQ people, ranging from transgender girls participating in school sports to the use of school and workplace bathrooms that align with a person’s gender […]
MILWAUKEE, WI – A federal judge in Wisconsin ordered a temporary stop to the $4 billion federal loan relief program for ranchers and farmers of color after a group of white farmers (at least one from South Dakota) and a white rancher in Wyoming, filed legal challenges crying discrimination. Judge William Griesbach issued a temporary […]
DENVER, CO – A Wyoming rancher is suing the Biden administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture claiming race discrimination over a federal loan forgiveness program that bars her from participating because she is white. Leisl Carpenter, a 29-year-old rancher from Laramie, says in the lawsuit that the “American Rescue Plan” loan forgiveness program is […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Farmers are suing the federal government alleging they’re ineligible for a COVID-19 stimulus loan forgiveness program because they’re white. The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the unconstitutional race discrimination in the American Rescue Plan’s provision to offer loan forgiveness based on racial categories. WILL filed […]