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U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks temporarily blocked Arkansas from enforcing a law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing “harmful” materials to minors. The law also would have created a new process to challenge library materials and request that they be relocated to adult sections. The measure was signed by Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee-Sanders earlier this year and was set to take effect on August 1. A coalition that included the Central Arkansas Library System in Little Rock filed a lawsuit against the bill, saying that fear of prosecuti...
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Former President Donald Trumppress secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders won the Republican nomination in the Arkansas gubernatorial race on Tuesday, setting her up for victory in the pro-Trump state. She’s running for the office once held by her father, former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R). Trump endorsed her early on and she easily won the primary by a little over 83% of the vote. She also received a record amount in financing for her campaign at $14 million. Sanders will face off against Democratic nominee Chris Jones, who is a Baptist minister who attended MIT for a degree in nuclear engineering. He w...
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Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) is weighing a bid for the White House in 2024 regardless of former President Donald Trump‘s decision to run for reelection. “You’ve got to get through, of course, this year. But that’s an option that’s on the table,” Hutchinson said on CNN’s State of the Union when asked if he was considering a presidential run. “I’ve made it clear: I think we ought to have a different direction in the future,” he added after being pressed about a potential Trump bid. “I think he did a lot of good things for our country, but we need to go a different direction.” Last year, Hutc...
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After serving more than four months in government custody, Richard Barnett was released from jail on orders of a federal judge on Tuesday. Barnett is the subject of a viral photo of himself with his feet up on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi‘s (D-California) desk. Investigators also determined that Barnett stole a piece of Pelosi’s mail and left a threatening note on her ransacked desk. U.S. District Court Judge Christopher Cooper ordered that Barnett be released until his trial, but not without further condemning his actions during the January 6 Capitol insurrection. “Jan. 6 was a criminal effort ...
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Arkansas bill SB6 is the newest in a conservative wave of abortion restrictions and bans. The bill prohibits any abortion “except to save the life of a pregnant woman in a medical emergency,” and leaves no exceptions for cases of rape, fetal abnormality or incest. People found violating the law can be fined up to $100,000 and serve up to 10 years in prison. SB6 has formally passed in the Arkansas House and Senate and could be enforced as soon as September of this year. “I will sign SB6 because of overwhelming legislative support and my sincere and long-held pro-life convictions,” Arkansas Gov....
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the daughter of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R), released a video Sunday announcing her official bid for Arkansas governor in 2022. Sanders famously served as former President Donald Trump’s press secretary, and her campaign video focused directly on her former position. “I took on the media, the radical left and their cancel culture, and I won,” claimed the former press secretary. Sanders described the urgent need for candidacy, “everything we love about America is at stake, and with the radical left now in control of Washington, your governor is your last line ...
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