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The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom General Counsel Kristen Waggoner regarding South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s explanations and plans since her decision Friday to illegitimately use her “style and form” veto power to partially gut the Fairness in Women’s Sports bill, H.B. 1217: “Gov. Noem had an opportunity to protect women and girls by signing the Fairness in Women’s Sports bill, but instead she pandered to the demands of special interests. In what was an abuse of her ‘style and form’ veto power, she gutted protections for collegiate athletes and took away ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom General Counsel Kristen Waggoner regarding South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s decision Friday to only partially agree to a bill passed by the legislature to protect females competing in sports: “Today, Gov. Noem proposed changes to House Bill 1217 that would eliminate protections for female college athletes outright and gut the ability for all women and girls to have recourse against unfair policies in women’s sports. Her misguided attempt to play politics and placate national corporate interests like Amazon is not what we would ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Christiana Holcomb regarding Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves’ decision Thursday to sign into law the Fairness Act ( SB 2536), a bill sponsored by Sen. Angela Hill that protects opportunities for women and girls in athletics by ensuring they are not forced to compete against men playing on women’s sports teams: “Girls deserve to compete on a level playing field. Allowing males to compete in girls’ sports destroys fair competition and athletic opportunities for women. We commend Gov. Reeves, Sen. Hill, Speaker Gunn ...

Client videos (YouTube): Overview | Selina Soule’s Story | Alanna Smith’s Story Client videos (Vimeo): Overview | Selina Soule’s Story | Alanna Smith’s Story B-roll: Terry Miller and Andraya Yearwood win race over Chelsea Mitchell (2018-06-04) The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Christiana (Holcomb) Kiefer regarding the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights’ withdrawal Tuesday of its revised letter of impending enforcement action concerning women’s athletics in Connecticut; DOE’s action reverses its previous position informing ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Mark Lippelmann regarding the voluntary dismissal Wednesday of Hermiston Christian School v. Brown, a lawsuit against Oregon Gov. Katherine Brown’s order that threatened private schools with 30 days of jail time and $1,250 fines for reopening in-person instruction while allowing public schools of identical size in the same county permission to resume in-person classes. The school is withdrawing its lawsuit because Brown eliminated special exceptions that existed for public schools and is now allowing Christian ...

Then-9-year-old Lydia Booth was forced by her public school to remove her ‘Jesus Loves Me’ face mask.

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Christiana Kiefer regarding the introduction of a bill Thursday by U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, that protects women’s sports by clarifying that sex shall be recognized based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth in Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972: “Women and girls deserve the opportunity to compete and enjoy the possibility of athletic victory. But allowing males who identify as female to compete in girls’ sports destroys fair competition and erases women’s athletic prospects ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Paul Schmitt regarding an emergency injunction issued Friday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit that prohibits Vermont officials from discriminating against students who attend religious high schools in the state’s Town Tuition Program. The program provides students who live in towns without public high schools tuition funds to use at a private school of their choice, but it has barred students and their families from using their benefit at religious private schools: “People of faith deserve ...

The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Jake Warner regarding the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit’s decision Friday to grant a preliminary injunction in the lawsuit A.H. v. French (formerly A.M. v. French, and not to be confused by a separate case with the same name) that stops Vermont officials from excluding religious-school students from the state’s Dual Enrollment Program, which had allowed public, private secular, and home-school students to enroll at not cost to them in two college courses before graduating high school but denies that ...

ADF represents student at Harrison High School