Plus: Why Parents Are in Court Over Online ‘Portal’ Where Students Anonymously Accuse Each Other
July 5 2021
Good morning from Washington. In a nearby county, parents are going to court over an online portal for reports of bias. Rachel del Guidice reports. Fred Lucas examines the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear the case of a Washington state florist who has been in court for years over her refusal to arrange flowers for a same-sex wedding. Plus: Conn Carroll on how the companies saying America isn’t good enough are quite tight-lipped over China’s atrocious record, and Doug Blair on the cancellation of a musician. Should those who can’t drink vote? Fifty years ago today, President Richard Nixon certified the 26th Amendment, which let 18-year-olds vote.
Parents in an affluent Virginia county are speaking out against their school system's online “portal” that allows students to anonymously report on each other for exhibiting racial or sexual bias.
The Washington state Supreme Court ruled that Christian florist Barronelle Stutzman violated Washington’s anti-discrimination law by refusing to design a floral arrangement for a same-sex wedding.
The $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure deal—with as many as 11 GOP senators on board—includes building up the Internal Revenue Service by $40 billion over 10 years.
“Congratulations @MrAndyNgo,” Winston Marshall wrote in a since-deleted tweet. “Finally had the time to read your important book. You’re a brave man.” The pushback was predictably swift.
This time of year, many Americans rightly draw attention to Douglass and his famous speech “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro,” delivered to white abolitionists in Rochester, New York, in 1852.
