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It was a do or die moment. Literally.
From the age of 5, Aimee Stephens had known she wasn’t like the other boys as she was growing up in a staunch Baptist family in Fayetteville, N.C. There was the boy seen by others, and the girl she knew she really was.
The ACLU of Michigan filed a brief today urging the Michigan Supreme Court to reject the legislature’s attempt to undermine the will of the voters by removing citizen-led proposals from the ballot through an anti-democratic maneuver known as “adopt and amend.”
The 1994 federal crime bill that created tough new criminal sentences and incentivized states to build more prisons and pass truth-in-sentencing laws is getting new scrutiny during this 2020 election cycle.
