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jessicavaldez

Man sues Georgia for blocking "GAYGUY" vanity license plate - 1 views

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  • jessicavaldez on 23 Jan 13
     
    ATLANTA (Reuters) - An Atlanta man is suing the state of Georgia after his application for a vanity license plate that he said described his sexual orientation was denied.
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  • patrick boian on 24 Jan 13
     
    its a first ammendment right to have free speech but if its obscene then for public deciency something can be taken down or changed but in this case its jjust a license plate so its that important
  • Mallory Huggins on 24 Jan 13
     
    What if he was just trying to let everyone know that he's a really cheerful guy? The word 'gay' is not an obscenity, and it has more than one meaning. Also, come on Georgia. At try to look like you aren't oppressing people.
  • codyself1 on 08 Apr 13
     
    Georgia (or some of the people of Georgia), upset me more and more as I read stories like this. There is nothing offensive about using the word "Gay" in the ways that man tried to. He didn't do anything wrong. And, like Mallory said, the word doesn't even have to have the implied meaning everyone instantly assumes. Georgia? Tisk Tisk.
Bryan Pregon

Georgia high school to host first integrated prom - 4 views

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  • Bryan Pregon on 05 Apr 13
     
    "Students at one south Georgia high school share classrooms and sports fields; but, they don't share the same prom." Welcome to 2013. How far have we come in fighting segregation... not far enough.
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  • melissamartinez on 05 Apr 13
     
    This is just wrong. The students are being segregated because of their race and color. Shouldn't racism be illegal? especially in schools!
  • Jamie Cash on 05 Apr 13
     
    I think having separate dances based on color is just wrong. If they can attend the same school, games and classes, then they should also be allowed to attend the dances with their friends, no matter their color.
  • Colton Tracy on 05 Apr 13
     
    I can't believe to this day that there are people separating blacks from whites in some kind of activity. They share the same class rooms and everything else. Why can't they attend the same prom together? It amazes me how people think that they need to separate prom by the color of their skin.
  • Cara Ireland on 05 Apr 13
     
    I can't believe there is a school that integrated but yet they separate dances for the students? I think what the girls are trying to do is a good idea cause there isn't a good enough reason for the school to have separate dances.
  • Ericka Davis on 05 Apr 13
     
    I didn´t know segregation still was a problem.. This is annoying they have seperate proms for the races. It blows my mind how one can dislike and discourage people of a different color and race. We are all human beings.
  • michaelduquette on 05 Apr 13
     
    I think the fact that there is still segregation at all means the government isn't doing its job. They need to crack down on stuff like this.
  • Carlos Villarreal on 05 Apr 13
     
    Even now there's still a problem segregation. Having two different proms for whites and colored kids is crazy.
  • anadler380 on 05 Apr 13
     
    I didn't know schools were still allowed to do this. I don't understand why they can play sports together but not go to dances together.
  • courtney wilson on 05 Apr 13
     
    I thought segregation was no more but guess I was wrong. It doesn't make sense that they can play sports and attend other activities but they cant attend prom together. This isn't right!
  • jalitz336 on 05 Apr 13
     
    They shouldn't be able to do that. Th government ordered desegregation for schools in the 50's with the rights movement.
  • Delaney Bolton on 05 Apr 13
     
    Oh gosh, I'm pretty sure it feels like a slap in the face to the people who can't go to the "white" prom because they are black. I didn't even know they still did that. Or the fact that they were allowed too. It doesn't make any sense to me that they can have sports together but not dances?! Boggles my mind.
  • Amanda Ringberg on 05 Apr 13
     
    Its sad how their are still people out their that believe this is the right thing to do. I mean come on its a school dance they have these students do everything else together whats the point in separating them for a dance.
  • joshpowell on 05 Apr 13
     
    I can't believe this stuff still exist. The football team is segregated but the prom isn't? What took so long?
  • Ericka Davis on 08 Apr 13
     
    Is this even legal?
Bryan Pregon

HB 481: Georgia law criminalizes abortion, subjects women to life in prison. - 0 views

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  • Bryan Pregon on 09 May 19
     
    "On Tuesday, Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed a "fetal heartbeat" bill that seeks to outlaw abortion after about six weeks. The measure, HB 481, is the most extreme abortion ban in the country-not just because it would impose severe limitations on women's reproductive rights, but also because it would subject women who get illegal abortions to life imprisonment and the death penalty."
Bryan Pregon

A Georgia death row inmate who argued a racist juror voted for his sentence has died, a... - 1 views

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  • Bryan Pregon on 27 Jan 20
     
    "A Georgia death row inmate who argued a racist juror voted for his sentence has died, attorneys say"
lhbdbbdb

'I just want to find 11,780 votes': In extraordinary hour-long call, Trump pressures Ge... - 1 views

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  • margaretgrover on 05 Jan 21
     
    I think that the Secretary of State of Georgia is doing the right thing. There is no evidence showing that Trump has these votes, they aren't hidden somewhere. He lost and needs to accept it.
Dustin Gibson

Thieves Clear out a georgia church - 1 views

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  • Adam Thomas on 19 Dec 11
     
    Why would someone steal from a church, let alone take all the house appliances.. just shows how desperate people get..
ernieclements

How much time does Biden have to decide?" - CNNPolitics.com - 0 views

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  • ernieclements on 21 Oct 15
     
    Iowa hosts the first Democratic caucus, but the first deadline isn't in the Hawkeye State -- it's in Georgia. Candidates have to submit a letter of their candidacy to the state parties by October 29. The Georgia primary is Super Tuesday, March 1, which is critical if this becomes a delegate fight.
Bryan Pregon

76% of Georgia Voters Think It Shouldn't Be a Crime to Give Voters Food and Water While... - 13 views

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  • saraivargas on 29 Mar 21
     
    This new bill is making it easier to cause voter suppression. Making it harder to request an absentee ballot and decreasing the number of ballot boxes will make it harder for people to vote, on top of waiting in a long line in the hot Georgian sun.
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  • ericschmidtberge on 30 Mar 21
     
    I don´t understand how giving food or water would be criminal. You think that voters would be encouraged to vote but apparently not. I can see how needing an ID to vote would be necessary but not allowing time to get a voting ballot makes no sense. I feel like the only people this will hurt are the politicians.
  • milo_nordman on 11 Apr 21
     
    This new bill is just making it harder for people to vote, it doesn't look like it will do any good.
  • gbrochu915 on 12 Apr 21
     
    this bill is and will going to make it harder for people to vote but i still dont understand how giving food and water would be criminal
  • nick_rice on 12 Apr 21
     
    I don't think giving people food or water while they wait in line to vote is a crime. It will just make people not want to vote and it won't help anything.
  • carsonschaa on 19 Apr 21
     
    This bill will make it harder for people to vote but I still don't understand how giving food and water would be criminal!!
  • noahsandbothe on 26 Apr 21
     
    I've looked into this bill a lot and at this point, it is Republican Lawmakers trying to get the more densely populated areas of Georiga to not be able to vote as easily. Typically the more heavily populated areas of any state are typically Democratic. So to me and many others, it's pretty easy to see they are trying to suppress Democrat Votes to make it so a Democrat will never win Georiga again.
  • eballenger on 26 Apr 21
     
    I dont understand how this is a crime as it's just helping people while they wait, and without food or water it could make people not want to vote.
Bryan Pregon

Georgia student suspended after posting a photo of a crowded school hallway says it was... - 5 views

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  • Bryan Pregon on 03 Sep 20
     
    What do you think of this example? Does the school have to right to punish students who post material that shows their school in a negative way? Are there other similar stories you have heard of?
  • gramirez722 on 03 Sep 20
     
    I think the school didn't have a right to punish the students who post material that shows their school in a negative way. The school could talk to the students and ask what the school can do to make it more comfortable for them or what can they do to make the school better and not negative.
Bryan Pregon

Petition for Texas to secede from US reaches threshold for White House response - U.S. ... - 5 views

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  • caseyyard on 15 Nov 12
     
    We should all know this is not going to happen. This is more of a state tantrum about wanting their state rights back. Personally I agree completely with the states that are doing this because the federal government is way past the boundary. The federal government is in place to protect us from others not are self's.
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  • patrick boian on 15 Nov 12
     
    it says clearly that andrew johnson made it so no state for any reason could secede from the union,their will be another election in 4 years o if everybody would just relax and chill everything will be fine
  • joecarbis on 15 Nov 12
     
    I think this is just a way of Texans and those other states to show their frustration with the government
  • Jeremy Vogel on 15 Nov 12
     
    There are now three other states; Florida, Georgia, and Louisiana, that have reached the required 25,000 signatures on We the People to prompt a response from the White House. I am just waiting to see how the White House will respond to any of the four petitions.
  • jacob whalen on 15 Nov 12
     
    they must think that they can do it better then the normal government. so if they think they can and if the fail they fail if not then good for them.
  • jordan bywater on 15 Nov 12
     
    i think the white house will respond with a no
  • bvasquez13 on 15 Nov 12
     
    i think there only trying to do this because there mad that Obama won , and that he will lead the state in to bigger dept.
  • Melissa Diaz-Aguilera on 15 Nov 12
     
    If the proclamation says the states can't separate they would need to rewrite it and make a new set of laws, also what would happen if they fail at a new government? would they just want the US of america to take them back?
  • gharvey949 on 15 Nov 12
     
    I think that this will never happen. Although they might not believe that being apart of the U.S. benefits them, It truly does.
  • garrett lee on 15 Nov 12
     
    it would never happen but it will be interesting to see if any changes happen in response to this
  • jessicavaldez on 15 Nov 12
     
    I don't think this is going to happen but it is still pretty scary that people are that mad at the government. I think that people always blame the government when they are not happy. If we didn't have the government we would be in more trouble than we are in now. Yes our economy is getting hard and we need more jobs. But some people are lazy and should not make the government pay for everything.
  • Melissa Christensen on 15 Nov 12
     
    I believe that Texas would do well in its own government, but it would be better to keep the 50 states.
  • aaron valdivia on 15 Nov 12
     
    Texas is probably just upset with the turn out of the election therefore just trying to create their own government to get what they think deserve.
  • Payton Whiteaker on 16 Nov 12
     
    I'm not sure if the point of the article is, "Why Texas wants to Secede." I'm moreover focused as to, if it will happen, and if it is a right of the state to leave the Union. Personally, I would say it is the right of a state to decide if they want to secede. Let us look at the tenth amendment. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. The state has over 80k people who signed a petition asking for a secession. If this is the majority, our 10Th amendment would likely give the state the right to secede, as long as 50.1% of the population wished to secede. (Doubt that they actually have a majority that wishes to secede.) In English: The 10Th amendment grants the states the right to secede if the majority of its population sees fit. This is caused by the lack of detail in the constitution. The lacking detail being whether or not the states have the right to secede. (Founding father: Let's put state secession here next to gay marriage and abortion!) Anyways, as long as the majority of Texans wish to secede, I doubt there is any way that the United States could actually tell them they could not, at least not without some sort of conflict.
  • Kirstina Michl on 16 Nov 12
     
    I have to be . . . not serious here. Just a word of advice to the states who want to secede, based on what happened in the Civil War: If you secede, you won't succeed.
  • Jeremy Vogel on 16 Nov 12
     
    Payton I think the Supreme Court has already decided in Texas v White that States can't unilaterally secede from the government. They have the right to secede through revolution or by asking the other States and getting their permission. At least that's how I read the ruling. Unless there is a newer ruling on secession then Texas v. White. "When, therefore, Texas became one of the United States, she entered into an indissoluble relation. All the obligations of perpetual union, and all the guaranties of republican government in the Union, attached at once to the State. The act which consummated her admission into the Union was something more than a compact; it was the incorporation of a new member into the political body. And it was final. The union between Texas and the other States was as complete, as perpetual, and as indissoluble as the union between the original States. There was no place for reconsideration or revocation, except through revolution or through consent of the States. Considered therefore as transactions under the Constitution, the ordinance of secession, adopted by the convention and ratified by a majority of the citizens of Texas, and all the acts of her legislature intended to give effect to that ordinance, were absolutely null. They were utterly without operation in law."
  • Payton Whiteaker on 16 Nov 12
     
    Jeremy, what am I trying to state, is that states do have a right to secede, because we are not in a perpetual agreement to join the union. It was perpetual during the Articles of Confederation, the supreme court ruled that they have do not know if the constitution. "It was confirmed and strengthened by the necessities of war, and received definite form and character and sanction from the Articles of Confederation. By these, the Union was solemnly declared to 'be perpetual.' And when these Articles were found to be inadequate to the exigencies of the country, the Constitution was ordained 'to form a more perfect Union.' It is difficult to convey the idea of indissoluble unity more clearly than by these words." English: The Articles of Confederation declared it to be a perpetual union. The Articles of Confederation no longer exist. The supreme court literally state that they are going by ground of the Articles of Confederation, a.k.a. not a valid ground to take a stance upon. Now, if we look in history. plessy v. ferguson was a supreme court case that was overturned. This case can be overturned. Also, Jeremy, your understanding is correct on most of it. But from what the case as a whole states, under the Articles of Confederation, what you states is Valid. The Court ruled this with the usage of the Articles of Confederation. (Personally, do not think you should be able to do that, and that the courts ruling is a mistake.) Finally, I am simply stating the states have a right to secede if they want to, this is because the constitution, and not the articles of confederation, is vague about the idea of secession, applying the 10th amendment, the states should have a right to secede if they have a majority of people, unless we plan to be a hypocritical society that has already forced others to use the policy in which most people want to deny.
  • Sidnie Lewis on 19 Nov 12
     
    I think this in an interesting topic. The idea of states attempting to secede from the union is mind blowing. We know our government is faulty and far from flawless... but in comparison to others, we find it to be the strongest. We defend such a government, yet there are states that want to withdraw from it! I would actually like to look into this topic a little more, so I can understand all factors in the state's decisions!
Cara Ireland

New documents to be released in Sandy Hook shooting - 0 views

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  • Cara Ireland on 28 Mar 13
     
    Erica Simmons rings the campus bell at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, during a nationwide commemoration December 21, marking a week since the Newtown, Connecticut, mass shooting. Church bells rang out across the country at 9:30 ET Friday to remember those who died in the gun rampage.
theresa schwenk

FAMU Drum Major's Family To Sue After Suspected Hazing Death - 0 views

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  • theresa schwenk on 28 Nov 11
     
    LITHONIA, Georgia (CNN) -- A lawyer for the family of Robert Champion, a Florida university drum major who died this month in what officials have called a hazing-related death, said Monday he will file a lawsuit against the school. ...    Monday, November 28, 2011.
Olivia Welch

Second autopsy reveals strange truth for Kendrick's death - 0 views

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  • Olivia Welch on 13 Jan 14
     
    Stuffed with news papers, organs no where to be found.
  • jamie003 on 14 Jan 14
     
    His parents must be distressed with everything going on. They've been lied to about his death and then they can't find his organs?
Bryan Pregon

Alabama abortion law passed: Alabama just passed a near-total abortion ban with no exce... - 3 views

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  • kelseymwathen on 10 Sep 19
     
    I agree with this law and feel like it should be the same in every state. There are millions of families out there who have wanted a baby and either couldn't have one or the pregnancy didn't go through as planned. Some people would counter-argument that certain women who get pregnant or have been raped don't think they are fit to be a parent. This is where the women who struggle to have kids can get involved. There are many different options babies can go to if their mother cant take care of them. Abortion is taking a life away and in my eyes is seen as a form of murder.
Bryan Pregon

Georgia High School Students Expelled for Racist TikTok Video Had Their Free Speech Rig... - 1 views

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  • Cordell Jay Henry-Yonkie on 26 Apr 20
     
    The TikTok was taken at home but it held racist comments and content on it. The school had no Right to punish them because it was not their business, on their property, or targeting anyone in particular. However, Racist, Lewd, or illegal Content is not ok and surpasses the first amendment; Freedom of Speech.
Michael Keller

Trump Twist - 3 views

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  • Michael Keller on 04 Jan 21
     
    It would be strange to see but it could be plausible, Trump isn't exactly safe with his words and what he does, so it wouldn't be that far off to maybe assume that he might be trying to find votes that don't exist.
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  • xxchrysxx on 04 Jan 21
     
    There are many things Trump has tried to convince people. It is very unlikely that there is voting fraud by millions of thousands. It is going to take more than just saying that to make it true. He needs to find evidence that this has been proven true. If there is then I could see his point, but without it, it makes it hard to believe.
  • margaretgrover on 05 Jan 21
     
    Trump has lost and he needs to accept that. There is no evidence of voting fraud in the thousands and millions, and the votes he needed aren't just magically going to appear. Without concrete proof, this is just an adult throwing a temper tantrum.
  • lennxbrown on 11 Jan 21
     
    This is possible but at some point, you have to give up. There is no proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the election was rigged so maybe its time to stop trying.
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