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(  )  In another victory for religious freedom, the Supreme Court has revived a lawsuit from a street preacher who was barred from spreading the gospel in Brandon, Mississippi.  The high court ruled unanimously for the preacher, who wanted to challenge the town’s noise ordinance as unconstitutional.  Lower courts stopped him from suing because he’d already been convicted of violating the statute.  But the justices found that the preacher’s conviction does not stop him from suing because he only wants to block future enforcement.  The high court has been very protective of religious freedom, rendering several unanimous verdicts.

(  )  There are races in 30 states this year for attorney general, and groups that support those candidates are spending big money.  Pro-life advocates are trying to help Republicans win.  A number of GOP attorneys general have tried to go after out-of-state medical providers who prescribe abortion pills by telehealth.  Liberal groups are trying to help Democrats to victory in various states.  They are hoping friendly attorneys general will file more lawsuits against the Trump administration.  Attorney general is also a job that’s become a springboard to higher office, with at least six current attorneys general running for governor in 2026. 

(  )  The board that oversees Alabama libraries has decided that all branches have until the end of September to comply with a new rule forbidding books with transgender characters and topics from being kept in the children’s and teen sections.  Parents in the state are demanding that the public libraries remove all books promoting the LGBT agenda from places where small children and impressionable adolescents might find them.  In fact, moms and dads all across the country have been making this demand and in some cases, filing lawsuits.  Library boards in various states are responding in different ways.

(  )  Another big school addresses anti-Semitism.  The University of California Berkeley has settled a lawsuit by agreeing not to allow student groups to ban Zionists and to pay one million dollars to the Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law.  The lawsuit was sparked by UC Berkeley student law groups announcing that they would not invite Zionist speakers to campus.  Paul Eckles, a spokesman for the Brandeis Center, tells the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the settlement is “A major milestone and a recognition that anti-Zionism can, and really was, being used as a pretext for discrimination against Jews.”