President Donald Trump has nominated U.S. District Judge Lee Rudofsky of Arkansas, who has issued rulings narrowing the scope of the Voting Rights Act and in favor of a state ban on classroom “indoctrination,” to a federal appeals court post. Trump on Wednesday announced he was nominating Rudofsky, a judge in the Eastern District of […]

A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed an equal protection claim in a lawsuit challenging Arkansas’ ban on “indoctrination” in public schools and ordered additional briefing on whether the statute is unconstitutionally vague. Filed in March 2024, the lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of Section 16 of an expansive education law called the LEARNS Act that prohibits […]