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US Senate passes War Powers Resolution, heaping embarrassment on Trump’s Iran loss

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US Senate passes War Powers Resolution, heaping embarrassment on Trump’s Iran loss

Trump’s war on Iran has finally gone too far even for the Republican-controlled US Senate — on 23 June, the upper house passed a War Powers Resolution nominally barring the president from continuing hostilities against Iran without congressional approval. Unfortunately, the resolution is primarily a symbolic gesture. Whilst the resolution passed the lower House of Representatives at the beginning of June, and has now passed through the Senate, it won’t be passed to Trump for his approval. Likewise, it won’t carry the weight of law. Meanwhile, Trump has called the act “poorly timed and meaningless”, and signalled his intent to ignore…

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Whittome’s Early Day Motion to reject the EHRC’s transphobic code passes 100 signatures

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Whittome’s Early Day Motion to reject the EHRC’s transphobic code passes 100 signatures

Labour MP Nadia Whittome has announced a motion to reject the Equalities and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) transphobic Code of Practice. Rachel Taylor MP, likewise of Labour, also gave a moving account of why she signed the motion. Whittome and Taylor have also urged other MPs to sign the motion. To this end, trans rights campaign groups TransActual, Trans+ Solidarity Alliance, and Scottish Trans have created an email template for constituents to write to their MPs to urge them to sign. Scottish Trans stated that, in just one week, over 1,200 people have already written to their representatives. Transphobic code rejected The EHRC’s…

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Stormont bill to outlaw barbaric hunting with dogs passes second stage

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Stormont bill to outlaw barbaric hunting with dogs passes second stage

A bill that would outlaw the cruel practice of hunting wild mammals with dogs has now reached the committee stage at Stormont. Moreover, the Hunting with Dogs Bill sets out to: …prohibit hunting wild mammals with dogs; to prohibit trail hunting; to prohibit terrier work; and to set out exemptions from these prohibitions. It was introduced by Alliance party MLA John Blair at the end of April. Additionally, it passed the second stage of the legislative process by 60 votes to 15. The League Against Cruel Sports (the League) and the Ulster Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (USPCA)…

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