Thursday, July 30: Act 10 decision reversed, Salah Sarsour’s second day in immigration court, alarming rise in preteen suicides, Diné leaders demand protections of sacred sites as Trump opens them for drilling
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“…we can hypothesize a sound reason for why some public safety employees were not included in Act 10’s public safety group. … it selected employees it determined were necessary to maintain public safety in the event of labor unrest.”
– Judge Mark Gundrum, writing in Wisconsin’s 2nd District Court of Appeals decision overturning a Dane County court ruling that found Act 10 unconstitutional because of its disparate treatment of different groups of public safety employees.
Protesters filled the Wisconsin Capitol in 2011 to protest the legislation that ultimately passed as Wisconsin Act 10, eliminating most union rights for most public employees. (Photo by Emily Mills. Used by permission)
In a 2-1 decision, Wisconsin’s 2nd District Court of Appeals overturned a previous Dane County Circuit Court ruling that found Act 10, the controversial 2011 law that severely restricted the collective bargaining rights of most public employees, unconstitutional. Henry Redman reports on the decision, the dissent and reactions from candidates in the primary for governor.
On the second day of federal immigration court hearings for Salah Sarsour, president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee, federal prosecutors attempted to cast doubt on Sarsour’s claims that he’d been tortured by Israeli authorities back in the late 1980s, when he was a teenager living in the occupied West Bank. Isiah Holmes has the latest.
The number of preteens — ages 8 to 12 — who die by suicide in the United States each year is relatively small. But the total in 2025 was 194 — the most since at least 2001, according to preliminary data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nada Hassanein of Stateline reports on the alarming phenomenon and its causes.
A group of Diné community leaders called Wednesday for the Bureau of Land Management to continue enforcing oil and gas restrictions near New Mexico’s Chaco Culture National Historical Park. The Trump administration has moved to reverse a Biden-era order and clear the way for mineral leasing in the Greater Chaco region. Amelia Twyman reports from Washington.
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Community members call for the release of Salah Sarsour after his arrest in late March.
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