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The outgoing top prosecutor in Illinois reportedly failed “compliance” and is no longer authorized to practice law. Former Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx famously handled the case of actor Jussie Smollett after he staged an attack against himself. Her term ended on December 1, but she reportedly did not complete mandatory continuing education requirements. A search for the progressive’s name on the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission website shows that Foxx is “unauthorized to practice law as [the] attorney has not demonstrated required MCLE [Minimum Continuing Legal Education] compliance.” ... All continuing education credits that were completed had...

As Twitchy reported Tuesday, Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland has seen a 582 percent increase in the number of students who identify as “gender nonconforming” in the past two years. What could possibly explain it, other than the school providing them with an inclusive safe space where they can be who they are? Here’s Christopher Rufo, one of the “stochastic terrorists” setting his unhinged followers loose against another doctor who just wants to provide medical care to transgender children. She says demand for gender-affirming surgery has increased five-fold over the past five years. She also notes that 18 is...

Dr. Aletha Maybank joined the American Medical Association as its first chief health equity officer in 2019, determined to fight racial disparities in medicine. That work grew more urgent in 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic exposed deadly inequities in health care, and as George Floyd’s murder turned the country’s attention to the pervasiveness of systemic racism. The AMA issued a statement decrying racism as an urgent threat to public health, and Maybank focused on the organization’s efforts to “dismantle racist and discriminatory policies and practices across all of health care.” That included supporting training for medical workers on implicit bias,...