Arkansas lawmaker leaves GOP, saying party has become ‘about one man and a personality’
An Arkansas state lawmaker, who is the nephew of Gov. Asa Hutchinson and was expected to run for governor next year, said he is leaving the Republican Party.
State Sen. Jim Hendren, in a nine-minute video, cited former President Donald Trump’s incitement of the riot at the Capitol on January 6 as the “last straw.”
“I asked myself, what in the world would I tell my grandchildren when they asked one day what happened, and what did I do about it?” Hendren said in the video he posted to YouTube on Thursday.
Arkansas state senator says he s leaving Republican Party
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The 8th Circuit’s ruling now sent the case back to US District Judge Brian Miller, who had previously ruled in 2019 that refusing to purchase items was not protected speech under the First Amendment.
Holly Dickson, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas, which represented the
Arkansas Times in the case, praised the ruling, saying “Arkansas politicians had no business penalizing our clients for refusing to participate in this ideological litmus test. Free speech isn’t a privilege you pay for; it’s a right guaranteed to every Arkansan.”
Activists call for boycotting Israel. (Photo via BDSMovement.net)
The Arkansas Times has successfully challenged a law that prohibits the state from doing business with companies that boycott Israel.
The Little Rock-based weekly filed the lawsuit in 2018 and was represented by the ACLU. The paper takes no official position on BDS, but it launched the legal challenge after the University of Arkansas Pulaski Technical College refused to sign an advertising contract with
The Arkansas Times, unless it signed the pledge. A U.S. district court judge dismissed the case in 2019, but last week the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals found the law unconstitutional in a 2-1 decision.