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Hungarian legislation shielding minors from exposure to LGBTQI+ dogma violates European Union (E.U.) law and hurts respect for human rights and equality, the bloc’s court ruled Tuesday.

The European Court of Justice said Hungary’s legislation, first proposed in 2021 by the government of outgoing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, “stigmatizes and marginalizes” LGBTQI+ persons and their feelings, and fails to uphold the E.U.’s prohibition of discrimination based on sex or sexual orientation, AP reports.

Hungary’s law specifically prohibited the display of content to minors that depicts homosexuality or gender change, while also providing harsher penalties for crimes of pedophilia, and had been challenged for some time by the E.U. and its courts.

Justice Elena Kagan has often been viewed as the most strategic and analytical of the Supreme Court’s three liberal justices. But what she’s also known for behind the scenes is being “emotionally abusive” to her law clerks.

According to a Daily Mail report released Monday, Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway’s new book, Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution, contains intriguing details about the inner workings of the court and its justices. While largely focusing on Justice Samuel Alito and his career, it also digs into each of his colleagues and their personas — including Kagan.

According to the outlet, Hemingway — “who spoke with over 100 former clerks and staff for the book” — reported that “several of Kagan’s former clerks, ‘along with others at the Court, have described her as “emotionally abusive,” “demanding, demoralizing, demeaning,” and “a hard a**.”‘” Others have seemingly compared her to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, meaning that she moves from being “extremely kind to extremely angry,” Hemingway writes.

A new audit has found that websites across the internet may be failing to abide by California privacy law, ignoring a requirement to not track visitors who set a privacy control.

The report, from researchers at webXray, a firm headed by a former Google privacy engineer, said the findings suggest major companies may be simply ignoring the law, and could point to “industrial-scale noncompliance with California requirements.”

The stakes are potentially high. WebXray estimates that if the California Privacy Protection Agency fined all of the websites it found failing to comply with the law, it could result in billions of dollars in penalties.

“While we don’t have comment on the finding of this specific report,” Tom Kemp, executive director of the privacy protection agency, said in a statement, “we do appreciate that the report brings visibility to the importance of opt out rights.”

A police officer in Washington, DC, celebrated as the first openly gay union chair is accused of grooming someone he believed was a teenage boy for sex.

Forty-seven-year-old Lt. Matthew Mahl was charged with soliciting child pornography and two counts of sexual solicitation of a minor, the New York Post reported Sunday.

The officer had been communicating with a person he believed was a 15-year-old named Nate on a Reddit site called “r/GayYoungOldDating.”

Mahl, who was the leader of the DC Police Union from 2016 to 2018, is accused of sending sexually explicit messages and naked photos to the individual, who was actually a detective working undercover.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a case over whether a public school district violated parents’ rights by using preferred pronouns and a preferred name for their child.

The court’s decision keeps a lower court’s ruling in effect that rejects the claim by two Massachusetts parents. The parents complained that their child, who is in middle school, was allowed by school officials to socially transition without their knowledge.

Attorneys for the school said they began to refer to the student by a preferred name and pronouns after receiving an email from the student that read “I am genderqueer,” and requested the use of a new name and pronouns.

The parents asked that the school not have private discussions with their child on the subject and said they were seeking professional help.

The parents argue that the school encouraged their child to pursue these changes and that their right to raise their child as they choose under the 14th Amendment right to due process was violated. They filed a lawsuit against the school district in 2022.

The Supreme Court declined to take up a similar case out of Wisconsin in December.

A comprehensive analysis has found that major online news aggregators including Google News, Yahoo News, and Microsoft Bing News overwhelmingly feature content from left-leaning media outlets, while almost completely excludinng right-leaning outlets.

The New York Post reports that a study conducted by AllSides, a nonpartisan organization that classifies news outlets according to their political leanings, has revealed significant disparities in the political balance of articles featured on major news aggregation platforms. The research found that only one percent of articles in non-customizable sections of Google News came from outlets classified as right-leaning, while 73 percent originated from left-leaning sources.