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Federal judge blocks Indiana ban on student ID for voting
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A federal judge this week blocked Indiana from enforcing a law that bars college-issued student identification cards from being used for voting, ruling that the measure likely violates the constitutional rights of students and young voters.
U.S. District Judge Richard Young granted a preliminary injunction on Tuesday against Senate Bill 10, a 2025 law that removed student IDs from Indiana’s list of acceptable voter identification even though such cards had been accepted for nearly two decades if they included a voter’s name, photograph, expiration date and were issued by the state or federal government.
«Plaintiffs have shown that they are likely to succeed on their claim that SB 10 imposes unconstitutional burdens on students and young voters in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments,» Young, appointed by former President Bill Clinton, wrote in a 34-page order. «They have also established irreparable harm and satisfied the remaining requirements for a preliminary injunction.»
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita’s office said Wednesday it intends to appeal, arguing that the state’s voter ID law should not be weakened by court-ordered exceptions.
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Riverside, California – March 02:A volunteer picks up «Require Voter ID» sign at the press conference at the Riverside County Registrar of Voters on Monday, March 2, 2026, as GOP lawmakers gather in support of placing a voter ID measure on the November ballot. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul/MediaNews Group/The Sun via Getty Images) (Anjali Sharif-Paul/MediaNews Group/The Sun via Getty Images)
«Indiana’s voter ID law is critical to election security and integrity,» the office told the Indiana Capital Chronicle in a statement. «Courts shouldn’t be watering the law down by doling out special exemptions to some students and faculty. We’ll keep fighting to uphold commonsense election rules.»
Notably, out of state college students might be registered in another state, perhaps a nexus for the state’s requiring a state or federal-issued ID.
Still, Young concluded that rejecting student IDs for voters «is probably unconstitutional.»
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«While it’s true that an injunction would override a democratically adopted law, Indiana has no valid interest in enforcing ‘a statute that is probably unconstitutional,’» Young wrote.
The ruling is a setback for Republican state lawmakers who approved SB 10 last year after arguing that student IDs were not issued with the same rigor as Indiana driver’s licenses and state identification cards. Young found the state’s position undercut by the fact that Indiana still allows other non-driver forms of identification — including military, Veterans Administration and tribal IDs — many of which, he wrote, are «less uniform than student IDs.»
«By eliminating student IDs as an acceptable form of identification, Defendants selectively excluded a form of identification that otherwise complies with the neutral criteria established by Indiana’s voter ID law and that has been accepted as a form of voter identification for nearly two decades,» Young wrote.
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The judge said he did not need to decide, at this stage, a separate claim that the law intentionally discriminates on the basis of age in violation of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment.
The lawsuit was filed in May 2025 by Count US IN, Women4Change Indiana and Indiana University student Josh Montagne, who had used his IU-issued student ID to vote three times but said he lacked another form of qualifying identification after the law took effect.
Young’s order described student IDs as a long-standing, widely used tool for voting on Indiana campuses. The opinion cited evidence that nearly 200,000 students attend Indiana public universities whose IDs previously qualified under the voter ID law, and noted a Monroe County election supervisor’s estimate that about two-thirds of voters at an on-campus Indiana University polling place used student IDs in the 2024 general election.
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Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, spoke during a news conference about the SAVE America Act at the U.S. Capitol on March 19, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
The judge estimated that the actual number of students affected by the ban was likely about 40,000, though he noted the plaintiffs’ expert had produced higher estimates. He said the record showed the law falls hardest on college students and younger voters because they are less likely than the general electorate to possess Indiana driver’s licenses or state IDs and often face added hurdles in getting alternative documentation.
Young rejected the state’s argument that the public interest in election integrity justified the change, writing that Indiana had produced no evidence that student IDs had been used in voter fraud or that they had caused meaningful problems for election administration.
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«To eliminate the ID that students and young voters are far more likely to rely on, Defendants must better document the unique problems student IDs raise,» Young wrote. «On this record, SB 10 looks more like a solution in search of a problem.»
The court also concluded that blocking the law weeks before Indiana’s May 4 primary would not create the kind of disruption federal courts are warned to avoid close to an election. Young said the injunction would mainly restore a practice Indiana had followed for years and would require only minor updates to election materials and training.
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Because the case is at the preliminary injunction stage, the ruling does not permanently strike down the law. But it means student IDs that otherwise satisfy Indiana’s voter ID requirements can be used in the upcoming elections while the lawsuit moves forward.
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EXCLUSIVE: SPLC’s ‘far-left’ ‘anti-racism’ curriculum found in classrooms as early as kindergarten: watchdog
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EXCLUSIVE: As the liberal activist organization Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) faces federal fraud charges, an education watchdog warns that the group continues to integrate its «far-left content and materials» into classrooms as early as kindergarten in more than 40 states across the U.S.
Nicole Neily, president of Defending Education, which was once labeled an «extremist» group by SPLC, told Fox News Digital that «unbeknownst to parents, the Southern Poverty Law Center has been poisoning pupils’ minds around the country for years with its toxic curriculum.»
Defending Education published a new exposé detailing how an SPLC education program called «Learning for Justice» (formerly «Teaching Tolerance») has been integrated into K-12 lesson plans and materials in 169 school districts in 42 states, plus Washington, D.C. According to the watchdog, the program reinforces «far-left cultural and political ideologies,» including «anti-racism, Black Lives Matter, gender ideology and queer theory, white privilege, white supremacy, whiteness, and transgenderism.»
Neily said that due to SPLC’s integration in schools, «issues such as queer theory, white privilege, and anti-racism have supplanted traditional coursework in history, social studies, and other core classes,» which she said is «teaching children to view themselves and others through the lens of identity politics, and that America is forever stained by its original sin.»
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Angry parents and community members protest after a Loudoun County School Board over critical race theory. (Evelyn Hockstein via Reuters)
According to Neily, the materials «intentionally sow division and mistrust between students at a formative stage of their development,» adding that «it is deeply disappointing that administrators and educators believe this is an appropriate use of finite classroom time and resources.»
The SPLC did not respond to requests for comment on Defending Education’s report.
The report reveals that SPLC’s website and documents can be found on school district webpages, in teacher professional development and trainings, classroom lessons, district-wide curricula, Social Emotional Learning, social justice standards, and district antiracism and equity policies and resources.
SPLC’s Learning for Justice program, which the report says is focused on «education for liberation,» encourages the implementation of a set of anchor standards and «age-appropriate learning outcomes» divided into the domains of identity, diversity, justice and action.
Under the action category, students are encouraged to commit to join with «diverse people to plan and carry out collective action against exclusion, prejudice and discrimination» and to be «thoughtful and creative in our actions in order to achieve our goals.»
Defending Education said the New York State Education Department added «equity revisions» to its NY Social Emotional Learning Benchmarks that aligned the benchmarks with SPLC’s social justice standards.
The report also notes that the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian lists Learning for Justice as a recommended resource in certain lesson materials. It further points to guidance and curriculum resources from the California Department of Education and Illinois State Board of Education, as well as Chicago Public Schools, that include or reference the standards.
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According to the report, Learning for Justice materials are also incorporated into curriculum and lesson plans for younger students in several districts. The report cites examples, including Cambridge Public Schools in Massachusetts, integrating the Social Justice Standards into junior kindergarten through fifth-grade physical education, and Yonkers Public Schools in New York, using the standards in pre-kindergarten project-based learning units. It also points to Princeton Public Schools in New Jersey updating its early childhood curriculum using the framework.
Rhyen Staley, director of research at Defending Education, posited that the «amount of influence the SPLC’s programming and content has had on district policies, learning standards, curriculums, and lessons is a real concern for families who value a bias-free learning environment.»
«No organization that labels concerned parents as ‘extremists’ and members of ‘hate groups’ should have its biased content used in K-12 schools,» said Staley, adding that «district leaders should end the use of this organization’s materials and ideas.»
SPLC, an Alabama-based organization that describes itself as a «beacon of hope» for «fighting White supremacy,» was indicted late last month on federal fraud charges from a years-long alleged covert paid informant program that Justice Department officials said allocated millions of dollars in donations to a network of informants affiliated with or closely tied to White supremacist and neo-Nazi groups.
The 11-count indictment accuses the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank and conspiracy to commit concealed money laundering. According to the Justice Department, the SPLC sent some $3 million to its paid informants between 2014 and 2023, including people affiliated with the United Klans of America, the National Socialist Party of America and the Aryan Nations-linked Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club, among others.
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, left, and SPLC interim President and CEO Bryan Fair are shown in a split image as the Justice Department pursues charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images; USA TODAY Network via Imagn Images)
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SPLC has denied all allegations of wrongdoing, with a spokesperson defending its work monitoring White supremacist groups and other violent extremist organizations — including via the paid informant program — telling Fox News Digital that their use has «saved lives.»
Fox News Digital reached out to the New York State Education Department, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, California Department of Education, Illinois State Board of Education, Chicago Public Schools, Cambridge Public Schools, Yonkers Public Schools and Princeton Public Schools for comment.
Fox News Digital’s Breanne Deppisch and Preston Mizell contributed to this report.
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La crisis terminal de Cuba, la isla que se apaga: cortes de luz, falta de comida y basura en cada esquina
Llegamos a Cuba con el pretexto de hacer un viaje turístico. El tiempo para esta cobertura será de una semana exacta, buscando contar y documentar la crisis energética, social y económica que vive el país que vuelve a estar en los titulares de los medios del mundo. Nos recibe la desolación: una población para la cual vivir hoy es subsistir. Caminar kilómetros para buscar lo que queda en las bodegas, donde acceden a lo que les corresponde según la libreta, y luego comprar lo que puedan en algún negocio de la capital para completar, en muchos casos, apenas una comida al día.
La Habana nos recibe casi sin turismo, opacada por la suciedad y el abandono. La vieja gloria de la ciudad hoy se desmorona lentamente. Las fachadas de los solares se descascaran. De a ratos, parece la postal de un país en guerra: edificios derruidos y otros directamente reducidos a escombros. Familias que viven con el temor de ser víctimas de otro derrumbe. Otras que padecen la escasez de medicamentos, y otras que simplemente buscan planear la salida.
“¿Cómo está la situación en Cuba?”, le preguntamos a un hombre que nos invita a pasar a su casa. “De difícil a imposible en ese tramo”, indica con las manos. Nos cuenta que vive de alquilar un pequeño cuarto y que en su misma casa también vive con sus padres: su papá, de 88 años y su mamá de 76. “Ahora mismo es imposible vivir en Cuba. Imposible. Mira las calles cómo están. Todo se está cayendo, todo se está derrumbando. Todas esas epidemias, producto de todas esas cochinadas que hay en las calles. No hay medicamentos en los hospitales. Mi padre peleó por esto”.
“¿Y sigue siendo revolucionario?“, le repreguntamos. Nos dice que no con su gesto.
Documental completo: Cuba, la isla que se apaga
La incertidumbre es total. Cuando llegamos a la isla, a fines de marzo, no ingresaba petróleo desde hacía tres meses. Mientras Donald Trump repite la frase “Cuba is next” y empieza a especularse sobre cuál puede ser el destino del castrismo, los cubanos sobreviven con hambre de todo tipo. En especial, con hambre de cambio y libertad. Así lo resume una mujer de 66 años que convive hace cinco con un dolor en la rodilla producto de una caída. “Que cambie todo esto y que podamos estar como las personas”, dice ante nuestra cámara, antes de quebrarse.
Hoy, en Cuba, se habla de alumbrones, más que de apagones, dada la extensión en el tiempo que suelen tener los cortes de energía. Eso hizo que volviera ese término acuñado en el llamado Período Especial, una de las mayores crisis en la historia de la isla. “¿Hace cuánto no tienen luz?”, le preguntamos a una mujer que estaba sentada en una vereda, en medio de un apagón. “Desde las seis de la tarde”, dice. “¿Y cuántos días estuvieron así con cortes?”, repreguntamos. “¿Cuántos días? Es todos los días, mami”, contesta la señora.
La crisis energética afecta el funcionamiento de lo más básico, desde el sistema de salud, hasta la conservación de alimentos. “Vea cuántas horas nos metemos sin luz. Estamos a expensas de que nos la quiten a las seis de la tarde y no la ponen más hasta las seis de la mañana… La comida ya hay que comprarla hoy en día en Cuba a diario, para que no se eche a perder. Un paquete de picadillo (carne picada). Porque si tú compras un paquete de pollo, que está carísimo -casi es un salario hoy en día-, se echa a perder”, cuenta un hombre que se define como “un comunista más, pero diciendo la verdad”.
Los cortes de luz diarios alteraron por completo la rutina en Cuba: familias enteras pasan horas a oscuras en medio del calor y la escasez. (Foto: Juan Pablo Cháves).
Además de los recurrentes cortes de luz, muchas casas tampoco tienen agua. Circulan, a diario, camiones cisterna a los que la gente se acerca para cargar baldes y bidones. El transporte público es casi inexistente y las motos eléctricas, que funcionan con baterías recargables, y las bicicletas que empujan carros metálicos que trasladan hasta dos personas se convirtieron en los protagonistas de la calle.
Si bien todo el país está en estado crítico, lo que pasa en el sistema de salud y con el acceso a los medicamentos, es especialmente grave. Entramos a una farmacia en La Habana y lo comprobamos a simple vista. Los estantes vacíos ya indican que el panorama es desolador. Nos atiende una mujer afónica que nos confirma lo que la imagen del lugar revela por sí sola. Prácticamente, no hay nada. “Mira cómo estoy yo”, dice con una sonrisa.
A todas las adversidades, se suma el desplome del motor central de la economía cubana: el turismo. Hoteles cerrados y restaurantes vacíos son ahora el paisaje habitual de La Habana y los principales polos turísticos.
Recorrer los barrios de la capital por las noches es circular de a ratos por una ciudad fantasma, abandonada. Solo ofrece alivio la postal de alguna casa o comercio con generador o las voces de vecinos conversando y las risas de los chicos en la vereda. Todos esperando que el tiempo pase y se lleve con él la oscuridad que hoy lo inunda todo.
La Revolución impone sus símbolos, pero la realidad impone sus verdades. Cuba se está apagando. Y ya no hay relato que la engañe.
Esta es la historia de un país que se derrumba.
Pero también es la historia de un pueblo en busca de la esperanza y la dignidad perdidas.
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