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That’s a large percentage of people saying, ‘ You know what, if they had those restrictive reproductive care [ laws ], I do n’t think I would attend a school in United States, ’. – Courtney Brown	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We know that there are many individuals in this country who are struggling with suicidal concerns, with mental health or substance use concerns, who aren’t able to access the care that they need. And in many respects, historically, because of funding limitations or other limitations, the system has let them down, so, this is truly an opportunity with 988 – as a catalytic moment – to be able to transform the crisis care system to better meet those needs in a less restrictive, more person-centered, more treatment- and recovery-oriented way. – John Palmieri	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Right now we've got a conservative court. It wouldn't surprise me at all if they take a fairly restrictive view of how colleges and universities can consider race in admissions. – Thomas Dupree	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
If we don’t elect reproductive rights champions in five key state Senate races, an anti-abortion supermajority will have the votes to ban abortion in North Carolina, and if we don’t defend two critical North Carolina Supreme Court seats, we will lose our last line of defense against restrictive state laws designed to rob us of our right to make our own health care decisions. – Emily Thompson	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
John takes his constitutional duty serving as president of the Pennsylvania Senate incredibly seriously, during the spring of 2020, beginning in March, much of the commonwealth, including John's home county of Allegheny, and Dauphin, the county where the state Capitol is located, were under restrictive red and yellow phases to stop the spread of COVID-19. After Allegheny County and Dauphin Countyreturned to green phase status on June 19, Fetterman returned to presiding. – Joe Calvello	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
This means getting rates well into restrictive territory, and quickly, should signs of more embedded inflation emerge, we think Bank Rate of 6-7 % will be required to bring inflation dynamics under control. For now though, we continue to think evidence for such effects are limited with increases in unemployment still more likely to allow the MPC to pause around the turn of the year. – Benjamin Nabarro	Found on CNN 1 year ago
You don't have an opportunity to object to the passage of those restrictive laws in your home state if there are suppressive voter laws -- and of course there are suppressive voter laws, in part because The US Supreme Court has dismantled the Voting Rights Act preclearance regime, the US Supreme Court has absented The US Supreme Court from the question of partisan gerrymandering, so there's no federal court solution. The US Supreme Court's really left to the states to deal with those issues. And The US Supreme Court's a bit like allowing a burglar to correct whatever he's stolen when he's burgled your home. – Melissa Murray	Found on CNN 1 year ago
You don't get a restrictive law like HB 1510, the law that's at issue in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, or like SB 8, the law that has basically bedeviled federal courts for a few months now and stymied access to abortion in Texas, unless you've so gerrymandered the districts in your state that your legislature doesn't necessarily reflect the scope of the populace. – Melissa Murray	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Those sorts of structural environments tend to go hand in hand, states with highly restrictive abortion environments also generally have fewer policies supporting health and well being of pregnant people, as well as their children and their families. – Whitney Rice	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Nearly 20 % of votes cast by mail were not counted as a result of SB1. That's 6,888 registered voters who were silenced. These restrictive voting laws continue to undermine our efforts to expand voter access and will have repercussions for many elections to come. – Isabel Longoria	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Despite the historic supply and labor shortages, the Biden administration has upheld this restrictive vaccine mandate, agricultural employers already depend on nonimmigrant foreign workers to fill domestic labor shortages. This policy does little to mitigate the spread of the virus and hurts essential industries along the way. – Ralph Norman	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It demonstrates that the trend of this being sort of a hot button and top political issue in state legislatures is continuing. And also gives us reason to worry that the passage of these new restrictive laws may also continue. – Sean Morales-Doyle	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It could be that there's a lot of political reasons why a legislature might want to introduce a restrictive bill and sponsor it. But that doesn't mean that the bill is going to go anywhere, there's more this year than there were last year so we at least have reason to be concerned about what might happen next. – Sean Morales-Doyle	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Justice Ginsburg was a consistent voice for procedural integrity at Supreme Court, justice Ginsburg would have been up in arms over Supreme Court allowing such a restrictive law to go into effect in direct contravention of longstanding precedent and while Supreme Court has a pending merits case before Supreme Court implicating the same core issues. – Amanda Tyler	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Sarah Williams used to tell me,' Budget realistically and make sure to include the things you like to do for fun or to treat yourself. Then the budget doesn't feel restrictive, it feels productive,' it has made a huge impact on my life. – Sarah Williams	Found on CNN 2 years ago
You tell them that you have these really restrictive gun laws where people can’t get guns to defend themselves, criminals would rather go and buy guns out of state and then commit crimes where the gun laws are really restrictive because no one else can protect themselves -- and yet liberals still think they are making an argument for gun control. – Lori Lightfoot	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This is definitely red states saying we want the kind of restrictive policies that President Joe Biden is dismantling. – Doris Meissner	Found on CNN 2 years ago
What has been problematic is the type of restrictive ID that we've seen pop up, our point is simply that the restrictions on the forms of ID should meet the needs of the people. And what he is proposing makes sense because it says what we've had in this country for so many decades which is that people can prove their identity in various ways but we should not narrow the playing field so much that we push voters out of participation simply because of restrictions that make no sense and do not increase security. – Stacey Abrams	Found on CNN 2 years ago
To be clear: our office recommended significantly more restrictive bond conditions, and we disagree with the bond decision that was handed down by the court, we share in the community's pain and anger from a child being shot. And we know that, for many, the pain and anger is compounded by the fact that the defendant was able to make his bond as set by the court. – Eli Savit	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It is my intention to release you, Mr. Duggar, with a number of contentious conditions which the court is going to find to be the least restrictive conditions necessary to ensure the safety of the community, so I need you to listen up because we're in the room, and if you can't comply with any of them, then you're going to stay right where you are. OK. First, I agree with Mr. Gelfand that I haven't heard any evidence that you're a flight risk. I'm going to impose some conditions that's going to make traveling out of here pretty hard. – Judge Comstock	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
After a year of restrictive measures, we thought we could take a break for a week and relax. – Stefania Battistoni	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I have asked the Department of Defense to withdraw the rule because I’ve seen no evidence of a credible threat that would support the proposed restriction, they have been trying to get their way, but their proposal is more restrictive than necessary. – Eleanor Holmes Norton	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
There's a notion that today there's a lot more flexibility, there isn't. Gender norms are very prescriptive. Gender norms are very restrictive. And everyone reinforces those gender norms. – Robert Blum	Found on CNN 3 years ago
There’s been no progress on COVID aid relief talks in DC, we have Brexit, which is once again going to go down to the wire, and coronavirus deaths and hospitalizations are still at a staggering pace in the U.S. and it’s likely to lead to more restrictive measures and lockdowns. – Edward Moya	Found on Reuters 3 years ago

That’s a large percentage of people saying, ‘ You know what, if they had those restrictive reproductive care [ laws ], I do n’t think I would attend a school in United States, ’.

– Courtney Brown

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We know that there are many individuals in this country who are struggling with suicidal concerns, with mental health or substance use concerns, who aren’t able to access the care that they need. And in many respects, historically, because of funding limitations or other limitations, the system has let them down, so, this is truly an opportunity with 988 – as a catalytic moment – to be able to transform the crisis care system to better meet those needs in a less restrictive, more person-centered, more treatment- and recovery-oriented way.

– John Palmieri

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Right now we've got a conservative court. It wouldn't surprise me at all if they take a fairly restrictive view of how colleges and universities can consider race in admissions.

– Thomas Dupree

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If we don’t elect reproductive rights champions in five key state Senate races, an anti-abortion supermajority will have the votes to ban abortion in North Carolina, and if we don’t defend two critical North Carolina Supreme Court seats, we will lose our last line of defense against restrictive state laws designed to rob us of our right to make our own health care decisions.

– Emily Thompson

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

John takes his constitutional duty serving as president of the Pennsylvania Senate incredibly seriously, during the spring of 2020, beginning in March, much of the commonwealth, including John's home county of Allegheny, and Dauphin, the county where the state Capitol is located, were under restrictive red and yellow phases to stop the spread of COVID-19. After Allegheny County and Dauphin Countyreturned to green phase status on June 19, Fetterman returned to presiding.

– Joe Calvello

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This means getting rates well into restrictive territory, and quickly, should signs of more embedded inflation emerge, we think Bank Rate of 6-7 % will be required to bring inflation dynamics under control. For now though, we continue to think evidence for such effects are limited with increases in unemployment still more likely to allow the MPC to pause around the turn of the year.

– Benjamin Nabarro

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You don't have an opportunity to object to the passage of those restrictive laws in your home state if there are suppressive voter laws -- and of course there are suppressive voter laws, in part because The US Supreme Court has dismantled the Voting Rights Act preclearance regime, the US Supreme Court has absented The US Supreme Court from the question of partisan gerrymandering, so there's no federal court solution. The US Supreme Court's really left to the states to deal with those issues. And The US Supreme Court's a bit like allowing a burglar to correct whatever he's stolen when he's burgled your home.

– Melissa Murray

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You don't get a restrictive law like HB 1510, the law that's at issue in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, or like SB 8, the law that has basically bedeviled federal courts for a few months now and stymied access to abortion in Texas, unless you've so gerrymandered the districts in your state that your legislature doesn't necessarily reflect the scope of the populace.

– Melissa Murray

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Those sorts of structural environments tend to go hand in hand, states with highly restrictive abortion environments also generally have fewer policies supporting health and well being of pregnant people, as well as their children and their families.

– Whitney Rice

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Nearly 20 % of votes cast by mail were not counted as a result of SB1. That's 6,888 registered voters who were silenced. These restrictive voting laws continue to undermine our efforts to expand voter access and will have repercussions for many elections to come.

– Isabel Longoria

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Despite the historic supply and labor shortages, the Biden administration has upheld this restrictive vaccine mandate, agricultural employers already depend on nonimmigrant foreign workers to fill domestic labor shortages. This policy does little to mitigate the spread of the virus and hurts essential industries along the way.

– Ralph Norman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It demonstrates that the trend of this being sort of a hot button and top political issue in state legislatures is continuing. And also gives us reason to worry that the passage of these new restrictive laws may also continue.

– Sean Morales-Doyle

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It could be that there's a lot of political reasons why a legislature might want to introduce a restrictive bill and sponsor it. But that doesn't mean that the bill is going to go anywhere, there's more this year than there were last year so we at least have reason to be concerned about what might happen next.

– Sean Morales-Doyle

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Justice Ginsburg was a consistent voice for procedural integrity at Supreme Court, justice Ginsburg would have been up in arms over Supreme Court allowing such a restrictive law to go into effect in direct contravention of longstanding precedent and while Supreme Court has a pending merits case before Supreme Court implicating the same core issues.

– Amanda Tyler

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Sarah Williams used to tell me,' Budget realistically and make sure to include the things you like to do for fun or to treat yourself. Then the budget doesn't feel restrictive, it feels productive,' it has made a huge impact on my life.

– Sarah Williams

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You tell them that you have these really restrictive gun laws where people can’t get guns to defend themselves, criminals would rather go and buy guns out of state and then commit crimes where the gun laws are really restrictive because no one else can protect themselves -- and yet liberals still think they are making an argument for gun control.

– Lori Lightfoot

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is definitely red states saying we want the kind of restrictive policies that President Joe Biden is dismantling.

– Doris Meissner

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What has been problematic is the type of restrictive ID that we've seen pop up, our point is simply that the restrictions on the forms of ID should meet the needs of the people. And what he is proposing makes sense because it says what we've had in this country for so many decades which is that people can prove their identity in various ways but we should not narrow the playing field so much that we push voters out of participation simply because of restrictions that make no sense and do not increase security.

– Stacey Abrams

Found on CNN
2 years ago

To be clear: our office recommended significantly more restrictive bond conditions, and we disagree with the bond decision that was handed down by the court, we share in the community's pain and anger from a child being shot. And we know that, for many, the pain and anger is compounded by the fact that the defendant was able to make his bond as set by the court.

– Eli Savit

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It is my intention to release you, Mr. Duggar, with a number of contentious conditions which the court is going to find to be the least restrictive conditions necessary to ensure the safety of the community, so I need you to listen up because we're in the room, and if you can't comply with any of them, then you're going to stay right where you are. OK. First, I agree with Mr. Gelfand that I haven't heard any evidence that you're a flight risk. I'm going to impose some conditions that's going to make traveling out of here pretty hard.

– Judge Comstock

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

After a year of restrictive measures, we thought we could take a break for a week and relax.

– Stefania Battistoni

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I have asked the Department of Defense to withdraw the rule because I’ve seen no evidence of a credible threat that would support the proposed restriction, they have been trying to get their way, but their proposal is more restrictive than necessary.

– Eleanor Holmes Norton

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

There's a notion that today there's a lot more flexibility, there isn't. Gender norms are very prescriptive. Gender norms are very restrictive. And everyone reinforces those gender norms.

– Robert Blum

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There’s been no progress on COVID aid relief talks in DC, we have Brexit, which is once again going to go down to the wire, and coronavirus deaths and hospitalizations are still at a staggering pace in the U.S. and it’s likely to lead to more restrictive measures and lockdowns.

– Edward Moya

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

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