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March 30, 2026

7 entries on this date.

DOJ sues Minnesota to force transgender athletes out of girls' sports

The Justice Department filed a federal lawsuit against the Minnesota Department of Education and the Minnesota State High School League, alleging that the state's trans-inclusive athletics policies violate Title IX by allowing transgender girls to compete in girls' sports and use girls' locker rooms and bathrooms. The suit seeks a permanent injunction barring transgender girls from female-designated sports, sex-separated locker rooms and bathrooms, compensation for female athletes, and "correction" of past athletic records — with roughly $2.98 billion in annual federal education funding at stake.

ICE detains Milwaukee Islamic Society president Salah Sarsour over decades-old West Bank record

Roughly a dozen ICE vehicles surrounded Salah Sarsour — a lawful permanent resident of more than 30 years and five-year board president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee, Wisconsin's largest Islamic organization — on Milwaukee's south side, where by his family's account a plainclothes officer pointed a gun at him before identifying the arrest as immigration custody. He was moved to the Broadview Detention Center in Illinois and then to a county jail in Indiana, and DHS publicly branded him a "terrorist" and an "illegal alien from Jordan," resting on an Israeli military-court conviction from his teenage years that his counsel says the government knew about when it admitted him in 1993. His attorneys say the government is also invoking the foreign-policy-threat ground used against Mahmoud Khalil and that the case is retaliation for his Palestinian-rights advocacy.

ICE stationed at Parris Island gates to screen Marine recruits' families during graduation week

The Marine Corps confirmed that ICE agents would be stationed at access points of Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island during recruit family days and graduation week to conduct "enhanced screening and lawful immigration status inquiries" on visiting families of graduating Marines — by the depot's own account, the first time federal law enforcement has supported base access operations there in this capacity. After NBC News reported the notice, DHS denied that arrests would occur, defense officials blamed an internal communications failure, and the depot's guidance was revised — though the updated rules still bar visitors without legal status from the installation entirely.

Rutherford County, TN library board fired director who refused to move 100+ LGBTQ books from children's section

On March 30, 2026, the Rutherford County Library Board in Murfreesboro, Tennessee voted 8-3 to fire library system director Luanne James for refusing to comply with the board's March 16 vote to relocate more than 100 LGBTQ-themed books from the children's section to the adult section of county libraries. James had stated that moving the books would violate First Amendment protections and her professional obligation against government-mandated viewpoint discrimination.

South Dakota Gov. Rhoden signed HB1184 codifying binary sex definitions and ending state recognition of transgender people

On March 30, 2026, South Dakota Governor Larry Rhoden signed HB1184, "Define man and woman throughout the state," into law after the Legislature passed it by votes of 57-9 in the House and 30-4 in the Senate. The law establishes binary statutory definitions of "man," "woman," "male," and "female" based on reproductive biology at birth throughout South Dakota code and prohibits the use of state funds for anything contrary to those definitions. It removes legal recognition of transgender and nonbinary people across state government.

South Dakota state Sen. Tom Pischke charged with forging 16 GOP nomination forms to shift county party control

On or about March 30, 2026, 16 forged nomination forms for Minnehaha County Republican precinct-committee positions were filed with the county auditor, listing residents as candidates without their knowledge or signatures. A sheriff's investigation citing DNA on the envelopes, video of the drop-off, and handwriting analysis identified state Sen. Tom Pischke, who was charged on June 23, 2026 with two felony counts of offering a false or forged instrument for filing. Precinct-committee members help choose county party leadership and serve as delegates who nominate the party's statewide candidates.

Idaho Gov. Little signed HB 752, nation's strictest criminal transgender bathroom ban

On March 30, 2026, Idaho Governor Brad Little signed House Bill 752, making Idaho the first state with a criminal bathroom ban extending to private businesses and imposing the steepest penalties nationally. The law makes it a misdemeanor (up to one year in prison) and repeat felony (up to five years) to use bathrooms not matching one's "biological sex" in any government or private facility open to the public. On June 16, 2026, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement, finding the law likely unconstitutional due to vagueness.