A federal appeals court just handed parents a major win against some of the biggest names in tech. Ohio’s social media parental-consent law is back in play. That means children under 16 may soon need parental consent before creating or using accounts on covered social media platforms in the state. The fight came from NetChoice, the trade group backed by major platforms including Meta, Google/YouTube, TikTok, Snapchat, and others. Federal appeals court rules Ohio can require parental consent for children under 16 on social media https://t.co/HfixLF0pZ9 — FOX Business (@FoxBusiness) June 19, 2026 According to the official Sixth Circuit opinion, a divided panel reversed the lower-court judgment that had blocked Ohio’s Social Media Parental Notification Act after NetChoice challenged it on First Amendment and vagueness grounds. The court said a majority of the panel agreed NetChoice failed to establish that the Act is facially unconstitutional, which is a major legal setback for the trade group. The panel sent the case back with instructions to enter judgment in favor of Yost, the Ohio attorney general named in the case, instead of leaving the injunction in place. That is the key legal move: the law that had been frozen by a federal district court now has a path toward enforcement after years of litigation. The opinion lays out the state interest plainly. Ohio argued that social media has been linked to harms facing young people, including mental-health problems, eating disorders, academic decline, and other risks tied to online platforms. The law’s answer is not a total ban. It puts parents back in the decision loop before a child under 16 opens or uses a covered account. Fox Business reported that the 2-1 decision overturned a lower-court ruling that had blocked enforcement of the Ohio law after NetChoice’s challenge. The report said the law requires certain websites and social media platforms to verify users’ ages and obtain parental consent before children under 16 can create or use accounts. Fox Business also noted that the law includes an 11-factor test for deciding whether a website is likely to be accessed by children, along with several exceptions for sites outside the law’s reach. NetChoice argued the law was vague, overbroad, and an improper restriction on minors’ access to protected speech, but the appeals court let Ohio move forward over those objections for now, despite Big Tech’s pushback. That matters because Big Tech has spent years fighting state-level child-safety rules in court. This time, the industry did not get the result it wanted. Ohio officials framed the outcome as a win for families and parental oversight. (The Center Square) – Calling it a win for families, Ohio’s new attorney general Friday praised a federal appeals court ruling that allows the state’s social media age verification law to take effect after sitting for more than two years. Attorney General Andy Wilson praised the… — Common Sense with Chad Law (@chadparkerlaw) June 19, 2026 NetChoice responded by saying it was disappointed in the Sixth Circuit’s ruling and remains confident the law will ultimately be struck down in later proceedings. The group argued the decision threatens online privacy and constitutional rights, and it signaled that the fight over Ohio’s law is still moving through the courts rather than fully settled. That reaction is expected from the same trade group that brought the challenge and has opposed multiple state-level online child-safety laws around the country on similar constitutional grounds. Its position is that age verification and parental-consent rules can burden online speech and force users to hand over personal information before accessing platforms, even when lawmakers say the target is child safety. Ohio’s position is simpler. If a child under 16 is going to be pulled into social media, parents should know and approve first. The appeals court just gave that argument a major boost. This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here. The post Appeals Court Hands Parents A Major Win Over Big Tech appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison did not look comfortable when a reporter pressed him on the fraud scandal now swallowing state Democrats. Ellison disputed the numbers, challenged the premise of the question, accused the estimate of being politically aligned, and then ended the interview by walking away. The exchange matters because this is no small paperwork flap. Vice President JD Vance has already pushed allegations involving Ellison and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz toward the Justice Department’s fraud division, and House investigators say the state ignored warnings while taxpayer-funded programs were bleeding money. Watch the moment here: "I'm done talking to you." Minnesota AG Keith Ellison storms off during an interview after facing questions about his handling of the state’s fraud scandal. Ellison pushed back when asked about allegations tied to billions in taxpayer fraud and VP Vance’s threat to refer him to… pic.twitter.com/CKwSc9puHA — Fox News (@FoxNews) June 20, 2026 Fox News reported that Ellison was asked about his handling of Minnesota’s public-assistance fraud scandal after Vance moved to bring the matter into DOJ’s orbit. The question centered on the massive fraud estimates now being used by federal prosecutors and congressional investigators, including the roughly $8 billion figure Ellison rejected during the exchange. Ellison called the number false and argued that it was tied to people politically aligned with President Trump’s administration, but when the reporter pressed him to explain what the real number should be, Ellison turned the heat back on the reporter instead. He accused the reporter of using the wrong figure, questioned whether he was doing real reporting, and then cut off the conversation with a short goodbye as he walked away. That walk-off is why the clip is spreading. If the number is wrong, the public answer is simple: give the correct number, explain the audit trail, and show taxpayers where the money went. Instead, Ellison treated the question like an insult. But the estimate did not appear out of nowhere. The same Fox report noted that House Oversight investigators and First Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson have both pointed to enormous fraud concerns in Minnesota programs. Fox reported that Thompson has said investigators have reason to believe roughly half of the $18 billion paid through 14 Medicaid programs since 2018 could have been part of a major fraud scheme. That is the scale Ellison was being asked about. Not a missed receipt. Not a rounding error. A taxpayer-funded system that federal officials say may have exposed billions of dollars to fraud. Rep. Pete Stauber, a Minnesota Republican, reacted to the clip by making clear he sees the scandal as far from over: The fraudsters are on the run. But it’s only the beginning. https://t.co/WjKcgomQVJ — Pete Stauber (@PeteStauber) June 20, 2026 The deeper problem for Ellison is that the fraud allegations are now tied to an official congressional record. The House Oversight Committee released a June 2026 report titled The Cost of Doing Nothing: How Tim Walz and Keith Ellison Fueled Minnesota’s Fraud Explosion. According to the committee, senior Minnesota officials were aware of widespread fraud concerns in federally funded social programs for years and had tools available to stop payments or remove fraudulent providers. The report points to multiple programs, including child nutrition and Medicaid-linked services, where investigators say warnings were missed or ignored while public money kept moving. The committee’s case goes beyond saying fraud happened under their watch. It alleges the state failed to act even after warning signs reached the top, and it says whistleblowers inside state agencies were ignored, sidelined, or retaliated against after raising concerns. House Oversight also released multiple transcribed interviews from Minnesota education and human-services officials as part of the investigation. That matters because the committee is not just relying on political press releases; it built a record around agency testimony, internal warnings, and decisions made while the fraud problem was already visible. That is why the story has moved from state embarrassment to federal scrutiny. The committee then put its allegations directly in front of Vance. In a June 7 House Oversight letter to Vice President JD Vance, Chairman James Comer asked the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud to review Minnesota social-services programs. The letter alleged that fraud warnings reached senior officials, that meaningful corrective action was delayed or avoided, and that payments continued long after credible signs of fraud had emerged. Most importantly, the letter put numbers on the damage: an estimated $300 million in federal child nutrition funds and potentially $9 billion in Medicaid-related funds either lost or placed at serious risk. It also framed the problem as a failure of enforcement, not just accounting. The committee told Vance that Minnesota officials had ways to suspend payments, ban bad providers, and protect whistleblowers, but allegedly failed to use those tools aggressively enough while fraud warnings kept piling up. Those are programs meant for children, the sick, the disabled, and vulnerable families. If the allegations hold, this was not just government waste. It was money diverted from people those programs were supposed to serve. Vance made the federal posture clear earlier this month: I’ve referred these allegations to DOJ’s new Fraud Division for criminal investigation. Minnesota state officials are not above the law, and if they facilitated fraud, lied under oath about what they knew, or harassed and intimated whistleblowers, they must face justice. https://t.co/EatSBh9Gh6 pic.twitter.com/7JeFcgkTV0 — JD Vance (@JDVance) June 9, 2026 Fox News reported on June 9 that Vance announced he had referred allegations involving Walz and Ellison to DOJ’s fraud division for a potential criminal investigation. The referral came after the House Oversight report accused state leaders of knowing enough to intervene and failing to stop the money flow. Fox reported that Vance said the administration would let investigators determine whether criminal charges are warranted. But he also made clear that the allegations were too serious to leave inside Minnesota’s political system. That is the key distinction now: Ellison can dispute a number in a TV interview, but DOJ investigators can subpoena records, question witnesses, review payment trails, and test whether whistleblower claims match the paper trail. That is the part Ellison cannot dodge by walking away from a camera. A reporter’s question can be brushed off. A federal fraud investigation, congressional transcripts, whistleblower allegations, and billions in taxpayer money are much harder to wave away. Minnesotans deserve an accounting, not a lecture about who is allowed to ask. This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here. The post WATCH: Keith Ellison Snaps, Walks Off When Pressed On Minnesota Fraud Scandal appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.

President Trump’s FTC just turned a fight parents have been having for years into a federal consumer-protection lawsuit. The agency, joined by Alaska, Iowa, Nebraska, and Texas, is taking the World Professional Association for Transgender Health to court over what it allegedly told families about transgender medical treatments for children. The case reaches past the culture-war frame. It is a truth-in-advertising case about whether terrified parents were given honest information before being pushed toward life-altering decisions for their children. https://t.co/1vxCXb7Bhl — HHS (@HHSGov) June 20, 2026 The Federal Trade Commission says WPATH gave medical providers the tools to make false and unsubstantiated claims to parents and children about medical consensus, medical necessity, safety, and effectiveness. According to the complaint, WPATH’s recommendations helped providers sell pediatric medical-transition services while allegedly leaving families without key facts about side effects and risk. The FTC also says WPATH removed age limits from its 2022 Standards of Care for certain surgeries, including breast amputation and penis removal, and alleges that move was not based on medical evidence. The complaint further challenges the “lifesaving” framing used around these interventions, arguing that WPATH lacked competent and reliable scientific evidence to claim the treatments reduce suicide risk. If an ordinary supplement company made sweeping health claims without proof, regulators would investigate. The FTC is now saying WPATH does not get a special carveout because the politics are radioactive. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has released a statement in support of the FTC's federal lawsuit against trans group @wpath for its misleading medical policy guidance for providers, insurance companies and politicians that trans medical services reduces s—icide… — Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) June 19, 2026 That broader federal support puts the case inside a larger Trump-era push to protect children and parental rights. That framing matters because parents have been told for years that hesitation itself is dangerous. Many families were handed medical options in a room already loaded with fear. They were put under intense emotional pressure, often while being told that delay could mean catastrophe. The lawsuit goes directly at that pressure point. The complaint says families were allegedly misled about necessity, safety, effectiveness, side effects, and suicide-related claims. Those are not small details. Those are the exact questions any mother or father would need answered before consenting to drugs or surgeries that can change a child’s body forever. The Commission voted 2-0 to authorize the complaint, and the case was filed in the Northern District of Texas. To be clear, a complaint is an allegation. WPATH will have the chance to fight the case, and the court still has to decide the claims. The filing itself is still a massive development. For years, the people who set the rules on child transition acted as if no one in power would ever force them to defend their claims under oath. Now President Trump’s FTC and four states are asking a federal court to do exactly that. For parents who were rushed, scared, or told there was only one acceptable answer, this is the kind of accountability they have been waiting for. The post President Trump’s FTC Hauls WPATH Into Court Over What It Told Parents appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.

The Justice Department is going to bat for a group of Catholic nuns who have spent more than a century caring for dying cancer patients for free. President Trump’s DOJ notified a federal court that it intends to intervene in a lawsuit brought by the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne against the state of New York. At issue is a New York law that DOJ says forces Catholic nursing facilities to house biological men with women. The Sisters run a residential hospice care program, and the state is telling them how to assign rooms. DOJ sues New York for forcing Catholic nursing facilities to house men with women https://t.co/ZR872oCC98 — John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) June 19, 2026 The Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne have provided free palliative care to indigent cancer patients in their final days for over 100 years. These are women who take in the poorest of the poor at the end of life, and New York decided that was the right moment to pick a fight over gender ideology. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the lawsuit challenges a New York law requiring the Sisters to house biological men with women in their residential hospice program. DOJ says it intends to intervene and supports the Sisters’ argument that the law violates equal protection for religious groups. The department points to a clear double standard in the law itself. New York lets secular clinical objections excuse a facility from opposite-sex room assignments, but it offers no equivalent accommodation for religious objections. DOJ says the law requires long-term care facilities to assign rooms based on gender identity rather than biological sex, while also requiring staff to use names and pronouns that reflect gender identity. The federal argument is that New York gives secular judgments legal protection while refusing to give the same protection to religious judgment. The Justice Department said it intends to intervene in a lawsuit filed by an order of Catholic nuns fighting a New York law requiring nursing homes to house biological males who identify as female with women. https://t.co/kf1ofTJEft — The Washington Times (@WashTimes) June 19, 2026 In other words, a doctor’s clinical concern counts, but a Catholic nun’s faith does not. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon put it bluntly, saying states cannot require Americans to abandon their religious beliefs in the name of woke gender ideology. That is the heart of the case. The state is not asking the Sisters to bend a little. It is asking them to surrender the convictions that built their ministry in the first place. The Acting Attorney General certified the case as an equal-protection matter of general public importance under 42 U.S.C. 2000h-2, the federal statute that lets the United States step into a civil rights case of broad consequence. That certification signals the DOJ sees this as bigger than one hospice in New York. Justice Department Sues State of New York for Requiring Catholic Nursing Facilities to House Men with Women #NewYork, #genderideology, #Catholic https://t.co/HgTwRdLjQi — Crwe World (@CrweWorld) June 20, 2026 If a state can dictate how Catholic caregivers run their own residences, the precedent reaches every faith-based institution that dares to operate by its beliefs. For decades, religious groups warned that gender ideology would eventually collide with their right to live out their faith. New York just proved them right by aiming the law at nuns who care for the dying. The Sisters are not standing alone anymore. President Trump’s Justice Department is now in their corner. What are your thoughts? TAP HERE TO ADD YOUR VOTE The post President Trump’s DOJ Steps In After New York Targets Catholic Nuns Over Housing Men With Women appeared first on 100PercentFedUp.com.

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