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Why Trump’s Anti-Trans ‘States’ Rights’ Claim Will Backfire
Transition
States’ rights used to be a conservative value. In the Trump age, it’s a liberal one.
Jay Michaelson
Published
Feb. 27 2017
1:05AM EST
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast
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