Attorney General Tim Griffin said he plans to appeal the judge’s decision.

NetChoice said the laws, which were prompted by concerns about children’s mental health, are an example of government overreach.

Love has served in the state Senate since 2023 and previously served six terms in the state House.

CVS said the new law represents “an assault on free commerce” and will force it to close pharmacies in the state.

“Our supreme court is now solidly conservative,” Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said.

The Clintons spoke during a panel discussion with journalist Laura Ling as part of a weekend of activities marking the 20th anniversary of the Clinton Presidential Library’s opening in Little Rock.

Critics of the voucher program expressed skepticism about whether the state can sustain its growth without harming public schools.

Library officials are looking at how to add context to major decisions that were made during the Clinton administration. The changes comes as views have evolved among fellow Democrats about some of Clinton’s accomplishments, including his 1994 crime bill.

Cherokee Nation Entertainment had filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming the measure approved by voters on Nov. 5 violates its constitutional rights.

About $60 million of annual cost of the pay plan will come from general revenue, while the remainder will come from other sources such as savings from existing vacancies.

The lawsuit filed in federal court seeks to block enforcement of the measure before it takes effect Nov. 13.

The two justices were on opposite sides of the debate over whether to allow a measure on the ballot that would have scaled back an Arkansas law banning nearly all abortions.

Chuck Garrett, CEO of Cherokee Nation Businesses, said the outcome is a “devastating setback to the economic future of the communities in Pope County and the state of Arkansas.”

The proposal will still appear on the November ballot, but votes will not be counted.

Opponents had challenged the popular name and ballot title as misleading, saying it failed to provide sufficient information to voters.

The court has yet to rule on a second part of the lawsuit challenging the wording of the ballot measure.

The lawsuit challenges Secretary of State John Thurston’s decision to not count some of the petition’s signatures because the state asserted it had not followed paperwork rules regarding paid signature gatherers.

The effort fell short of the required signatures, Secretary of State John Thurston said Monday.

Arkansas sued YouTube and parent company Alphabet on Monday, saying the video-sharing platform is made deliberately addictive and is fueling a mental health crisis among youth in the state.

The report issued by the Arkansas Strategic Committee for Maternal Health did not call for expanding postpartum Medicaid coverage to one year, an expansion adopted by nearly every other state but opposed by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders.