Both President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign and the Republican National Committee aren’t allowed to intervene in a state-level lawsuit brought by Democrats to change the rules for the Nov. 3 elections, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled. In Pennsylvania Democratic Party v. Boockvar, the court granted permission … Continue reading Trump campaign not allowed to contest Democrats’ election lawsuit in Pennsylvania

California Gov. Gavin Newsom quietly signed a law on Sept. 4 repealing parts of an unpopular law that put independent contractors in the state out of work and limited the earnings of freelancers, including visual artists, musicians, writers, translators, and … Continue reading California limits unpopular law that restricted freelancers

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency suffered a legal defeat when a federal appeals court recently ruled that Washington state dairy farmers are allowed to continue their lawsuit against the regulator. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) filed a 326-page motion asking the court … Continue reading Washington dairy farmers get day in court against EPA

After Los Angeles County failed for a fourth time during the current pandemic to convince a judge to shut down indoor services at a popular Christian megachurch, the county is moving to evict the congregation from a parking lot it’s been using … Continue reading LA County cancels church’s parking lot lease amid pandemic dispute                   

News Analysis Constitutional tensions between the authority of governments to use coercive powers to protect public health and the right of Americans to freely engage in religious worship have come to the fore in recent months as the quarantines, curfews, … Continue reading Pandemic restrictions on worship spark civil disobedience

Activist groups are suing Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose in federal court over his directive implementing state law that instructs each county to offer only one drop box for absentee ballots in the upcoming November elections. Republican Donald Trump won Ohio … Continue reading Activists sue Ohio to add more drop boxes for ballots

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to reinstitute a rule requiring that an abortion-inducing drug be taken in the presence of a medical doctor, after a judge issued a nationwide injunction in July pausing the safety requirement during … Continue reading FDA asks Supreme Court to reinstate safety rule for abortion pill

President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court to overturn a court’s finding that his blocking of critics on the popular microblogging website Twitter violates the First Amendment. The feed for the @RealDonaldTrump account, which has 85.4 million followers, is constantly filled with replies from … Continue reading Trump asks Supreme Court to let him block users on Twitter

Last night Barack Hussein Obama gave what was probably the most undignified, inflammatory, hateful nominating-convention address of a former president in the history of the United States. “This administration has shown it will tear our democracy down if that’s what … Continue reading Undignified Obama: What an ex-president’s inflammatory and hateful nominating-convention address was made of

A state judge in California put Gov. Gavin Newsom’s emergency order from July prohibiting indoor church services during the coronavirus pandemic on hold after a Los Angeles-area megachurch filed a lawsuit. The decision comes as thousands of Christians in the state … Continue reading California megachurch wins in court, resumes indoor services despite lockdown order

Three Christian churches and churchgoers in Minnesota filed suit in federal court Aug. 13 against Gov. Tim Walz for his pandemic-related executive orders mandating social distancing and the wearing of face masks during in-person religious worship services. The plaintiffs in the … Continue reading Minnesota churches chafe at mask mandate, sue governor for overreach

The Supreme Court rebuffed a request by Republicans to reinstate a requirement waived by Rhode Island officials on public health grounds that absentee ballots be witnessed. Rhode Island has four of the 270 electoral votes a candidate needs to be elected … Continue reading Supreme Court allows waiver of Rhode Island absentee ballot witness requirement

The Supreme Court temporarily blocked a lower court ruling Aug. 11 that would have made it easier for a group that advocates for redistricting reform in Oregon to collect signatures during the current pandemic. It’s the latest emergency order by … Continue reading Supreme Court blocks lower court order easing Oregon signature-gathering requirements

How to conduct the approaching Nov. 3 and subsequent elections has itself become a political issue after a spate of recent high-profile incidents of significantly delayed ballots and other electoral mishaps have drawn attention to problems associated with voting-by-mail. President … Continue reading Election security debate heats up over mail-in ballots

President Donald Trump is quietly turning a stinging defeat at the Supreme Court over an illegal amnesty for hundreds of thousands of young illegal aliens into what could end up being a victory for the Constitution and the rule of … Continue reading Trump heroically defies a lawless Supreme Court: The court’s ruling on young illegals is an abomination that must not stand

The Supreme Court voted 5–4 to pause a federal judge’s order requiring jails in Orange County, California, to enforce inmate social distancing and other hygienic practices. The ruling in the case cited as Barnes v. Ahlman was issued late Aug. 5, and continues the … Continue reading Supreme Court overrules judge’s order requiring inmate social distancing, daily temperature taking in Orange County, Calif.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed an executive order on Aug. 5 giving all but a few categories of convicted felons the right to vote after they satisfy their sentences, ending the Hawkeye State’s status as the sole remaining state to deny voting … Continue reading Iowa governor grants felons right to vote, ending state’s holdout status

A week before Minnesota primary voters go to the polls, the Minnesota Voters Alliance and an independent group of voters filed a federal lawsuit against Democrat Gov. Tim Walz challenging the state’s combination of laws that criminalize both wearing a mask and … Continue reading Minnesota governor sued by voters over contradictory mask laws

News Analysis Although portrayed as a conservative jurist for years, Chief Justice John Roberts has not behaved on the Supreme Court bench as his early supporters expected. Roberts was appointed by President George W. Bush, but distrust of him by conservatives and constitutionalists goes … Continue reading Chief Justice John Roberts: protecting the institution or his own legacy?

A major think tank on the left has come out in favor of limiting the terms of justices of the Supreme Court, who currently serve for life, to reduce what it terms the high court’s “outsized power.” The Center for American … Continue reading Democratic think tank embraces term limits for Supreme Court