(This is an updated version of an earlier article.) President Donald Trump vowed Republicans would take legal action against sweeping changes in Nevada election law rushed through the Democrat-controlled legislature over the weekend. The changes would allow widespread voting-by-mail as well as so-called ballot harvesting in … Continue reading Trump says GOP will sue to halt Nevada mail-in voting and ballot harvesting
President Donald Trump urged Republicans to take unspecified legal action on Aug. 2, hours before Nevada’s Democratic-controlled Legislature rushed through sweeping changes allowing voting-by-mail and ballot harvesting in the Nov. 3 election. Nevada is considered a battleground state. The Silver State, which … Continue reading Trump urges GOP to sue over Nevada mail-In voting, ballot harvesting
The Supreme Court temporarily blocked a judge’s order that relaxed election rules to give an Idaho activist group additional time to gather signatures for a ballot initiative amid the current pandemic. The vote on the unsigned order issued late in the day on July … Continue reading Supreme Court blocks lower court ruling suspending Idaho election rules
Lawsuits challenging voting practices in the battleground states of Virginia and Maine they claim are unfair were filed in federal courts over the past week as the Nov. 3 presidential election draws nearer. In the 2016 election, Democrat Hillary Clinton won 49.7 percent of the … Continue reading Activists challenge voting methods in Virginia, Maine in federal court
Arizona has filed papers with the Supreme Court in an effort to fight off Democratic Party efforts to relax electoral integrity measures and throw open the state to ballot-harvesting and out-of-precinct voting. The case is cited as Brnovich v. Democratic … Continue reading Arizona asks Supreme Court to uphold election laws
U.S. Attorney General William Barr gave congressional Democrats a much-deserved dressing down for endlessly excusing the orgy of violence in cities across America that has followed the wrongful death of George Floyd in Minneapolis May 25 at the hands of … Continue reading Attorney General Barr scorches Democrats: Congressional Dems get exposed on their treacherous enabling of orgies of violence
The Trump administration is facing legal pressure over its apparent failure to immediately resume processing of illegal aliens under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program after the Supreme Court ruled last month it failed to rescind the Obama-era program properly. … Continue reading Trump administration under fire for slow action on DACA
A property owner in New York City petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court last week to overturn a $6.75 million damages award granted to graffiti artists after the owner whitewashed street-art paintings at an experimental site where works were routinely painted over to clear the way … Continue reading Developer asks Supreme Court to overturn award for covering graffiti
Environmentalists asked the Supreme Court to stop the Trump administration from building parts of the U.S.-Mexico border wall after a federal appeals court determined in June that tapping $2.5 billion in military funding for the project was unlawful. The motion, part … Continue reading Environmentalists ask Supreme Court to block use of defense funds for border wall
Eight pro-life activists in Texas are suing pro-abortion groups to protect themselves from lawsuits they claim the groups filed to chill their constitutionally protected free speech rights. “These filings were prompted by aggressive attacks by abortion promoters in Texas: Afiya Center, … Continue reading Pro-life groups in Texas sue for right to call abortion a crime
The Michigan Supreme Court ruled that counties may not keep for themselves as a windfall funds left over from the sale of real property for unpaid taxes, an unconstitutional practice the property owner’s lawyers denounce, calling it “home equity theft.” … Continue reading Michigan Supreme Court rules against overreaching county tax collector
The Supreme Court fast-tracked a request by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. last week to allow lower courts to move forward ahead of schedule on its ruling earlier this month that a New York grand jury may continue to seek … Continue reading Supreme Court expedites NY grand jury request for Trump tax returns
Congressman John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat, is dead at 80. He did something heroic in the civil rights era and virtually nothing else worthwhile after. He merits a footnote in history and not much else. Here’s a piece I did … Continue reading John Lewis is dead, and the world goes on
Before Prince William County, Virginia, recently refused to renew its cooperation agreement with federal immigration authorities, the county had helped provide U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with close to 10,000 illegal and criminal aliens for deportation proceedings since 2007, … Continue reading Virginia county ends ICE cooperation agreement after handing over nearly 10,000 illegal aliens
The Trump administration has joined Arkansas in filing papers with the Supreme Court asking it to reinstate Medicaid work requirements in the “Natural State” that were blocked by a federal appeals court. Medicaid is a joint federal-state program that serves low-income people of all … Continue reading DOJ asks Supreme Court to restore Medicaid work rules
The unique problems posed by voting-by-mail are being blamed for election fraud in New Jersey and for a now-three-week delay in counting ballots for New York City’s primary elections, with many races yet to be decided. These difficulties may foreshadow larger … Continue reading New York, New Jersey mail-in voting problems may foreshadow difficulties in upcoming presidential vote
The Supreme Court agreed to review a First Amendment lawsuit in which a Georgia college belatedly expanded free speech on campus after a Christian student ran afoul of its constitutionally suspect campus “speech zone” policy. The court granted a petition for … Continue reading Supreme Court agrees to hear Christian student’s case against restrictive campus speech policy
President Donald Trump vowed to fight on after the Supreme Court rejected his claim that he enjoys immunity from state criminal proceedings while in office and found that a New York grand jury may continue to seek his tax records. At the … Continue reading Supreme Court allows NYC prosecutor, but not Congress, to access Trump’s tax returns
The Supreme Court ruled 7–2 that the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause exempts religious organizations from employment discrimination lawsuits and from a requirement to provide contraceptive coverage to their employees. Both rulings are victories for the Trump administration. The First Amendment to the … Continue reading Supreme Court protects religious freedom in labor law, contraception rulings
The Supreme Court stayed a lower court ruling and allowed a slew of pipeline projects to move forward under a fast-track permitting process but left out the controversial, long-delayed expansion of the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline. The 1,200-mile Keystone XL … Continue reading Supreme Court greenlights pipeline projects, except for Keystone XL