New Mexico ranchers are suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its new Navigable Waters Protection Rule, which they say violates property rights even though it’s an improvement over the previous rule. The move comes after the Supreme Court … Continue reading Ranchers sue over new EPA waterways rule, claiming bureaucratic overreach

Under legal pressure, officials in Hagerstown, Maryland, backed away from a local policy aimed to combat the CCP virus by preventing religious pro-life activists from praying on a public sidewalk outside an abortion clinic. The development comes as several states have relaxed containment measures targeting the … Continue reading Abortion protesters’ right to pray outside clinic ensured by threat of litigation

The federal government must fork over more than $12 billion to insurance companies that lost money by participating in the Affordable Care Act’s “risk corridors” program, the Supreme Court has ruled. The decision rebuffs the Trump administration and Republican lawmakers … Continue reading US must pay billions to insurers for Obamacare ‘risk corridors’ program losses, Supreme Court rules

David Brock is the disgraced former journalist and pathological liar who runs well-funded, tax-exempt slander shops like Media Matters for America, American Bridge, and Correct the Record. He tried to destroy Fox News. He ultimately failed in that endeavor but … Continue reading Wonderful news! Vile leftist character assassin David Brock is under investigation

A divided Supreme Court has upheld a lower court ruling that gives the federal government new powers to regulate pollution that travels through groundwater. Although regulating pollution has generally been left to state and local governments, two conservative justices—Chief Justice … Continue reading Supreme Court expands EPA power to regulate groundwater discharges

Osteopathic physicians are suing Nevada’s governor and the state’s pharmacy board over their decision to ban the use outside of hospitals of two relatively safe, well-established anti-malarial drugs to treat COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP virus. Reno attorney Joey … Continue reading Nevada sued over ‘ridiculous,’ ‘illegal’ ban on COVID-19 drugs touted by Trump

There’s no justification for the present high levels of foreign workers in the United States at a time of pandemic-related high unemployment, according to a panel discussion hosted by the nonpartisan Center for Immigration Studies on April 21. The online discussion came … Continue reading Amid economic crisis, scale back temporary foreign workers, panel says

Convicting an accused person of a serious offense with a less-than-unanimous jury verdict, as two states had allowed, runs afoul of the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of a right to a jury trial, the Supreme Court has determined. The 6–3 ruling concerning split … Continue reading Citing racist origins, Supreme Court strikes down nonunanimous jury rules in Louisiana and Oregon

Montana landowners in a polluted copper-smelting site will have to obtain permission from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) if they wish to restore the site to pristine, pre-smelting condition, which is beyond the current goal of the federal Superfund … Continue reading EPA must approve landowners’ bid for remediation, Supreme Court rules

As politicians and lawyers argue over emergency powers claimed by government officials, the faithful are finding ways to cope amid aggressive public health orders that make it difficult or impossible to come together in person for worship. As religious people … Continue reading Despite pandemic, churches persevere, push back against overreach

Montana’s Supreme Court has unanimously rejected an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) petition that would have forced the release of many inmates held in custody in the state, supposedly to better shield them from the CCP virus. Montana Attorney General Tim … Continue reading Montana Supreme Court rejects releasing prisoners during pandemic

Facebook didn’t like an opinion I expressed so it censored me. This is a first for me. Although I know some articles flagged by Facebook are in fact false, this one of mine, “The CDC Confesses to Lying About COVID-19 … Continue reading Censored by Facebook for telling the truth about CDC’s COVID-19 body count lies

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has been reminding health care providers that they are legally forbidden from discriminating against elderly or disabled patients when treating those with the CCP virus. While reports of anyone afflicted with the CCP virus, often known … Continue reading HHS says elderly and disabled pandemic patients have equal rights

The late Sage of Baltimore, H. L. Mencken, once wrote, “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” Polling suggests that America’s governors and mayors have done the … Continue reading Liberate America by turning the political pain up to 11

After a federal appeals court issued an order allowing some so-called medication abortions to proceed in Texas, abortion advocates have withdrawn their request to the Supreme Court for an emergency stay on Texas’s temporary ban on most abortions, which had been justified as … Continue reading Texas abortion clinics withdraw emergency Supreme Court plea after appeals court allows medical abortions

Releasing immigration detainees from custody based on unsupported suspicion that they might be exposed to the CCP virus while incarcerated unnecessarily exposes Americans to great risk, a panel discussion by the nonpartisan Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) heard. There are reportedly … Continue reading Panel: Releasing illegal aliens because of virus fears hurts society

On the day before Easter Sunday, a federal judge in Kentucky enjoined Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer from enforcing a sweeping social-distancing order that banned drive-in church services. The court ruling came some hours before the Trump administration vowed swift action to … Continue reading Federal judge: Drive-in church ban unconstitutional

Abortion advocates have, at least for now, decided not to challenge in the Supreme Court a temporary emergency ban on abortions in Texas enacted while the state combats the CCP virus. The move saves the high court from taking on a case … Continue reading Abortion advocates skip Supreme Court to undo pandemic-inspired Texas ban

Can any government statistics on COVID-19 deaths be trusted? It is an open question now that we are learning that the highly respected, world-class Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been lying to us. This revelation comes a … Continue reading The CDC confesses to lying about COVID-19 death numbers

News Analysis A backlash appears to be brewing among Americans who question the wisdom of curtailing their rights to move freely and assemble in order to combat the CCP virus, experts consulted by The Epoch Times said. The nation’s governors have … Continue reading As backlash grows, legal challenges to lockdown unlikely to succeed, say experts