Two state university employees are suing California and the Teamsters union in federal court to strike down a state law they say violates their constitutional right not to join a labor union. In its landmark 2018 ruling in Janus v. … Continue reading Employees sue to enforce right not to join union
News analysis Conservatives are applauding the Trump administration for proposing new regulations that would save taxpayers $2.5 billion a year by ending food stamp benefits for an estimated 3 million people, by taking away states’ ability to automatically enroll welfare … Continue reading Reform of food stamp program triggers debate
The state of Alabama is suing the federal government over how it counts people in the census, claiming it will lose a seat in Congress because it has a low illegal-alien population. The lawsuit, filed May 21, 2018, in U.S. District Court for … Continue reading Alabama sues over how census counts US population
WASHINGTON—Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Calif.) criticized the claim by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) that the earth has only 12 years left if nothing is done about the so-called global warming crisis, at the Heartland Institute’s 13th International Conference on Climate Change … Continue reading US representative warns against climate change ‘hysteria’
WASHINGTON—Republican office-holders need to stop trying to appease the Left on climate-related issues by embracing ideas such as a watered down version of the prohibitively expensive Green New Deal, participants heard July 25 at the Heartland Institute’s 13th International Conference … Continue reading Conference calls on Republicans to reject the Left on climate change
Concerned parents in Santa Barbara, California, are moving forward with a lawsuit in state court against a nonprofit and the local school board over taxpayer-funded “implicit bias” instruction, after a legal hiccup forced their watchdog group to change judicial forums. According … Continue reading Santa Barbara parents ask courts to roll back ‘implicit bias’ curricula
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals barred the Trump administration from indefinitely detaining some asylum claimants while handing the administration a partial victory in the same ruling by striking down as unreasonable the fast-track processing requirements imposed by a lower … Continue reading 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upholds bail for illegal immigrants
The University of Missouri is being sued by Michigan-based Hillsdale College for allegedly failing to honor the wishes of a late benefactor who willed the university $5 million to fund six professorships on the express condition they be held by … Continue reading University of Missouri sued for failing to hire conservative economists
A closely divided 4th Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated a lawsuit last week by four homeless alcoholics challenging a 1934 Virginia law that allows “habitual drunkards” to be jailed for possessing, consuming, and purchasing alcoholic beverages. Dissenting judges in the case … Continue reading Appeals Court: habitual drunkard law too vague
News analysis Seven out of every 10 of the nearly 3,000 regulations enacted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) during the past two decades were unconstitutionally issued by politically unaccountable bureaucrats, according to a new “first-of-its-kind” … Continue reading Most HHS regulations unconstitutional, report says
News Analysis A child psychiatry expert at the University of Louisville is suing the school for forcing him out after he publicly expressed skepticism about “transgender ideology,” which allows gender-confused young people to select the gender of their choice and which … Continue reading Demoted by university for views on gender, professor sues
Two federal judges have permanently enjoined the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census, even though the administration denies it still plans to move forward with including the question on the census form. President Donald Trump was initially defiant … Continue reading Two federal judges bar citizenship question on census
Taking a cue from the Supreme Court, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated the conviction of U.S. Navy veteran Joseph D. Robertson (pictured above), who languished in prison for a year and a half for digging fire protective … Continue reading Appeals court vindicates veteran jailed for digging ponds on his property
Prominent radical left-wing Democrat lawmakers are refusing to condemn an Antifa terrorist’s attempted firebombing of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Tacoma, Washington, over the weekend. Many Democrats have been demanding the abolition of ICE for the … Continue reading Radical squad refuses to condemn Antifa firebomb attack against ICE: The Left unveils its heart of darkness
The Trump administration won a rare legal victory in its campaign against so-called sanctuary cities, when a federal appeals court ruled it may withhold federal funding under a specific program should a jurisdiction refuse to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement … Continue reading 9th Circuit gives Trump administration a win on sanctuary cities
Eric Early, an outspoken lawyer known for his conservative activism, is seeking the Republican Party nomination to challenge one of President Donald Trump’s most vocal antagonists, U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, in California’s 28th congressional district in the 2020 election. Schiff is chairman … Continue reading Conservative aims to hold Trump antagonist Schiff accountable
Commentary Unrestrained by the strictures of the U.S. Constitution, judges in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals have wrested so much lawmaking authority away from the people’s elected representatives in Congress that they are now rewriting U.S. immigration law … Continue reading 9th Circuit Court rewrites nation’s immigration laws
California math teacher Karen Siegemund (pictured above) says she was fired for making a speech outside the classroom in defense of Western civilization. Siegemund, president of the Los Angeles-based American Freedom Alliance and who holds a doctorate in education and … Continue reading Teacher praises Western Civilization, her school fires her
A 20-year-old Texas man who was a would-be copycat of the Boston Marathon bombers entered a guilty plea to attempting to provide material support to the overseas terrorist group ISIS by offering to be martyred and disseminating information about making bombs. Kaan … Continue reading Homegrown terrorist pleads guilty to attempting to support ISIS
While Duke University’s student newspaper, The Chronicle, characterizes Israel as a “murderous” country with “genocidal policies” and defends Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) anti-Semitic tropes, the Ford Foundation makes the Tar Heel State the focus of intense “social-justice investing.” Long a hotbed … Continue reading The radicalization of campus anti-Semitism in North Carolina