The parents of Otto Warmbier, a U.S. college student who died after a year of apparently harsh treatment in North Korea’s brutal penal system, have asked the courts to liquidate one of the regime’s cargo ships that the United States seized in … Continue reading Otto Warmbier’s parents demand sale of North Korean ship

News analysis WASHINGTON—Democratic presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand is throwing her weight behind legislation that would have the government catalog hate crimes, something the Federal Bureau of Investigation already does. But waste and redundancy are nothing new in Washington. What’s eye-opening … Continue reading Gillibrand promotes Southern Poverty Law Center-backed bill

News Analysis A conservative judge on President Donald Trump’s shortlist for Supreme Court nominees has resurrected a lawsuit from a male Purdue University student who faced a campus “kangaroo court” that convicted him of sexual improprieties. The legal precedent could … Continue reading Appeals Court decision requires procedural fairness in campus sexual assault cases

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court has accepted a case from Montana in which it will consider whether states are allowed to deny tax credit programs to students who opt for religious private schools. The decision to take the case gives a shot … Continue reading Supreme Court to consider state aid for students at religious schools

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court has agreed to look at a lawsuit brought by pension plan participants who claim U.S. Bank lost more than $1 billion of their money by gambling on risky investments. This is the third case the high court has agreed … Continue reading Supreme Court considers when pension participants can sue their plans

WASHINGTON—A divided Supreme Court ruled June 27 that the Fourth Amendment doesn’t prevent states from taking a blood sample from an unconscious drunk driving suspect without a warrant. The 5–4 decision didn’t split along the usual conservative versus liberal lines. The judgment … Continue reading Supreme Court allows taking blood sample from unconscious drunk driver

After Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (pictured above) signed a measure into law that requires felons to pay any outstanding court-ordered fines or restitution that were part of their sentence before regaining their right to vote, left-leaning groups promptly sued to … Continue reading Lawsuits seek to block Fla. legislation requiring felons to pay restitution

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court decided June 28 to review the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s highly controversial Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that has for seven years prevented hundreds of thousands of young people who came to the United States as … Continue reading Supreme Court decides to consider constitutionality of DACA

WASHINGTON—In a landmark ruling June 27, the Supreme Court narrowly rejected claims from Democrats in North Carolina and Republicans in Maryland that their respective state electoral maps had been unconstitutionally manipulated for partisan advantage. The decision came after the Supreme Court ruled June 17 in a … Continue reading Supreme Court bars federal courts from deciding gerrymandering cases

Minutes after the Supreme Court narrowly rejected the administration’s rationale for asking individuals responding to the 2020 Census whether they are U.S. citizens, President Donald Trump criticized the court’s decision and suggested delaying the census to give officials a chance to satisfy the court’s … Continue reading Supreme Court blocks Trump administration from asking about citizenship on census: President Donald Trump calls for delaying census in order to give Supreme Court another opportunity to hear case

As marijuana, as promoted by the mainstream media, entertainment industry, and tax-hungry governments, becomes increasingly mainstream in modern America, evidence is emerging that this drug that so many have deemed harmless may actually have detrimental effects on humans, especially young people. … Continue reading As pot goes mainstream, dark side of legalization emerges

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court unexpectedly passed up an opportunity to overturn a bureaucracy-empowering legal doctrine when on June 26 it ruled against a Marine Corps veteran seeking government-provided medical benefits. When the Supreme Court agreed Dec. 10, 2018, to hear the … Continue reading Supreme Court leaves underpinning of administrative state in place

All courthouses in Massachusetts have become ICE-free zones because a zealous left-wing Obama judge took it upon herself to forbid immigration officers from detaining suspected illegal aliens on judicial soil. This lawless order is reportedly the first judicial fiat in … Continue reading Obama judge invents sanctuary courthouses: Activist judge declares all Massachusetts courthouses ICE-free zones

As part of an ongoing nationwide backlash against politically correct restrictions on free speech in higher education institutions, a new “campus intellectual diversity” law in South Dakota that takes effect July 1 will require the state’s universities to respect free speech rights, promote … Continue reading Diversity industry under siege in South Dakota, nationwide

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court agreed June 24 to decide whether the federal government owes $12 billion to insurance companies that have lost money as a result of the “risk corridors” program within the Affordable Care Act, which is commonly known as the Obamacare … Continue reading Supreme Court to hear health insurance companies’ pleas for relief

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court overturned a ban preventing “immoral” or “scandalous” words and symbols from being trademarked, ruling the prohibition in the Lanham Act violated First Amendment speech protections. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which administers the intellectual property statute also known as the … Continue reading Supreme Court overturns ban on trademarking immoral or scandalous words

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court struck down a black inmate’s murder convictions and death sentence because the white man who prosecuted him on behalf of Mississippi unconstitutionally excluded blacks from the jury at his final trial and at others that preceded it. Curtis Giovanni … Continue reading Supreme Court strikes down murder convictions on grounds of racial bias

WASHINGTON—The conservative wing of the Supreme Court flexed its muscles last week by overturning a 34-year-old precedent, making it easier for property owners to seek legal redress in federal courts without first having to file suit in state courts after … Continue reading Supreme Court overturns precedent, allows easier resolution of takings claims