WASHINGTON—An investment banker who sent deceptive emails to prospective clean-energy investors greatly overstating a company’s financial health can’t escape responsibility for securities fraud because he was only following his supervisor’s directions, the Supreme Court ruled March 27. Justice Stephen Breyer … Continue reading Supreme Court finds investment banker following orders culpable
WASHINGTON—A lawyer for a Marine Corps veteran said to have been arbitrarily denied medical benefits urged the Supreme Court to overturn a bureaucracy-empowering legal doctrine that allowed the executive agency to refuse those benefits. If the court agrees with James … Continue reading Supreme Court hears case about medical benefits that could shake administrative state
Three months after a federal court struck down the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that created Obamacare, the Department of Justice announced that it will back the court’s landmark decision, escalating the Trump administration’s attacks on the un-American 2010 … Continue reading DOJ backs court ruling killing Obamacare: The Trump administration green-lights judicial repeal of the hated law
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court appeared divided on March 26 about separate legal challenges to the state electoral maps of North Carolina and Maryland, which partisans on both sides in those states say are unfairly tilted to their opponents. Whatever the court … Continue reading Supreme Court hears cases on gerrymandering in 2 states
WASHINGTON—Supreme Court justices questioned the wisdom of allowing regulators to ban faxed solicitations that seek to give away a product for free during oral arguments on March 25, in a case that could have broader implications for telemarketers and political … Continue reading Supreme Court considers deference to FCC
The Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund forced an unprecedented lawsuit settlement on the San Diego Unified School District, which partnered with the terrorism-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations, requiring the district to shut down its discriminatory, unconstitutional “anti-Islamophobia initiative.” The embattled … Continue reading California school district forced to dump CAIR’s Islamic indoctrination program: San Diego district settles federal lawsuit brought by Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund
WASHINGTON—Supporters of American energy exploration and development are alarmed at an activist judge’s ruling last week that environmentalists claim provides their movement with the “Holy Grail” ruling they need to cripple the nation’s oil and natural gas industries. Two left-wing … Continue reading Opponents to oil drilling win ‘Holy Grail’ decision
President Trump signed an executive order yesterday directing the nation’s colleges and universities to defend free speech on campus or lose federal research funding. “In America, the very heart of the university’s mission is preparing students for life as citizens … Continue reading Trump signs executive order on campus free speech: Colleges and universities that won’t protect free speech may lose federal research grants
WASHINGTON—In a case involving $8.5 million that Google had agreed to pay class-action plaintiffs for alleged privacy violations, the Supreme Court this week punted on the question of whether to abolish an increasingly controversial practice in which lawyers in class-action … Continue reading Supreme Court punts on ending lawyers’ abuses in class actions
WASHINGTON—A divided Supreme Court ruled 5–4 that an 1855 treaty between the U.S. government and the Yakama Indian tribe prevents Washington state from levying a fuel import tax on businesses owned by the tribe, a decision that could embolden tribal … Continue reading Supreme Court OKs Native Indians’ fuel tax exemption
The vice chairman of the Maine Republican Party, Nick Isgro, is under fire for inveighing against open borders and the health problems that unvaccinated migrants from Third World countries are bringing with them to America. This blowback against Isgro (pictured … Continue reading Maine GOP leader attacked for opposing open borders: Party vice chairman Nick Isgro is under fire for daring to be a conservative
WASHINGTON—The lawyer for a black death row inmate in Mississippi told a sympathetic Supreme Court on March 20 that her client’s 2010 conviction at his sixth trial on the same charges was tainted because the white prosecutor unconstitutionally excluded blacks from the … Continue reading Supreme Court reviews role of race in death penalty case
A former Texas state lawmaker is spearheading a campaign against radical environmentalists and powerful international organizations whose policies keep people in the Third World in desperate poverty and misery by discouraging the development of electricity-based networks worldwide. Jason Isaac (pictured … Continue reading Seeking to end suffering by ending energy poverty
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court has decided to review a Kansas Supreme Court ruling that held only the federal government has the legal authority under U.S. immigration laws to prosecute illegal aliens for identity theft. Urged on by Kansas and the Trump … Continue reading Supreme Court to consider state prosecution of illegal immigrant identity theft
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court has agreed to review the life-without-parole sentence of mass murderer Lee Boyd Malvo (pictured above) who was 17 at the time he and his older companion dubbed the Beltway Sniper committed 10 murders, terrorizing greater Washington for … Continue reading Supreme Court to review sentence of Beltway Sniper co-defendant
A federal grand jury in New Mexico has indicted five Muslims who, among other things, allegedly trained children to carry out spree killings, formally charging them with terrorism-related offenses, conspiracy to commit murder, and kidnapping. The defendants are Jany Leveille, … Continue reading Muslim terrorists indicted in New Mexico: Accused militants have Democrat ties
WASHINGTON—Virginia Republicans urged the Supreme Court to quash a lower court ruling that redrew 11 districts in the Virginia House of Delegates after finding their boundaries had been drawn to dilute the power of black voters. The racial gerrymandering case … Continue reading Virginia Republicans ask Supreme Court to redraw districts
After Congress voted to overturn President Trump’s emergency declaration to divert federal funds to build a wall on the nation’s porous border with Mexico, the president issued the first-ever veto of his administration to keep the declaration intact. The veto … Continue reading Trump vetoes congressional effort to kill the border emergency: The president throws down the gauntlet against leftists, NeverTrumpers, and weak-kneed Republicans
A former coal executive is suing a slew of media outlets and an arm of the Republican Party for defamation, claiming they falsely labeled him a felon to sabotage his campaign last year for the U.S. Senate in West Virginia. … Continue reading Former Senate candidate sues GOP and media for defamation
As outrage spread over the latest American to be murdered by an illegal alien, the U.S. Senate voted Thursday to overturn President Trump’s commonsense emergency declaration to free up federal funds to build a wall that may have kept that … Continue reading Senate votes to cancel Trump’s wall declaration: Twelve Republicans cross the floor to vote with open-borders Democrats