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
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 to hear in recent weeks that touches upon federal laws that regulate how pension plans are operated. The cases are expected to be heard by the court in its new term that begins in October. In this case, the Trump administration sided with the plan participants and had urged the court to take up the case, which is known as … 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
Independent journalist Andy Ngo, known for documenting Antifa’s violence, was himself assaulted by members of the radical leftist group June 29 in Portland, Oregon. The Quillette editor and photojournalist suffered a brain hemorrhage that required him to stay in a … Continue reading Antifa thugs brutalize journalist Andy Ngo: Leftist fascist mob finds meaning in terror
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 veteran’s appeal of a denial of benefits, it was widely interpreted in the legal community as indicating that the high court, its conservative wing having recently been bolstered by the addition of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, was considering tearing away at the legal underpinnings of the modern administrative state. It was thought that the decision to hear the case might foreshadow … 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