The Supreme Court voted 6–3 to strike down as unconstitutional a Maine law that excludes families from a student aid program if they choose to send their children to religious schools, in a decision released June 21. The ruling is a defeat … Continue reading Supreme Court strikes down Maine’s ban on funding for religious schools: Decision a loss for the Biden administration
The Supreme Court struck down a Washington state law that extended workers’ compensation benefits to employees at a decommissioned federal nuclear production facility where employees suffered exposure to radioactive waste, finding the statute discriminates against the federal government. The ruling in United … Continue reading Supreme Court invalidates Washington state workers’ comp law affecting federal nuclear cleanup site: High court reverses 9th Circuit decision
A divided Supreme Court of Mississippi upheld a prisoner’s sentence of life imprisonment for possession of marijuana under the state’s violent habitual offender law. The affirmation of the sentence comes as laws regarding marijuana are being loosened nationwide. A Buffalo Law Review … Continue reading Mississippi Supreme Court confirms man’s life sentence for marijuana possession
The Supreme Court seems likely to accept a new election law case that Republicans hope will recognize what they say is the preeminent constitutional authority of state legislatures to set the rules for redistricting and congressional and presidential elections, as well … Continue reading SCOTUS seems likely to take up case that could recognize states’ power to regulate elections: The ‘independent state legislature doctrine’ is a longtime favorite of conservative legal thinkers
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) illegally reduced prescription drug reimbursements to hospitals by $1.6 billion per year in a program aimed at helping poor patients. The decision, a win for hospitals serving low-income … Continue reading Supreme Court finds HHS violated drug reimbursement rules for low-income patients
UPDATED June 22, 2022, 6:40 p.m. Wayne Allyn Root’s show is having technical problems. They’ll reschedule me. -Matthew I’m scheduled to appear on the top-rated Wayne Allyn Root Show this Wednesday, June 22, at 6:30 p.m. Eastern time. Live streaming … Continue reading UPDATE: TO BE RESCHEDULED: I’ll be on Wayne Allyn Root this Wed., June 22, 6:30 p.m. Eastern
Livingston County, Michigan, this week became the latest jurisdiction in the country and the first in its state to ban the private funding of the administration of elections. The move came after good-government advocates became incensed that a Mark Zuckerberg-funded activist group, … Continue reading Michigan County joins ban on private funding of elections
The Supreme Court of Iowa on June 17 overturned a four-year-old decision it made holding that the Iowa Constitution guarantees the right to abortion, and determined the state constitution does not in fact provide any such guarantee. The move allows the Republican-controlled Iowa … Continue reading Reversing 2018 ruling, Iowa Supreme Court finds state constitution does not protect abortion rights
The 13 states that banded together to try to defend the so-called public charge rule are weighing their options about how to revive the policy after the Supreme Court dismissed their appeal, according to an aide to Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich. The Trump-era … Continue reading Arizona’s Brnovich, states not giving up on reviving Trump’s immigrant self-sufficiency rule: Coalition of 13 states are weighing options after Supreme Court reversed itself and tossed appeal
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of an American mother on June 15, finding that a U.S. appeals court was wrong to find that her Italian-born child should be returned to his abusive father in Italy despite the risk to which … Continue reading Supreme Court rules in favor of American mother who doesn’t want son returned to Italy
The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Texas lacks authority to prevent an Indian tribe from offering bingo games. The June 15 decision is a win for the Biden administration, which argued against the position taken by Texas. The case is Ysleta Del … Continue reading Supreme Court rules against Texas in its crackdown on Indian gaming operations
The Supreme Court reversed itself on June 15, deciding it had been wrong when it previously agreed to hear an appeal by 13 states to defend the so-called public charge rule that screens out potentially government-dependent immigrants, after the Biden administration declined … Continue reading Supreme Court tosses appeal seeking to revive Trump’s immigrant self-sufficiency rule
Morally preening Hollywood actor Bryan Cranston recently attacked himself for being white, becoming the latest prominent Caucasian entertainer to suffer a public meltdown over his imagined racial sins. This pious leftist thespian experienced a woke epiphany after being invited to … Continue reading Bryan Cranston’s “white blindness”: Caucasian actors in Hollywood revel in denouncing themselves for imagined sins
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on June 13 that a Navajo Indian man’s constitutional rights were not violated when he was prosecuted in a second federally established court after being convicted by another court in the same incident. Although the Fifth … Continue reading Supreme Court rules ban on double jeopardy doesn’t apply in Indian sexual assault case: In dissenting opinion, conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch attacks federal Indian courts as unconstitutional
In a pair of rulings on June 13, the Supreme Court made it harder for those held in immigration detention to bring legal challenges. In Johnson v. Arteaga-Martinez, court file 19-896, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote (pdf) for a unanimous court that the … Continue reading Supreme Court won’t lower bar for immigration detainees to sue government
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled on June 13 that a Chinese manufacturer is not allowed to use the U.S. legal system to compel the production of evidence in a private arbitration taking place overseas. The high court held that … Continue reading SCOTUS: Chinese manufacturer cannot use US courts to press American firm for evidence
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has quietly dismissed Republicans’ application to overturn a lower state court’s order requiring that absentee and mail-in-ballots that lack a date handwritten by the voter be counted. Pennsylvania was a hotbed of election-related litigation during the 2020 … Continue reading Pennsylvania Supreme Court denies Republican request to throw out ruling requiring questionable ballots to be accepted
Over the opposition of three conservative justices, the Supreme Court allowed officials in Pennsylvania to resume counting disputed undated mail-in ballots in a state-level judicial election that took place last year in Lehigh County. The high court’s order came near the end … Continue reading Supreme Court lifts stay, allows counting of questionable ballots in Pennsylvania judicial election: Justices Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch dissent from ruling
The Biden administration’s bid to surrender American control over public health emergencies in the United States to the World Health Organization fell short at the UN’s 75th World Health Assembly in Geneva last month, but there is no reason to … Continue reading Biden’s WHO takeover: Handing American sovereignty over to the UN is still on Biden’s “to do” list
President Joe Biden is considering issuing executive orders to blunt the effect of an upcoming Supreme Court ruling that may overturn Roe v. Wade. Biden’s comments came during a taping of ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on June 8. Kimmel, a comedian and … Continue reading Biden eyes executive orders if Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade