A Kansas police officer acted lawfully when he pulled over a vehicle whose owner’s license was revoked before verifying the driver was the owner, the Supreme Court has decided. The April 6 ruling came in a case, cited as Kansas v. … Continue reading Supreme Court upholds common sense approach to traffic stops
Pro-life activists who had been praying on public sidewalks outside an abortion provider in Greensboro, North Carolina, are suing that city’s mayor after local police threatened to arrest them for allegedly violating stay-at-home orders aimed at containing the CCP virus. … Continue reading Pro-life activists assert right to public prayer during pandemic
The mass hysteria over COVID-19 in the U.S. is driven in large measure by misleading statistics and bad math about the disease’s body count. Now that New York has become the epicenter of the pandemic in the United States, we … Continue reading New York City is lying about coronavirus death rates
The Trump administration created a good program in 2017 to protect U.S. workers by cracking down on employers that abuse temporary visa programs to bring in cheap labor from abroad but it needs to do a lot more, panelists at a discussion hosted by the nonpartisan Center for Immigration Studies said April 2. “With the virtual shutdown of much of the U.S. economy, American workers are hurting, and jobs are scarce,” said Andrew R. Arthur, a resident fellow in law and policy at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS). “Fortunately, there are agencies targeting, investigating, and bringing enforcement actions against employers … Continue reading Administration needs to intensify crackdown on cheap foreign labor, says panel
Students at three major Arizona universities have initiated a class-action lawsuit seeking pro-rated refunds for tuition and housing now that instruction has shifted online and students have been forced to leave campus residences in an effort to contain the CCP virus. Students across the country have complained about a lack of refunds or what they say are inadequate refunds, and more lawsuits against the nation’s institutions of higher learning may come. The Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR), which administers the state’s three major public universities—Arizona State University, University of Arizona, and Northern Arizona University—was named as a defendant in the legal action, Campus Reform … Continue reading Sent home to contain CCP virus, students seek refunds
An oil refining company has to cover cleanup costs that the owner of a vessel it was using incurred for a 2004 oil spill in the Delaware River, the Supreme Court found March 30. The ruling in the case, cited as CITGO Asphalt … Continue reading Supreme Court rules CITGO subsidiary must cover oil spill costs
A federal judge has ordered that 10 immigration detainees be released from custody in New Jersey because their underlying health conditions are said to put them at an inordinate risk of contracting the CCP virus in secure facilities that are ill-equipped to combat … Continue reading Federal judge frees immigration detainees on CCP virus fears
As America teeters on the brink of a planned catastrophic economic collapse, it is time to rethink our response to the deadly coronavirus that is afflicting us. There has to be an exit strategy out of this national suicide attempt … Continue reading The dictatorship of the immunocompromised
A federal appeals court has struck down a Trump administration policy that withholds millions of dollars in law enforcement grants from so-called sanctuary states as part of a campaign to pressure them to cooperate with immigration law enforcement, which is … Continue reading Federal appeals court blocks withholding of funds for sanctuary jurisdictions
An electoral integrity group that claims tens of thousands have voted illegally in Minnesota is awaiting a state Supreme Court decision in its lawsuit aimed at forcing Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon to release public data from the statewide election … Continue reading Group hopes state Supreme Court forces Minnesota to provide data in election fraud investigation
Over the objections of the Trump administration, the Supreme Court has made it easier for federal courts to review deportation orders made against immigrants convicted of serious crimes. Under federal law, courts of appeal had been allowed to review only constitutional … Continue reading Supreme Court makes It easier for criminal aliens to fight deportation
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court unanimously rejected a $20 billion civil rights lawsuit filed against Comcast Corp. by a black television programmer who was angry that the cable service refused to carry his company’s channels, in a series of rulings issued on March 23. … Continue reading Supreme Court rejects $20 billion racial discrimination lawsuit against Comcast
As the pandemic caused by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) forces college and university lectures online, left-wing academics in the United States are apparently nervous about the possibility that what they are teaching may be publicized by “right wing sites,” Campus … Continue reading Professors worry about new scrutiny as CCP Virus forces classes online
The political left in the United States is leveraging the pandemic caused by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to promote fraud-prone mail-in balloting in order to steal elections, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton and other conservatives say. The thinking among conservatives is … Continue reading Conservatives say left using CCP Virus as pretext to impose nationwide mail-in voting
Seattle taxpayers are asking the Supreme Court to review a public campaign financing system in local elections that they say compels them to provide funding for political candidates against their will by way of a “democracy voucher” program. The justices … Continue reading Seattle taxpayers ask Supreme Court to overturn public campaign finance system
Two-thirds of college and university presidents are confident their schools will be financially stable over the coming five years, but that confidence level drops off when the outlook is 10 years into the future, according to a survey by Inside Higher Ed … Continue reading College presidents upbeat about finances, pre-coronavirus survey says
News Analysis Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders did little to change the downward trajectory of his campaign in the March 15 one-on-one televised debate with frontrunner former Vice President Joe Biden, sources say. The CNN-Univision debate, held in the nation’s capital without an audience to prevent … Continue reading Sanders fails to inspire in debate with Biden
Two arms of the Republican Party are trying to intervene in a state-level lawsuit filed by Democrats in Minnesota that they say aims to weaken state laws designed to protect electoral integrity. The original legal complaint in the case, known as Democratic Senatorial … Continue reading GOP fights Democratic lawsuit to relax Minnesota voting laws
Former President Barack Obama is defending the Obamacare law as election season heats up and as the Supreme Court prepares to hear a legal challenge about a court ruling that invalidated his signature domestic legislation. “It’s been 10 years since we passed the Affordable … Continue reading Obama defends Obamacare, attacks Republicans as challenge in Supreme Court looms
News Analysis Weak recent showings in key states mean self-described democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders’s quest for the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential nomination is doomed, political observers told The Epoch Times, even though the candidate himself has vowed to remain in the race. In … Continue reading Despite decisive losses, Sanders expected to keep running