A personal injury lawyer urged a seemingly sympathetic Supreme Court to uphold state court rulings that allowed personal injury lawsuits regarding cars sold out of state to move forward against automaker Ford Motor Co. Eight, instead of the usual nine, justices heard oral arguments telephonically Oct. … Continue reading Accident victims urge Supreme Court not to narrow ability to sue automaker
Good-government group True the Vote urged the Supreme Court on Oct. 7 to send a message to allegedly overreaching state officials across the country who are making 11th-hour changes to voting procedures by blocking Montana Gov. Steve Bullock from requiring mail-in ballots be sent to his state’s voters … Continue reading Supreme Court asked to halt Montana governor’s ‘unlawful’ vote by mail order
Several Muslim men who claim they were wrongfully placed on the “no-fly list” for refusing to act as informants for the FBI shouldn’t be allowed to sue individual federal officials personally for damages, the Trump administration told the Supreme Court. … Continue reading FBI agents immune from lawsuit over no-fly list, Supreme Court told
Delaware told the Supreme Court that its law fixing the partisan makeup of that state’s courts should be upheld, on the first day of the court’s new term, which traditionally begins the first Monday in October. Eight justices heard oral … Continue reading Delaware defends partisan judiciary mandate before Supreme Court
The Trump administration is supporting a church’s federal lawsuit challenging the District of Columbia’s pandemic-related restrictions that limit church gatherings–even those outdoors—to 100 people. The U.S. Department of Justice filed a document called a statement of interest in the legal … Continue reading Justice Department sides with DC church in opposing COVID restrictions
For the record, I am writer and researcher Matthew Vadum. I am the author of four published books. They are: *Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers (WND Books, 2011) *Team Jihad: … Continue reading Matthew Vadum’s work is cited in 111 books (so far), 97 times on Google Scholar, 34900 times on Google
In a setback for Democrats, the Supreme Court agreed Oct. 2 to hear a challenge by Arizona and state Republicans to Democratic Party efforts to relax electoral integrity measures and throw open the state to ballot-harvesting and out-of-precinct voting. But oral arguments … Continue reading Supreme Court to consider Arizona’s ban on ballot harvesting after the election
After initially singing the praises of voting by mail in the Nov. 3 elections, some Democratic Party leaders are reluctantly backing away from the idea as enthusiasm for that method of voting fades. Pennsylvania’s Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman blames … Continue reading Democrats backpedal on voting by mail
Republicans in several states are pushing back against Democratic-led changes to state voting laws they say are unfair and likely to cause chaos in the Nov. 3 elections. Republican state senators asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Sept. 28 to block a Pennsylvania … Continue reading Republicans fight back in court against Democrats’ revisions of voting policy
The Supreme Court agreed Sept. 30 to expedite consideration of the Trump administration’s appeal of a lower court ruling barring the government from excluding illegal aliens from the 2020 Census count. The administration wants to keep illegal aliens out of the census count, which will determine … Continue reading Supreme Court fast tracks Trump’s request to exclude illegal aliens from Census
Rejecting what he said is a false, cynical version of American history taught in elementary and secondary schools across the country, President Donald Trump recently unveiled a new nonprofit that’s tasked with designing educational materials aimed at accurately depicting the nation’s history. … Continue reading New nonprofit aims to take back American history from radicals
Republicans intend to ask the short-handed U.S. Supreme Court to review a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling that extended the deadline for receiving and counting mailed ballots in the Keystone State, a decision they claim violates the law and endangers electoral … Continue reading GOP to take Pennsylvania court’s revision of election laws to Supreme Court
Two senior Republicans in Congress are warning that widespread problems with mail-in voting coupled with Democrats’ efforts “to change state election laws and procedures at the last minute” for partisan advantage could be setting the stage for “an unprecedented constitutional crisis” in the … Continue reading GOP report warns of election chaos, possible ‘constitutional crisis’
The National Apartment Association (NAA) and four individual landlords are suing the Trump administration in federal court over the federal eviction moratorium that prevents them from displacing delinquent residential tenants during the ongoing pandemic. The lawsuit, known as Brown v. Azar, was … Continue reading Landlords’ group sues CDC over pandemic-era eviction moratorium
The absence of the recently deceased Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court may give the high court’s conservative bloc the upper hand in cases to be heard in the coming term. President Donald Trump vowed over the weekend to replace the … Continue reading How Ginsburg’s absence will affect key cases
News Analysis President Donald Trump pared his sizable list of possible Supreme Court nominees on the weekend by indicating he intends in the coming week to name a woman to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who died at 87 on Sept. 18. … Continue reading Trump’s list of Supreme Court nominees down to 12 women
A group of Wisconsin voters filed a complaint with the Wisconsin Election Commission against an activist group funded by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, claiming that election-assistance grants it gave to Democrat-dominated cities violate state law and attempt to unfairly influence the outcome of … Continue reading Election complaint filed in Wisconsin against Zuckerberg-funded activist group
Small landlords in Seattle are suing the city and Washington state over eviction moratoriums that prevent them from displacing residential tenants during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The lawsuit, known as El Papel LLC v. Inslee, was filed in federal court in … Continue reading Seattle landlords sue mayor, governor to end eviction moratorium
A group of California parents who claim their children are being harmed by the state’s pandemic-related restrictions on in-person educational instruction are suing Gov. Gavin Newsom over the ban. The new lawsuit, cited as Looney v. Newsom, was filed in the Shasta County office of … Continue reading California parents sue governor over in-person school ban