The House Judiciary Committee has asked the Supreme Court to postpone a hearing over whether the panel has the right to access secret grand jury materials related to the impeachment inquiry surrounding President Donald Trump. The materials involve the issue of Trump’s alleged … Continue reading House Democrats may stop seeking Trump grand jury materials
Claiming New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is engaging in religious discrimination, Orthodox Jewish groups are asking the Supreme Court to freeze the Empire State’s tough restrictions on attendance at houses of worship during the ongoing pandemic. The legal challenge comes as New York and several states have reported a dramatic uptick in cases involving the CCP virus, which causes the disease COVID-19, and on the same day—Nov. 16—that Moderna’s vaccine was reported to be 94.5 percent effective in early testing. Pfizer and BioNTech announced on Nov. 9 that their vaccine was more than 90 percent effective. The surge has prompted several states to consider … Continue reading Orthodox Jews ask Supreme Court to override Cuomo’s religious lockdown
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge to a California law that gives labor organizers permission to trespass on private property and disrupt business operations 120 days a year to recruit new members. The high court granted the petitioners’ application Nov. 13 to review a ruling of a divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in a case known as Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid. As is its custom, the court didn’t explain why it granted the petition. The petitioners are Cedar Point Nursery, a strawberry farm in Dorris, and Fowler Packing Co. Inc. in Fresno, which produces grapes and … Continue reading Supreme Court to hear challenge to California law allowing aggressive labor recruitment
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: How … Continue reading Matthew Vadum’s work is cited in 112 books (so far), 97 times on Google Scholar, 34900 times on Google
Chicago’s mayor has canceled Thanksgiving this year, as California and other jurisdictions across the United States issue increasingly strict rules governing personal behavior in hopes of containing the CCP virus, which causes the disease COVID-19. The actions come as a health policy adviser … Continue reading Chicago cancels Thanksgiving as COVID rules tighten
Two small businesses in central California are suing Gov. Gavin Newsom over his strict continuing lockdowns purportedly aimed at combating the COVID-19 pandemic. The 109-page lawsuit, Ghost Golf Inc. v. Newsom, filed in Fresno County Superior Court by Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF), a public interest law firm based in Sacramento, claims the governor lacks the power to unilaterally shutter businesses. “An emergency doesn’t give the governor authority to decide fundamental policy for the State; only the legislature can make law, and that remains true even in a time of crisis,” said PLF attorney Luke Wake, an attorney at Pacific Legal Foundation, which is representing a … Continue reading California businesses sue Gov. Newsom over pandemic lockdowns
The Supreme Court should rule the Obamacare law unconstitutional by upholding a judge’s ruling from two years ago that struck it down, lawyers for Texas and the Trump administration argued. A telephonic hearing on Nov. 10 in the consolidated cases of California … Continue reading Obamacare unconstitutional without individual mandate: Supreme Court hears
A Guatemalan national whose refugee claim was rejected shouldn’t be removed from the United States because the government allegedly failed to serve a legal notice on him properly, the Supreme Court heard in a highly technical case. The Trump administration favors deportation in the … Continue reading Failed refugee claimant should not be deported if paperwork was defective, Supreme Court hears
Three Republican congressmen are urging the Supreme Court to exclude illegal aliens from the 2020 Census count so their numbers can’t be used to allocate congressional seats and Electoral College votes that determine the election of the president. There are enough illegal aliens in … Continue reading Counting illegal aliens in Census unfairly rewards sanctuary states, GOP congressmen tell Supreme Court
President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 4 to let it join Pennsylvania Republicans’ lawsuit seeking to rein in a three-day extension of a receipt deadline for mail ballots that they say was illegally extended. Trump claimed victory in Pennsylvania late Nov. 4, a call that hasn’t been echoed by mainstream media outlets. Trump was leading Democrat Joe Biden 50.3 percent to 48.6 percent, or about 109,000 votes out of more than 6.3 million cast in Pennsylvania, with 88 percent of precincts reporting, as of 3 p.m. local time on Nov. 5, according to The Associated … Continue reading Trump campaign asks to join Supreme Court lawsuit over Pennsylvania ballot deadline extension
Lawyers for a Roman Catholic charity and two foster parents urged the Supreme Court to allow the agency to refuse on religious-freedom grounds to place children with same-sex couples. Although only one hour was allotted for oral argument in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, Chief Justice John Roberts allowed the Nov. 4 hearing to go on for one hour and 52 minutes, perhaps signaling the importance of the issues involved. The Trump administration backed the charity and the parents, arguing as a so-called friend of the court. The case dates to March 2018, when Philadelphia officials said the opioid crisis had created … Continue reading Catholic foster care agency should be able to refuse to work with same-sex couples, Supreme Court hears
A federal appeals court upheld a Maine law under which the state may offer tuition reimbursement to parents who enroll their children in private schools but not to parents who enroll their children in religious schools. About half of U.S. states have some kind of tuition voucher program. The parents who unsuccessfully challenged the state law, along with their attorneys at the Institute for Justice (IJ) and the First Liberty Institute, say they will appeal. The Oct. 29 judgment from a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit came in a 63-page ruling in a case known as Carson … Continue reading Federal appeals court upholds Maine law denying tuition reimbursement for religious school students
The Supreme Court sided with a protest organizer whom a policeman tried to hold personally responsible for an injury suffered at a 2016 protest in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Black Lives Matter leader DeRay Mckesson, an advocate of political violence, had led the protest illegally onto a highway, and the police officer was injured by a thrown rock or piece of concrete that hit his head. The assailant is unknown. The decision comes at a time when many Americans have grown weary of violent demonstrations led by Black Lives Matter and Antifa, and are anxious about an outbreak of political violence on Election Day … Continue reading Supreme Court rules protest organizer not personally responsible for injury to cop
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to revive a state statute that banned a “gruesome” abortion procedure known as dilation and evacuation, which is typically used after the 11th week of pregnancy. The petition seeking judicial review in the case known as Cameron v. EMW Women’s Surgical Center was filed with the Supreme Court on Oct. 30. In a press release, Cameron, a Republican, said he wants the highest court in the land to consider the American Civil Liberties Union’s challenge to Kentucky’s live dismemberment abortion law (House Bill 454). The statute, passed by the General Assembly in … Continue reading Kentucky asks Supreme Court to resurrect abortion curbs by reviving lawsuit
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A deadlocked Supreme Court has refused emergency requests seeking to rein in extended deadlines for the receipt of ballots in the battleground states of Pennsylvania and North Carolina in the Nov. 3 elections, but the court’s newest member did not participate in the decisions. One of the reasons her supporters gave for expediting the U.S. Senate confirmation of the newest member of the court, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, was that doing so would make her available to break any potential 4–4 tie votes in important cases related to the ongoing elections. During her recent confirmation hearings, Barrett refused to discuss election-related cases or whether … Continue reading Barrett absent as Supreme Court refuses to block extended ballot deadlines
The Supreme Court turned away a Minnesota Republican candidate’s emergency application to postpone voting in his congressional contest to February 2021, after he argued that state law required the postponement because a major-party candidate died weeks before Election Day. The unusual state law, Minnesota Statute 204B.13, that requires the election to be delayed was enacted after U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone, a Democrat, died in a 2002 plane crash 11 days before a scheduled election. Democrats rushed to find a replacement and picked former Vice President Walter Mondale to run in Wellstone’s place. Mondale was defeated by Republican Norm Coleman. In the case … Continue reading Supreme Court rejects voting delay in Minnesota House race: Lower court rules state law requiring postponement overruled by federal law
The controversial practice of ballot harvesting, or allowing a third party to deliver a voter’s ballot to election officials, may drag out the Nov. 3 presidential election, experts say. The hotly contested battleground states of Colorado (9 electoral votes), Florida (29), Georgia (16), Iowa (6), Maine (4), Minnesota (10), Texas (38), and Virginia (13)—which collectively account for 125 of the 270 votes in the Electoral College needed to elect the president—all allow a voter to designate someone else to submit their ballot, a practice known as ballot harvesting. California, which is not likely to be at play in the presidential election, also … Continue reading Ballot harvesting, relaxation of voting rules could prolong election
Landlords and homebuilders filed suit in federal court against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in an effort to block an eviction moratorium issued last month by the federal public health agency. The lawsuit, known as Skyworks Ltd. v. CDC, was filed Oct. 23 in federal court in Ohio. It names the agency and its director, Robert R. Redfield, as defendants. The CDC argues the eviction ban is needed to curb the spread of the CCP virus, which causes the disease COVID-19, although tenants can invoke the ban whether they suffer from virus-related hardships or not. Tenants establish eligibility under the … Continue reading CDC sued over ‘unconstitutional’ nationwide eviction ban: landlords, homebuilders accuse agency of ‘sweeping assumption of power’
Pennsylvania Republicans have filed a second emergency request with the U.S. Supreme Court in the hope of undoing a state Supreme Court ruling that forces Pennsylvania election officials to accept mail-in ballots received up to three days after Election Day. Pennsylvania is among the most hotly contested states for the Nov. 3 presidential election. President Donald Trump won the state in 2016 by 44,292 votes out of more than 6 million cast. He secured 48.2 percent of the popular vote in the state, beating Democrat Hillary Clinton, who won 47.5 percent, according to Ballotpedia. Pennsylvania has 20 electoral votes out … Continue reading Republicans ask Supreme Court to relook at Pennsylvania mail ballot extended deadline