There’s no justification for the present high levels of foreign workers in the United States at a time of pandemic-related high unemployment, according to a panel discussion hosted by the nonpartisan Center for Immigration Studies on April 21. The online discussion came … Continue reading Amid economic crisis, scale back temporary foreign workers, panel says
Convicting an accused person of a serious offense with a less-than-unanimous jury verdict, as two states had allowed, runs afoul of the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of a right to a jury trial, the Supreme Court has determined. The 6–3 ruling concerning split jury verdicts came April 20 in a case cited as Ramos v. Louisiana. The decision also overturns Apodaca v. Oregon, a 1972 Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of nonunanimous criminal convictions in serious felony cases tried in state courts. In 48 states and federal court, a single juror’s vote to acquit is enough to prevent a conviction, according to … Continue reading Citing racist origins, Supreme Court strikes down nonunanimous jury rules in Louisiana and Oregon
Montana landowners in a polluted copper-smelting site will have to obtain permission from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) if they wish to restore the site to pristine, pre-smelting condition, which is beyond the current goal of the federal Superfund program that governs the remediation project, the Supreme Court ruled April 20. The Montana Supreme Court erred in part when it found that residents within a 300-square-mile area around the site could sue for remediation in excess of the EPA’s plan, the Supreme Court ruled in a case cited as Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Christian. The company, known as ARCO, is a … Continue reading EPA must approve landowners’ bid for remediation, Supreme Court rules
As politicians and lawyers argue over emergency powers claimed by government officials, the faithful are finding ways to cope amid aggressive public health orders that make it difficult or impossible to come together in person for worship. As religious people … Continue reading Despite pandemic, churches persevere, push back against overreach
Montana’s Supreme Court has unanimously rejected an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) petition that would have forced the release of many inmates held in custody in the state, supposedly to better shield them from the CCP virus. Montana Attorney General Tim … Continue reading Montana Supreme Court rejects releasing prisoners during pandemic
Facebook didn’t like an opinion I expressed so it censored me. This is a first for me. Although I know some articles flagged by Facebook are in fact false, this one of mine, “The CDC Confesses to Lying About COVID-19 … Continue reading Censored by Facebook for telling the truth about CDC’s COVID-19 body count lies
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has been reminding health care providers that they are legally forbidden from discriminating against elderly or disabled patients when treating those with the CCP virus. While reports of anyone afflicted with the CCP virus, often known … Continue reading HHS says elderly and disabled pandemic patients have equal rights
The late Sage of Baltimore, H. L. Mencken, once wrote, “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” Polling suggests that America’s governors and mayors have done the … Continue reading Liberate America by turning the political pain up to 11
After a federal appeals court issued an order allowing some so-called medication abortions to proceed in Texas, abortion advocates have withdrawn their request to the Supreme Court for an emergency stay on Texas’s temporary ban on most abortions, which had been justified as part of CCP virus-containment measures. The litigation between abortionists and state officials has been bouncing back and forth between federal judges at the district and appellate levels for weeks now. Texas officials say their abortion ban is a prudent and reasonable way to conserve health care resources during a pandemic, but abortion providers say the state is taking unfair advantage of … Continue reading Texas abortion clinics withdraw emergency Supreme Court plea after appeals court allows medical abortions
Releasing immigration detainees from custody based on unsupported suspicion that they might be exposed to the CCP virus while incarcerated unnecessarily exposes Americans to great risk, a panel discussion by the nonpartisan Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) heard. There are reportedly … Continue reading Panel: Releasing illegal aliens because of virus fears hurts society
On the day before Easter Sunday, a federal judge in Kentucky enjoined Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer from enforcing a sweeping social-distancing order that banned drive-in church services. The court ruling came some hours before the Trump administration vowed swift action to … Continue reading Federal judge: Drive-in church ban unconstitutional
Abortion advocates have, at least for now, decided not to challenge in the Supreme Court a temporary emergency ban on abortions in Texas enacted while the state combats the CCP virus. The move saves the high court from taking on a case … Continue reading Abortion advocates skip Supreme Court to undo pandemic-inspired Texas ban
Can any government statistics on COVID-19 deaths be trusted? It is an open question now that we are learning that the highly respected, world-class Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been lying to us. This revelation comes a … Continue reading The CDC confesses to lying about COVID-19 death numbers
News Analysis A backlash appears to be brewing among Americans who question the wisdom of curtailing their rights to move freely and assemble in order to combat the CCP virus, experts consulted by The Epoch Times said. The nation’s governors have … Continue reading As backlash grows, legal challenges to lockdown unlikely to succeed, say experts
A federal judge in Oklahoma issued a temporary injunction April 6 against that state’s ban on abortion procedures during the CCP virus pandemic, ruling that the governor’s emergency order shutting down abortions went beyond his emergency powers. The court decision came after federal … Continue reading Federal judge curbs emergency order limiting abortions in Oklahoma during pandemic
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