The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals barred the Trump administration from indefinitely detaining some asylum claimants while handing the administration a partial victory in the same ruling by striking down as unreasonable the fast-track processing requirements imposed by a lower … Continue reading 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upholds bail for illegal immigrants
The University of Missouri is being sued by Michigan-based Hillsdale College for allegedly failing to honor the wishes of a late benefactor who willed the university $5 million to fund six professorships on the express condition they be held by … Continue reading University of Missouri sued for failing to hire conservative economists
A closely divided 4th Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated a lawsuit last week by four homeless alcoholics challenging a 1934 Virginia law that allows “habitual drunkards” to be jailed for possessing, consuming, and purchasing alcoholic beverages. Dissenting judges in the case … Continue reading Appeals Court: habitual drunkard law too vague
News analysis Seven out of every 10 of the nearly 3,000 regulations enacted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) during the past two decades were unconstitutionally issued by politically unaccountable bureaucrats, according to a new “first-of-its-kind” … Continue reading Most HHS regulations unconstitutional, report says
News Analysis A child psychiatry expert at the University of Louisville is suing the school for forcing him out after he publicly expressed skepticism about “transgender ideology,” which allows gender-confused young people to select the gender of their choice and which … Continue reading Demoted by university for views on gender, professor sues
Two federal judges have permanently enjoined the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census, even though the administration denies it still plans to move forward with including the question on the census form. President Donald Trump was initially defiant … Continue reading Two federal judges bar citizenship question on census
Taking a cue from the Supreme Court, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated the conviction of U.S. Navy veteran Joseph D. Robertson (pictured above), who languished in prison for a year and a half for digging fire protective … Continue reading Appeals court vindicates veteran jailed for digging ponds on his property
Prominent radical left-wing Democrat lawmakers are refusing to condemn an Antifa terrorist’s attempted firebombing of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Tacoma, Washington, over the weekend. Many Democrats have been demanding the abolition of ICE for the … Continue reading Radical squad refuses to condemn Antifa firebomb attack against ICE: The Left unveils its heart of darkness
The Trump administration won a rare legal victory in its campaign against so-called sanctuary cities, when a federal appeals court ruled it may withhold federal funding under a specific program should a jurisdiction refuse to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement … Continue reading 9th Circuit gives Trump administration a win on sanctuary cities
Eric Early, an outspoken lawyer known for his conservative activism, is seeking the Republican Party nomination to challenge one of President Donald Trump’s most vocal antagonists, U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, in California’s 28th congressional district in the 2020 election. Schiff is chairman … Continue reading Conservative aims to hold Trump antagonist Schiff accountable
Commentary Unrestrained by the strictures of the U.S. Constitution, judges in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals have wrested so much lawmaking authority away from the people’s elected representatives in Congress that they are now rewriting U.S. immigration law … Continue reading 9th Circuit Court rewrites nation’s immigration laws
California math teacher Karen Siegemund (pictured above) says she was fired for making a speech outside the classroom in defense of Western civilization. Siegemund, president of the Los Angeles-based American Freedom Alliance and who holds a doctorate in education and … Continue reading Teacher praises Western Civilization, her school fires her
A 20-year-old Texas man who was a would-be copycat of the Boston Marathon bombers entered a guilty plea to attempting to provide material support to the overseas terrorist group ISIS by offering to be martyred and disseminating information about making bombs. Kaan … Continue reading Homegrown terrorist pleads guilty to attempting to support ISIS
While Duke University’s student newspaper, The Chronicle, characterizes Israel as a “murderous” country with “genocidal policies” and defends Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) anti-Semitic tropes, the Ford Foundation makes the Tar Heel State the focus of intense “social-justice investing.” Long a hotbed … Continue reading The radicalization of campus anti-Semitism in North Carolina
The parents of Otto Warmbier, a U.S. college student who died after a year of apparently harsh treatment in North Korea’s brutal penal system, have asked the courts to liquidate one of the regime’s cargo ships that the United States seized in … Continue reading Otto Warmbier’s parents demand sale of North Korean ship
News analysis WASHINGTON—Democratic presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand is throwing her weight behind legislation that would have the government catalog hate crimes, something the Federal Bureau of Investigation already does. But waste and redundancy are nothing new in Washington. What’s eye-opening … Continue reading Gillibrand promotes Southern Poverty Law Center-backed bill
News Analysis A conservative judge on President Donald Trump’s shortlist for Supreme Court nominees has resurrected a lawsuit from a male Purdue University student who faced a campus “kangaroo court” that convicted him of sexual improprieties. The legal precedent could … Continue reading Appeals Court decision requires procedural fairness in campus sexual assault cases
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court has accepted a case from Montana in which it will consider whether states are allowed to deny tax credit programs to students who opt for religious private schools. The decision to take the case gives a shot … Continue reading Supreme Court to consider state aid for students at religious schools
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court has agreed to look at a lawsuit brought by pension plan participants who claim U.S. Bank lost more than $1 billion of their money by gambling on risky investments. This is the third case the high court has agreed to hear in recent weeks that touches upon federal laws that regulate how pension plans are operated. The cases are expected to be heard by the court in its new term that begins in October. In this case, the Trump administration sided with the plan participants and had urged the court to take up the case, which is known as … Continue reading Supreme Court considers when pension participants can sue their plans
WASHINGTON—A divided Supreme Court ruled June 27 that the Fourth Amendment doesn’t prevent states from taking a blood sample from an unconscious drunk driving suspect without a warrant. The 5–4 decision didn’t split along the usual conservative versus liberal lines. The judgment … Continue reading Supreme Court allows taking blood sample from unconscious drunk driver