After Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (pictured above) signed a measure into law that requires felons to pay any outstanding court-ordered fines or restitution that were part of their sentence before regaining their right to vote, left-leaning groups promptly sued to … Continue reading Lawsuits seek to block Fla. legislation requiring felons to pay restitution
Independent journalist Andy Ngo, known for documenting Antifa’s violence, was himself assaulted by members of the radical leftist group June 29 in Portland, Oregon. The Quillette editor and photojournalist suffered a brain hemorrhage that required him to stay in a … Continue reading Antifa thugs brutalize journalist Andy Ngo: Leftist fascist mob finds meaning in terror
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court decided June 28 to review the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s highly controversial Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that has for seven years prevented hundreds of thousands of young people who came to the United States as … Continue reading Supreme Court decides to consider constitutionality of DACA
WASHINGTON—In a landmark ruling June 27, the Supreme Court narrowly rejected claims from Democrats in North Carolina and Republicans in Maryland that their respective state electoral maps had been unconstitutionally manipulated for partisan advantage. The decision came after the Supreme Court ruled June 17 in a … Continue reading Supreme Court bars federal courts from deciding gerrymandering cases
Minutes after the Supreme Court narrowly rejected the administration’s rationale for asking individuals responding to the 2020 Census whether they are U.S. citizens, President Donald Trump criticized the court’s decision and suggested delaying the census to give officials a chance to satisfy the court’s … Continue reading Supreme Court blocks Trump administration from asking about citizenship on census: President Donald Trump calls for delaying census in order to give Supreme Court another opportunity to hear case
As marijuana, as promoted by the mainstream media, entertainment industry, and tax-hungry governments, becomes increasingly mainstream in modern America, evidence is emerging that this drug that so many have deemed harmless may actually have detrimental effects on humans, especially young people. … Continue reading As pot goes mainstream, dark side of legalization emerges
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court unexpectedly passed up an opportunity to overturn a bureaucracy-empowering legal doctrine when on June 26 it ruled against a Marine Corps veteran seeking government-provided medical benefits. When the Supreme Court agreed Dec. 10, 2018, to hear the veteran’s appeal of a denial of benefits, it was widely interpreted in the legal community as indicating that the high court, its conservative wing having recently been bolstered by the addition of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, was considering tearing away at the legal underpinnings of the modern administrative state. It was thought that the decision to hear the case might foreshadow … Continue reading Supreme Court leaves underpinning of administrative state in place
All courthouses in Massachusetts have become ICE-free zones because a zealous left-wing Obama judge took it upon herself to forbid immigration officers from detaining suspected illegal aliens on judicial soil. This lawless order is reportedly the first judicial fiat in … Continue reading Obama judge invents sanctuary courthouses: Activist judge declares all Massachusetts courthouses ICE-free zones
As part of an ongoing nationwide backlash against politically correct restrictions on free speech in higher education institutions, a new “campus intellectual diversity” law in South Dakota that takes effect July 1 will require the state’s universities to respect free speech rights, promote … Continue reading Diversity industry under siege in South Dakota, nationwide
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court agreed June 24 to decide whether the federal government owes $12 billion to insurance companies that have lost money as a result of the “risk corridors” program within the Affordable Care Act, which is commonly known as the Obamacare law. Republican lawmakers characterize proposed congressional funding to make up for the alleged shortfall as a “bailout” for the insurance industry. A fiscal 2015 federal appropriations bill included a provision forbidding the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from satisfying the risk pool’s obligations out of general funds. The “risk corridors” program was designed to discourage insurers in … Continue reading Supreme Court to hear health insurance companies’ pleas for relief
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court overturned a ban preventing “immoral” or “scandalous” words and symbols from being trademarked, ruling the prohibition in the Lanham Act violated First Amendment speech protections. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which administers the intellectual property statute also known as the … Continue reading Supreme Court overturns ban on trademarking immoral or scandalous words
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court struck down a black inmate’s murder convictions and death sentence because the white man who prosecuted him on behalf of Mississippi unconstitutionally excluded blacks from the jury at his final trial and at others that preceded it. Curtis Giovanni … Continue reading Supreme Court strikes down murder convictions on grounds of racial bias
A Democrat U.S. Senate staffer who doxxed Republican senators during the nasty confirmation battle over Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, committing what prosecutors called “the largest data breach in Senate history,” was sentenced to four years imprisonment. “Doxxing,” according to … Continue reading Prison time for Democrat’s ‘vicious’ doxxing of Republicans: Ex-Hassan aide Jackson Cosko gets four years for “the largest data breach in Senate history”
WASHINGTON—The conservative wing of the Supreme Court flexed its muscles last week by overturning a 34-year-old precedent, making it easier for property owners to seek legal redress in federal courts without first having to file suit in state courts after … Continue reading Supreme Court overturns precedent, allows easier resolution of takings claims
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court rejected arguments that a large Latin cross must be relocated from public land in a Maryland suburb of Washington because its prominence supposedly implies government endorsement of Christianity. The ruling about the Bladensburg Peace Cross in American Legion … Continue reading Supreme Court allows Bladensburg Cross to stay on public land
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court punted in a high-profile civil rights case this week, instructing a lower court to reconsider its ruling punishing Christian bakers in Gresham, Oregon, who refused on religious grounds to make a cake for a same-sex wedding. The … Continue reading Oregon baker gets second chance to justify denying same-sex wedding cake
WASHINGTON—A fractured Supreme Court handed environmentalists a victory June 17 at the expense of the nuclear power industry, upholding Virginia’s 37-year-old ban on uranium mining in the state. Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring, a Democrat, told reporters the ruling was a “big win for … Continue reading Divided Supreme Court upholds Virginia’s ban on uranium mining
WASHINGTON—Convicting an accused person of the same offense in state and federal courts doesn’t violate the Constitution’s double jeopardy ban, the Supreme Court ruled June 17, in a case with ramifications for those convicted in federal court in light of … Continue reading Supreme Court allows state, federal prosecutions for same crime
The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in the nation’s capital is planning to use taxpayer dollars to honor unrepentant America-hating Communist Angela Davis (pictured above). Of course, this is the same museum that had to be shamed into properly recognizing the contributions of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, a brilliant jurist and political conservative, to American society. Initially, the museum praised his undistinguished nemesis, Anita Hill, a former aide whose politically motivated lies about his office behavior nearly felled his nomination to the court in 1991, before being pressured into giving Thomas the attention and respect he richly … Continue reading Smithsonian disgrace: How America’s historical memory has been traduced into celebrating a communist hack and servant of dictators
WASHINGTON—A closely divided Supreme Court dismissed a claim June 17 that a New York City public-access television network could be sued for allegedly violating the free-speech protections of the First Amendment. The 5-to-4 opinion on Manhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck, written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, held that Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN) was not bound by the First Amendment because it was not a “state actor.” Joining the opinion were Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch. At issue was whether the TV channel operator licensed by a government should be considered a state actor, meaning a … Continue reading Supreme Court: public access TV not bound by first amendment