News Analysis New civil rights legislation introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives that would extend protection to LGBTQ individuals would also undermine First Amendment free speech rights while opening the door to religious-based discrimination, according to conservative critics. The … Continue reading Critics see ‘Equality Act’ as ‘endless lawsuit machine’
Congressional Republicans have decided to resume their push to legislatively repeal and replace Obamacare only after the next election in November 2020, which means they will be able to campaign against the program over the coming 19 months. This is, … Continue reading No Obamacare repeal until 2021 (at the earliest): Congressional repeal of the Democrats’ health care fascism will have to wait
The terrorism-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations recently suffered a rare defeat in its long-running push to mainstream Muslim values in U.S. schools, when a federal lawsuit was settled. The group agreed to end its program in San Diego schools, which … Continue reading Teaching Muslim values in public schools rejected in California
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court refused to be drawn into a high-profile lawsuit about abortion-related undercover sting videos when it declined April 1 to review a lower court’s decision denying the Center for Medical Progress’s motion to dismiss Planned Parenthood’s federal and … Continue reading Planned Parenthood suit against watchdog group to go ahead
Easily the most hands-on vice president the United States has ever seen, Joe Biden’s creepy old man behavior is finally catching up with him. After decades of snuggling up to, hugging, sniffing, and kissing unsuspecting, helpless women of all ages, … Continue reading Is creepy old Uncle Joe toast? Fondling and kissing helpless women may be the former veep’s undoing
WASHINGTON—A divided Supreme Court rejected a request from a condemned man in Missouri with a rare and painful medical condition to be gassed to death with nitrogen, instead of injected with lethal drugs, finding that even in his medical circumstances, … Continue reading Supreme Court: execution goes ahead despite pain
An activist federal judge in Alaska dealt a significant blow March 29 to the Trump administration’s plans for expanding oil drilling on the U.S. coasts, by invalidating President Donald Trump’s executive order removing President Barack Obama’s bans on oil and … Continue reading Judge blocks Trump’s approval of Arctic offshore drilling
America has never been “great” and those who embrace the Trump campaign slogan “Make America Great Again,” or MAGA, are racists, sexists, and homophobes, disgraced former Attorney General Eric Holder told his ideological comrades at MSNBC in an interview this … Continue reading Eric Holder: America never great: A God complex on full display
WASHINGTON—An investment banker who sent deceptive emails to prospective clean-energy investors greatly overstating a company’s financial health can’t escape responsibility for securities fraud because he was only following his supervisor’s directions, the Supreme Court ruled March 27. Justice Stephen Breyer wrote the 6-to-2 majority opinion in Lorenzo v. SEC, rejecting the reasoning employed by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, when he was a member of the lower court panel that previously heard the case. “By sending emails he understood to contain material untruths, [the petitioner] ‘employ[ed]’ a ‘device,’ ‘scheme,’ and ‘artifice to defraud’” within the meaning of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rules, … Continue reading Supreme Court finds investment banker following orders culpable
WASHINGTON—A lawyer for a Marine Corps veteran said to have been arbitrarily denied medical benefits urged the Supreme Court to overturn a bureaucracy-empowering legal doctrine that allowed the executive agency to refuse those benefits. If the court agrees with James … Continue reading Supreme Court hears case about medical benefits that could shake administrative state
Three months after a federal court struck down the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that created Obamacare, the Department of Justice announced that it will back the court’s landmark decision, escalating the Trump administration’s attacks on the un-American 2010 … Continue reading DOJ backs court ruling killing Obamacare: The Trump administration green-lights judicial repeal of the hated law
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court appeared divided on March 26 about separate legal challenges to the state electoral maps of North Carolina and Maryland, which partisans on both sides in those states say are unfairly tilted to their opponents. Whatever the court … Continue reading Supreme Court hears cases on gerrymandering in 2 states
WASHINGTON—Supreme Court justices questioned the wisdom of allowing regulators to ban faxed solicitations that seek to give away a product for free during oral arguments on March 25, in a case that could have broader implications for telemarketers and political campaigners. A ruling for the sender of the unwanted fax could weaken the administrative state by taking power away from unelected bureaucrats who write and enforce rules interpreting laws approved by lawmakers elected by the American people. Justices Stephen Breyer, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh expressed concern that compelling a lower court to bow to a statutory interpretation the Federal … Continue reading Supreme Court considers deference to FCC
The Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund forced an unprecedented lawsuit settlement on the San Diego Unified School District, which partnered with the terrorism-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations, requiring the district to shut down its discriminatory, unconstitutional “anti-Islamophobia initiative.” The embattled … Continue reading California school district forced to dump CAIR’s Islamic indoctrination program: San Diego district settles federal lawsuit brought by Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund
WASHINGTON—Supporters of American energy exploration and development are alarmed at an activist judge’s ruling last week that environmentalists claim provides their movement with the “Holy Grail” ruling they need to cripple the nation’s oil and natural gas industries. Two left-wing … Continue reading Opponents to oil drilling win ‘Holy Grail’ decision
President Trump signed an executive order yesterday directing the nation’s colleges and universities to defend free speech on campus or lose federal research funding. “In America, the very heart of the university’s mission is preparing students for life as citizens … Continue reading Trump signs executive order on campus free speech: Colleges and universities that won’t protect free speech may lose federal research grants
WASHINGTON—In a case involving $8.5 million that Google had agreed to pay class-action plaintiffs for alleged privacy violations, the Supreme Court this week punted on the question of whether to abolish an increasingly controversial practice in which lawyers in class-action lawsuits funnel settlement money to charities they favor but which the plaintiffs may not. Google agreed to pay plaintiffs for allegedly violating privacy provisions of the Stored Communications Act, which regulates voluntary and compelled disclosure of “stored wire and electronic communications and transactional records” held by third-party internet service providers, commonly known as ISPs. Of the $8.5 million, $2.1 million … Continue reading Supreme Court punts on ending lawyers’ abuses in class actions
WASHINGTON—A divided Supreme Court ruled 5–4 that an 1855 treaty between the U.S. government and the Yakama Indian tribe prevents Washington state from levying a fuel import tax on businesses owned by the tribe, a decision that could embolden tribal … Continue reading Supreme Court OKs Native Indians’ fuel tax exemption
The vice chairman of the Maine Republican Party, Nick Isgro, is under fire for inveighing against open borders and the health problems that unvaccinated migrants from Third World countries are bringing with them to America. This blowback against Isgro (pictured … Continue reading Maine GOP leader attacked for opposing open borders: Party vice chairman Nick Isgro is under fire for daring to be a conservative
WASHINGTON—The lawyer for a black death row inmate in Mississippi told a sympathetic Supreme Court on March 20 that her client’s 2010 conviction at his sixth trial on the same charges was tainted because the white prosecutor unconstitutionally excluded blacks from the … Continue reading Supreme Court reviews role of race in death penalty case