After Los Angeles County failed for a fourth time during the current pandemic to convince a judge to shut down indoor services at a popular Christian megachurch, the county is moving to evict the congregation from a parking lot it’s been using … Continue reading LA County cancels church’s parking lot lease amid pandemic dispute
News Analysis Constitutional tensions between the authority of governments to use coercive powers to protect public health and the right of Americans to freely engage in religious worship have come to the fore in recent months as the quarantines, curfews, … Continue reading Pandemic restrictions on worship spark civil disobedience
Activist groups are suing Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose in federal court over his directive implementing state law that instructs each county to offer only one drop box for absentee ballots in the upcoming November elections. Republican Donald Trump won Ohio … Continue reading Activists sue Ohio to add more drop boxes for ballots
The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to reinstitute a rule requiring that an abortion-inducing drug be taken in the presence of a medical doctor, after a judge issued a nationwide injunction in July pausing the safety requirement during … Continue reading FDA asks Supreme Court to reinstate safety rule for abortion pill
Last night Barack Hussein Obama gave what was probably the most undignified, inflammatory, hateful nominating-convention address of a former president in the history of the United States. “This administration has shown it will tear our democracy down if that’s what … Continue reading Undignified Obama: What an ex-president’s inflammatory and hateful nominating-convention address was made of
A state judge in California put Gov. Gavin Newsom’s emergency order from July prohibiting indoor church services during the coronavirus pandemic on hold after a Los Angeles-area megachurch filed a lawsuit. The decision comes as thousands of Christians in the state … Continue reading California megachurch wins in court, resumes indoor services despite lockdown order
Three Christian churches and churchgoers in Minnesota filed suit in federal court Aug. 13 against Gov. Tim Walz for his pandemic-related executive orders mandating social distancing and the wearing of face masks during in-person religious worship services. The plaintiffs in the … Continue reading Minnesota churches chafe at mask mandate, sue governor for overreach
The Supreme Court rebuffed a request by Republicans to reinstate a requirement waived by Rhode Island officials on public health grounds that absentee ballots be witnessed. Rhode Island has four of the 270 electoral votes a candidate needs to be elected … Continue reading Supreme Court allows waiver of Rhode Island absentee ballot witness requirement
The Supreme Court temporarily blocked a lower court ruling Aug. 11 that would have made it easier for a group that advocates for redistricting reform in Oregon to collect signatures during the current pandemic. It’s the latest emergency order by … Continue reading Supreme Court blocks lower court order easing Oregon signature-gathering requirements
How to conduct the approaching Nov. 3 and subsequent elections has itself become a political issue after a spate of recent high-profile incidents of significantly delayed ballots and other electoral mishaps have drawn attention to problems associated with voting-by-mail. President … Continue reading Election security debate heats up over mail-in ballots
President Donald Trump is quietly turning a stinging defeat at the Supreme Court over an illegal amnesty for hundreds of thousands of young illegal aliens into what could end up being a victory for the Constitution and the rule of … Continue reading Trump heroically defies a lawless Supreme Court: The court’s ruling on young illegals is an abomination that must not stand
The Supreme Court voted 5–4 to pause a federal judge’s order requiring jails in Orange County, California, to enforce inmate social distancing and other hygienic practices. The ruling in the case cited as Barnes v. Ahlman was issued late Aug. 5, and continues the … Continue reading Supreme Court overrules judge’s order requiring inmate social distancing, daily temperature taking in Orange County, Calif.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed an executive order on Aug. 5 giving all but a few categories of convicted felons the right to vote after they satisfy their sentences, ending the Hawkeye State’s status as the sole remaining state to deny voting … Continue reading Iowa governor grants felons right to vote, ending state’s holdout status
A week before Minnesota primary voters go to the polls, the Minnesota Voters Alliance and an independent group of voters filed a federal lawsuit against Democrat Gov. Tim Walz challenging the state’s combination of laws that criminalize both wearing a mask and … Continue reading Minnesota governor sued by voters over contradictory mask laws
News Analysis Although portrayed as a conservative jurist for years, Chief Justice John Roberts has not behaved on the Supreme Court bench as his early supporters expected. Roberts was appointed by President George W. Bush, but distrust of him by conservatives and constitutionalists goes … Continue reading Chief Justice John Roberts: protecting the institution or his own legacy?
A major think tank on the left has come out in favor of limiting the terms of justices of the Supreme Court, who currently serve for life, to reduce what it terms the high court’s “outsized power.” The Center for American … Continue reading Democratic think tank embraces term limits for Supreme Court
(This is an updated version of an earlier article.) President Donald Trump vowed Republicans would take legal action against sweeping changes in Nevada election law rushed through the Democrat-controlled legislature over the weekend. The changes would allow widespread voting-by-mail as well as so-called ballot harvesting in … Continue reading Trump says GOP will sue to halt Nevada mail-in voting and ballot harvesting
President Donald Trump urged Republicans to take unspecified legal action on Aug. 2, hours before Nevada’s Democratic-controlled Legislature rushed through sweeping changes allowing voting-by-mail and ballot harvesting in the Nov. 3 election. Nevada is considered a battleground state. The Silver State, which … Continue reading Trump urges GOP to sue over Nevada mail-In voting, ballot harvesting
The Supreme Court temporarily blocked a judge’s order that relaxed election rules to give an Idaho activist group additional time to gather signatures for a ballot initiative amid the current pandemic. The vote on the unsigned order issued late in the day on July … Continue reading Supreme Court blocks lower court ruling suspending Idaho election rules
Lawsuits challenging voting practices in the battleground states of Virginia and Maine they claim are unfair were filed in federal courts over the past week as the Nov. 3 presidential election draws nearer. In the 2016 election, Democrat Hillary Clinton won 49.7 percent of the … Continue reading Activists challenge voting methods in Virginia, Maine in federal court