The Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal on Oct. 31, leaving in place a federal appeals court ruling that allowed the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to require the wearing of masks on airplanes, trains, and buses during the COVID-19 … Continue reading Supreme Court leaves TSA mask mandate ruling in place
Most Supreme Court justices seemed receptive on Oct. 31 to a student group’s argument that racially discriminatory admissions policies at U.S. colleges are unconstitutional and must be struck down. The Biden administration countered that such policies should be allowed to … Continue reading Racially discriminatory college admission policies receive rough ride at Supreme Court
The Supreme Court turned away a request by Ankara to throw out lawsuits filed by protesters who say they were injured by Turkish agents outside its ambassador’s home in Washington during a 2017 protest against visiting President Tayyip Erdogan. Turkey argued unsuccessfully … Continue reading Supreme Court refuses to toss out lawsuits against Turkey over injuries at US protest
A left-wing civil rights group is asking the Supreme Court to review the felon disfranchisement provision of the Mississippi Constitution that permanently prevents certain felons from voting, claiming the law is rooted in racial animus. The appeal is not expected to … Continue reading Supreme Court asked to restore felon voting rights in Mississippi: Civil rights group claims voting bar is rooted in racism
The Biden administration has urged the Supreme Court to reject a Republican bid to re-empower state legislatures to regulate congressional and presidential elections as they say the U.S. Constitution requires, including removing the judiciary’s power to weigh in on redistricting … Continue reading Biden DOJ urges Supreme Court not to take away judges’ power to intervene in federal elections: High court to hear case about Trump-backed ‘independent state legislature doctrine’ on Dec. 7
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito says the leak earlier this year of a draft opinion reversing Roe v. Wade made conservative justices “targets for assassination” and changed the atmosphere at the court. Alito’s comments came during a moderated conversation at … Continue reading Justice Alito: Leak of Supreme Court’s abortion decision made conservative justices ‘targets for assassination’: Alito also took aim at campus cancel culture during wide-ranging talk at Heritage Foundation
Former President Donald Trump is urging the Supreme Court to hear a case from Florida that asks the court to decide if states have the power to regulate how social media companies moderate content on their platforms. Last week, 16 states also … Continue reading Trump asks Supreme Court to take up Florida social media censorship case: The state’s law is needed to make ‘platforms state their censorship policies and apply them consistently,’ brief says
A Christian baker in California has prevailed in a lawsuit that a lesbian couple filed against her for refusing to bake a wedding cake to celebrate their marriage on religious grounds. The left has been targeting Christian bakers for years for political … Continue reading California judge refuses to force Christian baker to make wedding cake celebrating same-sex marriage
I found an old reference to me online by leftist shill and ACORN apologist Lorraine “Lori” Minnite. The quotation appears at a January 31, 2011 entry at the website for the Society for the Study of Social Problems, whatever that … Continue reading Vadum as “chief propagandist” in the downfall of ACORN
A divided Supreme Court of Louisiana ruled that a ban on nonunanimous jury verdicts will not be applied retroactively, which means up to 1,500 inmates who were convicted by split juries will not get a new trial. The ruling (pdf) on Oct. … Continue reading Louisiana Supreme Court denies retrial for nonunanimous jury convictions after practice ruled unconstitutional
The government of Mexico is suing five U.S. gun sellers in a federal court in Arizona, claiming the businesses are illegally engaging in arms trafficking for cartels in that crime-ravaged country. The new lawsuit comes after a federal judge in Massachusetts threw out … Continue reading Mexico sues US gun industry in US courts a second time
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction against a California college’s speech code that it used to justify censoring anti-communist posters generated by conservative students. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) won the court order in its lawsuit against the school, … Continue reading Federal judge rips down California college’s discriminatory poster policy
The Supreme Court on Oct. 17 refused to consider a challenge to an appeals court decision denying full U.S. citizenship to American Samoans. American Samoa, which is roughly 1,600 miles northeast of New Zealand and more than 2,000 miles southwest of Hawaii, … Continue reading Supreme Court won’t hear case about American Samoans being denied full citizenship
A conservative group is suing the U.S. Department of Justice for refusing to explain why it won’t enforce a federal law forbidding what the group called “the recent intimidatory protests carried out by radical abortion supporters” outside the homes of … Continue reading DOJ sued for refusing to explain why it won’t protect conservative Supreme Court justices’ homes from pro-choice protests
A photographer who claims her intellectual property rights were violated by Andy Warhol’s eponymous foundation when it published multiple stylized prints he made based on her photo of the iconic musician Prince urged the Supreme Court on Oct. 12 to make the foundation … Continue reading Supreme Court takes on copyright infringement case involving Prince, Andy Warhol
A voter-ratified law in California banning the sale of pork in the state from hogs raised anywhere in the world, unless the animals were raised in a space that exceeds industry norms, is unconstitutional, an industry group told the Supreme Court on … Continue reading Supreme Court hears challenge to allegedly unconstitutional California pork industry restrictions
The Supreme Court refused to hear the death-penalty appeal of an avowed white supremacist who gunned down nine people at a black church in South Carolina in 2015 in an effort to spark a race war. The court announced in an … Continue reading Supreme Court declines appeal of Dylann Roof, white supremacist mass murderer
A county court clerk in Missouri is asking the Supreme Court to throw out an appeals court decision holding that a minor has a “clearly established” right to skip parental notification before asking a court to rule on whether she can … Continue reading Abortion notification rules for minors dispute arrives at Supreme Court: Missouri court clerk says she didn’t violate the girl’s rights by refusing to accept her parental bypass petition
A federal judge in Texas struck down a federal guidance exempting LGBT employees from workplace policies on bathroom use, dress codes, locker rooms, and pronoun usage. A U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) policy document from June 2021 overreached in its interpretation … Continue reading Federal law does not exempt LGBT employees from bathroom, dress code, policies, judge rules
West Virginia’s highest court greenlighted a school choice program that a lower court previously blocked. School choice became a hot political issue during the COVID-19-related lockdowns as parents questioned governmental authority and what should be taught to children in public schools. Attorney … Continue reading West Virginia Supreme Court upholds school choice law, reverses lower court ruling