Yeshiva University vowed to continue fighting in litigation over who should have the power to determine which campus groups it recognizes after the Supreme Court on Sept. 14 unexpectedly lifted a 5-day-old order that allowed it to refuse to accept an … Continue reading Yeshiva University vows to continue fight against forced recognition of LGBT campus club
The District of Columbia has gotten rid of its regulation limiting how much ammunition a concealed-carry handgun permit holder may carry after a local resident sued it in federal court. This marks the second time in under a year that the local … Continue reading District of Columbia repeals gun ammo limit in bid to settle Second Amendment lawsuit
Yeshiva University in New York will have to recognize an LGBT student club on campus—at least while litigation proceeds in lower courts—after the U.S. Supreme Court abruptly reversed itself on Sept. 14, lifting a stay it had granted five days earlier. While … Continue reading Supreme Court reverses itself, rules Yeshiva University must recognize LGBT club
A state court blocked voting by mail in Delaware on Sept. 14 after ruling that the state’s mail-in voting practices violate the Delaware Constitution. Barring further judicial or legislative action, the ruling means mail-in voting will not be available in the upcoming … Continue reading Delaware court strikes down state’s voting-by-mail law
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan said on Sept. 12 that justices will be updated by month’s end on the progress of an internal investigation into the wintertime leak of a draft abortion opinion that previewed the reversal of 49-year-old abortion … Continue reading Supreme Court leak investigation update expected at end of month: Kagan
Pennsylvania’s highest court rejected a request by Gov. Tom Wolf to immediately take up his challenge to legislation that would advance a proposed state constitutional amendment declaring there is no right to abortion in the state, along with four other unrelated proposed … Continue reading Pennsylvania Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to constitutional amendment declaring no right to abortion in the state
Mark Levin quoted me on his Fox News TV show, “Life, Liberty, and Levin,” tonight (Sept. 11, 2022). The video clip is available here. The article he quoted from is “Flashback: Bill Clinton gave China missile technology,” which was reposted … Continue reading Mark Levin quoted me on his Fox News TV show tonight about Bill Clinton selling America out to the Communist Chinese
…or so I have been informed. If I can find a clip, I’ll post it. Levin quoted me on his radio show, too, some years back. (YouTube video: Mark Levin reads Matthew Vadum’s article “Is ACORN behind violent unrest in … Continue reading Mark Levin quoted me on his Fox News TV show tonight…
A federal appeals court last week sent a case challenging California’s ban on long gun sales to people under 21 back to a district court, instead of immediately enforcing the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision saying gun regulations must be based … Continue reading 9th Circuit panel vacates decision after previously striking down California gun law: Court gives state a 2nd chance to argue in favor of ban on young adults buying long guns
Yeshiva University in New York City will not have to recognize an LGBT student club, at least not for the time being, according to an emergency ruling the U.S. Supreme Court issued late on Sept. 9, temporarily blocking a lower … Continue reading Supreme Court blocks order forcing Yeshiva University to recognize LGBT club on campus
The Supreme Court refused a request on Sept. 8 by a Sunoco business unit to halt enforcement of a $155 million class-action judgment for unpaid interest on late payments for crude oil while it decides whether it should hear the … Continue reading Supreme Court won’t halt enforcement of $155 million award against Sunoco unit
A judge in Michigan late on Sept. 7 invalidated a 1931 state law banning abortions in the state that stopped being enforced in 1973 when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion throughout the United States. The decision, which seems likely to be appealed, came … Continue reading Michigan judge strikes down state’s 1931 law banning abortion
A female, conservative, Christian lawyer was accosted, jeered, physically threatened, and shouted down at a panel discussion at Yale Law School because enraged students acted on lies perpetrated by the leftist propagandists of the ultra-rich Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). … Continue reading No free speech at Yale: Student radicals shut down talk about First Amendment case
An Arizona mother is suing because authorities placed her name on a registry for child abusers after she left her son with a friend to go grocery shopping a few blocks away. One of her lawyers said the legal process that she … Continue reading Arizona mother sues after being placed on child abuser registry over babysitting dispute
The longtime counselor to Chief Justice John Roberts announced on Sept. 6 that he is leaving his post at the end of the month. Jeffrey P. Minear will retire as of Sept. 30 after serving as Roberts’ chief of staff … Continue reading Chief of Staff to Chief Justice John Roberts to resign Sept. 30
The tax-exempt status of the influential North Carolina branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was automatically revoked by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) after the non-profit group failed to file required returns with the tax agency for three … Continue reading IRS revokes North Carolina NAACP’s tax-exempt status
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) asked the Supreme Court to refuse to hear a death-penalty appeal by an avowed white supremacist who gunned down nine people at a black church in South Carolina in 2015 in an effort to spark a … Continue reading Convicted mass murderer Dylann Roof asks Supreme Court to consider his death-penalty appeal
The Supreme Court of Missouri ordered St. Louis Circuit prosecutor Kim Gardner, a high-profile left-wing Democrat, disciplined for misconduct in the 2018 prosecution of then-Gov. Eric Greitens, a Republican. Gardner is one of several prosecutors—accused of being soft on crime—in major population centers … Continue reading Missouri Supreme Court reprimands radical St Louis prosecutor Kim Gardner for misconduct
A new law that creates huge “gun-free” sections of New York state takes effect on Sept. 1, after the state’s Legislature doubled-down on gun control policies following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June that expanded Second Amendment rights. The sweeping New York … Continue reading Tough New York gun law takes effect Sept. 1: Many public, private spaces will be off-limits for those carrying firearms
New York City-based Yeshiva University filed an emergency application with the U.S. Supreme Court on Aug. 29 asking the court to stay a lower court order forcing it to recognize an LGBTQ student club. The application comes as the high court has … Continue reading Yeshiva University asks Supreme Court to block order forcing it to recognize LGBTQ club on campus: The lower court order is ‘an unprecedented intrusion into the autonomy of a religious organization,’ the school argues