America First Legal Foundation wants the government to investigate Dick’s Sporting Goods for a new policy that reimburses employees up to $4,000 to travel for an abortion, arguing that the practice constitutes illegal employment discrimination because the company does not offer … Continue reading Trump-endorsed group files abortion benefit-related discrimination complaint against Dick’s
Gun Owners of America (GOA) is suing New York state over new restrictions on the public carrying of firearms that were rushed through the state Legislature and signed into law after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the state’s requirement that a carry permit … Continue reading Second Amendment advocacy group sues New York over new concealed carry restrictions: Law gives Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas ‘the middle finger,’ group says
A federal judge ordered the Biden administration on July 12 to comply with information requests in a lawsuit brought by Missouri and Louisiana officials about alleged federal government collusion with social media companies to suppress important news stories in the … Continue reading Federal judge orders Biden administration to cooperate in social media collusion lawsuit: ‘Government can’t outsource its censorship to Big Tech,’ Missouri attorney general says
Most Democrats would abolish the Supreme Court, an institution they described as “fundamentally racist” and “fundamentally sexist” in a new national poll. Democrats’ anger at the court has grown dramatically in recent weeks after a leaked court opinion indicated the court majority was planning on overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 abortion precedent. Democrats have been incensed by its perceived rightward shift since former President Donald Trump’s appointment of three justices gave conservatives a 6-3 advantage over the court’s liberal bloc. Recent decisions on abortion, public carry of firearms, and reining in carbon dioxide emission regulations, set the stage for raucous … Continue reading Poll: Most Democrats favor packing or abolishing the Supreme Court: Democrats also say the court is ‘fundamentally’ racist and sexist
A federal judge on July 11 temporarily blocked Arizona’s personhood law that recognizes human life begins at conception, preventing it from being used to take legal action against abortion providers. The legal drama came as states across the nation including Arizona are trying … Continue reading Federal judge blocks Arizona’s personhood law that recognizes life begins at conception
New York’s bizarro governor, radical Democrat Kathy Hochul, whose party just rammed totalitarian anti-gun laws through the state legislature in Albany, seems to thinks she’s Jesus Christ. Is this characterization of Hochul hyperbole? Decide for yourself. In a wildly under-reported … Continue reading Hochul’s messianic delusions: Obey her orders on guns and vaccinations — or you’re a sinner.
The highest court in Massachusetts threw out a challenge on July 11 to absentee voting rules brought by state Republicans, a move that allows voters to submit mail-in ballots in the September primary election without having to provide an excuse. A brief … Continue reading Massachusetts Supreme Court rejects GOP challenge, green-lights mail-in voting
After the Supreme Court’s landmark Second Amendment ruling in June, California’s attorney general encouraged law enforcement officials in the state to deny firearm carry permits to individuals with a history of “hatred and racism”—whether expressed in social media posts or elsewhere. The problem, … Continue reading Woke California AG tells gun-permitting officials to deny applicants based on politics: This is part of the “blue resistance” to Supreme Court ruling, gun law expert says
Americans’ confidence in major U.S. institutions—including government and the media—is in a state of collapse, falling to an average of just 27 percent across all categories, according to the latest national poll released by the Gallup Organization. Only the military and small … Continue reading Confidence in US Media, Government, and Justice System Collapsing: Poll
A 72-year-old Vietnam War veteran is asking an appeals court to speed up processing of a gun permit he first sought 11 years ago now that the Supreme Court has ruled Hawaii’s gun-permitting system is unconstitutional. The Supreme Court determined June 23 that … Continue reading Hawaii veteran pleads with 9th Circuit to comply with Supreme Court’s Second Amendment ruling
Activists targeted Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Wednesday, driving him out of a popular Washington, D.C. restaurant where he was enjoying an evening meal. The action is apparently part of the “summer of rage” leftists have promised to protest the court’s … Continue reading ‘Unruly’ protesters hound Justice Kavanaugh from DC steakhouse: ‘Summer of rage’ against conservative justices continues
Louisiana may enforce a near-total ban on abortions after a state judge refused to extend an injunction, allowing the state’s so-called abortion trigger law to go into effect on July 8. The ruling came the same day as President Joe Biden signed an … Continue reading Judge allows Louisiana abortion restrictions to come into force
New York law enforcement officials are condemning sweeping new laws on gun ownership that were rushed through the state Legislature and signed into law in response to the U.S. Supreme Court striking down the state’s tough concealed carry gun permitting system. The officials … Continue reading New York sheriffs condemn ‘thoughtless, reactionary’ new gun law hurried through state legislature
Former Hawaii Senate Majority Leader J. Kalani English, a Democrat, was given a 40-month prison term and a $100,000 fine by a federal judge on July 5 after pleading guilty to honest-services wire fraud five months ago. English admitted that he took … Continue reading Former Hawaii Senate Majority Leader sentenced to 3 years, 4 months in corruption case
A man whose lawsuit against the District of Columbia 14 years ago led to the Supreme Court’s recognition that the Second Amendment safeguards an individual right to own firearms, is suing the capital city again, this time over its strict limit on how much … Continue reading Gun rights champion Dick Heller sues DC again, this time over ammo limits
After resisting a Supreme Court gun rights ruling for almost two weeks, the blue state of Maryland will stop enforcing its tough concealed carry handgun permitting rule because it violates the U.S. Constitution, Gov. Larry Hogan (R) said on July 5. On June 23, the Supreme Court … Continue reading Maryland governor ends state’s tough handgun permitting regime
Gun owners in the nation’s capital are suing in hopes of being allowed to carry firearms on the region’s crime-ridden public transit system. The lawsuit is one of several filed nationwide after the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling June 23 recognizing … Continue reading New lawsuit challenges ban on concealed carry of firearms on DC area public transit: Current law allegedly leaves riders defenseless in a transit system that is ‘soft target’ for terrorists
The Supreme Court has agreed to review the wire fraud conviction of Louis Ciminelli, who was involved in the scandal-plagued “Buffalo Billion” development plan in upstate New York when Andrew Cuomo was the governor. The case grew out of the ambitious Buffalo Billion Investment Development Plan (pdf), which envisioned the construction of a solar panel factory among other projects, and was aimed at attracting more than $8 billion in investments for Buffalo and the rest of western New York, creating nearly 14,000 jobs. Prosecutors claimed Ciminelli, the CEO of LPCiminelli; Alain Kaloyeros, who is a former head of SUNY Polytechnic Institute; and COR Development executives Steven … Continue reading Supreme Court to hear fraud appeal related to Cuomo-era scandal
How twisted is Chief Justice John Roberts? Let us count the ways. The conservative movement worked unceasingly for almost a half-century to undo Roe v. Wade, the 7-2 Supreme Court ruling that shocked the world by abruptly legalizing abortion from coast … Continue reading John Roberts: an enemy of the rule of law: The deranged Chief Justice just doesn’t care
The Supreme Court agreed to review the corruption convictions of Joe Percoco, formerly a longtime aide to former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a case that may call into question the legality of honest-services fraud prosecutions. Over the opposition of the Biden administration, the high court decided June 30 to hear Percoco v. United States, court file 21-1158. As is their custom, the justices did not provide reasons for their decision to accept the case. Percoco was convicted in 2018 on two counts of conspiracy to commit honest-services fraud for taking in upwards of $300,000 from companies that hoped to gain influence with the Cuomo … Continue reading Supreme Court agrees to hear Cuomo aide’s bribery appeal in pay-to-play scheme