A Roman Catholic priest in California is suing Gov. Gavin Newsom over his continuing lockdowns purportedly aimed at combating the CCP virus that causes the disease COVID-19. The lawsuit comes amid a flurry of litigation challenging government officials’ emergency powers during the pandemic. In … Continue reading Catholic priest sues California governor over pandemic restrictions: Latest in flurry of lawsuits challenging government limitations on religion

Catholics and Jews are suing New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in two separate federal lawsuits over restrictions on attendance of religious services that they say violate their constitutional rights. “The governor’s new ‘Cluster Action Initiative’ is a completely arbitrary and astounding abuse … Continue reading Catholics, Jews sue NY’s Cuomo over limits on religious attendance

A personal injury lawyer urged a seemingly sympathetic Supreme Court to uphold state court rulings that allowed personal injury lawsuits regarding cars sold out of state to move forward against automaker Ford Motor Co. Eight, instead of the usual nine, justices heard oral arguments telephonically Oct. … Continue reading Accident victims urge Supreme Court not to narrow ability to sue automaker

Good-government group True the Vote urged the Supreme Court on Oct. 7 to send a message to allegedly overreaching state officials across the country who are making 11th-hour changes to voting procedures by blocking Montana Gov. Steve Bullock from requiring mail-in ballots be sent to his state’s voters … Continue reading Supreme Court asked to halt Montana governor’s ‘unlawful’ vote by mail order

Several Muslim men who claim they were wrongfully placed on the “no-fly list” for refusing to act as informants for the FBI shouldn’t be allowed to sue individual federal officials personally for damages, the Trump administration told the Supreme Court. … Continue reading FBI agents immune from lawsuit over no-fly list, Supreme Court told

Delaware told the Supreme Court that its law fixing the partisan makeup of that state’s courts should be upheld, on the first day of the court’s new term, which traditionally begins the first Monday in October. Eight justices heard oral … Continue reading Delaware defends partisan judiciary mandate before Supreme Court

The Trump administration is supporting a church’s federal lawsuit challenging the District of Columbia’s pandemic-related restrictions that limit church gatherings–even those outdoors—to 100 people. The U.S. Department of Justice filed a document called a statement of interest in the legal … Continue reading Justice Department sides with DC church in opposing COVID restrictions

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In a setback for Democrats, the Supreme Court agreed Oct. 2 to hear a challenge by Arizona and state Republicans to Democratic Party efforts to relax electoral integrity measures and throw open the state to ballot-harvesting and out-of-precinct voting. But oral arguments … Continue reading Supreme Court to consider Arizona’s ban on ballot harvesting after the election

After initially singing the praises of voting by mail in the Nov. 3 elections, some Democratic Party leaders are reluctantly backing away from the idea as enthusiasm for that method of voting fades. Pennsylvania’s Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman blames … Continue reading Democrats backpedal on voting by mail

Republicans in several states are pushing back against Democratic-led changes to state voting laws they say are unfair and likely to cause chaos in the Nov. 3 elections. Republican state senators asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Sept. 28 to block a Pennsylvania … Continue reading Republicans fight back in court against Democrats’ revisions of voting policy

The Supreme Court agreed Sept. 30 to expedite consideration of the Trump administration’s appeal of a lower court ruling barring the government from excluding illegal aliens from the 2020 Census count. The administration wants to keep illegal aliens out of the census count, which will determine … Continue reading Supreme Court fast tracks Trump’s request to exclude illegal aliens from Census

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Republicans intend to ask the short-handed U.S. Supreme Court to review a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling that extended the deadline for receiving and counting mailed ballots in the Keystone State, a decision they claim violates the law and endangers electoral … Continue reading GOP to take Pennsylvania court’s revision of election laws to Supreme Court

Two senior Republicans in Congress are warning that widespread problems with mail-in voting coupled with Democrats’ efforts “to change state election laws and procedures at the last minute” for partisan advantage could be setting the stage for “an unprecedented constitutional crisis” in the … Continue reading GOP report warns of election chaos, possible ‘constitutional crisis’

The National Apartment Association (NAA) and four individual landlords are suing the Trump administration in federal court over the federal eviction moratorium that prevents them from displacing delinquent residential tenants during the ongoing pandemic. The lawsuit, known as Brown v. Azar, was … Continue reading Landlords’ group sues CDC over pandemic-era eviction moratorium

The absence of the recently deceased Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court may give the high court’s conservative bloc the upper hand in cases to be heard in the coming term. President Donald Trump vowed over the weekend to replace the … Continue reading How Ginsburg’s absence will affect key cases

News Analysis President Donald Trump pared his sizable list of possible Supreme Court nominees on the weekend by indicating he intends in the coming week to name a woman to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who died at 87 on Sept. 18. … Continue reading Trump’s list of Supreme Court nominees down to 12 women

A group of Wisconsin voters filed a complaint with the Wisconsin Election Commission against an activist group funded by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, claiming that election-assistance grants it gave to Democrat-dominated cities violate state law and attempt to unfairly influence the outcome of … Continue reading Election complaint filed in Wisconsin against Zuckerberg-funded activist group