The late Sage of Baltimore, H. L. Mencken, once wrote, “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” Polling suggests that America’s governors and mayors have done the … Continue reading Liberate America by turning the political pain up to 11
After a federal appeals court issued an order allowing some so-called medication abortions to proceed in Texas, abortion advocates have withdrawn their request to the Supreme Court for an emergency stay on Texas’s temporary ban on most abortions, which had been justified as … Continue reading Texas abortion clinics withdraw emergency Supreme Court plea after appeals court allows medical abortions
Releasing immigration detainees from custody based on unsupported suspicion that they might be exposed to the CCP virus while incarcerated unnecessarily exposes Americans to great risk, a panel discussion by the nonpartisan Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) heard. There are reportedly … Continue reading Panel: Releasing illegal aliens because of virus fears hurts society
On the day before Easter Sunday, a federal judge in Kentucky enjoined Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer from enforcing a sweeping social-distancing order that banned drive-in church services. The court ruling came some hours before the Trump administration vowed swift action to … Continue reading Federal judge: Drive-in church ban unconstitutional
Abortion advocates have, at least for now, decided not to challenge in the Supreme Court a temporary emergency ban on abortions in Texas enacted while the state combats the CCP virus. The move saves the high court from taking on a case … Continue reading Abortion advocates skip Supreme Court to undo pandemic-inspired Texas ban
Can any government statistics on COVID-19 deaths be trusted? It is an open question now that we are learning that the highly respected, world-class Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been lying to us. This revelation comes a … Continue reading The CDC confesses to lying about COVID-19 death numbers
News Analysis A backlash appears to be brewing among Americans who question the wisdom of curtailing their rights to move freely and assemble in order to combat the CCP virus, experts consulted by The Epoch Times said. The nation’s governors have … Continue reading As backlash grows, legal challenges to lockdown unlikely to succeed, say experts
A federal judge in Oklahoma issued a temporary injunction April 6 against that state’s ban on abortion procedures during the CCP virus pandemic, ruling that the governor’s emergency order shutting down abortions went beyond his emergency powers. The court decision came after federal … Continue reading Federal judge curbs emergency order limiting abortions in Oklahoma during pandemic
A Kansas police officer acted lawfully when he pulled over a vehicle whose owner’s license was revoked before verifying the driver was the owner, the Supreme Court has decided. The April 6 ruling came in a case, cited as Kansas v. … Continue reading Supreme Court upholds common sense approach to traffic stops
Pro-life activists who had been praying on public sidewalks outside an abortion provider in Greensboro, North Carolina, are suing that city’s mayor after local police threatened to arrest them for allegedly violating stay-at-home orders aimed at containing the CCP virus. … Continue reading Pro-life activists assert right to public prayer during pandemic
The mass hysteria over COVID-19 in the U.S. is driven in large measure by misleading statistics and bad math about the disease’s body count. Now that New York has become the epicenter of the pandemic in the United States, we … Continue reading New York City is lying about coronavirus death rates
The Trump administration created a good program in 2017 to protect U.S. workers by cracking down on employers that abuse temporary visa programs to bring in cheap labor from abroad but it needs to do a lot more, panelists at a discussion hosted by the nonpartisan Center for Immigration Studies said April 2. “With the virtual shutdown of much of the U.S. economy, American workers are hurting, and jobs are scarce,” said Andrew R. Arthur, a resident fellow in law and policy at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS). “Fortunately, there are agencies targeting, investigating, and bringing enforcement actions against employers … Continue reading Administration needs to intensify crackdown on cheap foreign labor, says panel
Students at three major Arizona universities have initiated a class-action lawsuit seeking pro-rated refunds for tuition and housing now that instruction has shifted online and students have been forced to leave campus residences in an effort to contain the CCP virus. Students across the country have complained about a lack of refunds or what they say are inadequate refunds, and more lawsuits against the nation’s institutions of higher learning may come. The Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR), which administers the state’s three major public universities—Arizona State University, University of Arizona, and Northern Arizona University—was named as a defendant in the legal action, Campus Reform … Continue reading Sent home to contain CCP virus, students seek refunds
An oil refining company has to cover cleanup costs that the owner of a vessel it was using incurred for a 2004 oil spill in the Delaware River, the Supreme Court found March 30. The ruling in the case, cited as CITGO Asphalt … Continue reading Supreme Court rules CITGO subsidiary must cover oil spill costs
A federal judge has ordered that 10 immigration detainees be released from custody in New Jersey because their underlying health conditions are said to put them at an inordinate risk of contracting the CCP virus in secure facilities that are ill-equipped to combat … Continue reading Federal judge frees immigration detainees on CCP virus fears
As America teeters on the brink of a planned catastrophic economic collapse, it is time to rethink our response to the deadly coronavirus that is afflicting us. There has to be an exit strategy out of this national suicide attempt … Continue reading The dictatorship of the immunocompromised
A federal appeals court has struck down a Trump administration policy that withholds millions of dollars in law enforcement grants from so-called sanctuary states as part of a campaign to pressure them to cooperate with immigration law enforcement, which is … Continue reading Federal appeals court blocks withholding of funds for sanctuary jurisdictions
An electoral integrity group that claims tens of thousands have voted illegally in Minnesota is awaiting a state Supreme Court decision in its lawsuit aimed at forcing Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon to release public data from the statewide election … Continue reading Group hopes state Supreme Court forces Minnesota to provide data in election fraud investigation
Over the objections of the Trump administration, the Supreme Court has made it easier for federal courts to review deportation orders made against immigrants convicted of serious crimes. Under federal law, courts of appeal had been allowed to review only constitutional … Continue reading Supreme Court makes It easier for criminal aliens to fight deportation
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court unanimously rejected a $20 billion civil rights lawsuit filed against Comcast Corp. by a black television programmer who was angry that the cable service refused to carry his company’s channels, in a series of rulings issued on March 23. … Continue reading Supreme Court rejects $20 billion racial discrimination lawsuit against Comcast