
Donald Trump’s recent comments that Sen. Ted Cruz may not be constitutionally eligible to be President of the United States has sparked discussion on the Constitution’s Natural Born Clause.
by Ken Klukowski7 Jan 2016, 4:55 AM PST0

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today top religious-liberty scholars and lawyers asked the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that a state law requiring a person of faith to engage in actions that violate his religious conscience violates the First Amendment, in a case with profound implications for the hot-button issues of abortion and same-sex marriage.
by Ken Klukowski4 Jan 2016, 4:21 PM PST0

Speaking on the surveillance of Muslims, leading liberal constitutional professor Alan Dershowitz declared, “Criminals should have more rights than law-abiding citizens.” The professor’s statement is wrong, and it misses the more relevant point regarding the war on Islamic terrorism.
by Ken Klukowski3 Jan 2016, 4:16 PM PST0

Each year, the chief justice of the United States files an annual report on the federal court system. While most years recite statistics on federal caseloads and announce minor adjustments to the rules that govern legal proceedings, this year, Chief Justice John Roberts announced major reforms to federal lawsuits.
by Ken Klukowski2 Jan 2016, 9:17 AM PST0

Justice Stephen Breyer will not express an opinion on Donald Trump as a presidential candidate, in keeping with two centuries of Supreme Court tradition. But he did express an opinion on a related point: American courts are unlikely to allow Muslims to be held in detention camps.
by Ken Klukowski30 Dec 2015, 6:21 PM PST0

Tim and Eva Jisser started a mobile home park in Palo Alto, California, in 1986. Now the family wants to move on, but the city told them they must pay $8 million to do so.
by Ken Klukowski30 Dec 2015, 1:39 PM PST0

“Jesus Welcomes You To Hawkins,” reads a church’s sign in the city of Hawkins, Texas. But some atheists don’t appreciate the welcome, so the city is suing the church in order to fend off a lawsuit from the atheists.
by Ken Klukowski26 Dec 2015, 9:43 AM PST0

What exactly do Christians celebrate at Christmas? This is the story of the birth of Jesus in the town of Bethlehem, from the Gospel according to Matthew
by Ken Klukowski24 Dec 2015, 8:09 PM PST0

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Offensive terms can receive trademark protection, and Congress’s 70-year-old statute to the contrary violates the First Amendment, a federal appeals court held in a case that is likely to now go before the Supreme Court.
by Ken Klukowski23 Dec 2015, 9:26 PM PST0

Both Congress and private businesses can stop President Barack Obama’s climate non-treaty that Secretary John Kerry emptily announced from Paris this week.
by Ken Klukowski14 Dec 2015, 10:44 AM PST0

Every president is sworn to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States,” so before considering whether Donald Trump’s plan to ban all Muslim immigration into the country is good policy, Americans needs to ask if it’s constitutional.
by Ken Klukowski10 Dec 2015, 12:17 PM PST0

Prayer at Air Force Academy football games is a “putrid example of fundamentalist Christian supremacy,” according to radical atheist Mikey Weinstein, who has worked with President Barack Obama’s administration to purge faithful Christians from the ranks of the U.S. military.
by Ken Klukowski8 Dec 2015, 3:00 PM PST0

WASHINGTON D.C.—The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a city ordinance in Illinois restricting so-called “assault weapons.” Two justices dissented from the Court’s denying review and noted a disturbing trend against the Second Amendment.
by Ken Klukowski7 Dec 2015, 6:41 PM PST0

President Barack Obama needs a fact check. His argument that people on the “No-Fly List” should be banned from buying a gun shows a fundamental misunderstanding—or rejection—of constitutional rights.
by Ken Klukowski6 Dec 2015, 4:47 PM PST0

On Thursday, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch condemned the “incredibly disturbing rise of anti-Muslim rhetoric” in America and pledged to combat this trend and prosecute those responsible when possible.
by Ken Klukowski5 Dec 2015, 9:54 AM PST0

The U.S. Supreme Court will decide the fate of President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty for illegal aliens before the 2016 presidential election.
by Ken Klukowski1 Dec 2015, 8:54 PM PST0

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy is temporarily halting a month-long statewide vote in Hawaii that could eventually lead to a separate sovereign nation within America’s fiftieth state.
by Ken Klukowski30 Nov 2015, 9:18 AM PST0

U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli is asking the Supreme Court to deny a request from Texas and 25 other states for a delay before considering whether President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty is illegal. The Court should resolve the case before its term ends in June 2016, Verrilli says.
by Ken Klukowski28 Nov 2015, 9:11 PM PST0

Ahmed Mohamed’s lawyers are demanding $15 million, according to letters to the city of Irving, Texas, and Irving Independent School District (ISD) that list their grievances. While it is possible that on one or more issues Mohamed might have a claim, most—if not all—of this lawsuit appears meritless.
by Ken Klukowski26 Nov 2015, 8:35 AM PST0

President Barack Obama’s Department of Veterans Affairs has banned employees at its facility in Salem, Virginia, from saying “Merry Christmas” to veterans.
by Ken Klukowski20 Nov 2015, 5:46 PM PST0

Democrat senators today sided with President Barack Obama in the growing conflict between the president and other federal and state officials on how to deal with Syrian refugees in the aftermath of ISIS’s terrorist attacks in Paris.
by Ken Klukowski19 Nov 2015, 2:58 PM PST0

More than half of America’s fifty governors—including a Democrat—refuse to accept President Obama’s Syrian refugees. Unfortunately for them, federal law allows the president to resettle as many refugees as he wants. But Congress can stop him.
by Ken Klukowski17 Nov 2015, 5:54 PM PST0

This week, the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) declined to review the case of New Hampshire Right to Life (NHRTL) seeking public information on whether the Obama administration coordinated with abortion provider Planned Parenthood. Two of the nine justices argued that the Court should have taken the case.
by Ken Klukowski17 Nov 2015, 6:36 AM PST0

The case is Whole Women’s Health v. Cole, challenging a Texas law that requires abortion doctors to be admitted to practice in local hospitals, and that abortion facilities meet the same requirements as most medical facilities in terms of quality and care. Arguments are expected in March or April 2016, with a decision by the end of June.
by Ken Klukowski13 Nov 2015, 12:38 PM PST0

Retired Air Force Senior Master Sergeant Phillip Monk almost didn’t make it to retirement, when his lesbian commanding officer relieved him of duty because he refused her order to declare that Americans who believe in traditional marriage unfairly discriminate against homosexuals,
by Ken Klukowski11 Nov 2015, 10:43 AM PST0