The U.S. Senate on Thursday unanimously confirmed Sri Srinivasan to be a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit by a vote of 97-0, and he should already be considered someone on President Obama’s
Breitbart News reported on Jan. 25 that the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. declared President Barack Obama’s recess appointments unconstitutional. Now another federal appeals court has done so as well, all but guaranteeing the Supreme Court will take up
The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has changed its century-old policy to bring into membership open and avowed homosexual youths through age 17. However, the Scouts will maintain the ban on anyone ages 18+ who is homosexual, meaning that a
As counterintuitive as it may sound for an organization with such a wholesome and all-American reputation, it seems that secrecy and heavy-handed tactics are the order of the day at the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) meeting that will decide
On Monday, the Supreme Court granted review in what could be the biggest religious liberty victory for Americans of faith in decades. The case is Town of Greece v. Galloway. The town of Greece, New York, begins its town board
Several major cases will be decided by the Supreme Court over the next six weeks, including historic issues such as gay marriage and affirmative action. These cases make the remainder of the Court’s term–which ends in June–one of the most
U.S. District Judge David Campbell handed both sides a partial victory at the first stage in a case challenging Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s executive order that her state will not issue driver’s licenses to illegal aliens allowed to stay in
Liberty University–America’s largest Christian university–had its day in court yesterday against Obamacare before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. It is the most comprehensive legal challenge currently in the federal courts against President Obama’s signature law. Mat
President Barack Obama’s nominee to the second highest federal court in the nation cleared a key hurdle today, passing the Senate Judiciary Committee on a unanimous 18-0 vote. Sri Srinivasan is currently chief deputy solicitor general, second only to Solicitor
Following 59 Members of Congress sending a letter to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel regarding Pentagon officials meeting with an anti-Christian extremist, another group of 72 House Members has sent a second wide-ranging letter, exploring whether these infringements on religious liberty
The Pentagon has now fully reversed its previous declarations and is now claiming it has no policy either way on whether proselytizing is allowed in the military. Given the contradictory statements on this issue and other instances of disallowing Christian
On May 8, Liberty Counsel Action delivered to Congress a petition signed by 102,453 American citizens, calling on lawmakers to launch a bipartisan investigation of the Benghazi terrorist attack on the U.S. Mission in Libya on Sept. 11, 2012 that
Due to the growing controversy since Breitbart News reported the Pentagon’s meetings with anti-Christian extremist Mikey Weinstein–meetings that began in the early days of the Obama administration–several senators are now formally looking for answers from Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. U.S.
The Obama-Hagel Pentagon is trying to minimize Breitbart News’ blockbuster story last week of top brass meeting with anti-Christian extremist Mikey Weinstein, whom we reported calls Christians “monsters” imposing a “rapacious reign of theocratic terror” and says sharing the gospel
At its recent convention, the board of directors of the National Rifle Association of America elected Alabama lawyer James W. Porter II as the 62nd president of the nation’s oldest and largest civil-rights organization, founded in 1871 and boasting over
At the National Rifle Association’s convention in Houston, TX, NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre announced that the NRA has now grown to an unprecedented 5 million active members. He concluded his speech with the theme of all the NRA
The Pentagon has released a statement confirming that soldiers could be prosecuted for promoting their faith: “Religious proselytization is not permitted within the Department of Defense…Court martials and non-judicial punishments are decided on a case-by-case basis…”. The statement, released to
Updating our earlier report: Details are emerging that when U.S. Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler read Dhokhar Tsarnaev his Miranda rights, she went to his hospital room accompanied by a federal public defender (meaning taxpayer-funded) and an assistant U.S. attorney from
U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli has filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the justices to take and reverse a lower-court ruling that President Barack Obama’s recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) are unconstitutional, and
Breitbart News reported earlier that a U.S. Magistrate, Marianne Bowler, was the official who read Dzhokhar Tsarnaev his Miranda rights, advising him, among other rights, that he had the right to remain silent and asking him if he wanted an attorney
