This week the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Bond v. United States that “the global need to prevent chemical warfare does not require the Federal Government to reach into the kitchen cupboard, or to treat a local assault with a
BORDEAUX, France–Much like liberals in America, people in France who lean left are shocked at conservative victories in the French elections for the European Parliament, and are concerned about the next national elections. Both on economic and social issues, the
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously smacked down the Illinois Supreme Court in President Barack Obama’s home state for violating the Fifth Amendment. Almost always the Supreme Court chooses to take a case (called granting a writ of certiorari) from a
Secret Service agents who moved protestors hundreds of feet back from President George W. Bush’s motorcade in 2004 cannot be personally sued for alleged First Amendment violations, the Supreme Court unanimously held. Bush stopped in Florida during a campaign trip
David Barron was narrowly confirmed as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. The Democrat-controlled Senate confirmed Barron by a vote on 53-45. Not a single Republican voted in favor of Barron, while some Democrats
Following Breitbart News’s May 5 story that Broward County Public Schools had banned students from reading the Bible and that lawyers from Liberty Institute were threatening to sue, and our May 14 update when the school changed its story but
Next fall the Supreme Court will consider whether the law permitted the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to remove from duty a former federal air marshal who told MSNBC that TSA was stopping its protection of certain flights. The case is
On May 15, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) announced the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on June 3 on amending the U.S. Constitution to limit political speech. If ultimately adopted, it would mark the first time in
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson was openly irritated both with Attorney General Eric Holder and with the U.S. House of Representatives over whether executive privilege allows Holder to withhold documents on Operation Fast and Furious. But she also signaled
Here’s Ken Blackwell on CNN, decrying how the Obama administration and the left are co-opting NFL and other professional sports as a platform and force multiplier to advance the liberal agenda. Many people know Blackwell was a statewide elected official
Many gun owners were disappointed when the Supreme Court declined on May 5 to take Drake v. Jerejian, but they shouldn’t be. Drake was an important case but also had significant problems, and there are more promising cases elsewhere in
Updating our previous story about a fifth grader told by his teacher he could not read his Bible during free time, school lawyers for Broward County Public Schools have now gotten involved and changed their story. They now say that the
President Barack Obama has a serious challenge next week with judicial nominees. Despite changing Senate rules to end filibusters and to confirm nominees with 51 votes, two of Obama’s picks to the federal courts are in jeopardy, with a possible
The House voted Wednesday to hold disgraced IRS official Lois Lerner in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify about the tax agency’s targeting of conservative non-profit groups. While most Republicans said the act was largely symbolic, the chamber technically
It came as no surprise that conservative and libertarian lawyers sharply criticized the president in Washington Wednesday at the Federalist Society‘s annual Executive Branch Review Conference. Yet even liberal constitutional lawyers were split over President Barack Obama, and would-be defenders offered
In what is arguably the the biggest legal victory for religious liberty in 31 years, the Supreme Court Monday ruled 5-4 that a town’s practice of starting legislative sessions with a brief prayer does not violate the First Amendment. The
With Congress breathing down his neck on Benghazi, President Obama has a legal ace in his hand – executive privilege – which he could assert to protect the documents explaining exactly why the White House came to blame the attack
Officials at Broward County Public Schools banned a fifth grader from reading the Bible during “free reading” time, according to lawyers from the Liberty Institute who are threatening to sue the school for violating the First Amendment. Giovanni Rubeo is
While the White House and many like-minded media commentators are touting that the unemployment drop from 6.7 to 6.3 percent is good news, the reality is other economic indicators reveal the 6.3 number is terrible for the long-term health of
Everyone who practices abortion law in federal court knows about NOW v. Scheidler, the organized crime conspiracy case litigated by the Thomas More Society that has pitted pro-abortion and anti-abortion activists against each other since 1986. Now it’s finally over.
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana–“The truth is, armed self-defense saves innocent lives, and denying that right gets good people killed,” declared Chris Cox–executive director of the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA), bringing thousands of NRA members to their feet for
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana–Thousands of NRA members attending the National Rifle Association’s Annual Meeting gave Gov. Mike Pence an enthusiastic reception during his speech. Pence touted Indiana’s laws and policies on hunting and self-defense, calling NRA members “the champions of liberty that
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana–Wayne LaPierre, the long-serving CEO of the National Rifle Association of America, rallied the troops on Friday with a broad-based liberty theme that made gun rights the centerpiece of what makes America the greatest nation on earth, telling NRA
At the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting this year, knives are the new guns. A growing movement recognizes that the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms goes beyond guns, and also guarantees the right to have a knife.
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is blasting President Barack Obama’s reported plans to circumvent federal drug laws, calling it an abuse of power and an end run around the Constitution’s separation of powers. Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have long
