
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

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

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

President Obama’s favorite moment of 2015? Sitting in the rainbow lit White House while a crowd of people gathered outside to celebrate the legalization of gay marriage.
by Charlie Spiering9 Dec 2015, 10:51 AM PST0

When the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) refused to hear a case challenging an “assault weapons” ban in a Chicago suburb on December 7, Justice Clarence Thomas dissented and revealed his belief that court “precedents”‘ would have shown AR-15s—and similar rifles—are protected by the Second Amendment.
by AWR Hawkins8 Dec 2015, 9:24 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

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

GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina came out swinging against President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for politicizing the mass shooting in California.
by Alex Swoyer2 Dec 2015, 7:01 PM 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

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

The appeal comes exactly a year after Obama announced his sweeping actions to shield millions of illegal immigrants from deportation and grant them work permits last November. Two lower courts have since blocked the administration from moving forward with the plans.
by Caroline May20 Nov 2015, 11:14 AM 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 U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled against President Barack Obama’s amnesty with a late Monday decision that will probably last until after he leaves office on Jan. 20, 2017.
by Ken Klukowski9 Nov 2015, 9:45 PM PST0

A federal court has again blocked Obama’s executive orders giving quasi-legal status and work permits to millions of illegal immigrants, an action that critics say is an illicit backdoor amnesty plan.
by Warner Todd Huston9 Nov 2015, 7:23 PM PST0

On November 4, Mexico’s Supreme Court made a landmark—and highly controversial—decision, declaring that individuals should have the right to grow and distribute marijuana for their personal use. The ruling applies only to a single cannabis club that filed the suit, but may have initiated a domino effect that will pave the way for eventual marijuana legalization.
by Sylvia Longmire8 Nov 2015, 10:25 AM PST0

The Supreme Court announced today it would hear oral arguments in seven cases where Christian organizations say Obamacare violates their religious liberty that is shielded by the so-called “wall of separation” between churches and the ever-expanding state.
by Ken Klukowski6 Nov 2015, 2:44 PM PST0

On October 23, Senator and Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz observed that the U.S. is one liberal Supreme Court justice away from going after the individual right to keep and bear arms with the intent of hampering, if not abolishing, the exercise of that right.
by AWR Hawkins25 Oct 2015, 7:32 PM PST0

WASHINGTON—Obamacare, religious liberty, Iran, and racial preferences are four of the major issues the justices will confront during the Supreme Court’s annual Term, which begins Monday, Oct. 5. The High Court will decide between 70 and 80 cases over the
by Ken Klukowski5 Oct 2015, 5:59 AM PST0

WASHINGTON—Seventy national conservative leaders have issued a “Memo to the Movement” on the Supreme Court, calling on conservatives to focus Republican presidential candidates on what sort of justices they would appoint. These leaders have one simple demand: “No more surprises.”
by Ken Klukowski3 Oct 2015, 2:28 PM PST0