DALLAS, Texas — The question of how Texas schools are gearing up to absorb the influx of undocumented minors has been the speculative fodder of social media pages and fiery local town hall meetings throughout the summer months. Now, the
All this talk of impeaching the president is the stupidest Republican political strategy so far this century. Sure, anybody can make a strong argument that President Obama is one of the worst presidents in modern history. All the hope and
Late Thursday, lawyers challenging a key part of Obamacare petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to take their case. The Court is very likely to grant the petition, resulting in oral argument in January or February of 2015 and a decision
ObamaCare suffered a potentially existential legal blow last week when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit – often called the nation’s second highest court – struck down an IRS rule that extends federal subsidies for health insurance
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg plans on staying on the U.S. Supreme Court for the time being, creating the possibility that her seat will be a factor in the 2016 presidential election. On July 30, Ginsburg sat down with Katie Couric
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had a bad answer for Democrats who are worried if President Barack Obama can not choose her replacement, the court could flip more conservative because of the high historical likelihood that after eight years
While we enjoy the blizzard of fundraising letters Democrats are using to siphon cash out of their gullible supporters, and MSNBC’s round-the-clock saturation coverage of the non-existent impeachment threat, let’s pause for a little comic relief from the reliably amusing
AUSTIN, Texas–Attorneys for Abigail Fisher have filed the next round of appeals in her challenge to the University of Texas system’s use of race in their undergraduate admissions. Fisher, who is white, first filed suit in 2008 after she was
The details of a 2009 draft of health care reform have become relevant again this month. Here’s what the so-called HELP bill said and why it matters now. The Halbig case is the one about whether or not tax subsidies
During a town hall meeting at a summit with the Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders, President Obama explained to a young African student that to succeed, a burgeoning country required a system of laws. He explained: Regardless of the
Bay Area Planned Parenthood executives, used to presenting their pro-abortion case to prospective clients without a countervailing response, are whining that the San Francisco police and the city attorney aren’t protecting them from those nasty pro-life protesters who are appearing
Of late, the Obama Administration and hypocrisy have become synonymous. For a president who loves to pretend his policies and ideas are always in favor of middle-class workers, Obama can’t seem to help himself when it comes to attending fundraising
Proponents of personhood–the political and legal proposition that the unborn child should be recognized as a person entitled to protection under the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, thereby making abortion illegal–have hoped that a state would enact a personhood amendment. Such
President Obama’s supporters were reportedly offered deep discounts for what the San Francisco Chronicle reported as a “fast cash-and-grab fundraising drive” which took place in California’s Bay Area on Wednesday. A donor who attended one of two events at which the president spoke
On Tuesday, Governor Jerry Brown nominated Mexican-born Mariano-Florention Cuéllar (nicknamed Tino) to replace one of California’s most conservative Supreme Court Justices, Marvin H. Baxter. Brown’s Democratic nomination will move California’s Supreme Court further to the left. Cuéllar, 41, is currently
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Civil rights leaders at the NAACP annual convention in Las Vegas on Tuesday worried that dwindling African-American turnout in November could lead to the expansion of voter-identification laws that make it harder for that community to
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, speaking at the annual conference of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Monterey, waxed eloquent on the deficiencies of the Constitution and implied that those who believe in the original intent of the
Most political handicappers of Senate races this fall generally assume that the GOP will capture the seat of former-Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT). Cook Political Report ranks the race as “Lean GOP,” a relatively bullish indicator. A new poll from liberal
Senate liberals–a mix of almost all Democrats and a few Republicans–missed by a hair last week in a bid to overturn the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision, which ruled unconstitutional the Obama administration’s heavy-handed requirement that business owners provide abortion
Today a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court issued a ruling which could have a substantial impact on the fate of Obamacare. The panel ruled that the plain language of the law indicates subsidies are only available to states
On July 20, Slate magazine asked whether immigration stops inside the state of Arizona, “25 to 50 miles north of Mexico,” exceed the Border Patrol’s “legal mandate.” The article deals with “interior checkpoints”–randomly located–where drivers are slowed to a stop and asked by Border
After a federal court ruled on Tuesday that the Obama administration exceeded its statutory authority when it decided to grant Obamacare subsidies through state and federal exchanges, Dr. Ben Carson said Chief Justice John Roberts is probably having “second thoughts”
President Obama’s un-Constitutional practice of lawlessly ignoring and rewriting laws to suit his left-wing political agenda has come back to bite his signature domestic achievement. Tuesday morning a federal appeals court dealt what USA Today describes as a “potentially major
The U.S. Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee is scheduled to vote Tuesday on the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), a treaty that, if ratified, could undermine parental rights and those of people with disabilities. According to
Senator Mark Begich (D-AK) claimed on Friday that four women served on the Supreme Court while discussing the recent Hobby Lobby ruling. This would come as a surprise to Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, the three woman currently holding
