
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

WASHINGTON—Congress can sue President Barack Obama’s administration over a key part of Obamacare, a federal court has ruled. Lawmakers are challenging federal agencies granting tax subsidies to Americans for purchasing healthcare policies, because Congress has never appropriated funds for this part of the president’s controversial namesake law.
by Ken Klukowski2 Oct 2015, 2:40 PM PST0

WASHINGTON—In his historic address to Congress, Pope Francis warned that traditional marriage must be protected against unprecedented threats, expressing opposition to same-sex marriage, and separately called for protection of religious liberty.
by Ken Klukowski25 Sep 2015, 5:49 AM PST0

On September 23 the Los Angeles Times editorial board restated the paper’s position that the individual right to keep and bear arms was created by the Supreme Court via District of Columbia v Heller (2008).
by AWR Hawkins23 Sep 2015, 9:27 AM PST0

the Supreme Court is almost certain to announce that it will hear arguments in a new challenge to part of Obamacare, now that a federal appeals court has struck down another part of President Obama’s namesake law.
by Ken Klukowski19 Sep 2015, 5:50 PM PST0

GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) says Democrat-nominated Supreme Court Justices often vote like a “radical leftist nutcase,” and he criticized some Republican appointed Justices as “screaming train wreck disasters.”
by Alex Swoyer19 Sep 2015, 8:48 AM PST0

Leaders of the National Rifle Association of America plan an unprecedented year-long election campaign to protect the Second Amendment and America’s gun-owning heritage, Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre and his chief lobbyist Chris Cox informed the NRA board of directors at their Fall 2015 meeting last week in Virginia.
by Ken Klukowski15 Sep 2015, 6:13 AM PST0

GOP presidential candidate Gov. Mike Huckabee is celebrating the release of Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, who walked out of jail with him Tuesday afternoon. Davis was locked up for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses against her religious beliefs.
by Alex Swoyer8 Sep 2015, 1:47 PM PST0

Debates still rage on whether the children of illegal aliens are entitled to birthright citizenship, and Fox News now has two of their prominent legal personalities coming down on opposite sides.
by Ken Klukowski6 Sep 2015, 5:43 PM PST0

Kim Davis is a Christian woman sitting in a Kentucky jail tonight because she will not issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
by Ken Klukowski4 Sep 2015, 7:17 PM PST0

By all means, let’s have a vigorous national discussion about the Rule of Law, the misbehavior of our elected officials, and the importance of duty as a restraint upon the ambitions of those with power. It can begin with Kim Davis, but it must not end with her.
by John Hayward4 Sep 2015, 8:55 AM PST0

Conservative radio host and author Mark Levin says GOP 2016 contender Carly Fiorina should denounce the activist Supreme Court for its legalization of same-sex marriage nationwide, rather than advise a Christian county clerk refusing to issue same-sex licenses to either perform her government job or quit.
by Dr. Susan Berry2 Sep 2015, 8:34 AM PST0

The Supreme Court is denying a Kentucky county clerk’s application to stay a lower court’s ruling that she must begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. While government officers have religious liberty rights, some question whether the stronger legal argument would be to claim a personal religious liberty right to object to same-sex marriage, but not to claim governmental authority to ban her deputies from issuing those licenses, either.
by Ken Klukowski2 Sep 2015, 8:28 AM PST0

Illegal aliens can now claim Second Amendment rights to own guns in violation of federal law, according to a federal appeals court
by Ken Klukowski30 Aug 2015, 12:26 PM PST0

(CNN)When the next president is sworn in on January 20, 2017, three of the Supreme Court’s justices will be in their eighties.
by Breitbart News28 Aug 2015, 12:12 PM PST0

Parts of Donald Trump’s immigration plan may raise serious constitutional questions, but the part that launched a media firestorm—ending birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens—does not.
by Ken Klukowski18 Aug 2015, 9:02 AM PST0

America’s most famous institutions of higher education celebrate liberal justices on our nation’s highest court, but evidently see nothing worth celebrating when it comes to conservative justices’ accomplishments.
by Ken Klukowski15 Aug 2015, 12:24 PM PST0

Obamacare has survived twice at the Supreme Court, but it may now face a third challenge brought by the California-based Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF). PLF’s case is based on the Constitution’s Origination Clause (Article I, Section 7, Clause 1): “All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives.”
by Joel B. Pollak9 Aug 2015, 7:26 AM PST0

During a July 31 luncheon for the American Bar Association’s International Human Rights Award Luncheon, former Justice John Paul Stevens said he agreed with the Supreme Court of the United States’ (SCOTUS) decision that the 14th Amendment protects gay rights but rejected the claim that the 14th Amendment protects gun rights too.
by AWR Hawkins5 Aug 2015, 9:15 AM PST0

Officials are responding to the Supreme Court ruling in June that required every state to recognize same-sex marriages.
by Breitbart News16 Jul 2015, 1:53 PM PST0

Newport Beach City Councilman Scott Peotter is the target of criticism after releasing an e-mail message attacking the gay rights movement and the White House for twisting the Biblical interpretation of the rainbow. The White House was illuminated in rainbow colors after the June 26 Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage.
by William Bigelow9 Jul 2015, 11:36 AM PST0

The case of Obergefell v. Hodges, which ended June 26 with the United States Supreme Court ruling 5-4 to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide, is headed for the big screen.
by Kipp Jones8 Jul 2015, 8:02 AM PST0

One governor is showing the way to stand up to anti-Judeo-Christian secularists assaulting Biblical values. On Tuesday, Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin defied the state’s Supreme Court, asserting that the Ten Commandments monument stationed at the Capitol will remain despite the court’s ruling that it has to be removed.
by William Bigelow7 Jul 2015, 6:15 PM PST0

The biggest failure of Obamacare is its inability to create and market a product that healthy people (especially young adults) want to buy.
by Scot Vorse7 Jul 2015, 12:32 PM PST0

Kelly Shackelford’s debate with Evan Wolfson on Fox News Sunday highlights the battle lines for religious liberty in America now that the Supreme Court has grossly overstepped its authority by declaring gay marriage a constitutional right. This war will center on whether religious liberty extends to how you earn your living, get an education, and run a business.
by Ken Blackwell6 Jul 2015, 12:15 PM PST0