AUSTIN, Texas–Yesterday, the Texas Ethics Commission (“TEC”) held a public hearing regarding a complaint against Breitbart contributor Michael Quinn Sullivan and Empower Texans, the organization he leads, alleging that Sullivan improperly failed to register with the State of Texas as
Justice Antonin Scalia concurred with the majority on the Supreme Court in the unanimous decision to strike down President Barack Obama’s “recess” appointments to the National Labor Relations Board in NLRB v. Noel Canning. However, he wrote that the majority’s
On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously struck down a 35-foot protest-free zone outside abortion clinics in Massachusetts, ruling that extending such a buffer zone violates the First Amendment rights of protesters. According to the Associated Press, Chief Justice John
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a 35-foot protest-free zone outside abortion clinics in Massachusetts. The justices were unanimous in ruling that extending a buffer zone 35 feet from clinic entrances violates the First Amendment rights
Today the Supreme Court unanimously held that President Barack Obama violated the Constitution when he made several appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and other agencies without Senate approval. The Appointments Clause of the Constitution requires that all
Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, a U.S. law firm that is known to work closely with hedge funds, requested a ruling for a “potential repudiation/moratorium event” by Argentina according to a letter dated June 20 to International Swaps and Derivatives
America certainly has been having problems with the EPA’s employees, but it seems the EPA itself has been having a few problems with its employees, too. In one case it’s been so bad that the EPA has had to issue
Today in ABC v. Aereo, a divided Supreme Court held companies that stream content over the Internet are legally the same as cable companies, and violate copyright laws by carrying someone else’s content. Aereo provides paying subscribers with a service
On Wednesday, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) said the time has come for President Barack Obama to use executive actions to ease deportations as thousands of illegal immigrant children are flooding across the U.S.-Mexico border. “It is now time for the
In a 2-to-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Kitchen v. Hebert affirmed a lower court’s ruling holding that traditional marriage laws violate the Constitution. The case will likely soon go to the U.S. Supreme
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a strong defense of digital age privacy, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police may not generally search the cellphones of people they arrest without first getting search warrants. Cellphones are powerful devices unlike anything
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal from two severely disabled men who argued the law should be changed to allow doctors to legally kill them. But five of the nine judges concluded that a ban on
HATTIESBURG, Mississippi — State Sen. Chris McDaniel will challenge the results of the Tuesday runoff election, in which 41-year incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran won by about 6,400 votes, McDaniel announced to a room of supporters here at his victory party
“An agency has no power to ‘tailor’ legislation to bureaucratic policy goals by rewriting unambiguous statutory terms,” the Supreme Court declared Monday in Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA, rejecting the Obama administration’s unprecedented claim of executive power under the
On Monday, the United States Supreme Court declined to hear a New Jersey appeal of lower court decisions upholding a prohibition on sports gambling in the state. There is a federal ban on a sports book in the state, but
Influential playwright David Mamet told a theater company in Milwaukee it must cease and desist production of his play Oleanna because the company cast a man to play the female lead. The play was performed for one show only at the
On June 22 Washington Post reporter Robert Barnes argued that the Supreme Court created the individual right to keep and bear arms in 2008, via District of Columbia v. Heller. No attempt to grapple with our Founding Father’s words or
Argentina’s 42-year-old Minister of the Economy and former economics professor at the University of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, is best known for his research papers that “reinterpreted Keynes from a Marxist perspective.” Having elected leaders with this type of intellectual
Local school officials in California censored the graduation speech of a Christian student, telling him “reference to religious content is inappropriate and… will not be allowed” and threatening to cut off his microphone if he expressed his faith in Jesus
Yesterday’s decision from the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) to cancel the trademark protections of the Washington Redskins professional football team, ruling that the word “redskins” is disparaging to Americans descended from indigenous people instead of immigrants, has sparked an
A San Francisco man who stole two $29.99 watches from a Sears counter saw his life sentence for the crime upheld by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Wednesday because of California’s three-strikes law. Richard
After serving 24 years on the bench, California Supreme Court Justice Marvin H. Baxter has announced he will be retiring come January, which will leave not just one, but two, vacant seats for California’s Democratic Governor Jerry Brown to fill
JACKSON, Mississippi — Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) is appealing to Democratic voters to cross party lines and vote in an upcoming runoff election against his conservative challenger, state senator Chris McDaniel. But a noted election law expert says that may
The Berlin Regional court has heard the bizarre case of a 45-year-old sales agent who cut up a 37-year-old man and cooked his head. Prosecutors demanded that the man be sentenced to 6 years and 9 months for manslaughter, but
Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California have issued a floor alert to members of the California legislature urging lawmakers to defeat all pro-life amendments to budget bills, including any that ban sex-selection abortions or require parental consent for minors to obtain
