The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a petition on June 16th by Argentina to stop a group of its sovereign bondholders from foreclosing on Argentine assets in the U.S. The decision effectively ends five years of legal battles in U.S. courts.
House GOP members determined to show that the actions of Barack Obama and his minions triggered the IRS targeting of politically conservative groups have released a 77-page report detailing the connections. According to the report from the House Committee on
The Supreme Court recently ruled in Abramski v. United States that a law-abiding citizen may not buy a gun for another law-abiding citizen when the buyer is knowingly doing so to transfer it to another individual; however, in expressing the
When purchasing a firearm, federal law makes it a crime to make any false statement about “any fact material to the lawfulness of the sale.” Bruce Abramski is former police officer in Virginia who purchased a gun for his uncle
The pro-life Susan B. Anthony List (SBA) was investigated for allegedly violating an Ohio election law banning false speech in campaign messages. It has now won on an issue at the Supreme Court that allows SBA to proceed with its
The Supreme Court is due to decide whether the owners of Hobby Lobby craft supplies stores can be forced by the federal government to include in their employee health insurance forms of contraception that are against their religious beliefs. The
The Regional Director for the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) joined Editor in Chief of Breitbart News and this week’s host of Breitbart News Sunday, Alexander Marlow, to discuss the second annual March for Marriage. Chris Plante announced that on
Today the Supreme Court denied review in an important First Amendment case, Elmbrook School District v. Doe. But there’s big news in a dissent that accompanied this denial, declaring that big change is underway for religious liberty. When the Supreme
On June 16, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that a law-abiding citizen cannot buy a gun for another law-abiding citizen. Justice Elena Kagan wrote the majority opinion and Justice Antonin Scalia wrote the dissent. As Breitbart News reported on January
On Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 from 7PM to 10PM EST, Breitbart News Editor-in-chief and host Alex Marlow will start the news week with coverage of important primary races, the ongoing crisis in Iraq, and cases coming down
In an astonishing challenge to traditional Catholic doctrine, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, nominally Catholic, has taken to telling San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone that he should not attend the National Organization for Marriage’s June 19 march on the Supreme
KATY, Texas–Republican Texas State Representative candidate Schofield was like the mailman, out walking, rain, sleet, or shine. It paid off because he won by 68% of the vote in a district where 5,100 voters voted in the run-off. He did
Saturday at the Costco in Arlington, VA, right outside of Washington, DC, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor made a surprise stop to see former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signing copies of her book, “Hard Choices.” Justice Sotomayor tells press
On Monday, the US Supreme Court ruled that if a child turns 21 years old, or “ages out,” while his or her parent(s) has a pending application for a US visa, they will have to go to the back of
Paul Clement has had one of the most storied careers in the law. One top legal recruiter said that when Clement was graduating from Harvard Law, all the firms were practically salivating to get him: “Paul Clement is the Holy
Four Republican senators are pushing to bring an end to a policy that allowed for the release of thousands of convicted criminal immigrants back into the United States last year. “By releasing these criminals back into our communities we are
The British Court of Appeal has halted an attempt by prosecutors to hold a terror trial completely in secret. Instead the judges ruled that the “core” of the trial could be partly held in secret but other elements of it
When Bud Fox tried to persuade Gordon Gekko regarding a business decision in the iconic movie Wall Street, Gekko responded, “Mixed feelings, Buddy,” saying it was like watching his nemesis, Sir Lawrence Wildman, driving off a cliff, but in Geckko’s
Behind the conservative’s dream-come-true victory of tenure laws and union contracts for California’s public schools teachers being ruled unconstitutional Wednesday by a Los Angeles Superior Court, is an organization called Students Matter. The group is led and funded by Silicon Valley
In 1976, the Wall Street Journal criticized the Supreme Court for creating a “half-dead monster” out of the campaign finance laws in a seminal case called Buckley v. Valeo. The Court recognized that limiting the amount of money someone can spend to get
Congress is seeking to violate the Constitution on voting rights–and doing so in a bipartisan manner. If this violation of the Fifteenth Amendment passes Congress and goes back to court, America may have to wait through another two years of
Over the weekend in Austin, Texas, state senator and gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis suggested that Republicans are intolerant of “those who don’t look like them.” The Huffington Post reported that at a Human Rights Campaign PAC, Davis said, “They’re talking about whether they
The 2014 March for Marriage will be held in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, June 19, with its main theme, “Kids Deserve a Mom and a Dad.” The March for Marriage begins with a rally at 11:00 a.m. and a 1:00
Six challengers politely criticized Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) for his co-sponsorship of the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill, his vote for the 2008 TARP bailout, and votes to confirm liberal Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan in the
A Wisconsin billionaire has been convicted of sexually assaulting a minor, despite the fact that prosecutors could not convince the teen or her parents to testify in the trial. On June 6, Samuel “Curt” Johnson III was convicted of sexually
