Behold some of the highlights, or low-lights, if you will, from the latest National Archives release “of previously unseen documents from the Clinton White House.” Should Bill Clinton mention his soon to be campaign competitor Bob Dole in his 1996 State
With a plot that sounds like a Jason Bourne movie, on June 2 the Supreme Court declined to review Risen v. United States, a case raising an important question on First Amendment protections for the media but in a context
Reacting to a series of recent Supreme Court decisions striking down provisions of federal and state campaign finance laws as violations of the Constitution’s free speech guarantee, liberals are increasingly pushing for a constitutional amendment to remove the First Amendment
In the contentious GOP Arkansas Attorney General runoff, David Sterling has vowed to hire conservative lawyers to help him fight the federal government’s overreach. His Republican opponent Leslie Rutledge thinks that could be discriminatory. Days before the June 10 runoff
Texas officials have decided to keep the source of the drug used for lethal injections secret. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott reportedly told officials at the Department of Criminal Justice they must “withhold the identifying information of the pharmacy and
A newly amended bill from a California lawmaker would require college students to stop in the heat of passion and establish verbal or written consent before having sex anywhere on campus, reports L.A. Weekly. SB 967, amended last week by
This week the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Bond v. United States that “the global need to prevent chemical warfare does not require the Federal Government to reach into the kitchen cupboard, or to treat a local assault with a
Planned Parenthood of Columbia Willamette in Portland, Oregon has announced that three of its nine locations will be shuttered this year due to fiscal shortfalls. Columbia Planned Parenthood (PP) president and CEO, Stacy M. Cross, bemoaned the decision to shutter
HOUSTON, Texas–Democrat Texas Attorney General Candidate Sam Houston pledged to end the practice of defending Texas from an overreaching federal government. He appears to believe that Texas and the federal government are the same thing saying, “Just think about how
NEW YORK (AP) — Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter and gay rights activist Melissa Etheridge has gotten married. People magazine says the 53-year-old Etheridge married partner Linda Wallem at the San Ysidro Ranch in Montecito, California, on Saturday. Etheridge and the 53-year-old
NEWORLEANS,Lousiana–New York’s attorney general is “desperate tosettle” his $40 million lawsuit against the now-shuttered TrumpUniversity, real estate mogul Donald Trump told Brietbart Newsat apress conference at the Republican Leadership Conference Friday. “Wehavea guy in New York, Eric Schneiderman. He’s a
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Chicago’s 30-year gun ban is unconstitutional, and the city must now allow gun shops to open in city limits. But this month, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced extremely prohibitive new regulations for gun shops, a
The Texas State Supreme Court dealt Lance Armstrong another blow on Friday in his bid to keep a firm from collecting $12 million it paid the disgraced cyclist in bonus money. The court denied Armstrong’s motion for temporary relief he
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) predicted that “sooner or later gay marriage is probably going to be approved by the Supreme Court” on “The Doug Wright Show” on Wednesday. Hatch was clear that he didn’t think legalizing same-sex marriage was “the
On May 27, retired North Carolina state senator Ellie Kinnard (D) used an editorial to argue that the Second Amendment does not define itself as absolute and that the Supreme Court made a mistake by “expanding gun accessibility” via the
The U.S. Census Bureau has announced that it will begin categorizing same-sex married couples as “families.” According to the Washington Post, the 2013 American Community Survey results, which are scheduled to be reported in September, will for the first time
Forty Republican House members are counting on the success of a lawsuit filed by the Pacific Legal Foundation that challenges the Affordable Care Act on the grounds that it violates the Constitution’s Origination Clause. Article I, Section 7, clause 1
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously smacked down the Illinois Supreme Court in President Barack Obama’s home state for violating the Fifth Amendment. Almost always the Supreme Court chooses to take a case (called granting a writ of certiorari) from a
A Christian obstetrician practicing in Washington, D.C. says he once refused to perform abortions, but about ten years into his career, he changed his mind. Now, he is willing to perform late-term abortions, even at 24 weeks of pregnancy. Authors
Secret Service agents who moved protestors hundreds of feet back from President George W. Bush’s motorcade in 2004 cannot be personally sued for alleged First Amendment violations, the Supreme Court unanimously held. Bush stopped in Florida during a campaign trip
Defense attorneys say some pretty crazy things to get their clients off the hook, or secure a lenient sentence. The defense of 75-year-old Pakistani immigrant Noor Hussain, who fatally beat his wife into a “bloody mess” with a stick because
Oklahoma is the most recent state to try to eliminate the Common Core standards. Many Oklahomans deserve credit for the bill Gov. Mary Fallin (R) may sign this week. The truth, however, is there will be no end to the Gates
This article originally appeared in the Daily Beast In 1884 Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. gave a remarkable speech in which he explained how grief and memory for the fallen dead unite the nation on Memorial Day. Memorial Day got off
Italy’s Five Star Movement, led by the raucous comedian Beppe Grillo who has denounced the EU-supporting social-democratic Prime Minister Renzi as “a little moron,” has joined the surge of eurosceptic parties across the European Union. According to @electionista, an average
Ten California school teachers and an education associate are challenging the state’s law that requires all public employees to join and support a union as a condition of employment. Rebecca Friedrichs and her co-plaintiffs filed a federal lawsuit, Friedrichs v. California
