As Breitbart Texas reported in the lead up to the March primary, Democratic and other trial lawyers recruited and funded “Republican” candidates to run against three conservative, highly-qualified Texas Supreme Court incumbents. Two of the challengers, Joe Pool, Jr. and Robert Talton
NEW YORK (AP) — Six years after slashing a psychotherapist he’d never met to death with a meat cleaver, David Tarloff stood before a judge and pleaded for mercy Friday, saying he was tormented for decades by what felt like
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) believes he can call Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas an “Uncle Tom” because Thompson, like Thomas, is black. Thompson initially called Thomas an “Uncle Tom” over the weekend because, he said, his decisions on the Supreme
Everyone who practices abortion law in federal court knows about NOW v. Scheidler, the organized crime conspiracy case litigated by the Thomas More Society that has pitted pro-abortion and anti-abortion activists against each other since 1986. Now it’s finally over.
The Orange County Register reports that some of the black Americans who live near the sites of race riots in Los Angeles that occurred after the Rodney King verdict from twenty-two years ago feel that in the wake of L.A. Clippers
Every month, Raymond Yowell, the 84-year-old former chief of the Shoshone Indian Tribe in northeastern Nevada, has almost $200 garnished from his $1,150 Social Security check, and it all dates back to a 5:00am phone call on a Friday morning
The government has lost its legal challenge to the European plan to implement a financial transactions tax (FTT) according to the Press Association. The tax is expected to do significant harm to the City of London, Europe’s biggest financial centre.
A new poll reveals that Americans between the ages of 18-29 have a lower level of trust in government than any previous generation. The poll, released by Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, showed that Millennials have lost faith in several
MILAN (AP) — The Italian appeals court that reinstated the conviction against Amanda Knox in her British roommate’s 2007 murder said in a lengthy reasoning made public Tuesday that Knox herself delivered the fatal blow out of a desire to
WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS–The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) responded quickly to Breitbart Texas’ interview with Northwest Texas Boy Scouts Council President Wayne Mansur. In the interview, Mansur raised his concern that his Scout group could lose up to one-third of
It looks like all sorts of people are joining the game of rewriting parts of the U.S. Constitution. It started with state legislators who apparently had time on their hands, and now it’s even extended to U.S. Supreme Court Justices.
On Monday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel, Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer called on Secretary of State John Kerry to resign for remarks he had made in private that were reported by The Daily Beast suggesting Israel could
Justice John Paul Stevens doesn’t believe anyone has the right to own a gun and admits that Americans would need to rewrite the Constitution to make his preference a legal reality. That’s exactly what he thinks should happen. Throughout his
Speaking to the NRA Annual Meeting on April 25, Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke, Jr., responded to former Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens’ push to change the language of the 2nd Amendment by saying he would like to
In the majority opinion for the Supreme Court’s District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) decision, Associate Justice Antonin Scalia quoted Sir William Blackstone to show that the Second Amendment guards “the natural right of resistance and self-preservation.” Blackstone clarified: “The right
Maybe the recent Supreme Court decision recognizing corporate free speech in Citizens United is why Kentucky Senator Rand Paul now wants school choice to be a “big focus of the Republican Party.” Nothing else makes sense. This issue has been
BILOXI, MS–South Mississippi Tea Party chairman John Rhodes is fairly involved in politics. The Tea Party chapter he leads meets twice a month. An active supporter of state Senator Chris McDaniel in the U.S. Senate primary here, Rhodes has been
HOUSTON, TEXAS–Texas is expected to out-produce every OPEC nation except Saudi Arabia in 2014, according to leading energy exploration officials with Houston-based ConocoPhillips. The boom could carry Texas’ economy for years to come. The biggest threat to the industry, however,
California Secretary of State Debra Bowen was the common target of four candidates for her office in the 2014 elections as they debated Wednesday at the Sacramento Press Club, the Sacramento Bee reports. Bowen pushed back, the Bee notes, in
Traffickers in child pornography must pay restitution to the children victimized by their crimes, but only to the extent that the government can show each trafficker’s connection to the video images in question. So said the Supreme Court on April
Obamacare, abortion, and political censorship were front and center today at the Supreme Court as the justices heard oral argument in a case involving an Ohio law that makes it a crime to “make a false statement concerning the voting
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Five former Buffalo Bills cheerleaders on Tuesday sued the team over a pay system they say had them working hundreds of hours for free at games and at mandatory public appearances at which they were subjected
On the day that the Supreme Court ruled to uphold Michigan’s constitutional amendment that bans affirmative action, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said that admissions should be colorblind. Speaking with former Obama adviser David Axelrod at the University of Chicago’s Institute
The gay federal judge in California who ruled that Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage, was unconstitutional in 2010 reportedly went through unsuccessful gay conversion therapy more than 30 years ago. Trial judge Vaughn Walker was the first judge to
In his commentary segment on Tuesday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel, network senior political analyst Brit Hume reacted to today’s decision by the Supreme Court upholding the state of Michigan’s ban on affirmative action. He explained while this
