Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a Obama appointee, issued a temporary injunction against the ObamaCare contraception mandate. The law forces employers, including those with religious affiliations, to provide health insurance, including coverage for contraception and abortion-inducing drugs. The injunction went
(AP) Justice delays health law’s birth control mandateBy JESSE J. HOLLANDAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe Supreme Court has thrown a hitch into President Barack Obama’s new health care law by blocking a requirement that some religion-affiliated organizations provide health insurance that includes birth
The year 2013 was an important one at the U.S. Supreme Court in the life of this nation, coming on the heels of another blockbuster year in 2012. Breitbart News offers a perspective on the Court’s year in review. Supreme
After Oregon dazzled its way past Texas in the Alamo Bowl in what was Mack Brown’s last game with the program he built, the most important coaching search since Alabama hired Nick Saban nearly seven years ago officially started in
Some people are not happy that history will be made this New Years’ Day when the first same-sex couple will be married on a float at the Rose Bowl Parade. On the float sponsored by the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, “Living
Big Labor wins court battle in Washington State, and now employers in SeaTac, Washington wil have to pay transportation and hotel workers $15 an hour. The minimum wage was $9.32, but with the new ruling, employers will look to cut
Miley Cyrus will reportedly not get a chance to twerk near Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor when the two ring in the new year together at Times Square in New York City this week. Sotomayor will be the first Supreme
A survey of abortion clinics in the United States has concluded that a record number of 87 surgical abortion clinics closed in 2013. The survey, conducted by pro-life organization Operation Rescue, found that the total number of surgical abortion clinics
The fight against the crippling regulations imposed by Barack Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency on the coal industry is ratcheting to a higher level now that the regulations are soon to be imposed. Obama has said he wants to
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor has been chosen to lower the boom on the New Year, pressing the button that triggers the descent of the countdown ball in Times Square. Sotomayor, who hails from the Bronx, is the
(AP) Government, opposition groups clash in BangladeshBy JULHAS ALAMAssociated PressDHAKA, BangladeshRuling party supporters and their opponents threw stones at each other Monday on the second day of sporadic violence in the Bangladeshi capital, after heavy police presence foiled an opposition
As Colorado and Washington open up their states to legal marijuana sales, their residents face myriad challenges as pioneers in a country that has otherwise outlawed the drug–from smuggling into other states to the federal government’s looming ability to crack
We now have two equally potent court rulings about NSA meta-surveillance on the books. Unfortunately, they’re complete and total opposites of each other, drawing exactly the opposite conclusions from very similar arguments. In D.C., Judge Richard Leon said the controversial
The immediate future of same-sex marriage in Utah is unclear, as a federal appeals court decided not to stop a controversial ruling that legalizes same-sex marriage in Utah before an appeal can be considered. U.S. District Judge Robert Shelby, the
By BRADY McCOMBS and PAUL FOYAssociated PressSALT LAKE CITYA federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that gay marriages can continue in Utah, denying a request from the state to halt same-sex weddings that have been occurring at a rapid rate since
On Dec. 23, I debated George Washington Law Prof. Jonathan Turley on NPR’s “On Point” regarding his court fight to legalize polygamy. This is a bigger issue for American society than it may seem at first, since it ultimately reflects two different
(AP) Iceland’s hidden elves delay road projectsBy JENNA GOTTLIEBAssociated PressREYKJAVIK, IcelandIn this land of fire and ice, where the fog-shrouded lava fields offer a spooky landscape in which anything might lurk, stories abound of the “hidden folk” — thousands of
(AP) 2 Pussy Riot members released from prisonBy ALEXANDER ROSLYAKOV and NATALIYA VASILYEVAAssociated PressKRASNOYARSK, RussiaTwo jailed members of the Russian punk bank Pussy Riot were released Monday following an amnesty law that both described as a Kremlin public relations stunt
(AP) Pussy Riot member released from prisonBy NATALIYA VASILYEVAAssociated PressMOSCOWA member of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot was released from prison Monday, saying that the amnesty bill that gave her freedom was a Kremlin public relations stunt. Maria Alekhina
Washington state Representative Joe Fitzgibbon, a Democrat, said the state of Arizona was a “desert racist wasteland” after the Arizona Cardinals beat the Seattle Seahawks in Seattle on Sunday. He then promptly deleted his tweet and did not apologize for
On this weekend’s “Fox News Sunday,” Washington Post columnist George Will argued President Barack Obama would have been better off had the Supreme Court ruled ObamaCare unconstitutional. “By now it seems to me fair to say three things,” Will said.
One week after a federal judge in Utah held laws against polygamy are unconstitutional, another Utah federal judge has held that the U.S. Constitution also contains a right to same-sex marriage, describing laws defining marriage as between men and women
(AP) Gay couples wed in Utah after judge overturns banBy BRADY McCOMBS and PAUL FOYAssociated PressSALT LAKE CITYElisa Noel rushed to the county clerk’s office with her partner immediately after learning that a federal judge overturned Utah’s ban on gay
Ohio State Sen. Capri Cafaro (D) has introduced a bill that thrusts the state into a battle over homeschooling freedom and the rights of parents to choose how to educate their children. Senate Bill 248 was introduced by Cafaro in
(Reuters) – The New Mexico Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Thursday to allow same-sex marriage statewide, ending a patchwork arrangement in which some counties permitted gay nuptials while others prohibited them. The ruling makes New Mexico the 17th U.S. state
