(AP) White House welcomes review of health law disputeWASHINGTONThe White House is welcoming the Supreme Court’s decision to referee another dispute over President Barack Obama’s health care law. It involves a provision that requires most companies that offer health insurance
The White House has, according to insider reports, pretty much given up on defending most of ObamaCare, and is planning a 2014 political strategy that will focus heavily upon its Medicaid expansion. All the old technocratic pretensions of “reforming” health
Tax documents from Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS show that Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) is largely funded by Rove, ProPublica’s Kim Barker reports. “Social welfare nonprofits, also known as dark money groups because they don’t have to report
On the game-changing radical move to remake the federal courts, top Senate sources tells Breitbart News several things about the Nov. 21 change of the fundamental rules of the U.S. Senate, and its implications for the nation. Democrats “will rue
Now that Democrats have gone “nuclear” and destroyed the filibuster for most judicial and executive nominees, Republicans’ warnings about the true ambitions of this president and his party are coming to fruition. If the procedural rights of the minority party
The Senate voted Thursday, 52-48, to end the filibuster rule for all executive and judicial appointments except for Supreme Court nominees, which would still need a 60-vote supermajority to end debate and move to a majority vote on confirmation. The
Senate Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid is threatening to invoke the nuclear option, effectively violating the customs and traditions of the Senate filibuster that Democrats have held so dear in the past. Reid’s move would change longstanding Senate rules that
The right to keep and bear arms preceded the U.S. Constitution, as our Founding Fathers “propounded” the right but did not create it. They enshrined it via the Bill of Rights, all the while knowing the origin of the right
(AP) Rodriguez walks out of own grievance hearingBy RONALD BLUMAP Sports WriterNEW YORKAlex Rodriguez walked out of his grievance hearing Wednesday after arbitrator Fredric Horowitz refused to order baseball Commissioner Bud Selig to testify. Horowitz was in the midst of
On November 8, Representative Trent Franks (R-AZ) and thirty-nine other Republican members of the House of Representatives filed a “friend of the court” brief in support of a legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) based on the Origination Clause
As another of President Obama’s nominees to the powerful D.C. Circuit federal appeals court is blocked, Senate Democrats are seriously talking about invoking the “nuclear option.” Barack Obama has recently admitted his plan of “remaking the courts.” Since there are
When asked last week how he ended up on the Supreme Court of the United States, Justice Clarence Thomas said, “It was totally Forrest Gump,” in a revealing–and hilarious–on-stage interview at last week’s Federalist Society National Lawyers Convention. This full-length
Abortion is likely going back to the U.S. Supreme Court in what will be a major case. Pro-lifers won a victory Tuesday at the Supreme Court, albeit a temporary one. However, the justices also tipped their hand that they were
The Ohio Supreme Court ruled 4-3 in support of the firing of an Ohio science teacher for insubordination because he refused to remove “religious materials” from his classroom, including posters of President George Bush and Colin Powell praying. The court upheld the Mount Vernon
During the hearings last week regarding the nomination of Fed Vice Chairman Janet Yellen, the one thing you definitely heard nothing about was why the US government has not pursued fraud prosecutions against the officers and directors of the major
The author of a book on John F. Kennedy’s conservative legacy said Democrats are afraid to discuss all that the late president stood and it makes them “tear their hair out” to do so because it shows how far liberals
Bill Maher used his last “New Rule” to attack the Supreme Court for the Citizens United ruling that in Maher’s opinion leads to the “filthy rich” and “creepy billionaires” like Sheldon Adelson…
As Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was driving his wife and two young daughters to Mt. Vernon the other day, one daughter asked the other what she wanted to do when she grew up. “I want to work with daddy in
Arguments that terror prosecutions are criminalizing protected speech took another hit Wednesday, when the First Circuit Court of Appeals upheld terror-support convictions against Tarek Mehanna. Mehanna is serving 17½ years in prison after a Boston jury convicted him in 2011 of conspiracy
On Tuesday, Nina Pillard, the second of President Obama’s three simultaneous D.C. Circuit nominees, failed to muster the 60 votes needed for cloture in the Senate. The first nominee, Patricia Millett, met the same fate in October. Even so, Senator Harry
Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Mike Lee (R-UT) are among the headliners as the Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy launches its National Lawyers Convention at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. with tonight’s keynote address by Supreme Court
Hawaii has joined Illinois as a state whose legal approval of gay marriage now needs only the governor’s signature. The Hawaii Senate passed a bill legalizing gay marriage Tuesday at a special session called by governor Neil Abercrombie, who stated
President Barack Obama has made it official: he’s “remaking the courts.” At a private fundraiser for liberal Democratic donors at a DSCC (Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee) event on Nov. 6, Obama said, “we are remaking the courts.” Only presidents nominate
Millions of Americans should learn in three weeks whether the U.S. Supreme Court will take a case challenging Obamacare’s HHS Mandate for violating religious liberty. The media has been covering Korte v. HHS, where on Nov. 8 the U.S. Court
Francois Hollande’s motorcade was greeted with boos and chanting as it rolled through Paris today on the way to a ceremony in remembrance of Armistice Day. Video posted on You Tube shows the crowd chanting and giving the thumbs down
