Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) is joining with two campaign finance watchdog groups, Campaign Legal Center and Democracy 21, to sue the IRS for its regulations that give “wiggle room” to nonprofit groups allowing them to engage in political actions.
(AP) A year on, Assange stays put in Ecuadorean EmbassyBy JILL LAWLESSAssociated PressLONDONA year ago, Julian Assange skipped out on a date with Swedish justice. Rather than comply with a British order that he go to the Scandinavian country for
A prominent Afghan lawmaker escaped a suicide attack on Tuesday, aides said, on the day that the handover of security from NATO to Afghan forces was to be announced. An AFP photographer reported there were casualties at the scene. The
The Supreme Court ruled today in Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council that federal law does not allow states the option of requiring voters to prove they are American citizens when they register to vote. The National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA,
Speaking at Stanford University’s commencement on Sunday, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg not only compared the push to legalize same-sex marriage to Martin Luther King’s civil rights movement but said he believed all 50 states will eventually legalize gay marriage.
J. Christian Adams, an election lawyer who served in the Voting Rights Section at the U.S. Department of Justice, is calling the Supreme Court’s Arizona decision a “nothing burger.” : The Supreme Court decision today means almost nothing. The court ruled
No one who watched the mainstream media coverage surrounding the Supreme Court deliberations about same-sex marriage needs a Pew study to tell them how horribly biased the coverage was. The only surprise is that the margin of stories favoring same-sex
During coverage of the Supreme Court’s hearings on the same-sex marriage issue earlier this year, media coverage leaned to the pro-gay marriage side by a factor of 5 to 1. This according to a new report from Pew Research Center’s
Joshua High School officials didn’t just act like a school bully when they turned off a valedictorian’s speech after the speaker mentioned Jesus. They also violated Texas law and the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Fox News’ Todd Starnes
In a landmark case centering on gene patenting, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled unanimously that patents can be held on synthetically produced genetic material but not on naturally occurring human genes. This will profoundly affect breast cancer screenings
Speaking at an event for LGBT Pride Month, President Obama stated that nationalized same-sex marriage needed to be “done now,” adding that he thinks America has already hit the “turning point” on the issue: We’re not going to have to
Nobody can claim a patent on genes naturally found in human DNA, but you can patent them if you created them in a lab, the Supreme Court ruled today. Molecular biology is on the cutting edge of modern technology and
(AP) – News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch has filed for divorce from Wendi Deng Murdoch, his wife since 1999. Murdoch filed a one-page document Thursday indicating that he was opening a divorce case in New York State Supreme Court in
By JIM ABRAMSAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe House is girding for another wrenching debate on abortion after a House panel on Wednesday approved legislation that would ban almost all abortions after a fetus reaches the age of 20 weeks. Several recent court decisions
(AFP) – A Taliban suicide car bomber on Tuesday targeted staff at Afghanistan’s top court, killing 15 civilians and wounding 40 others in the second attack in two days in the heavily fortified capital, police said.
Support for race-based affirmative action is at an all-time low. A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll found only 45% of Americans feel affirmative action programs are still needed, while 45% believe such programs should end. In 1991, a record 61% of
Nepal’s Supreme Court has ordered the government to alter passports so that transgenders no longer have to describe themselves as male or female, a court spokesman said, a move welcomed by rights activists. The court made the decision on Monday
The Supreme Court handed down three decisions on Monday, two of which are noteworthy, and also granted review in one new case for its next Term, beginning in October. The U.S. Department of Agriculture filed a lawsuit against Marvin and
Senator Rand Paul told “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace he is planing class action law suit against the NSA
As the IRS scandal continues to take shape and the massive overreach of one of the most powerful agencies in Big Government becomes even more apparent, it becomes frightening to think this same agency will soon be heavily involved in
CNN is drawing criticism for a feature story on a Palestinian soccer player who is in the news for boycotting Israel. The cable network is being criticized because its glowing treatment of the Palestinian protester neglects to mention that he
The President’s announcement on Wednesday that he was nominating three judges to the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit – as exceptional as a triple-nomination complete with a rose garden announcement may be – should come as no surprise.
After the Supreme Court’s decision labeling Obamacare’s mandate a tax, the IRS has become the crucial centerpiece of President Obama’s health care rollout. But with the IRS’ targeting of conservative non-profits, Republicans are calling into question the agency’s involvement in
In August 2007 Senator Obama gave a foreign policy speech at the Woodrow Wilson Center in which he mapped out a five point plan for a new approach to foreign policy. Part of that approach was a promise to reign
Today, Americans woke up to hear that the NSA is collecting millions of their phone records on a daily basis under a court order obtained in April. But don’t worry, our intrepid attorney general has sprung into action. According to
