At its recent convention, the board of directors of the National Rifle Association of America elected Alabama lawyer James W. Porter II as the 62nd president of the nation’s oldest and largest civil-rights organization, founded in 1871 and boasting over
Allies of Gov. Jerry Brown (D-CA) now say that his plan to solve the state prison overcrowding issue will be “ugly.” After years of building no new prisons, Brown says that he will release certain prisoners earlier and shift responsibility
Gov. Sam Brownback (R) of Kansas signed three pro-life bills into law in April, making Kansas yet another state that is making headway in the promotion of life for mothers and their babies. According to National Catholic Register, Brownback signed
The State Department has had a “Free Press” campaign for the past two weeks. Each day the Department highlights an imprisoned activist or journalist facing unreasonable conditions and imprisonment from countries around the world. After Tuesday’s journalist was described a
(AP) North Korea sentences American to 15 years’ laborBy SAM KIMAssociated PressSEOUL, South Korea A Korean American detained for six months in North Korea has been sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for “hostile acts” against the state, the
Jason Collins, a professional basketball player who played for the Boston Celtics and Washington Wizards last season, became the first active openly gay male athlete in a major professional team sport when he announced in a Sports Illustrated article on Monday that
U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli has filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the justices to take and reverse a lower-court ruling that President Barack Obama’s recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) are unconstitutional, and
Speaking on April 22, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the Boston Marathon bombing forces us to change our interpretation of the constitution. He cited the left’s success to date in eroding the 2nd Amendment as giving him confidence
On Monday, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that the Constitution would have to be reinterpreted in order to curtail civil liberties to prevent terrorism. Bloomberg likened such reinterpretation to the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Second Amendment, which
David Carr of the New York Times details CNN’s “self-inflicted” wounds over the course of last week’s unfurling coverage of the Boston Marathon-bombing manhunt: But the biggest damage to CNN has been self-inflicted — never more so than in June,
(AFP)- Pakistan’s caretaker government on Monday refused to put former military ruler Pervez Musharraf on trial for treason, telling the Supreme Court that it was beyond its mandate. In Pakistan only the state can initiate treason charges. The Supreme Court
President Barack Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Labor, Thomas Perez, is embroiled in a heated new controversy over a school board election in Texas in which the federal government is intervening to protect incumbent school board members from their own
As a newly-minted U.S. citizen captured on U.S. soil, Boston terrorist suspect Dzokhar Tsarnaev will get the full range of constitutional protections from the Bill of Rights, as we explained yesterday, except one: Tsarnaev wasn’t read his Miranda rights. In 1966,
(AP) Police arrest former Pakistani ruler MusharrafBy MUNIR AHMED and SEBASTIAN ABBOTAssociated PressISLAMABADPolice arrested former Pakistani military ruler Pervez Musharraf overnight at his home in the capital, where he had holed up following a dramatic escape from court to avoid
As a lawyer in the same-sex marriage litigation at the Supreme Court who has spent a couple years working through all the implications of declaring a constitutional right to gay marriage, it became clear that such a declaration would also
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s nanny-esque attempt to ban large soda sales is having an impact on the nation’s movie houses. Movie theater owners and operators expressed fear of future regulations that would hurt their bottom lines during a
While the FBI is currently conducting an investigation into the surreptitious recording and release of the private conversation of campaign aides to Senator Mitch McConnell to determine if any federal laws were broken, the key players may also face state
The Supreme Court has declined to take Kachalsky v. Cacace, what could have been the next big Second Amendment case for the nation. But Kachalsky was a flawed case, and another case with different lawyers might have better chances of
A new Politico report illustrates how, in a short time, operatives of the Democrat Party have nurtured direct relationships with the families of victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting, resulting in the calculated exploitation of the tragic loss of loved ones
(AP) GOP lawmakers blast Labor secretary nomineeBy SAM HANANELAssociated PressWASHINGTONIn a blistering report, Republican lawmakers sharply criticized Labor secretary nominee Thomas Perez over what they said was a questionable deal he brokered while serving as head of the Justice Department’s
“Comprehensive immigration reform” is shaping up to be the next Obamacare. By negotiating in secret, by drafting an enormously complicated bill, and by rushing passage with almost no time for public debate, the Senators who are pushing immigration reform are
Beyond a raging political battle over limiting gun access is a case that could be heard this year by the US Supreme Court over a New York law limiting the right to carry the weapons in public. The nine US
This is a legal analysis of the story previously filed by my colleague John Nolte. A Christian florist in Washington State, who declined to provide flowers for a same-sex wedding because she objects for religious reasons, is being taken to court
In 2011, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law California Assembly Bill 109, a piece of legislation designed to relieve overcrowded prisons in accordance with a Supreme Court decision. AB 109 enshrined “realignment” into law – a plan to place supposedly
Obamacare critics warned that President Barack Obama’s rosy $2 billion cost estimate for the government’s so-called “insurance exchanges” would likely rise. On Wednesday, they more than doubled. Health and Human Services Department (HHS) budget documents state that the federal government
