Tag: Supreme Court

For years, the left has claimed that they want marriage to be a state issue. But now the rubber has met the road on gay marriage, with the Obama administration issuing a request to the Supreme Court to strike down

While Justice Elena Kagan is clearly a liberal Supreme Court justice, she reminded us last week that many justices are hard to typecast, siding with conservatives against a couple of her liberal colleagues in Chaidez v. U.S.   Part of the

The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s request “to reconsider a ruling that found the state’s concealed carry weapons ban unconstitutional [in Dec. 2012].” Madigan has argued that the December ruling overturning the ban

The Supreme Court has decided to hear a case which could eradicate the limit individual donors can give to candidates they favor.  The case is McCutcheon v. FEC, in which Alabama businessman Shaun McCutcheon and the Republican National Committee are fighting

Florida Governor Rick Scott announced Wednesday evening he had made a deal with the federal government and would now accept Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion, the initial implementation of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act. Governor Scott had previously been a champion of

On Feb. 19, the Supreme Court reinstated a case involving an international fight over a child between an American serviceman and his ex-wife. Jeffrey Lee Chafin was in Germany while serving in the U.S. Army. He married a British citizen,

The Supreme Court will hear arguments in what could be the next Citizens United, considering whether a central part of the nation’s foundational federal campaign-finance law violates the First Amendment. In 1971, Congress passed the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA).

Since the 2007 shooting rampage at Virginia Tech, which left 33 people dead, gun-rights advocates have made the right to carry concealed weapons on public college and university campuses a major issue, most recently in Colorado. While guns remain banned

In response to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s recent “assault weapons” and “high capacity” magazine ban for civilians, Olympic Arms is making it known they will no longer do business with the state of New York.  Olympic Arms produces precision

On Monday, Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy told reporters Chicago’s gun laws are not “strict” and asked them to quit characterizing them as such.  McCarthy said, “One of the things that I would like to again try to clear up,

Talk about hypocrisy. According to the New York Times,former New York Governor and Attorney General Eliot Spitzer wants then Attorney General and now Governor Andrew Cuomo to release his emails in the Troopergate matter which Cuomo investigated. At the same time,

Lloyd Green, who writes for the Daily Beast, noted how ferociously Breitbart News has gone after Karl Rove for trying to anoint Establishment candidates in Republican primaries who may hold values antithetical to those held by the “Jacksonian” conservatives who make

A federal court issued a decision recently that has massive implications for some of Barack Obama’s radical czars, who were installed into positions of power without the consent of the U.S. Senate as required by the Constitution. Score one for

President Barack Obama began his 2010 State of the Union address by acknowledging that the country was still going through tough economic times. He took credit for cutting taxes “for 95 percent of working families” (in reality, a payroll tax

The costs of Obamacare are not just hitting businesses this year–they are also hitting the government, and public employees as well. Virginia, for example, is about to limit part-time employees to 29 hours per week in order to avoid triggering

“What shall it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?”–Mark 8:36 The U.S. government is claiming the power to kill American citizens without judicial review. This is a story about hypocrisy. And it’s the tale