President Barack Obama on Wednesday revealed his national gun control proposal, one loaded with divisive rhetoric and exploiting children onstage to push his agenda, which ignores the most effective ways to stop gun violence. Obama had a full-dress press event,
On Jan. 15, the Supreme Court decided a somewhat quirky case about a floating house. Federal law vests exclusive jurisdiction in the federal courts over maritime cases. As Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for the Court, maritime cases concern, “watercraft or
President Barack Obama will lay out his gun control agenda sometime around noon tomorrow. Reports are that up to nineteen executive orders regarding new firearm restrictions will be unveiled, as well as legislative proposals for new gun controls. I will
The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) is mobilizing for a massive four-front conflict with President Barack Obama over the Constitution and gun rights after a made-for-TV meeting today at the White House between Vice President Joe Biden, Attorney General
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli won a decisive initial victory against President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in federal court, stopping a massive federal power grab. The case now goes up on appeal. The EPA invoked its power under the
The U.S. Supreme Court has scheduled two potentially-historic cases concerning same-sex marriage for oral arguments on Tues., Mar. 26, and Wed., Mar. 27. The cases are Hollingsworth v. Perry and U.S. v. Windsor. Hollingsworth is the case regarding California’s Prop
The biggest liberal newspaper in the country has printed a column from a top progressive scholar calling on the American people to ignore the Constitution with its “evil provisions,” revealing the far-left agenda for what it is and making sense
Just last week Breitbart News reported on the threat to religious liberty from the HHS Mandate: starting today, Hobby Lobby is subject to penalties of $1.3 million per day for its owners refusing to violate their Christian beliefs after a
“We must obey God rather than men!”–Acts 5:29. Now that Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has denied Hobby Lobby’s application for an emergency injunction protecting them from Obamacare’s HHS Mandate on abortion and birth control, Hobby Lobby has decided to
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has denied Hobby Lobby’s emergency application to be exempted from the HHS Mandate on abortion services, but that should not be considered a sign that the HHS Mandate will survive its legal challenges in the
The nation mourns the passing of one of the finest judges ever to sit on the federal bench: Robert Heron Bork. This distinguished judge passed away on Dec. 19 at the age of 85, and his contributions to the law
Prominent conservative leaders, including former attorney general Edwin Meese III, Ken Blackwell of the Conservative Action Project, Brent Bozell of ForAmerica, Colin Hanna of Let Freedom Ring, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, David Bossie of Citizens United, Gary Bauer
A top federal appeals court signaled Friday that it might act on Obamacare’s HHS Mandate–requiring employers to cover birth control and abortion-related services. After repeated assurances that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would not mandate abortion or people of faith
The National Rifle Association just won a major court case in Chicago, providing a huge victory for Second Amendment proponents and gun owners. Illinois is one of the most anti-gun states in America. Its hostility toward the Second Amendment right
The Supreme Court of the United States announced Friday it would decide two cases involving same-sex marriage and the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). By next July, the Court will rule on the government’s role in marriage both in the
President Barack Obama made headlines months ago when he installed controversial nominees to key government positions, bypassing the U.S. Senate by declaring the Senate in recess so that Senate confirmation was not needed. Today a federal appeals court signaled that
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday rejected a UN treaty submitted for ratification by President Barack Obama. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was signed by Obama, then submitted to the Senate for ratification pursuant to
We have to wait until Monday to learn the status of gay marriage at the U.S. Supreme Court. On Friday, Nov. 30, the justices considered petitions in ten cases regarding same-sex marriage. Nine were various challenges to the federal Defense
The Supreme Court has now reinstated a major challenge to Obamacare. Liberty University is challenging both the Individual Mandate and the Employer Mandate of the Affordable Care Act. (Of those two, the latter is even more damaging to the economy
Can an American citizen exercise his religion through his privately-owned business? The fate of Obamacare’s disturbing HHS contraception mandate turns on that question, and now the federal courts are split on the answer regarding an issue very likely to end
President Barack Obama’s lawyers are claiming vast and sweeping powers in arguments to the U.S. Supreme Court, according to Justice Samuel Alito in an address to the Federalist Society last week. Celebrating its 30th anniversary as America’s premiere conservative and
If Obamacare survives the 2016 election after it is fully implemented, there will be two healthcare systems in America from which our citizens will choose. As former Ohio Treasurer Ken Blackwell and I explained months ago, the fifty states can
Breitbart News reported earlier that the Supreme Court is reconsidering one of the major cases challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare. The Court has now set that petition for a vote at its November 20th closed-door conference. The outcome of that
Supporters of traditional marriage lost big on Election Day, with four states redefining marriage to include same-sex couples. Marriage defenders acknowledge they have serious work to do on several fronts going forward, even as the nation must now begin to
Early next year, the Supreme Court will hear arguments on a constitutional challenge to one of the most powerful provisions in federal law, Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, in the case Shelby County v. Holder. The
Just when most people thought all legal challenges to the Individual Mandate were dead and buried, one springs back to life, and with a twist. Unless they’ve been living under a rock, most Americans have heard that the Supreme Court
Floyd Corkins, the volunteer at a gay-rights organization who attempted to commit mass murder at the Christian conservative Family Research Council (FRC) because of FRC’s stance on social and religious issues, has been indicted on charges of domestic terrorism. It
Rumors of the Tea Party’s demise are greatly exaggerated. In Ohio, the Tea Party Victory Fund has put out a video that has gone viral on the Internet. The video shows a woman saying that Americans must reelect Barack Obama
Government preferring one racial group over another in college admissions may be about to end, in what would be a historic move by the Supreme Court. Chief Justice John Roberts said that Supreme Court precedent requires that “there has to
Oct. 7 was Pulpit Freedom Sunday, when thousands of pastors organized by the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) discuss the upcoming election and endorse political candidates. Doubtless many of you are thinking to yourself, “That’s illegal–churches can’t endorse candidates.” You are
Judge Robert Simpson, the same Pennsylvania judge who earlier this year upheld the Keystone State’s new voter ID law, has now put it on ice until after the Nov. 6 election. After his initial ruling, the plaintiffs made an expedited
Federal law mandates that the Supreme Court’s annual Term begins the first Monday of October. And so on Oct. 1, Chief Justice John Roberts gaveled the Court to order to hear its first case since June’s historic Obamacare decision, in
After its annual “mega-conference” Monday, the Supreme Court announced it will hear six new cases and issued order in a few cases already pending before the Court, leaving some of the defining social issues of the day untouched. The six cases
Today, Sept. 24, the Supreme Court will fill much of its argument calendar for the year. By federal law, the Court’s annual Term begins on the first Monday in October of each year, which this year will begin next week
A Bush White House insider’s memoir discusses a source of electoral energy untapped so far this year. Mitt Romney could have an entirely new route to win votes away from Barack Obama if he talks to the voters about the
Vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan made the case that President Barack Obama’s agenda is hostile to the unified interests of economic conservatives and social conservatives at the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit (VVS). Thousands of socially-conservative voters gather every fall
Texas’ Voter ID law has been put on ice by a federal court, and only an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court can change that in time for Election Day. Although a state judge in Pennsylvania recently gave a green
Floyd Corkins II, who allegedly attempted to go on a mass-shooting rampage at the Family Research Council on August 15, appeared in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for his arraignment on felony charges Tuesday. The court informed
President Obama’s team took misleading politics to a new low yesterday, vilifying pro-life Republicans and the GOP’s longstanding platform language on the sanctity of life. Yesterday the Platform Committee of the Republican Party went through the GOP platform, as the
We do not know who will win the White House in November. But we do know that American politics has crossed the Rubicon on spending and entitlements, and these issues will at long last complete the journey from a forbidden
