Christian Doctors Sue New Mexico for Law Forcing Participation in Assisted Suicide
Christian doctors are standing against a law that requires them to facilitate suicide in ways that violate their religious convictions.
Equal Protection Clause
Supreme Court to Rule on Racial Preferences in College Admissions
WASHINGTON, DC – The Supreme Court will decide whether colleges can use racial preferences when deciding which students to admit for both public and private schools, reconsidering a half-century of legal precedent in a pair of cases the justices will hear this fall.
AZ AG Brnovich: Exempting Illegal Immigrants from Vax Mandate ‘Clearly’ Violates Equal Protection Clause
On Tuesday’s “Mark Levin Show,” Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich (R) discussed the state’s lawsuit against the federal vaccine mandate and said the government, “systematically, in a perverse irony, saying that if you’re here illegally, if you’ve illegally crossed the
Supreme Court: Virginia House Cannot Defend Redistricting in Court
Virginia lawmakers lack standing to defend their redistricting plan in court when Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring refused to do so, a divided Supreme Court held on Monday.
Jeff Sessions Backs Asian Students in Landmark Harvard Racial Discrimination Lawsuit
The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a 40-page Statement of Interest in support of Students for Fair Admissions’ (SFFA) lawsuit against Harvard University on behalf of Asian students who claim they were discriminated against in their bids to attend the prestigious college.
Supreme Court Rules for Texas in Redistricting Case
The Supreme Court on Monday upheld Texas’s legislative districting plan by a 5-4 decision against charges that the legislative lines violated the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) or the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Big Cases Still Waiting for Supreme Court Decisions in 2017
Seventeen cases from this year’s Supreme Court term are still pending, with decisions expected in the next eight days. Religious liberty, the constitutional rights of illegal aliens, and free-speech rights to express messages some people find offensive are several of the high-profile issues raised in the remaining cases.
Texas Voter ID ‘Fix’ Led to Improper Voting, Officials Say
The Texas voter ID “fix” instituted before the November presidential election, which allowed citizens without proper documentation to sign a sworn affidavit indicating why they could not procure one in time, now leaves local election officials considering whether “hundreds” of voters should be referred to prosecutors for abusing the safety net.
Supreme Court Blocks Judges’ Order for new Elections in GOP-Led North Carolina
The Supreme Court has stayed an order by a lower federal court which had directed North Carolina’s government to hold new state elections.
Texas Backs Challenge to State Bar’s ‘Unconstitutional Racial and Sex-Based Quotas’
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has joined the challenge in a lawsuit that is fighting against what Paxton calls “unconstitutional racial and sex-based quotas.”
Holder: ‘Abolish the Electoral College,’ Different Wait Times To Vote Violate Equal Protection Clause
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” former Attorney General Eric Holder argued that the Electoral College needs to be abolished, and the different waiting times to vote in different places violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. When
Constitution Allows Muslim Immigration Ban
While Hillary Clinton and her Democrats are trying to sell Khizr Khan as a constitutional expert, the reality is that the Constitution allows Donald Trump’s proposed temporary ban on Muslim immigrants from terror-related countries. However, if a liberal justice takes Antonin Scalia’s seat on the Supreme Court, the ban would be struck down nonetheless.
Supreme Court Upholds Racial Preferences over Scathing Conservative Dissents
Thursday the Supreme Court in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin effectively repudiated previous decisions, upholding the use of racial preferences in public college admissions, against the vigorous and energetic dissents of three justices.
Supreme Court to Hear Cases on Religious Liberty, Public Corruption
WASHINGTON—Former Gov. Bob McDonnell’s (R-VA) bribery conviction, as well as the constitutionality of state laws banning money from going to religious schools, have joined the Supreme Court’s docket, as the justices on Friday filled eight spots on their docket for cases to be decided by the time the current year’s term ends in June.
