states' rights

The city of Waskom, Texas, has become the first in the nation to ban abortion, declaring itself a “sanctuary city for the unborn.”

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is calling for Congress to pass legislation that would make access to abortion protected in the United States.

There has been a great deal of media coverage of the Supreme Court’s decision on Monday striking down a 1992 federal law that prohibited sports betting in most states. The decision, Murphy v. NCAA, struck down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PAPSA) which generally prohibited states from authorizing sports gambling.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has reversed her previous opposition to federal enforcement of anti-marijuana laws and now says that she supports allowing each state to determine its own path on legal marijuana.

Attorney General Sessions created a wave of controversy last week when he repealed the Obama administration’s 2013 “Cole Memo.” The most heated backlash came from the two U.S. Senators named “Cory.” While Republican Cory Garner of Colorado was on the

Governors across the country are weighing in on the debate in Washington, DC, around the Graham-Cassidy healthcare legislation designed to start the dismantling of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.

Democrats are scrambling to find ways to stop the Graham-Cassidy Obamacare repeal bill from passing the Senate next week.

In a video message posted to his Twitter account, former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore says it is time to end the federal government’s involvement in education and allow parents to take the lead in how best to educate their children.

A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that Arkansas may block Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid reimbursement funding in response to the release of videos by undercover journalists that exposed the abortion chain’s alleged profiteering from the sales of aborted baby parts.

Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Pete Olson are leading an amicus brief of 42 members of Congress that defends the decision of the state of Texas to defund Planned Parenthood by eliminating its eligibility for Medicaid reimbursement.

Andrew Breitbart famously said, “Politics is downstream of culture,” and while establishment Republicans seem unwilling to defend America’s culture and values on many fronts, President Donald Trump is already changing the country’s politics by taking back its culture from progressives.

President Donald Trump signed a resolution Thursday that overturns former President Barack Obama’s rule that forced states to provide family planning grants under Title X to Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers.

The Utah state legislature has passed a joint resolution calling for a return to federalism in general, and, in particular, the end of the federal Education Department.

A panel of education policy experts agree the Trump administration appears to be moving toward some form of federal management of school choice, but warns that attempts to influence school choice policy from Washington, D.C. could undermine the president’s stated goals of returning education decisions back to the states and local governments.

Parents who oppose their children and teenagers being forced to share bathrooms and shower rooms with opposite-sex kids must begin “putting aside their prejudices,” says a leading transgender activist, who also asserts there are “hundreds of thousands of trans kids” in the United States.

Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy (D-WFP) issued an executive order Thursday instructing the state department of education to develop policies with local school districts that allow gender confused children to use the school bathrooms and locker rooms of whichever gender they identify with at any given time.

The California Department of Education reacted angrily Wednesday to President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw President Barack Obama’s federal guidelines on transgender facilities in public schools.

The House approved a resolution to overturn a last minute Obama Administration rule forcing states to provide Title X family planning grants to Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers.

Rep. Diane Black says states should be allowed to divert federal family planning funds away from abortion providers like Planned Parenthood.

Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) is a co-sponsor of a recently introduced bill that would eliminate the federal education department.

Former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger took to social media Monday to attack President Donald Trump’s nominee for Director of the Environmental Protection Agency, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt.

The national pro-life movement has experienced multiple successes in 2016. Ten of the major highlights of the past year are especially noteworthy.

On Monday, California State Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon rejected calls for national unity and urged Californians to “fight” — to resist the federal government and incoming President Donald Trump.

Leftwing media are misleading their own readers by spreading a story that a rule drafted by the Obama administration to prevent states from defunding Planned Parenthood is now “permanent.”

Donald Trump said Wednesday night that if he appoints pro-life justices to the Supreme Court – as he intends to do – Roe v. Wade will be overturned and the issue of abortion will be returned to the states.

As America celebrates Constitution Day, one expert reflects on the tragic reality that many of the nation’s students are being taught myths that claim the Constitution is a racist, sexist document that belongs to the horse-and-buggy era.

President Barack Obama’s administration is drafting a new regulation which would override state laws that redirect funding away from Planned Parenthood toward competing healthcare providers.

Aggressive gay advocacy groups are using their court-backed transformation of marriage law as a legal hammer to impose an unprecedented “genderless society” on Americans, says the president of the National Organization for Marriage.

The Obama administration is once again threatening officials – this time in all 50 states – that cutting off Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid funding could be a violation of federal law.

The executive vice president of Planned Parenthood says a new Mississippi law banning dismemberment abortion in which an unborn baby is extracted one piece at a time from his or her mother’s womb is an “attack on women’s health care.”