Federal Court Rejects Challenge to Oklahoma Law Banning Sex Changes for Minors, Citing SCOTUS Tennessee Decision
A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected a challenge to an Oklahoma law that bans sex change drugs and surgeries for minors.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Kobach: The Tenth Circuit Wrongly Strikes Down Kansas’s Proof-of-Citizenship Election Requirement
On Wednesday, the Tenth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals issued a truly outrageous opinion. The court struck down Kansas’s 2011 law requiring voters to provide proof of citizenship when they register.
Trump’s Historic Success Appointing Federal Judges in 2017
Even President Donald Trump’s critics cannot deny his historic success in 2017 in appointed judges to the Supreme Court and lower federal courts, exercising one of the greatest powers of the presidency in a way that will create a lasting legacy shaping the destiny of the nation.
Donald Trump Sends Senate Final Wave of Federal Judge Nominees for 2017
President Donald Trump released his ninth wave of judicial nominees before Christmas, nominating ten lawyers for federal courts throughout the country.
Senate Confirms Trump’s Judicial Nominees Despite Democrats’ Opposition
Senate Republicans delivered a series of victories to President Donald Trump this week, confirming four federal appeals judges and two trial judges, with more expected soon.
McConnell Advances Six Judicial Nominees, Base and Republicans Push for More
Senate Republicans confirmed one federal judge on Thursday and set the stage to confirm five more judges next week, including to federal appeals courts across the nation.
Supreme Court Declines to Hear Ten Commandments Case
The Supreme Court on Monday denied review in a major constitutional case involving a Ten Commandments display, leading experts to speculate as to when the Court will take on the “big one” on what the Constitution requires regarding faith in the public square.
Democrats Use Blue Slips for Judicial Filibuster, But Grassley Can Override Them
Democrats are trying to resurrect their unprecedented filibuster of judicial nominees through the blue slip tradition, but Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has the power to stop this obstruction.
California Gun Case May Be Justice Gorsuch’s First on SCOTUS
With Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Neil Gorsuch confirmed to replace Antonin Scalia as a Justice of Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), he may immediately have an impact on a Second Amendment case from California, plus a long docket of government authority cases.
KS and AZ File SCOTUS Petition in Effort to Stop Non-Citizens from Registering and Voting
The States of Kansas and Arizona, and the Secretaries of State from those respective states filed a Petition for Writ of Certiorari in the United States Supreme Court Tuesday asking the Court to hear a case involving the issue of noncitizens illegally registering to vote in elections in the United States.
