American Constitution

12963734/iStock/Getty Images Plus A Clinton-appointed judge granted last Friday the demand by the National Rifle Association (NRA) that the ATF be prohibited from enforcing its “pistol brace” rule until all pending litigation has been resolved. Wrote U.S. District Court Judge Sam Lindsay: “The court determines that the NRA’s motion should be granted maintain the status quo pending the resolution of...

designer491/iStock/Getty Images Plus Liberalism, it is claimed, is associated with tolerance. But you wouldn’t know it from a new study finding that of the 10 states with the most religious-discrimination complaints filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), eight gave their electoral votes to Joe Biden in 2020.Not surprisingly, there’s a secularism connection, too: Of the 15 states with...

AP Images Glenn Youngkin Virginia’s Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin vetoed 30 gun-control bills on Tuesday, signed into law two gun-control bills that have little consequence, and sent back six others with amendments for the state’s Legislature to consider.Behind the flurry of bills the Democrats dumped on his desk is the real story: the hyper-partisanship that divides the two parties on...

Bill Oxford/iStock/Getty Images Plus The youth ministry 71Five Ministries filed suit in federal court earlier this month complaining that the state’s new “anti-discrimination” rule is unconstitutional and violates the group’s First Amendment rights. The ministry’s name comes from Psalm 71:5: “Lord God, You are my hope. I have trusted You since I was young.”Since 1964 the ministry has been serving...

The stunning landslide by underdog U.S. Senate candidate Bernie Moreno in the Ohio GOP primary shows the way for Republican victory throughout the all-important Rust Belt this fall. Pennsylvania, Michigan, and nearby Wisconsin can all be won with Moreno’s campaign theme: creating jobs for Americans. Polling showed a too-close-to-call race between Moreno and the establishment-favored candidate, state senator Matt Dolan. Ohio Gov....

mj0007/iStock/Getty Images Plus Hawaii State Capitol in Honolulu A Hawaii Senate committee controlled by Democratic Party legislators has passed two resolutions applying for an Article V constitutional convention.On Wednesday last week, the Senate Committee on Public Safety and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs voted in favor of Senate Resolution No. 168 (S.R. 168) and Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 196 (S.C.R. 196).These...

marcusamelia/iStock/Getty Images Plus In a victory for the U.S. Constitution against efforts to radically change it, New York has rescinded all its applications for an Article V constitutional convention, or Con-Con.On March 20, the State Assembly passed Senate Resolution No. 1460 (B1460) by a 102-46 vote. Most Democrats voted for the resolution, and most Republicans against, though both parties had two...

The Supreme Court went 0-for-4 on Monday, which in spring training for baseball would justify sending the batter to the minor rather than the big leagues. In four cases the Court should have stood strongly against wrongdoing by Biden, the Department of Justice, and the State of New York, but instead acted to appease those liberal regimes. First up was the case...

Jewish enclave, home of a deported nation, a present for the Ukrainians: The long journey of the Crimean peninsula. Exactly 10 years ago, the Crimean Peninsula was reunified with Russia. On March 18, 2014, President Vladimir Putin signed an agreement with the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol on their entry into the Russian Federation. After more than...

hayesphotography/iStock/Getty Images Plus The ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) joined with many of its closest ideological friends in sending a letter to state legislators last week. The letter said, “We are deeply opposed to any bill that would install chaplains in our public schools.”Of course they are. The ACLU and its friends (including Americans United for Separation of Church and State,...

James Madison James Madison was born at midnight between March 16 and 17, 1751. James’ mother was away from her own home, paying a visit to her mother’s house, when the anxiously awaited hour of her son’s delivery arrived. James’ grandmother’s house in Port Conway was some 55 miles from his mother and father’s own house in Orange County, Virginia.Nelly...

AP Images Tommy Tuberville We “are losing our kids to a satanic cult,” said Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) Friday. “We’ve lost our moral values across the country.”Tuberville made his comments while speaking to approximately 100 GOP delegates at a warehouse in Bluffdale, Utah, while campaigning for U.S. Senate candidate Trent Staggs, a Republican who’s running to fill the seat being...

Hidden beneath the kerfuffle about last week’s speeches on Capitol Hill, a significant debate is occurring just across the street at the Supreme Court. There the Biden Administration is asking the Court to block a splendid new Texas law against illegal aliens, SB 4, and on Monday Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed his vigorous response in full support of...

AlxeyPnferov/iStock/Getty Images Plus Attorneys general from 16 states that have banned the barbaric practice of performing sex-change procedures on children have written to Maine’s Governor Janet Mills, Attorney General Aaron Frey, Senate President Troy Jackson, and House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross. The letter vehemently protested proposed legislation LD 227, called by some the “Transgender Trafficking Bill.”LD 227 seeks to shield...