From the Bench

giftlegacy/iStock/Getty Images Plus The granting of a permanent injunction against a public housing authority in Cortland, New York, issued on Tuesday by a judge appointed by President George Bush in 2007, was a double win for the United States Constitution. It prohibits officials of the federally funded Cortland Housing Authority (CHA) from enforcing unconstitutional lease language infringing on the Second...

supremecourt.gov Marquette Law School’s latest national survey of how Americans rate the Supreme Court contains some hidden gems. Despite relentless attacks on the high court’s ideology and integrity by the lawless mainstream media, the individuals surveyed hold the Court in increasing esteem and regard. And they avidly support one of the high court’s most controversial and important decisions, New York...

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 41:26 — 56.9MB)Subscribe: Android | | MoreIn this compelling episode of “2A for Today,” Dr. Wolverton sits down with Bill Sack, Director of Legal Operations for the Second Amendment Foundation, to unpack critical legal battles that could reshape the future of gun rights in America. Bill provides an insider’s perspective on the...

marchmeena29/iStock/Getty Images Plus Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Thursday accusing a Dallas-area doctor of violating the state’s prohibition on gender treatments for minors and concealing her activities via false insurance-billing codes.May Lau, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and medical director of the adolescent and young adult clinic at the...

Rawf8/iStock/Getty Images Plus Kamala Harris and other far-left activists have dubbed the 2024 general election the “abortion election,” with pro-abortion forces looking to regain ground lost when Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court in 2022. In Missouri, the issue is literally on the ballot, as voters in the Show Me State consider Amendment 3, which would establish...

RapidEye/iStock/Getty Images Plus A Virginia school board recently agreed to pay over half a million dollars to a teacher they fired for his refusal to use a transgender student’s preferred pronouns, a move one attorney said has “seismic implications.”According to a press release from the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), in late September, the West Point School Board settled with former...

Is there any daylight between admitted communists and Democrats? The New American compared the platforms of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) with the positions of the Democratic Party.The first issue mentioned on communist’s 2024 platform is one near and near to Democrats, one of the few that Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris hasn’t publicly backtracked on. The communists declare: “We...

AP Images Ron Wyden Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) unveiled a sweeping piece of legislation on Thursday designed to reform the U.S. Supreme Court, addressing what he has described as a “legitimacy crisis” plaguing the institution.The bill, dubbed the “Judicial Modernization and Transparency Act,” proposes increasing the number of justices from nine to 15. This expansion would occur over three presidential...

Bytmonas/iStock/Getty Images Plus In a surprising move, the far-left American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed an amicus brief last week with the liberal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that mirrored similar briefs filed by the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC).The lawsuit, United States v. Duarte, was brought by the federal government against one Steven Duarte,...

photovs/iStock/Getty Images Plus Would you side with Chevron deference, or constitutional diligence? The establishment, including the mainstream media and Democratic Party, has made up its mind. To them, the “Chevron doctrine’s” demise, which takes the matter of settling ambiguous law’s meaning out of bureaucrats’ hands and places it back in judges’ laps, represents a crisis. Forget people having their day...

photovs/iStock/Getty Images Plus Vice President and Democratic nominee for president Kamala Harris took a decisive stance on the filibuster and abortion “rights” during her latest rare interview. Speaking with Wisconsin Public Radio’s “Wisconsin Today” on Monday, Harris expressed her strong support for ending the filibuster to restore Roe v. Wade and protect abortion “rights” nationally. The interview, which aired Tuesday...

UNITED NATIONS — Governments and dictators from around the world gathered in New York and adopted a sprawling agreement to expand and further empower the United Nations. The controversial declaration approved by the UN General Assembly, known as the “Pact for the Future,” is seen by the UN and its member governments as a great leap forward for the cause...

UNITED NATIONS — Governments and dictators from around the world gathered in New York and adopted a sprawling agreement to expand and further empower the United Nations. The controversial declaration approved by the UN General Assembly, known as the “Pact for the Future,” is seen by the UN and its member governments as a great leap forward for the cause...

AP Images With 2021 diversity training, Coca-Cola earned the moniker “Woka-Cola” by advising employees to “try to be less white.” But now the company may become more white. That will be the result, anyway, if Coke follows through on a pledge to enforce new diversity goals.That is, to align their employee racial, ethnic, and sexual demographics with U.S. census data.Meeting...

dtimiraos/iStock/Getty Images Plus A Seattle man who was arrested twice for preaching at public events scored a “complete victory” when a judge granted him an injunction and ordered the city to pay him damages.Last week, U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein issued a permanent injunction prohibiting Seattle police from repeating their offenses against Matthew Meinecke. Rothstein’s consent order “represents a complete...

BrianAJackson/iStock/Getty Images Plus Texas District Court Judge Mark Pittman, appointed to his position by President Donald Trump in 2019, ruled that the National Labor Relations Board (NRLB) may not pursue its claims against a “social care network” company. Findhelp, a company that “connects people and programs — making it easy for people to find social services in their communities,” ran...

Amazon.com A religiously diverse group of Maryland parents is petitioning the Supreme Court to consider whether their local school district may force students to submit to LGBTQ indoctrination against their parents’ wishes.“Parents shouldn’t have to take a back seat to anyone when it comes to introducing their children to complex and sensitive issues around gender and sexuality,” Eric Baxter, vice president...

BrianAJackson/iStock/Getty Images Plus On Thursday, the climate advocacy group Our Children’s Trust attempted to breathe life back into their failed climate-change-blame case, Juliana v. United States. Petitioning the Supreme CourtThe climate zealots filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to overturn an appellate court’s decision in May to dismiss the case. They want the Court to correct what they call...

The Vigilant Fox/X Elon Musk The “world is not obliged to put up with Musk’s extreme right-wing anything goes just because he is rich.” So said Brazilian president and ex-convict Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva recently, referencing his nation’s attack on Musk’s X social media platform.Only, he didn’t mention that “anything goes” doesn’t mean killing and stealing (which governments do...

LPETTET/iStock/Getty Images Plus The lawsuit filed by America First Legal (AFL) against Maricopa County, Arizona, to stop illegal aliens from voting now includes 14 more of the Grand Canyon State’s counties.The suit argues that officials are not, as required by law, purging noncitizens’ names from voter rolls, and demands that the court order those counties to rectify their refusal to...