From the Bench

On Tuesday a 2-1 Democrat majority of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit  invalidated a good West Virginia law protecting girls’ sports against invasion by male-bodied transgender students. The Richmond-based tribunal held that West Virginia’s Save Women’s Sports Act violates the federal Title IX law, which was enacted to protect girls’ sports, and also that West Virginia’s protection...

AP Images Jury selection has begun for former President Donald Trump’s “hush money” trial, with seven jurors selected today in the Manhattan Supreme Court.New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s accuses Trump of falsely claiming that payments made to Stormy Daniels to cover up sexual allegations were payments for “legal services” to his former attorney, Michael Cohen.Trump is facing 34...

Erwin Chemerinsky in 2017 A demon, once released, is an uncontrollable beast. That one should therefore be careful when opening a gate to Hades is a lesson many have learned, the hard way. The latest example is one Erwin Chemerinsky, “Distinguished Professor of Law” at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.Chemerinsky just got schooled in the law of...

Luis Miguel The June 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court was heralded at the time as a monumental victory for the life movement and the culmination of decades of both legislative and activist work by conservatives and Republicans. The American Right had, virtually since the issuance of the Roe ruling in 1973, determined that its...

AP Images Elon Musk Brazilian Supreme Federal Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered X to block specific accounts in Brazil. X CEO Elon Musk is also being investigated for disseminating fake news in Brazil and is accused of obstructing Brazilian justice by de Morales, who stated, “The flagrant conduct of obstruction of Brazilian justice, incitement of crime, the public threat...

John Whitehead The government wants to play god.It wants the power to decide who lives or dies and whose rights are worthy of protection.Abortion may still be front and center in the power struggle between the Left and the Right over who has the right to decide—the government or the individual—when it comes to bodily autonomy, the right to privacy,...

Iuri Gagarin/iStock/Getty Images Plus The latest report from the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) released earlier this week shows that the average American’s appetite for a new firearm remains unsatiated. Over the last 20 years, March background checks (groomed by the NSSF to measure just those related to firearms purchases) have doubled, from about 600,000 in 2004 to over 1.4...

AP Images Sonia Sotomayor Leftists are so frightened that Donald Trump will win the 2024 election that they’ve called on U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to retire before disaster strikes.The reason: They remember what happened when the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg didn’t retire before Trump was elected in 2016. She died on September 18, 2020, and the seat went...

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...

AP Images Kari Lake Kari Lake declined to defend herself in a defamation lawsuit filed by Republican Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer and requested that the Arizona court move forward with issuing damages. Richer is requesting compensatory and punitive damages, as well as a statement from Lake admitting her allegations of election fraud in the 2022 governor’s race were false.Lake...

Martin Jambon/flickr The Golden State is already bracing itself in anticipation of a second Trump presidency.California Gov. Gavin Newsom is taking measures to Trump-proof the state’s climate policies in case Biden fails in the upcoming U.S. presidential election. As Politico reports, the governor has a legion of bureaucrats at his command set to help him ensure the green policies continue...

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...

triocean/iStock/Getty Images Plus A good way to frame the problem with “relying on experts” is to consider that a good number of Supreme Court opinions are 5-4. So all these people are supposedly juridical “experts,” but end up on opposite sides of many legal questions.Another way of saying this is that roughly half of them are often wrong.This should perhaps...

nktwentythree/iStock/Getty Images Plus Russia’s Federal Financial Monitoring Service (Rosfinmonitoring) has widened its classification of persons and organizations perceived to be involved in extremist activities or terrorism to include “the international LGBT social movement and its structural units.” The updated list can be seen on the agency’s website.The move follows a ruling by the country’s Supreme Court last November that maintained...

AP Images In his interview with special counsel Robert Hur, who investigated President Joe Biden for illegally taking classified documents to several unsecured locations, Biden repeated a falsehood he has been telling for years about the beginning of his less-than-stellar legal career.He claimed to have worked on a case in which his law firm defended a corporation in a liability...

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...

AP Images Peter Navarro Peter Navarro reported to FCI Miami today to begin serving a four-month sentence for contempt of Congress. Navarro served as White House trade advisor to former President Donald Trump, and was subpoenaed by the January 6th Committee. Navarro ignored the subpoenas and claimed that he was exempt from the subpoenas due to Trump asserting executive privilege...

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court kicked off deliberations on a landmark case concerning government involvement in social-media content moderation. Dubbed Murthy v. Missouri (formerly Missouri v. Biden), the case delves into whether federal entities, including the White House, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Surgeon General, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and...