From the Bench

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...

AP Images New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan has delayed the sentencing hearing in former President Donald Trump’s “hush money” trial until November 26. He rescheduled it from September 18 until after the election due to concerns of a “politically prejudicial” motive to alter this year’s presidential election, stating in his decision:By letter dated August 14, 2024, Defendant requests...

AP Images Juan Merchan One of the Left’s most fervent wishes this election season is for Donald Trump to be sitting in jail on November 5. They would like to see the former president be sentenced to a lengthy prison term as a result of his spurious conviction on 34 felonies in New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan’s court...

RonBailey/iStock/Getty Images Plus U.S. District Judge Iain Johnston, nominated to his position by then-President Donald Trump in 2020, ruled on Friday that Illinois’ ban on citizens carrying a concealed firearm for personal protection on either of Chicago’s two mass transit systems violated the Second Amendment. The bad news is that his ruling only applies to the four individual plaintiffs who...

AP Images The far-left Guardian has published three articles since August 12 calling for the arrest of X owner Elon Musk because he permits free speech on the social media platform.The most prominent anti-free speech leftist to appear was former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich. Another piece linked Musk to Telegram founder Pavel Durov, who was arrested in Paris on...

undefined undefined/iStock/Getty Images Plus Lafayette University officials rescinded its designation of the Lafayette Science Museum in downtown Lafayette, Louisiana, as a “gun-free zone” last Wednesday following receipt of a letter from an attorney representing Gun Owners of America (GOA). Because the designation covers a 1,000-foot radius, because it also includes nearby two hotels being used by university students as dormitories,...

John Whitehead Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, has finally admitted what we knew all along: Facebook conspired with the government to censor individuals expressing “disapproved” views about the COVID-19 pandemic.Zuckerberg’s confession comes in the wake of a series of court rulings that turn a blind eye to the government’s technofascism.In a 2-1 decision in Children’s Health Defense v. Meta, the...

westtexasfish/iStock/Getty Images Plus The Gun Owners of America (GOA) and its sister organization, Gun Owners Foundation (GOF), filed an amicus curiae brief with the Supreme Court last week in Garland v. VanDerStok, asking it to affirm lower courts’ rulings against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF).Despite being slapped down for its blatant overreach in its declaration that...