From the Bench

Selwyn Duke “‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’” — Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking GlassAs humans, who cannot communicate telepathically, we as a rule will use our common language with its widely agreed-upon terms; we also won’t engage in...

Bill Hahn As President Biden mentioned in his campaign-quit speech, he wasted no time calling for Supreme Court reform after the court repeatedly stepped in during his term to reverse longstanding constitutional abuses, many that were advantageous to the political left. We’ll look at some historical parallels to previous court attacks and what entity can actually bring about the right...

SolidMaks/iStock/Getty Images Plus On the surface, New Jersey District Judge Peter Sheridan (appointed to the bench in 2006 by then-President George W. Bush and who assumed “senior status” five years ago at age 68), got it right: New Jersey’s ban on the AR-15 semi-automatic firearm is unconstitutional.But he didn’t like doing so: It is hard to accept the Supreme Court’s...

AP Images Merrick Garland The Biden Justice Department has weaponized the law to attack pro-lifers who demonstrated outside abortion clinics. And it’s using an obscure law meant to protect the rights of newly enfranchised former American slaves to lengthen prison sentences.One weapon is the pro-abortion Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, a Clinton-era law that punishes pro-lifers for supposedly...

WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. — Former President Donald Trump spoke to a large group of Christians at Turning Point USA’s Believers’ Summit Friday evening at the West Palm Beach Convention Center. The president’s speech has been misquoted and mangled by mainstream media and social media alike, falsely claiming that Trump stated, “I’m not a Christian,” while drumming up a comment...

AP Images WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. — Former President Donald Trump spoke to a large group of Christians at Turning Point USA’s Believers’ Summit Friday evening at the West Palm Beach Convention Center. The president’s speech has been misquoted and mangled by mainstream media and social media alike, falsely claiming that Trump stated, “I’m not a Christian,” while drumming up...

BrianAJackson/iStock/Getty Images Plus An Oregon high-school track coach is suing his former employer after the school fired him for expressing the opinion that transgender athletes should compete against each other rather than against biological females.Represented by the Chicago-based Liberty Justice Center (LJC), John Parks filed a federal lawsuit against the Lake Oswego School District (LOSD) Wednesday. The veteran coach, who...

AP Images Though far-left Democratic presidential candidate and Vice President Kamala Harris is justly famous for the streams of word salad and nonsense she regularly emits, at times she clearly explains her ideology — and delivers bald-faced lies to advance it.Now, some of those remarks and comments are going viral, as did her fountains of gibberish earlier this week.Upshot: A...

artas/iStock/Getty Images Plus A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Biden administration “exceeded its statutory authority” by reclassifying certain types of rapid-firing triggers as machine guns, thereby making them illegal.U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor of the Northern District of Texas vacated the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) “unlawful” classification of forced-reset triggers (FRTs) as machine guns and...

Team Trump/X If Vice President Kamala Harris becomes the Democratic nominee for president at the party’s convention next month, the Trump campaign has a ready set of campaign advertisements in her many public statements.X is exploding with the numerous times that Harris went on at length and said, precisely, nothing.Indeed, Harris often makes Joe Biden sound like a silver-tongued genius....

AP Images President Joe Biden dropped out of the race for president today after weeks of pressure from Democrats who were worried he would lose badly to GOP foe Donald Trump.The decision ends Biden’s long and mostly destructive career in politics that saw him go from a relatively moderate Democrat and friend of “segregationists” to a woke leftist obsessed with...

Government indoctrination masquerading as “education” has deliberately waged war on biblical religion, and the fruit is devastating America and its children by turning them away from God and Truth.   From chanting to the Aztec deities of cannibalism and human sacrifice in California to forcing children to denounce their “Christian privilege” in front of the class in North Carolina, government schools...

jc_design/iStock/Getty Images Plus The ruling by a three-judge panel of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals released on Tuesday affirmed a lower court’s decision that Minnesota’s ban on 18- to 20-year-old citizens of the state from carrying a handgun in public is unconstitutional. The state had a second chance to defend the indefensible, and it failed.Anti-gun Attorney GeneralThe state’s attorney...

AP Images Donald Trump and Secret Service agents Democratic Representative Bennie Thompson of Mississippi might have fired a staffer for wishing Donald Trump’s would-be assassin had succeeded in killing the 45th president.But if Thompson had gotten his way a few months ago, Trump might have been killed.The man who led the bogus January 6 Committee and was a devoted insurrectionist...

-slav-/iStock/Getty Images Plus In a ruling that has recently received some more attention, quite deservedly, the United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has reopened a lawsuit contending that Covid-shot mandates are unconstitutional.It’s a victory for medical freedom and the proper understanding of “My body, my choice.”Original LawsuitProviding some background, the Kelly Chang law offices write: The underlying...

AP Images It was an amusing moment, though perhaps a bit brutal given Biden’s signs of dementia. And a necessary one given what has transpired since President Joe Biden calamitously collapsed in his debate against former President Donald Trump.Since then, we’ve learned that the president essentially shuts down after 4 p.m.Biden himself has said he’s worthless past 8 p.m.A neurologist said...

In a growing sign of pushback against anti-Christian indoctrination of children funded by coercive taxation imposed on Christians, multiple states are moving to restore biblical truth and the Ten Commandments to their once-central role in education. The godless, the pagans, and even some Christians, however, are up in arms. For centuries, the Bible was the primary textbook for Americans. Education...

mixetto/iStock/Getty Images Plus In yet another sign that President Joe Biden is too old, feeble, and mentally impaired to do his job, a radio host has confessed that she became a mouthpiece for the Biden campaign. It provided the questions she asked the octogenarian president.After “resigning” from WURD in Philadelphia, Andrea Lawful-Sanders confessed the truth about her interview with Biden...

AP Images Alvin Bragg In a brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, New York City’s infamous and corrupt Soros-backed District Attorney Alvin Bragg urged the high court to approve the ATF’s egregious and unconstitutional expansion of its powers.The ATF, taking its cues from the Biden administration’s anti-gun agenda, ruled that guns built at home from kits and...

Selwyn Duke Would you want to be ruled by a government of unelected Anthony Faucis? It’s a relevant question because, although it’s seldom framed this way, that’s precisely what the “Chevron doctrine” gave us for 40 years. Overturning almost 200 years of precedent — the precedent whereby our elected representatives made law and, if it was ambiguous, people could at...