From the Bench

Evgenia Gordienko/iStock/Getty Images Plus John W. Broomes, a Trump-nominated judge of the U.S. District Court in Kansas, opened the door (just a crack) to the first real potential challenge to the National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA). He ruled on Wednesday that charges against a defendant for possessing two machine guns be dismissed. At issue is the law 18 U.S.C....

inhauscreative/iStock/Getty Images Plus The “Left hates the Constitution and constitutionalism,” I wrote in 2018. And there’s a simple reason for this: “The Constitution is a conservative document.” Contrary to what most think, “conservative” above only means that the document serves to maintain a status quo. It limits the change the government can effect, and the Constitution itself is difficult to...

P_Wei/iStock/Getty Images Plus A new group called “Keep 9 Amendment” has been formed in an effort to propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to ban left-wing attempts to increase the number of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court. Disenchantment among the Left over some recent rulings from the Supreme Court, such as the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade,...

eranicle/iStock/Getty Images Plus A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s censorship lawsuit against the Biden administration may proceed. “The Court finds that Kennedy is likely to succeed on his claim that suppression of content posted was caused by actions of Government Defendants, and there is a substantial risk that he will suffer similar injury in the near...

kenlh/iStock/Getty Images Plus Biden-appointed Judge Adrienne Nelson of the U.S. District Court in Oregon found a way to keep the state’s onerous and unconstitutional ban on ghost guns in place. She ruled that although “bearable,” they are not “bearable for lawful purposes.” The language of the Second Amendment is clear: A well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a...

inarik/iStock/Getty Images Plus This week, the Arizona Supreme Court said that the term “unborn human being” did not violate a state law that requires nonpartisan language on pamphlets explaining ballot initiatives in the state. The Court’s ruling reverses a lower court’s decision that said the pamphlet explaining Arizona’s Abortion Access Act was biased for referring to the “products of conception”...

zimmytws/iStock/Getty Images Plus Is the title of this article “misinformation”? Governor Tim Walz (D-Minn.) certainly would say so. Many observers say the opposite, though, with Walz having stated in a recently unearthed interview that there’s “no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech.” His defenders would aver here, however, “That’s taken out of context!” That’s the rub, too,...

sleddogtwo/iStock/Getty Images Plus Gun Owners of America (GOA) just filed a lawsuit seeking to vacate a Florida law from the 19th century prohibiting the open carrying of firearms. It is using the recent decision in Bruen to overturn the law.The old law, according to the complaint, makes it “unlawful for any person to openly carry on or about his or...

AP Images Jamie Raskin In video from February that has now gone viral, election denier Jamie Raskin, the radical leftist congressman from Maryland, said civil war could erupt if former President Donald Trump defeats Vice President Kamala Harris on November 5.Raskin, who falsely claimed Trump didn’t win the presidential election in 2016, delivered the irresponsible incendiary remarks at a bookstore...

We are currently seeing an acceleration of the corporate consolidation of the entire global agri-food chain. The high-tech/big data conglomerates, including Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Google, have joined traditional agribusiness giants, such as Corteva, Bayer, Cargill and Syngenta, in a quest to impose their model of food and agriculture on the world. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is also involved (documented in...

John Whitehead Q: “How can you tell if a politician is lying?” A: “When his lips are moving.” The First Amendment assures us of a right to free speech.It does not, unfortunately, explicitly assure us of a right to not be lied to by our government and its various officials. Any hope of holding government officials accountable for their lies...

simpson33/iStock/Getty Images Plus That Vice President Kamala Harris is a far-left extremist, notably on immigration, is hardly news. But just how far left might be, and the Sacramento Bee offered an idea yesterday.Harris was behind the effort to push the legal authorities in California to permit an illegal alien to practice law. Indeed, the Bee’s sources say that Harris might...

AP Images The vaunted prisoner exchange between Russia, the United States, and other nations, which culminated in the delivery of two Americans at Joint Base Andrews yesterday, turned into something of an embarrassment for President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.Harris served up another big bowl of word salad. Biden, as he did during the G-7 meeting in Italy,...

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...