From the Bench

Bacsica/iStock/Getty Images Plus The United States Supreme Court has dismissed a challenge to the federal government’s mail-order policy for abortion pills.All nine SCOTUS justices agreed that the plaintiffs lacked standing to challenge relaxed regulatory requirements adopted by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) in 2016 and 2021.Those policy changes made the dangerous medication easier for doctors to prescribe and...

Ekaterina Bolovtsova/pexels U.S. District Court Judge Reed O’Connor didn’t hold back in his criticism of the ATF in his decision yesterday in Mock v. Garland: “The Court VACATES the Final Rule on the grounds that violated the APA’s (Administrative Procedures Act) procedural requirements in promulgating it” and “because it was arbitrary and capricious….”  The fractious rule was birthed when Joe...

AP Images Rashida Tlaib Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) criticized the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) decision in Garland v. Cargill announced earlier today, stating on X, “Today’s Supreme Court decision will result in more gun deaths.”Tlaib’s remarks today come after attacking Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito yesterday, describing the associate justices as “unhinged, corrupt extremists.” “I know we need urgent action...

Olivier Le Moal/iStock/Getty Images Plus “I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the telephone directory,” wrote the late William F. Buckley in 1961, “than by the Harvard University faculty.” It might be wise bearing this in mind in light of the warning just issued by The Washington Post:If Trump is reelected, states the paper’s Karen Tumulty,...

AP Images The FBI has come under intense scrutiny following allegations that it revoked the security clearance of an employee due to his political views and stance on the Covid-19 vaccine. A complaint filed with the Justice Department’s internal watchdog, based on internal FBI files, highlights apparent politicization within the Bureau, raising significant concerns about freedom of expression and political...

AP Images Jon Tester Three-term Senator Jon Tester (D-Mont.) just tipped his hand, revealing to all Montanans his anti-gun agenda. The revelation could end his 18-year run as Montana’s only elected Democrat in the state.In 2016, Tester voted against a Democrat-sponsored proposal that would have required background checks for gun purchases at gun snows and online.He revealed his true colors...

AP Images Jared Polis Colorado’s Democratic Governor Jared Polis signed a bill into law last week — SB 24-084 — that requires the Colorado attorney general to coordinate with the Colorado Department of Education to censor “factually inaccurate data,” as well as collaborate with organizations and community leaders to “facilitate productive and honest conversations.”Senate Bill 24-084 states: CONCERNING A REQUIREMENT...

AP Images Scott Wiener Speaking at a Pride event in San Francisco, California Democratic state Senator Scott Wiener declared that children who exhibit gender confusion or homosexual urges do not belong to the foster parents who have taken them in. Rather, those kids belong to the LGBT community. He maintained that such persons who wish to maintain parental rights are...

Pawel Kajak/iStock/Getty Images Plus There are sins of commission, things you shouldn’t have done, but did; and sins of omission, things you should have done, but didn’t. When the two come together, you can have evildoers and enablers, such as when miscreants commit crimes and authorities ignore the crimes.Enter the Biden administration.At issue is something you probably won’t learn about...

AP Images Now that the Stalinist Show Trial of President Trump has ended in the predictable guilty verdict, the case will go to appeal, as expected.But Trump’s prevailing on appeal in New York is unlikely, despite the case being a fraud and political hit on behalf of the Biden campaign — which means the case will likely land before the...

D. Lentz/iStock/Getty Images Plus In a rare unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that an anti-gun, anti-Second Amendment, anti-NRA New York State official overstepped her lawful bounds.Maria Vullo, while acting as the superintendent of New York’s Department of Financial Services (DFS) in 2018, threatened insurance companies under her jurisdiction with sanctions and fines unless they terminated their business...

On Saturday a man with long blonde hair posted an image of himself wearing lipstick and make-up on social media, and then entered an AMC theater near Boston where he stabbed four girls watching a children’s movie. Jared Ravizza was allegedly “laughing the whole time” while he nearly killed them, the mother of three of them said. From there, he...

AP Images President Joe Biden’s executive order supposedly aimed at “promoting access to voting” appears to be using federal agencies and Biden-allied nonprofits to enroll likely Democratic voters almost exclusively, a probable violation of at least two federal laws.The President’s March 7, 2021, order “is a partisan voter mobilization effort by the Biden Administration to mobilize historically Democratic groups to...

baona/iStock/Getty Images Plus The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court on Friday in the long-running war by Mexico against America’s gun-makers. An earlier brief, filed by 20 states’ attorneys general, focused on the protection provided by Congress when it passed the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) in 2005.The present brief focuses...

SDI Productions/iStock/Getty Images Plus In speaking to the NRA’s national convention on May 18, Donald Trump made it sound as if the average gun owner couldn’t care less about the upcoming election. But a study done in 2020 rebuts that presumption: Not only do gun owners vote more consistently and reliably than non-owners, they turn out in ever greater numbers.FactCheck.org,...

mj0007/iStock/Getty Images Plus “My biggest concern,” said Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson during oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri in March, “is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways.” This comment virally raised eyebrows, and for good reason: The Constitution’s whole purpose when crafted was, and still is, to hamstring government. After all,...

AP Images Ted Cruz Yet another of President Joe Biden’s leftist judicial nominees is a science denier.This time, it’s federal Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn, whom Ice Cream Joe nominated for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.Like Supreme Court pick Ketanji Brown Jackson, Netburn is unclear on the difference between a man and woman. And because...

AP Images Alan Dershowitz The judge in New York City’s show trial of former President Donald Trump is “unethical” and a judicial “tyrant.”That verdict comes not from the Trump presidential campaign, but instead from Biden voter and Harvard law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz.Dershowitz’s 809-word, sizzling indictment strongly suggests that Trump has a ready appeal should the jury return a guilty...

gsagi/iStock/Getty Images Plus In a Wednesday press release, Republican Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas introduced S. 4344 — the Repealing Illegal Freedom and Liberty Excises (RIFLE) Act — which, if passed, would remove the $200 registration fee imposed under the 1934 National Firearms Act (NFA).The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) receives more that 70,000 requests a month...