From the Bench

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...

AP Images Ayanna Pressley One wouldn’t think it possible, but a leftist black congresswoman found a way to attack whites even during a committee hearing on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley, the Democrat who represents the 7th District of Massachusetts, unloaded on “white men” who “fail up” after not performing to her high standards.Then she posted the...

AP Images Mike Johnson House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) attended former President Donald Trump’s trial in New York City today. Johnson stated outside the courthouse: I called President Trump and told him I wanted to be here myself to call out what is a travesty of justice and I think everybody around the country can see that, President Trump is...

AP Images Stormy Daniels Can we say that Stormy lied and justice died? This question is especially relevant now that video has emerged, courtesy of comedian-cum-commentator Bill Maher, showing that porn actress and ex-stripper Stormy Daniels’ testimony in President Donald Trump’s trial is completely contradicted by earlier statements she has made. In other words, she likely has perjured herself. Commentator...

Olivier Le Moal/iStock/Getty Images Plus Those who have been following the decline of the U.S. patent system may wonder what can be done about the many assaults on the only right actually enshrined in the U.S. Constitution (outside the later Bill of Rights), the right mentioned in Article I, Section 1, requiring that Congress secure “for limited Times to Authors...

mj0007/iStock/Getty Images Plus The idea, close to the heart of the Democratic Party, to count illegal aliens for the purpose of apportioning representation in the U.S. House of Representatives raises substantial constitutional, political, and practical concerns. The matter came to a vote in the House on May 9 when a measure favored by Republicans that would prevent apportionment manipulation via...

AP Images Steve Bannon Steve Bannon’s appeal of his contempt of Congress conviction failed in a federal appeals court today. Bannon was convicted in 2022 and sentenced to four months in prison after refusing to provide documents and testify to the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack.The appeals court upheld Bannon’s conviction, stating in their judgment:...

laboratorio linux/Flickr IBM subsidiary Red Hat openly and illegally discriminated against a white employee who was on the road to becoming a top executive, alleges a lawsuit filed by America First Legal (AFL).Though Allan Kingsley Wood never received anything but stellar job performance reviews, the company fired him pursuant to its diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.Filed with the U.S. District...