From the Bench

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...

RichLegg/iStock/Getty Images Plus After four years of legal wrangling, Pennsylvanians 18 to 20 years old may now fully enjoy their Second Amendment-protected rights. Under Pennsylvania’s peculiar laws, those adults may carry a handgun openly in public without violating the law. But because Pennsylvania has been operating under a state of emergency since 2018, those under age 21 must have a...

AaronAmat/iStock/Getty Images Plus When Supreme Court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson claimed she couldn’t define “woman” during her confirmation hearings in 2022, it created quite a stir. The story only would’ve been better if Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), who’d asked the then-judicial nominee to define the term, had followed up with, “Are you a woman, Judge Jackson?” The follow-up to that...

D. Lentz/iStock/Getty Images Plus The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments in former President Donald Trump’s immunity claims today. The justices are examining the question: “Whether and if so to what extent does a former president enjoy presidential immunity from criminal prosecution for conduct alleged to involve official acts during his tenure in office.” One of the more outlandish questions...

Politics repeats itself, and the presidential election of 1968 has returned as Biden’s nightmare. On Monday, student protests shut down in-person classes at Columbia and disrupted Yale, New York University, and Harvard, sparking many arrests. The upcoming Democratic National Convention could face worse turmoil in Chicago, the same place where the Democrats held their 1968 convention amid anti-war riots that caused a...

ftwitty/iStock/Getty Images Plus Jury selection is finished for former President Donald Trump’s New York “hush money” trial. New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan stated, “We have now completed jury selection for this case,” after the jurors and alternates had been sworn in.Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said that, regardless of the verdict, Americans should be reassured that ordinary citizens will...

Veronique de Rugy Another Tax Day has come and gone, and most Americans believe they pay too much. One recent poll revealed that 56% say they pay more than their fair share. Unfortunately, I fear this is just the beginning considering the insane level of debt Washington policymakers have accumulated over the years. With this in mind, here are some...

On Tuesday a 2-1 Democrat majority of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit  invalidated a good West Virginia law protecting girls’ sports against invasion by male-bodied transgender students. The Richmond-based tribunal held that West Virginia’s Save Women’s Sports Act violates the federal Title IX law, which was enacted to protect girls’ sports, and also that West Virginia’s protection...

AP Images Jury selection has begun for former President Donald Trump’s “hush money” trial, with seven jurors selected today in the Manhattan Supreme Court.New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s accuses Trump of falsely claiming that payments made to Stormy Daniels to cover up sexual allegations were payments for “legal services” to his former attorney, Michael Cohen.Trump is facing 34...

Erwin Chemerinsky in 2017 A demon, once released, is an uncontrollable beast. That one should therefore be careful when opening a gate to Hades is a lesson many have learned, the hard way. The latest example is one Erwin Chemerinsky, “Distinguished Professor of Law” at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.Chemerinsky just got schooled in the law of...

Luis Miguel The June 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court was heralded at the time as a monumental victory for the life movement and the culmination of decades of both legislative and activist work by conservatives and Republicans. The American Right had, virtually since the issuance of the Roe ruling in 1973, determined that its...

AP Images Elon Musk Brazilian Supreme Federal Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered X to block specific accounts in Brazil. X CEO Elon Musk is also being investigated for disseminating fake news in Brazil and is accused of obstructing Brazilian justice by de Morales, who stated, “The flagrant conduct of obstruction of Brazilian justice, incitement of crime, the public threat...

John Whitehead The government wants to play god.It wants the power to decide who lives or dies and whose rights are worthy of protection.Abortion may still be front and center in the power struggle between the Left and the Right over who has the right to decide—the government or the individual—when it comes to bodily autonomy, the right to privacy,...

Iuri Gagarin/iStock/Getty Images Plus The latest report from the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) released earlier this week shows that the average American’s appetite for a new firearm remains unsatiated. Over the last 20 years, March background checks (groomed by the NSSF to measure just those related to firearms purchases) have doubled, from about 600,000 in 2004 to over 1.4...

AP Images Sonia Sotomayor Leftists are so frightened that Donald Trump will win the 2024 election that they’ve called on U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to retire before disaster strikes.The reason: They remember what happened when the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg didn’t retire before Trump was elected in 2016. She died on September 18, 2020, and the seat went...

designer491/iStock/Getty Images Plus Liberalism, it is claimed, is associated with tolerance. But you wouldn’t know it from a new study finding that of the 10 states with the most religious-discrimination complaints filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), eight gave their electoral votes to Joe Biden in 2020.Not surprisingly, there’s a secularism connection, too: Of the 15 states with...

AP Images Glenn Youngkin Virginia’s Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin vetoed 30 gun-control bills on Tuesday, signed into law two gun-control bills that have little consequence, and sent back six others with amendments for the state’s Legislature to consider.Behind the flurry of bills the Democrats dumped on his desk is the real story: the hyper-partisanship that divides the two parties on...

AP Images Kari Lake Kari Lake declined to defend herself in a defamation lawsuit filed by Republican Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer and requested that the Arizona court move forward with issuing damages. Richer is requesting compensatory and punitive damages, as well as a statement from Lake admitting her allegations of election fraud in the 2022 governor’s race were false.Lake...

Martin Jambon/flickr The Golden State is already bracing itself in anticipation of a second Trump presidency.California Gov. Gavin Newsom is taking measures to Trump-proof the state’s climate policies in case Biden fails in the upcoming U.S. presidential election. As Politico reports, the governor has a legion of bureaucrats at his command set to help him ensure the green policies continue...