United States Court System

AP Images Ron Wyden Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) unveiled a sweeping piece of legislation on Thursday designed to reform the U.S. Supreme Court, addressing what he has described as a “legitimacy crisis” plaguing the institution.The bill, dubbed the “Judicial Modernization and Transparency Act,” proposes increasing the number of justices from nine to 15. This expansion would occur over three presidential...

Bytmonas/iStock/Getty Images Plus In a surprising move, the far-left American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed an amicus brief last week with the liberal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that mirrored similar briefs filed by the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC).The lawsuit, United States v. Duarte, was brought by the federal government against one Steven Duarte,...

Arthit Pornpikanet/iStock/Getty Images Plus In an effort to convince voters she’s not anti-Second Amendment, Kamala Harris often emphatically claims that she herself is a gun owner. She even said, while cackling during her Oprah Winfrey interview, that anyone breaking into her home is “getting shot.” (Does this standard apply to breaking into countries, too?) But her Dirty Harry routine isn’t...

photovs/iStock/Getty Images Plus Would you side with Chevron deference, or constitutional diligence? The establishment, including the mainstream media and Democratic Party, has made up its mind. To them, the “Chevron doctrine’s” demise, which takes the matter of settling ambiguous law’s meaning out of bureaucrats’ hands and places it back in judges’ laps, represents a crisis. Forget people having their day...

photovs/iStock/Getty Images Plus Vice President and Democratic nominee for president Kamala Harris took a decisive stance on the filibuster and abortion “rights” during her latest rare interview. Speaking with Wisconsin Public Radio’s “Wisconsin Today” on Monday, Harris expressed her strong support for ending the filibuster to restore Roe v. Wade and protect abortion “rights” nationally. The interview, which aired Tuesday...

hansslegers/iStock/Getty Images Plus In yet another major embarrassment for the already disgraced U.S. Secret Service (USSS), an agent shot himself on Saturday night.Details are few. The agent will survive.The once-revered agency has been under heavy fire since the first assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13. Then came the attempt at...

John Whitehead It is both apt and ironic that the anniversary of 9/11, which paved the way for the government to overthrow the Constitution, occurs the week before the anniversary of the day the U.S. Constitution was adopted on September 17, 1787.All sides are still waging war on our constitutional freedoms, and “we the people” remain the biggest losers.This year’s...

AP Images Ryan Routh in Ukraine in 2022 The suspect in the second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump is a Democratic donor and would-be soldier of fortune who vowed to fight and die for Ukraine.Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, has also been arrested some 100 times, and was involved in a stand-off with cops in Greensboro, North Carolina, in...

YouTube Routh being apprehended by police The federal criminal complaint against Ryan Wesley Routh, who attempted to assassinate former President Trump on Sunday, offered more details about Routh’s failed attempt.Notably, Routh landed at the golf course two hours after midnight Saturday and waited for his chance to murder Trump, the complaint alleges.The complaint also offers more details about Routh’s weapon...

Amazon.com A religiously diverse group of Maryland parents is petitioning the Supreme Court to consider whether their local school district may force students to submit to LGBTQ indoctrination against their parents’ wishes.“Parents shouldn’t have to take a back seat to anyone when it comes to introducing their children to complex and sensitive issues around gender and sexuality,” Eric Baxter, vice president...

BrianAJackson/iStock/Getty Images Plus On Thursday, the climate advocacy group Our Children’s Trust attempted to breathe life back into their failed climate-change-blame case, Juliana v. United States. Petitioning the Supreme CourtThe climate zealots filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to overturn an appellate court’s decision in May to dismiss the case. They want the Court to correct what they call...

Anastasiia Yanishevska/iStock/Getty Images Plus A federal court in Ohio ruled on August 12 that an Ohio school district erred when it compelled a substitute English teacher to use “preferred names and pronouns” for two transgender students. Judge Pamela Barker of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio ruled that the Jackson Local School District Board of...

AP Images Juan Merchan One of the Left’s most fervent wishes this election season is for Donald Trump to be sitting in jail on November 5. They would like to see the former president be sentenced to a lengthy prison term as a result of his spurious conviction on 34 felonies in New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan’s court...

Lisa-Blue/iStock/Getty Images Plus It’s said that Saint Patrick drove all the snakes from Ireland. It appears, however, that he might’ve missed a bunch. That is, if a recent story out of the Emerald Isle is any guide. To wit:In a testimonial to our upside-down world, an Irish Christian teacher has been imprisoned for the third time. His trespass?The educator, Enoch...

Public domain Thomas Cole's The Course of Empire: Destruction “Are Republicans losing the culture wars?” left-wing Politico asked recently. A better question is, though: Are we, as Americans, losing the war for our civilization?Moreover, how do we define “winning”? If a party triumphs politically by promising to rain down toxins upon us that most people mistake for manna from Heaven,...

With Israel launching major attacks on West Bank towns in the past 24 hours, Houthis blowing up oil tankers full of oil, and Belarus jumping into the fray in Ukraine with tanks and armored vehicles (and maybe its own troops?), and Putin adding 30,000 troops to the Kursk region and China flying a military recon plane into Japanese airspace for...

westtexasfish/iStock/Getty Images Plus The Gun Owners of America (GOA) and its sister organization, Gun Owners Foundation (GOF), filed an amicus curiae brief with the Supreme Court last week in Garland v. VanDerStok, asking it to affirm lower courts’ rulings against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF).Despite being slapped down for its blatant overreach in its declaration that...

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...

Kemal Yildirim/iStock/Getty Images Plus On Wednesday, the National Toxicology Program (NTP) published a long-delayed report establishing a connection between elevated fluoride levels in drinking water and reduced IQ scores in children. This report marks the first time the government has acknowledged this risk, reigniting discussions about the safety of fluoride, a substance widely used in public health for decades. Key...

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...