United States Court System

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...

mohd izzuan/iStock/Getty Images Plus The Biden administration announced new regulations Monday that would force all employers, regardless of their religious or moral convictions, to provide “reasonable accommodations” for employees seeking abortions.The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) 408-page rule, scheduled to be published Friday, requires employers “to provide reasonable accommodations to a qualified employee’s or applicant’s known limitations related to, affected...

Ilana Mercer Israel’s war is not a war by any known definition. Four conditions of genocide fulfilled, not one law of war heeded: In the course of its genocidal campaign, Israel has violated every law of war codified in Customary International Humanitarian Law. A ceasefire is called upon in war. Israel’s onslaught on Gaza is not a war.“Ceasefire” is defined...

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,...

More than one in four students enrolled in government schools nationwide are now considered “chronically absent,” up from just 15 percent before the tyrannical response to COVID, revealed an analysis of data from almost 40 states. Some jurisdictions such as Washington, D.C., have rates as high as 60 percent of students chronically absent, according to news reports. One government school in Massachusetts...

Andrii Panchyk/iStock/Getty Images Plus Forty Members of Parliament (MPs) in the United Kingdom have endorsed an amendment that would reduce the length of time during which unborn babies with Down syndrome may be aborted.Under the U.K.’s 1967 Abortion Act, “normal” babies can be aborted as late as 24 weeks, but babies considered to be disabled — a category that includes...

lakshmiprasad S/iStock/Getty Images Plus Former Hunter Biden associate Tony Bobulinski and his attorney, Stefan Passantino, have sued Fox News talker and Democratic operative Jessica Tarlov in federal court for defamation.The three-count lawsuit seeks $30 million for Tarlov’s claim on The Five, Fox’s popular 5 p.m. gabfest. Tarlov falsely said that GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s super PAC, Save America, paid...

Politics Securing the Border: America’s Priority Number One The country needs GOP legislators who will get out of their own way. (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images) Our country is being invaded because President Joe Biden refuses to secure our borders. He has rolled out the welcome mat, and illegal immigrants are pouring in by the millions.  The current...

The Supreme Court went 0-for-4 on Monday, which in spring training for baseball would justify sending the batter to the minor rather than the big leagues. In four cases the Court should have stood strongly against wrongdoing by Biden, the Department of Justice, and the State of New York, but instead acted to appease those liberal regimes. First up was the case...

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court kicked off deliberations on a landmark case concerning government involvement in social-media content moderation. Dubbed Murthy v. Missouri (formerly Missouri v. Biden), the case delves into whether federal entities, including the White House, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Surgeon General, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and...

AlxeyPnferov/iStock/Getty Images Plus Attorneys general from 16 states that have banned the barbaric practice of performing sex-change procedures on children have written to Maine’s Governor Janet Mills, Attorney General Aaron Frey, Senate President Troy Jackson, and House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross. The letter vehemently protested proposed legislation LD 227, called by some the “Transgender Trafficking Bill.”LD 227 seeks to shield...

gorodenkoff/iStock/Getty Images Plus A Fulton County, Georgia, judge has dismissed six counts of the politically motivated indictment against former President Donald Trump, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, former Trump aide Rudy Giuliani, and three other defendants for interfering in Georgia’s 2020 presidential election.Judge Scott McAfee said county prosecutor Fani Willis didn’t define the defendants’ crimes.The men still...

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva and his allies in the judicial branch have turned Brazil into a “dictatorship” that is persecuting dissidents, political leaders, and journalists while violating basic human rights, a coalition of Brazilian lawmakers and journalists said in Washington on March 12. U.S. lawmakers expressed grave concerns about the developments as well, with Rep. Chris Smith...

Luis Miguel Thomas Jefferson’s great quote about the “tree of liberty” remains one of the most important summations of the pivotal role of freedom in America’s national character and its centrality in political life.“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants,” wrote Jefferson over 200 years ago.Clearly, Americans today are...

Vincent Ryan/iStock/Getty Images Plus Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar admitted Saturday that his government had taken “two wallops” from voters as a pair of referenda that would have watered down provisions of the Irish constitution supporting mothers and marriage were overwhelmingly defeated.Forty-four percent of Irish voters turned out Friday to reject the two referenda, with those opposed clearly more motivated...