United States Court System

artas/iStock/Getty Images Plus A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Biden administration “exceeded its statutory authority” by reclassifying certain types of rapid-firing triggers as machine guns, thereby making them illegal.U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor of the Northern District of Texas vacated the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) “unlawful” classification of forced-reset triggers (FRTs) as machine guns and...

John Whitehead A failed assassination attempt on a presidential candidate. An incumbent president withdrawing his re-election bid at the 11th hour. A politicized judiciary that fails to hold the powers-that-be accountable to the rule of law. A world at war. A nation in turmoil.This is what controlled chaos looks like.This year’s election-year referendum on which corporate puppet should occupy the...

-slav-/iStock/Getty Images Plus In a ruling that has recently received some more attention, quite deservedly, the United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has reopened a lawsuit contending that Covid-shot mandates are unconstitutional.It’s a victory for medical freedom and the proper understanding of “My body, my choice.”Original LawsuitProviding some background, the Kelly Chang law offices write: The underlying...

marchmeena29/iStock/Getty Images Plus A Swiss couple is desperately trying to regain custody of their daughter and prevent her from “transitioning” to male after state agencies and a transgender-activist organization conspired against them, accusing them of abuse for refusing to accede to the teenager’s wishes.Beginning of the OrdealAccording to a press release from Vienna-based Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) International, which is...

Selwyn Duke Would you want to be ruled by a government of unelected Anthony Faucis? It’s a relevant question because, although it’s seldom framed this way, that’s precisely what the “Chevron doctrine” gave us for 40 years. Overturning almost 200 years of precedent — the precedent whereby our elected representatives made law and, if it was ambiguous, people could at...

AP Images John Broomes On Tuesday, a federal judge in Topeka, Kansas, blocked new Biden administration rules on Title IX which would have greatly expanded transgender ideology in schools. U.S. District Judge John Broomes cited the recent Supreme Court decision of Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, which overturned the decades-old precedent known as Chevron.For decades, the administrative state has used...

The presidential debate between Trump and Biden last Thursday was one of the most stunning knockouts in history. A chorus of liberals, including a senior Democrat congressman from Austin, calling for Biden to quit the race confirms that Trump mopped the floor with him. Trump’s flawless performance repeatedly hit the target without a single gaffe. Even in New Hampshire, which is all Trump needs...

Bill Hahn The U.S. Supreme Court certainly has given us a mixed bag of rulings since the overturning of Roe versus Wade. Some are winners and track according to the federal Constitution, while others seem to make little sense, especially in the tradition of limited government the Founding Fathers prescribed. Last week’s overturning of the Chevron case has the potential...

Ronald Paras (Picxel8 Studios)/iStock/Getty Images Plus President Joe Biden has expanded his program to import “migrants” by air.Now, he’s flying in Africans who filed bogus asylum claims with the Trump administration and were deported.In this case, the Africans are Cameroonians, one of the many groups to whom Biden has extended “temporary protected status,” a mini-amnesty to keep them in the...

SeanPavonePhoto/iStock/Getty Images Plus Today’s ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo overturns the 1984 ruling in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, and limits federal agencies’ regulatory authority.The question presented was whether or not SCOTUS should overrule the Chevron decision, and whether the Magnuson-Stevens Act can force domestic fishing vessels to pay the salaries of...

Douglas Rissing/iStock/Getty Images Plus On Friday, the United States Supreme Court greatly limited the ability of regulatory agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to essentially fill in the details when laws are unclear. The 40-year-old Chevron decision effectively granted the regulatory state — which consists of unelected bureaucrats — power to broadly interpret laws and, in effect, create...

iQoncept/iStock/Getty Images Plus “A government big enough to give you everything you want,” goes a paraphrase of an apocryphal saying, “is big enough to take everything you’ve got.”This includes too many free minutes.As to this, we’ve all probably had the kind of experience commentator Kevin R. Kosar describes in an article recently featured on MSN.com. In “Our nanny state and...

AP Images Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was in full fib mode yesterday on Morning Joe, an arm of the Biden administration’s Mainstream Media Information Ministry.With more than 300 terror suspects caught at the border this fiscal year, along with the Biden “migrant” terrorists whom Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has caught, Mayorkas told viewers that the “migrant” terror threat...

Critical Race Theory and systemic racism in education are going to a whole new level in Illinois. In fact, under a proposed new scheme supposedly aimed at fighting alleged “disparities” in higher learning, people with darker complexions (or lower grades) will literally be worth more than those with lighter skin. State education policymakers recently unveiled a controversial plan to offer...

MattGush/iStock/Getty Images Plus When it comes to Biden “migrants,” Venezuela isn’t sending its best.Two more of them have been arrested in connection with yet another murder. The victim in this case: Jocelyn Nungaray, 12, of Houston, Texas.Border agents caught Jose Pena Ramos and Jose Rangel Martinez when they jumped the border in May and March. Then border agents released the...

DOUGBERRY/iStock/Getty Images Plus Climate activists, hiding behind 13 Hawaiian schoolchildren, have secured at least $40 million in promises from the government of Hawaii. Under the terms of the settlement, Hawaii must establish a greenhouse-gas reduction plan that will supposedly lead to net-zero emissions by 2045, and the Aloha State will be forced to invest at least $40 million toward an...

400tmax/iStock/Getty Images Plus The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruling in United States v. Rahimi announced earlier today upholds restrictions that prohibit domestic violence perpetrators from possessing firearms. The Court’s 8-1 majority opinion stated regulations that restrict dangerous individuals from possessing firearms are constitutional: When an individual has been found by a court to pose a credible threat to the physical...

natasaadzic/iStock/Getty Images Plus A national watchdog organization has joined with several Pennsylvania voters to file a federal lawsuit that could drastically alter administration of the state’s upcoming election in November.United Sovereign Americans (USA) announced in a press release that the case involves “errors in the results of the 2022 general election in Pennsylvania which rendered the results unreliable.” The group...

In the last week, four different federal courts independently arrived at the same conclusion: Biden’s policy to impose his transgender ideology on public schools is unlawful. Biden insists, beginning with the upcoming school year, that every public school in America open its girls’ restrooms and locker rooms to boys who think they are girls. More than half our country – 27...

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...