United States Court System

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...

Ekaterina Bolovtsova/pexels U.S. District Court Judge Reed O’Connor didn’t hold back in his criticism of the ATF in his decision yesterday in Mock v. Garland: “The Court VACATES the Final Rule on the grounds that violated the APA’s (Administrative Procedures Act) procedural requirements in promulgating it” and “because it was arbitrary and capricious….”  The fractious rule was birthed when Joe...

vkyryl/iStock/Getty Images Plus First we had Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg talking about “racist roads.” Then we had the city of Oakland, California, remove traffic lights because public officials were unwilling to stop thieves from stealing copper from them. Now there’s yet another indication of what many consider our descent into idiocracy and social decay:Los Angeles has removed “homophobic” “no...

YouTube “It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool,” the old saying goes, “than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.” People should perhaps be mindful of this before publicly defending the indefensible — such as New York’s kangaroo-court conviction of President Trump.One person who might’ve learned this the hard way is “journalist” and stand-up comedienne...

ArisSu/iStock/Getty Images Plus Hillary Clinton isn’t the only Democrat who wants supporters of former President Trump imprisoned and brainwashed.So does Democratic congressional candidate Paula Collins, who’s running against GOP Representative Elise Stefanik for New York’s 21st Congressional District.She proposed sending those who never-Trumpers call “Trumpanzees” to “re-education camps,” just as Clinton did in October. And it’s of a piece with...

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...

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...

BrianAJackson/iStock/Getty Images Plus Matthew Kacsmaryk, district judge for the Northern District of Texas, stopped the ATF from enforcing its new rule claiming that anyone selling, or even offering to sell, a firearm must register as a gun dealer. The temporary restraining order remains in place for just two weeks, and it only applies to the individual named in the complaint...

AP Images “Show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime.” — Popular Stalinist-era Soviet phraseThe case against Donald Trump in the New York hush-money scandal rests on some shaky legal ground. Here’s why:Firstly, for the misdemeanor charge, prosecutors need to prove Trump intended to defraud. For the felony charge, they must show he intended to commit or cover up another,...

The ruling by the High Court in London permitting the WikiLeaks publisher to appeal his extradition order leaves him languishing in precarious health in a high-security prison. That is the point. The decision by the High Court in London to grant Julian Assange the right to appeal the order to extradite him to the United States may prove to be a Pyrrhic...