United States Court System

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...

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...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is refusing to release the names of deportable illegal-alien criminals that the agency arrests, a federal Freedom of Information Act lawsuit has alleged.After it noticed a 30-percent drop in such identification from the Trump to the Biden administrations, on July 20, 2023 the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) filed a FOIA request for the paperwork...

Ben185/iStock/Getty Images Plus The push to place as many women as possible into the U.S. Secret Service nearly had deadly consequences yesterday.A woman agent on Vice President Kamala Harris’ detail attacked fellow agents at Joint Base Andrews just outside Washington, D.C., the Washington Examiner and RealClearPolitics (RCP) reported.RCP also revealed that the agent was something of a loose cannon when...

PaulPaladin/iStock/Getty Images Plus “A man capable of deceiving only others,” instructs a sage old saying, “is not as dangerous as a man capable of deceiving himself.” Bringing this to mind are comments Democrat-turned-independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. made recently, talking about an interaction he had with CNN news anchor Erin Burnett two weeks ago.Kennedy described how Burnett was...

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...