United States Court System

AP Images Ken Paxton The Center for Reproductive Rights announced today that Kate Cox has left the state of Texas to obtain an abortion after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a statement that he would prosecute Dr. Damla Karsan or anyone who performed the dilation-and-evacuation abortion allowed by Travis County District Court Judge Maya Guerra Gamble. The Center for...

fergregory/iStock/Getty Images Plus The courts have given a win to the Left and a major blow to migration hawks. On Friday, a federal judge blocked — for the next eight years — the separation of families at the border for purposes of border enforcement. U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw, who issued the ruling, said the separation of migrant families “represents...

AP Images Alexander Lukashenko and Xi Jinping On December 4, Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing for the second time this year. Apart from both sides vowing to boost bilateral relations and cooperation, Xi assured Lukashenko that China firmly backed Belarus in adopting a development strategy suited...

John Whitehead We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government. — William O. Douglas, dissenting in Osborn v. United States (1966) The government wants us to believe that we have nothing to fear from its mass spying programs as long as we’ve done...

DC_Colombia/iStock/Getty Images Plus The central-European country of Slovenia is refunding all fines issued under its former Covid-19 “mitigation” policies and expunging the records of offenders. According to the Slovenia Times: Between March 2020 and the end of May 2022 more than 62,000 infraction proceedings were launched under legislation that was subsequently ruled unconstitutional and the fines issued totaled €5.7 million,...

AP Images Derek Chauvin Days after the U.S. Supreme Court denied former cop Derek Chauvin’s appeal of “murdering” career criminal and drug addict George Floyd on August 25, 2020, an unidentified assailant tried to stab Chauvin to death in prison. Prison officials have released the bare minimum of details, and have yet to confirm that Chauvin was indeed the victim. ...

Sakorn Sukkasemsakorn/iStock/Getty Images Plus Josh Shapiro, the Democratic governor of Pennsylvania, announced this week that his administration will appeal a court ruling that blocked his attempt to force power companies in the state to pay for greenhouse gas emissions. As the Associated Press reports, Shapiro wants to exert executive authority more than to actually implement the green policy; in fact,...

On NOVEMBER 21, 1620 (according to the “New Style” Gregorian Calendar), the Pilgrims signed the Mayflower Compact and began their Plymouth Colony. Of the 102 Pilgrims, only 47 survived till Spring. At one point, only a half dozen were healthy enough to care for the rest. In the Spring of 1621, the Indian Squanto came among them, and showed them how to catch fish, plant corn, trap beaver, and was their interpreter with...

Mark Youso/iStock/Getty Images Plus On Friday, the Colorado judge presiding over an effort to remove former President Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot in the state rejected that bid. Judge Sarah Wallace ruled that Trump did not meet the requirements laid out in Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which the left-wing group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in...

3D_generator/iStock/Getty Images Plus On November 7, European Commissioner for Budget and Administration Johannes Hahn accused the conservative government of Hungary of not abiding by a series of prerequisites that would enable it to obtain frozen EU funds, saying that “the ball is very much in Hungary’s court.” In statements made to the members of the European Parliament’s budget and budgetary...

Anti Fed Ed Warriors, if you know the header image, you’ll recognize it’s a depiction of the Old Testament account of King Solomon and the two mothers claiming a baby was each of theirs and not the other. If you don’t recognize this particular account, think about all the accounts of heated divorces where two parents were fighting over the...

John Whitehead There is something terribly wrong with this country, isn’t there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who’s to blame?— V for Vendetta...

Behind the Biden “presidency,” Barack Obama looms large. But thanks to relentless media deception and propaganda, most Americans know very little about the real Obama. To truly understand him, it is essential to understand the roots of his political activism. It all begins with South Africa’s Communist revolution. In addition to launching his political career in the home of a...

Kelly Kline/flickr Nothing renders the crime of high treason more arbitrary than declaring people guilty of it for indiscreet speeches. Speech is so subject to interpretation; there is so great a difference between indiscretion and malice; and frequently so little is there of the latter in the freedom of expression, that the law can hardly subject people to a capital...

John Whitehead When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. ― Frédéric Bastiat, French economist Pay no heed to the circus politics coming out of Washington, D.C. It’s just more of...

simpson33/iStock/Getty Images Plus A U.S. district judge denied a request on Tuesday for a preliminary injunction sought by Edward Blum, a successful anti-affirmative action activist, to bar a venture capital fund from considering applications and awarding grants to businesses run by black women.   Blum’s American Alliance for Equal Rights (AAER) filed a lawsuit in August challenging grant and fellowship programs offered...

AP Images On Tuesday, without the benefit of a trial or a jury, New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron unilaterally revoked all New York “business certificates” belonging to former President Donald Trump, his Trump Organization, and his family. In addition, Engoron, a Democrat, found that Trump and his organization committed fraud in New York for years. The ruling was...

John Whitehead “There were relatively few secret police, and most were just processing the information coming in. I had found a shocking fact. It wasn’t the secret police who were doing this wide-scale surveillance and hiding on every street corner. It was the ordinary German people who were informing on their neighbors.”—Professor Robert Gellately, author of Backing Hitler Are you...

Jacob Sullum When New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham issued “a public health emergency order” that purportedly suspended the right to bear arms in Albuquerque and surrounding Bernalillo County last week, her justification was seemingly straightforward. “I have emergency powers,” she told The New York Times. “Gun violence is an epidemic. Therefore, it’s an emergency.” Grisham’s stunt was widely condemned...

John Whitehead We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. — Abraham Lincoln Those who gave us the Constitution and the Bill of Rights believed that the government exists at the behest of its citizens. It is there to protect, defend...