Category: Government Updates
Proposed Bill in Congress Will Rein in Big Tech Censorship
A new “discussion draft” of a congressional bill to hold Big Tech platforms accountable for censoring content has been released by two members of the...
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Senate Committee Approves Defense Bill that Requires Women to Register for the Draft
After seemingly little debate and deliberation on the topic, a United States Senate committee recently approved a budget bill for the military which includes an...
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California Can’t Close Private Schools over COVID, 9th Circuit Rules
California’s attempt to close both public as well as private schools, including religious ones, during the COVID-19 pandemic generated a constitutional legal challenge by parents...
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Michigan Legislature Approves Voter Initiative Repealing Governor’s Emergency Powers
The COVID-19 pandemic saw many governors around the country dusting off old state statutes granting them emergency powers in such situations, and then acting unilaterally...
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Senators Propose Requiring Women to Register for Military Draft
Members of the Senate majority are preparing to introduce a proposal to require women to register for the military draft. Should the measure gain steam,...
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Monthly Payments of Child Tax Credits Begin
On July 15, tens of millions of families woke up to find a deposit from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in their bank accounts. The...
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Parents Sue District of Columbia over Vaccinating Children Without Parental Consent or Knowledge
The Washington, D.C., City Council passed an ordinance last fall that allows schoolchildren as young as 11 years old to get vaccinated without their parents’...
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Massive Protests Erupt as Thousands of Cubans March for ‘Liberty’
Massive protests have erupted across Cuba as thousands have taken to the streets to march for “Liberty!” Dozens of videos of the protests were quickly...
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Hyde Amendment Has Not Been Included in Subcommittee Spending Bill
In a sign of what could be coming, a prominent congressional subcommittee passed a spending bill that did not include the Hyde Amendment, which prevents...
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Federal Appeals Court Rejects Attempt to Impose Pro-Abortion Equal Rights Amendment on Country
The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently rejected a legal push to have the Equal Rights Amendment officially declared the 28th Amendment to the...
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Ohio Budget Includes Ability for Medical Practitioners to Object to Services on Ethical Principles
An Ohio state budget signed on June 30 by Gov. Mike DeWine grants permission to medical practitioners and health care institutions to decline to provide...
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Looking Ahead: SCOTUS to Consider Abortion, Religious Education Cases
The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court recently released their last opinions of 2021. For people of faith, the results of the court’s last term...
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Supreme Court Rules California Can’t Require List of Charities’ Major Donors
In a 6-3 decision with major First Amendment implications, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a requirement of the California Attorney General’s (AG) office that...
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Facebook Can be Sued for Knowingly Benefiting from Human Trafficking, Texas Supreme Court Rules
In an important case that tests the limits of the federal shield law for social media platforms, known as Section 230 of the Communications Decency...
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Governor DeSantis Signs Bill Ensuring Students Learn About the ‘Evils of Communism’
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill on Tuesday that requires K-12 students in Florida to learn about the “evils of communism” in their high...
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80% of Americans Want Voter ID Laws, While H.R. 1 Tries to Do Away With Them
A new Monmouth University Poll shows that Americans are clearly concerned with the integrity of elections. They want to expand early in-person voting, but even...
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IRS Denies Christian Group Tax Exempt Status, Says ‘Word of God’ Affiliated with ‘Republican Party’
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has denied a Christian group tax-exempt status because “the Bible teachings are typically affiliated with the [Republican] party.” The group,...
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Supreme Court Upholds Obamacare (For the Third Time) in 7-2 Ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled to uphold the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on Thursday morning in a 7-2 ruling. The ACA (colloquially known as Obamacare)...
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The Federal Reserve Goes Woke—Wants to Remove ‘Biased’ Terms like Founding Fathers and Blacklist
The Federal Reserve, the central banking institution of the United States, is apparently going woke, with an internal memo explaining to employees that they should...
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As California Goes … So Goes the Nation?
California is facing a slew of bills that “threaten the unborn, parental rights, freedom of speech and religion,” reports the California Family Council (CFC), a...
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Three States Pass Laws to Protect Charitable Donors from Harassment
Keeping the personal information of donors to charitable organizations private is such an important issue that there is a case pending at the U.S. Supreme...
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President Biden Skips Commencement Speech at Notre Dame Following Petition
President Joe Biden won’t be speaking at Notre Dame’s commencement ceremony after over 4,700 people with ties to the university signed a petition criticizing the...
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Governor Ron DeSantis Signs Bill to Stop Big Tech Censorship
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a “Big Tech Bill” on Monday cracking down on large technology companies that censor users or politicians for their points...
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Pennsylvania Voters Pass Constitutional Amendment Limiting Governor’s Emergency Powers
Pennsylvania voters have reacted in a decisive manner to what they see as executive overreach in their state during the last year, approving two state...
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