Category: Government Updates
Senator Hawley’s Frustration: Future SCOTUS Nominees Must Acknowledge that Roe v. Wade was Wrongly Decided
Missouri Republican Senator Josh Hawley once clerked for Chief Justice John Roberts. But after Roberts joined with the liberal wing of the Court recently in...
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SCOTUS Rejects Lawsuit from Nevada Church, Permits Casinos Greater Reopening Capacity Than Churches
The United States Supreme Court has rejected a request for temporary relief from a Nevada Church that sued Governor Steve Sisolak, D, for permitting casinos...
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Operation Legend: President Trump Surges Law Enforcement to Crime-Ridden Cities
Yesterday, President Trump announced a surge of federal law enforcement officers to American cities that have recently seen a sharp spike in crime. The announcement...
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North Carolina City Approves Reparations for Slavery
Asheville, North Carolina, a city of 92,000 located in the Blue Ridge Mountains in the western half of the state, is home to the University...
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Supreme Court Accepts Important College Free Speech Case for Fall Term
As the last official act of its 2019-20 term, the U.S. Supreme Court issued some final orders on Thursday addressing cases which it has been...
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Supreme Court Affirms Religious Schools’ Right to Hire and Fire Teachers
In a 7-2 opinion on Wednesday morning, the Supreme Court handed down a victory for religious schools by affirming their right to hire and fire...
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SCOTUS Allow States to Enforce ‘Faithless Elector’ Laws
It started out as a loosely organized attempt to challenge the Electoral College vote in the 2016 presidential election with the intent to throw the...
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Iowa Judge Blocks New Abortion Waiting Period Law from Taking Effect
Iowa’s new 24-hour abortion waiting period law will not go into effect, at least for now, due to a court order. If you want a...
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A Win for Religious Freedom: SCOTUS Rules State May Not Shut Out Religious Schools from Government Scholarship Program
In a 5-4 opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that the state of Montana violated the First Amendment’s...
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‘Hunter’s Stew’: SCOTUS Dissenters Criticize Decision Striking Down Louisiana Abortion Law
By now everyone has heard that the U.S. Supreme Court struck down, by a vote of 5 to 4, a Louisiana law that required abortionists...
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BREAKING NEWS: Supreme Court Overturns Pro-Life Louisiana Law Restricting Abortion
In a 5-4 opinion on Monday in June Medical Services v. Russo, The Supreme Court ruled against a pro-life Louisiana law requiring abortion doctors to...
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Ninth Circuit Blocks Funding for Border Wall
In a 2-1 decision handed down today by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the court ruled that the Department of Defense could not...
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Senate Democrats Filibuster ‘JUSTICE Act’ Designed to Implement Police Reforms
In the wake of the George Floyd killing in Minneapolis, Congress has been at work in an attempt to create a police reform bill that...
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President Trump Issues Executive Order to Help Protect Vulnerable Children
Today, President Donald Trump signed a new Executive Order (EO) that will help protect vulnerable children by strengthening child-welfare programs across the country through the...
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Federal Appeals Court Orders Judge Sullivan to Dismiss Case Against General Michael Flynn
In an unprecedented ruling on Wednesday morning, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ordered U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan...
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Senate Confirms 200th Federal Judge Nominated by President Trump
The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed Cory Wilson as a new judge on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals based in New Orleans. The...
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New Post-Bostock Lawsuit Would Force Doctors to Perform ‘Gender-Transition’ Surgeries Against Their Medical Judgment
That didn’t take long. The ink is barely dry on the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 15 landmark decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, which redefined...
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SCOTUS Decisions Looming in Abortion, Religious Liberty Cases
Most of the conservative world is still reeling from last week’s disappointing Supreme Court decision in Bostock v. Clayton County which redefined the term “sex”...
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Senate Once Again Rejects Dangerous ‘Equality Act’
Proving once again why the Supreme Court was wrong this week to encroach upon Congress’ lawmaking duties, Senate conservatives rejected an attempt by liberal senators...
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President Trump Says He’ll Release New Supreme Court List by September
President Trump promised on Thursday afternoon to release a new list of potential Supreme Court justices that he will choose from if given the opportunity...
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Senator Hawley: ‘It’s Time for Religious Conservatives to Stand Up and Speak Out’
Missouri Republican Senator Josh Hawley was none too pleased with the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Monday in Bostock v. Clayton County, which redefined the word...
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President Trump Signs Executive Order Promoting ‘Safe Policing for Safe Communities’
In a press conference from the Rose Garden at the White House on Tuesday, President Trump signed an executive order aimed at police reform in...
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Politicians and Religious Conservatives React to Landmark SCOTUS Ruling on Employment Discrimination
Politicians on the right and left are reacting to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling yesterday in Bostock v. Clayton County, a decision which extended federal...
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‘Not Only Arrogant, But Wrong’: Justice Alito Slams SCOTUS Majority for Redefining ‘Sex’
In a 6-3 opinion, authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the Supreme Court has brazenly rewritten, by judicial fiat, a portion of the 1964 Civil Rights...
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