Category: Government Updates
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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Breaking: Supreme Court Redefines Title VII to Include Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
In a 6-3 opinion this morning, the Supreme Court redefined Title VII federal nondiscrimination statute to include “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” as protected classes...
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World Health Organization Backtracks After Stating Asymptomatic People Don’t Spread Coronavirus
The World Health Organization (WHO) has backtracked and attempted to clarify a statement, made by one of their lead scientists, that the transmission of the...
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President Trump Declares Antifa a Terrorist Organization. Here’s Its Long History of Violence.
Following the riots in dozens of cities across the nation that we’ve all seen over the past week, President Trump has officially designated the left-wing...
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Breaking: Minnesota Attorney General Announces New Charges Against Officers Involved in Death of George Floyd
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison held a press conference and announced new charges today against the four former Minneapolis police officers involved in the death...
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Randy Feenstra Beats Nine Term Incumbent Steve King in Iowa Republican Congressional Primary
Representative Steve King, R-Iowa, who has served nine terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from a conservative district in northwest Iowa, was defeated Tuesday...
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President Trump Sparks Controversy After Holding Up Bible During Visit to St. John’s Church
Yesterday, President Donald Trump held a brief press conference from the Rose Garden at the White House. He stated that he was a “law and...
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Colorado Ballot Initiative for 22-Week Abortion Ban Clears Major Petition Hurdle
It’s looking more and more as though the November ballot in Colorado will contain a voter initiative to ban elective abortions after 22 weeks gestation,...
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President Trump Cuts Ties with World Heath Organization, Cracks Down on China
In a brief press conference on Friday afternoon, President Trump announced significant new actions that his administration will take against the World Health Organization (WHO)...
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Illinois Governor Backs Down in Face of Supreme Court Appeal, Abandons Church Closure Order
Faced with an imminent U.S. Supreme Court fight, Illinois Governor Jay R. Pritzker yesterday chose to abandon his church closure executive orders rather than face...
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President Trump Signs Executive Order Countering Social Media Companies’ Censorship of Conservatives
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting social media companies over their censorship of conservative voices and right-leaning content on their platforms. In...
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Ohio Senate Passes Bill Prohibiting State Officials from Closing Churches
In response to the nationwide problem of state governors issuing constitutionally questionable church closure orders due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Ohio Senate this week...
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