Category: Government Updates
Ultrasound Laws are Constitutional, Says U.S. Appeals Court
A state is entitled, as a matter of public policy, to promote life rather than abortion. Just because a state is obligated to respect the...
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Should We Require Higher Ed to Teach the Constitution? One State Says ‘Yes’
How important is it for citizens to understand the nation’s history, including our founding documents? South Carolina thinks it is critically important, and has a new...
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Massachusetts Family Institute: On the Frontlines for Religious Freedom and Free Speech
Andrew Beckwith found out on a Friday that a bill denying minors help from licensed mental health professionals for unwanted homosexuality or transgenderism would be up for a...
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Cases of Interest Still Waiting at the Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2018-2019 term, which began in October of 2018 and closes out at the end of June, 2019, has been punctuated by...
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Supreme Court to 9th Circuit: Deceased Judges Can’t Vote
Judge Stephen Reinhardt was probably the most liberal judge in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, if not the entire nation, up until his...
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Senate GOP Moves to Stop Obstruction of the President’s Nominees
The President of the United States has authority to appoint roughly 1,200 people to executive positions within the federal government that require Senate “advice and consent,” i.e.,...
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Judges Back on the Agenda, While Democrats Obstruct
From January, 2017 through January 2019, the U.S. Senate confirmed thirty appellate judges, a record. Adding two Supreme Court justices and district court nominees into the...
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Colorado Turns Blue; Re-ignites Effort to Undermine Electoral College
The 2018 elections resulted in Democrats winning the trifecta in Colorado; they now control both houses of the legislature as well as the governor’s mansion....
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Can Speaker Pelosi Really Cancel the State of the Union Address?
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi made political waves this week in Washington, D.C. after sending a letter to President Trump asking him to either postpone the January 29...
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Time to Think About the Next Supreme Court Justice?
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was absent this week from oral arguments at the Supreme Court as she recovers from cancer surgery, prompting a wave of...
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Beating Swords into Plowshares: 116th Congress Starts With Bipartisan Prayer Service
The 435 recently elected members of the U.S. House of Representatives began what is predicted to be a contentious two years of partisan wrangling with...
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New State Laws in 2019
Although Congress draws most of the nation’s attention when it passes laws affecting issues such as life, abortion, and religious freedom, the new year also...
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Federal Judge Declares Obamacare Unconstitutional – What You Need to Know
Yes, it’s true: A federal judge has declared Obamacare unconstitutional. The eight-year old law, affecting one-sixth of the nation’s economy, was seemingly here to stay,...
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DNC Chairman Frets About Voters Listening to Their Pastors
Tom Perez is the current Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and his job is to help Democrats get elected around the country. He spoke last week...
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A 9-Year-Old Fights for the Right to Throw Snowballs
It’s never too early to get into politics. That’s what one 9-year-old boy discovered after he decided to reverse a decades-old restriction that prohibited snowball...
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U.S. Asks Supreme Court to Rule on Military Transgender Policy
The Solicitor General of the United States, Noel Francisco, recently petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to take up three cases from around the country where...
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Senate Judiciary Committee Cancels Hearings Amid Flake/Mueller Controversy
Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, canceled a Thursday meeting of the committee at which six Circuit Court of Appeals nominees and 15...
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Republican Senator Threatens to Hold Up His Own Party’s Judicial Nominees
Senator Jeff Flake (R – AZ) is retiring from the Senate this January, but not before attempting to block the confirmation of his own party’s judicial nominees...
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More Marijuana: Bad News for Babies
Much of the media attention in the election was on the struggle for control of the U.S. Senate and House, but Focus on the Family...
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6 Common Questions About Judicial Nominations
A U.S. Supreme Court vacancy always triggers a spirited political and cultural debate over a future nominee. It also brings up questions about the rights, privileges...
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Judicial Philosophy
Philosophical Origins and Intents Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay wrote a set of 85 essays known as the Federalist Papers between October 1787...
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