Category: Government Updates
Liberal Senators to Supreme Court: Rule Our Way or We’ll Pack the Court
Politicians who don’t like particular Supreme Court decisions are entitled to criticize those decisions. Or criticize the justices who wrote the decisions. In fact, Americans...
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Colorado Voters Attempt to Stop the National Popular Vote
Earlier this year, The Daily Citizen informed you about Colorado’s attempt to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC). That attempt succeeded in March...
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Federal Judges Confirmed at Record Pace
The U.S. Senate recessed on Friday for its annual August time away from Washington, D.C. During the week before the break, senators confirmed 13 federal...
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California’s Demand for Donor Lists Heads to Supreme Court
California says it wants to avoid charitable fraud. It wants to know who the largest donors to nonprofit organizations in California are. Conservative nonprofit organizations...
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Elections Have Consequences: Ninth Circuit Becoming More Conservative
For years, if not decades, conservatives have bemoaned the decisions coming from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. The Court has been...
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Is Obamacare Unconstitutional? 5th Circuit Hears Arguments
In what could be considered a very technical “in the weeds” constitutional case, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals this week heard oral arguments on...
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States Rush to Legalize Marijuana – Endangering Children
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed legislation recently making that state the 11th to legalize recreational marijuana usage. Beginning in 2020, licensed dispensaries will be allowed...
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Supreme Court Will Hear Redefinition of “Sex” Cases in October
The U.S. Supreme Court has released its October argument calendar, and three blockbuster cases are scheduled for hearing by the justices on October 8. All...
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Supreme Court Issues Important Orders on its Way Out of Town
The Supreme Court’s term extends from the first Monday in October until the last opinion is issued, traditionally during the last week or so of...
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Pending Cases of Interest at the Supreme Court – June 2019
We’re approaching the end of the Supreme Court’s 2018-19 term this month, and there have been a flurry of cases involving religious freedom, abortion,...
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Colorado Lurches to the Far Left
We’ve been reminding ourselves a lot this year of the old adage, “Elections have consequences.” That’s certainly true in Colorado, where this year the state...
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Alabama Passes Law to End Marriage Licenses
The Alabama legislature has passed a bill that would end the issuance of marriage licenses in the state. No, the state hasn’t abolished marriage....
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Welcome News: HHS Proposes Rule Restoring Doctors’ Conscience Rights
A proposed new rule from a federal agency will guarantee freedoms of conscience and religion to healthcare professionals that were nearly stripped from them...
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Court Upholds U.S. House Chaplain’s Right to Exclude Atheist “Prayers”
On Good Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Washington, D.C. ruled that the chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives...
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Medicare for all Includes Abortion for Some
Medicare-for-all legislation has recently been reintroduced in the U.S. Senate. Most Democrats in Congress and most 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have already come out in...
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Supreme Court Will Review Requests to Redefine the Word “Sex”
Today the U.S. Supreme Court accepted three cases for hearing—granted “cert” in legal parlance—involving the definition of the word “sex” in the federal law prohibiting...
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Louisiana Abortion Law Back at the Supreme Court
Louisiana’s 2014 law requiring abortionists to have “admitting privileges” at a local hospital has reached the U.S. Supreme Court for the second time this year....
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Michigan Teams With ACLU to Punish Faith-Based Adoption Agencies, Gets Sued
Back in 2015, long before the changing of the political guard in Michigan in 2019, the state legislature passed, and a Republican governor signed into...
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MEDICARE FOR ALL INCLUDES ABORTION FOR SOME
Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (VT) has formally introduced his Medicare-for-all legislation in the U.S. Senate. Most Democrats in Congress and most 2020 Democratic presidential candidates...
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Left Accuses Conservative Nominees of Wanting to Reverse Brown v. Board of Education
Spurred by the answer from the nominee for Deputy Attorney General, Jeffrey Rosen, concerning whether the 1954 desegregation case, Brown v. Board of Education, was “rightly decided,”...
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George Mason University Students Protest Justice Kavanaugh’s Hiring
You would think that the embarrassing and unsuccessful attempts to derail Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings last year over farfetched sexual assault charges might have...
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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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