Category: Government Updates
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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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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