California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law in July that requires all presidential candidates on the state’s primary ballot to release their tax returns for the preceding five years. But a constitutional amendment passed by California voters in 1972 may prevent that law from being enforced.
A New York Times (NYT) editor says the country’s policy of birthright citizenship — even for a U.S.-born child of illegal aliens, often referred to as an “anchor baby” — has been “enshrined in the Constitution for more than 150 years” and cannot be ended.
Democrat presidential candidates and senators this week renewed their threats that unless the U.S. Supreme Court issues liberal rulings on the Second Amendment and other issues, that Democrats will fundamentally restructure the nation’s highest court, a shocking threat to judicial independence not seen since the 1930s.
Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, who led the liberal wing of the Court for many years until he retired in 2010, died Tuesday in Florida at the age of 99.
Attorney General Bill Barr can implement President Donald Trump’s decision to withhold federal funding from “sanctuary cities” that attempt to thwart federal immigration laws, the Ninth Circuit appeals court ruled on Friday.
A federal appeals court gave President Donald Trump a major victory over Democrats Wednesday, throwing out as a political squabble a lawsuit by Maryland and the District of Columbia arguing the president’s ownership of Trump International Hotel and other properties violates the Emoluments Clauses of the U.S. Constitution.
WASHINGTON, DC – The Supreme Court announced on Friday it will decide the legal challenges to the Trump administration’s decision to end the DACA amnesty program for illegal aliens, with a decision in the first half of 2020 before the presidential election.
Federal courts lack the authority to decide “partisan gerrymanders” – the term for when elected politicians are “too political” when redrawing their district lines – the Supreme Court held on Thursday.
WASHINGTON, DC – Chief Justice John Roberts was the swing vote in a sharply divided Supreme Court that voted 5-4 in deciding the U.S. census can ask about citizenship, but by a separate 5-4 vote is sending the case back to the lower court.
Democrats running for president are compiling a secret list of activist judges for the Supreme Court and lower courts, and the Judicial Crisis Network is challenging Joe Biden and other candidates to follow President Donald Trump’s lead in publicly releasing the list, so citizens will know what they will be voting for in 2020.
A company controlling access to public access television is not required to follow the First Amendment because it is not considered a government actor under the Constitution, a closely divided Supreme Court held on Monday.
Virginia lawmakers lack standing to defend their redistricting plan in court when Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring refused to do so, a divided Supreme Court held on Monday.
Leftwing activists are pushing a coordinated media campaign to pressure Chief Justice John Roberts as the Supreme Court decides whether the 2020 census can ask people in America if they are U.S. citizens.
No president in living memory did as much to violate the Constitution’s checks and balances as Obama did — and Joe Biden and the Democrats backed him every step of the way.
The Supreme Court added five new cases to its term for fall 2019, including racial discrimination, the environment, the death penalty, and international child abduction. On the same day, the Court refused to dive into declaring new legal rights for Islamic terrorists held by the U.S. military.
WASHINGTON, DC – A federal judge dismissed House Democrats’ lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s border wall, holding that the lawmakers lacked standing to bring the matter to court.
Obama commented on his understanding of the founding of the United States during the VTEXDAY 2019 conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil on Wednesday.
The Supreme Court declined Monday to take up a case claiming secular legal rights against transgender school policies, but will still be considering more basic LGBT legal issues in the fall.
States may dispose in a dignified manner of the bodies of unborn children who died during abortion, the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 on Monday, while declining to weigh in on sex-selection abortions until another federal appeals court weighs in on such a law.
The Supreme Court weighed in on redistricting fights in crucial 2020 presidential swing states, blocking four lower-court decisions on Friday, as the justices prepare to decide how much unelected judges can weigh in on politicians’ drawing legislative district lines.
The best that could be said of Joe McCarthy, and the House Un-American Affairs Committee, is that they actually found some communists.
Monday on his nationally syndicated radio program, conservative commentator Mark Levin blasted Rep. Justin Amash’s (R-MI) recent views on President Donald Trump and impeachment, referring to the libertarian-leaning congressman as “a Benedict Arnold against the Constitution.”
Rodrigo Duterte, the perpetually controversial president of the Philippines, appears on track to increase his legislative influence in the midterm elections. Duterte’s critics hoped the election would be a negative referendum on his administration halfway through his six-year term, but his approval ratings are approaching all-time highs and candidates aligned with him are doing well in the polls.
Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney touted President Trump’s record on regulations and economic growth to the Federalist Society on Wednesday, in a presentation filled with humorous references to Tiger Woods, chickens, Congress’s laziness, and “blowing stuff up.”
Seattle School District Urges Teachers to Follow CAIR Guidelines on Blessing Muslim Students During Ramadan
White House Special Counsel Emmet Flood sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr making clear that President Donald Trump is retaining his legal privileges as partisan Democrats escalate their conflict against the president over the Mueller Report.
Senators on Thursday confirmed the 100th judge nominated by President Donald Trump, marking a major milestone in the president’s pledge to replenish the federal courts with judges like the late originalist icon Antonin Scalia.
The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday on whether the 2020 census can ask every person in this country whether they are an American citizen, a question with implications for legislative redistricting, voting rights, and presidential politics.
Can the U.S. census ask each person in the country if he is an American citizen? The Supreme Court will hear arguments on that question on Tuesday.
The immediate and urgent cultural task for American conservatives is to find a way of sharing our cherished values of freedom with the next generation — and with those who are arriving, legally, to join us. Passover, observed even in the worst of times, teaches us that it is possible.
The Yemen resolution is an effective surrender to Iran that would allow an enemy proxy to contest a strategic strait across from U.S. forces.
You have to give her credit Ocasio-Cortez credit: even with that Jerry the Mouse voice she manages to sound authoritative while being so wrong:
The Trump-Barr Department of Justice (DOJ) informed a federal appeals court on Monday that it agrees with Texas and the other states suing over Obamacare that President Donald Trump’s repealing of the individual mandate renders the entire law unconstitutional, and therefore should be struck down in its entirety.
The simple reason Democrats want to abolish the Electoral College is to rig the system so that they cannot lose.
The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hear four major cases this fall, concerning immigration, the death penalty of the Beltway Sniper, jury verdicts, and abolishing the insanity defense.
Senate Republicans are preparing to reinterpret Senate Rules in coming weeks to reduce the number of hours required to confirm presidential nominations, responding to Democrats’ unprecedented obstruction of President Trump’s nominees for both the judiciary and the Executive Branch.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler said Congress can impeach PresidentTrump for matters that are not crimes, and also for alleged acts that he claims Trump committed before becoming president, rejecting key limits that the Framers of the Constitution placed on Congress’s impeachment power.
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Wednesday that the Constitution’s protection against excessive fines blocked Indiana from seizing a high-end vehicle, but Justice Clarence Thomas would have reached the same result by another route, with Justice Neil Gorsuch signaling support for Thomas’s originalist argument.
The State of California and fifteen other states sued President Donald Trump on Monday over his declaration Friday of a national emergency and his plans to redirect federal funds to the construction of a wall on the southern border.
The Supreme Court will decide whether the 2020 census can ask every person in America if they are a U.S. citizen, granting review Friday on a legal challenge to that question and bypassing the federal appeals court in an extremely rare move not seen in many years.
