Harvard University released a statement and a video address shortly after the Supreme Court delivered a ruling dashing the school’s race-based admissions process on Thursday, saying that while the school “will comply” with the decision, it does not change their belief that race should be considered in the admissions process.
Racial preferences in college admissions violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution, the Supreme Court decided Thursday.
Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO) introduced a resolution on Tuesday that acknowledges unborn babies are entitled to the protection of life and liberty established by Section 1 of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
The Supreme Court held that on property taxes, taxpayers must “render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s, but no more.”
Christian doctors are standing against a law that requires them to facilitate suicide in ways that violate their religious convictions.
A civil rights complaint was filed with the U.S. Department of Education against a South Carolina middle school Thursday after the school planned racially segregated events to “talk with students about how to cope with being a student in a predominantly white school.”
Biden’s Department of Justice is warning states about violating federal laws by dening transgender youth “gender-affirming care.”
A federal civil rights lawsuit brought by Parents Defending Education (PDE) against Massachusetts’s Wellesley Public Schools ended in a settlement Monday as the school district agreed to end its racial segregation policy and First Amendment violations.
WASHINGTON, DC – The Supreme Court will decide whether colleges can use racial preferences when deciding which students to admit for both public and private schools, reconsidering a half-century of legal precedent in a pair of cases the justices will hear this fall.
SCOTUS is set to hear oral arguments in a case from Maine about whether students can use state aid to attend religious schools.
Two California voters, Rex Julian Beaber and A.W. Clark, filed a lawsuit Saturday in federal court challenging the constitutionality of the recall election against Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), asking that it be changed or invalidated.
Including illegal aliens in apportionment makes no sense. A person who has no legal right to remain in the country has no right to be represented in Congress.
The family of a third grade girl has filed a federal lawsuit after her school principal ordered her to remove her mask that has the words “Jesus Loves Me” printed on it.
U.S. District Judge Gary L. Sharpe handed down a preliminary injunction on Friday against New York officials for violating the First Amendment by shutting down religious services while encouraging Black Lives Matter protests.
Judge Barrett led a panel of judges deciding Purdue violated a student’s due process rights and was biased against him because of his sex.
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.
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 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.
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 Supreme Court will tackle political gerrymanders, possibly ending a decades-long constitutional debate over whether courts can somehow take political calculations out of political redistricting.
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) stated that birthright citizenship for the children of people in the country illegally or people who get tourist visas just to have a child in
President Donald Trump is considering an executive order restricting birthright citizenship for illegal aliens’ children, which could create a Supreme Court test case that could end that misinterpretation of the Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment, either through presidential action or through legislation.
WASHINGTON, DC – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) welcomed President Donald Trump’s raising the issue of birthright citizenship, and announced that he supports Congress’s exploring the issue of how birthright citizenship relates to the children of illegal aliens.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kennedy,” Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz argued that if a child is born in the U.S. to people who are in the country illegally and that child then resides in the U.S.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley stated that he doesn’t see “how people can say with such certainty” that the 14th Amendment grants citizenship to anyone born in the
The United States and Canada are alone in the developed world when it comes to offering unrestricted birthright citizenship that rewards even the children of illegal aliens.
The Supreme Court on Monday upheld Texas’s legislative districting plan by a 5-4 decision against charges that the legislative lines violated the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) or the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments challenging California’s law requiring Christian pregnancy clinics to provide mandatory disclosure of abortion options on Tuesday, March 20.
The National Rifle Association is right to support President Trump’s call for state-level Emergency Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs) – under which a court can take guns in rare situations for just a few days when there is evidence that a person may be on the verge of extreme violence – because such temporary measures are consistent with the original meaning of the Constitution’s Second Amendment and Due Process Clause.
Seventeen cases from this year’s Supreme Court term are still pending, with decisions expected in the next eight days. Religious liberty, the constitutional rights of illegal aliens, and free-speech rights to express messages some people find offensive are several of the high-profile issues raised in the remaining cases.
Just before city candidates will begin to sign up for running for office, a federal judge has issued a judgment and injunction prohibiting the City of Pasadena from using what she ruled was an unconstitutional redistricting plan. The municipality will also be placed under federal “preclearance” for six years–requiring Justice Department approval to any changes to election rules.
The Supreme Court has stayed an order by a lower federal court which had directed North Carolina’s government to hold new state elections.
Pasadena, Texas, will be monitored by the Justice Department now that a federal judge has ruled that the City violated the Voting Rights Act by intentionally changing its city council districts to decrease Hispanic influence. The City, which the court ruled has a “long history of discrimination against minorities,” will have to get permission from the DOJ to make any changes in election policy going forward, otherwise known as pre-clearance.
Texans have much to be grateful for this Thanksgiving holiday. The Lone Star State has taken President Barack Obama to court over 45 times since he became president in 2009 and have fought for state sovereignty and against federal overreach when he has issued executive orders and federal policies
FAIRFAX, Va.—A top admissions officer at George Mason University (GMU) condemns faithful Christians and conservatives as “worthless trash,” a sentiment that could alarm thousands of high school students seeking admission to the university, and raises serious First Amendment problems if it impacts any admission decisions.
HOUSTON, Texas — The head of a national and state pastors organization based in Houston said, “I can’t believe I’m saying this, but Georgia’s demand is even worse than when the Mayor of Houston demanded 17 different categories of materials, including sermons, from the seven of us.” The pastors say they are outraged about the State of Georgia asking for copies of a pastor’s sermons in litigation there.
WASHINGTON—Friday the Supreme Court announced that it is tackling liberals’ new sexual frontier, transgenderism.
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas offered a rare glimpse Wednesday at the Heritage Foundation into his 25 years of public service on the Court and the life of America’s longest-service African-American justice.
Americans will decide between the sharply contrasting immigration visions of Trump and Clinton—one focusing explicitly on security and America’s interests, the other saying behind closed doors that she believes in “open borders” but does not say so publicly,
Plaintiffs in one of the lawsuits over North Carolina’s HB 2 (the “bathroom bill”) scored a partial victory Friday when a federal district court made clear it was bound by higher-court precedent to rule for the plaintiffs. But that victory may be short-lived, as the U.S. Supreme Court will likely decide this matter in 2017.
