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Tennessee and Kentucky can continue to ban gender-affirming care for young transgender people while legal challenges against those state laws proceed, federal appeals judges ruled. In a 2-1 decision by a 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel late Thursday, the majority wrote that elected lawmakers made “precise cost-benefit decisions” in instituting the bans and “did not trigger any reason for judges to second-guess them.” The laws were passed by Republican majorities in both states. “Prohibiting citizens and legislatures from offering their perspectives on high-stakes medical policies, in which compassion for the child points in both directions, is not something...

Daily Wire host Matt Walsh dove into the “huge” ruling from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals that upheld Tennesee’s and Kentucky’s bans on puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender surgeries on gender-confused children. In its 2-1 ruling rejecting a challenge to the laws from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and families of trans-identifying children, the federal court “thoroughly dismantled, point-by-point, every disingenuous argument from trans activists,” Walsh said in a thread posted to X. “The case arose because of laws in TN and KY banning the use of puberty blockers and sterilizing cross-sex hormones on children. The laws...

In Ciraci v. J.M. Smucker Company, (6th Cir., March 14, 2023), the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals held that employees of a company that sells food products to the federal government may not assert a 1st Amendment free-exercise claim against the company for denying them a religious exemption from a COVID vaccine mandate imposed by the company after the federal government required government contractors to do so. The court said in part: Constitutional guarantees conventionally apply only to entities that exercise sovereign power, such as federal, state, or local governments.... Smucker’s may be a big company. But it is...

A federal judge in Kentuck has overturned Governor Andy Beshear’s ban on mass gatherings as it relates to in-person church services. The ruling clears the way for churchgoers to attend services on Sunday.

The New York Times in yet another editorial rant against a Bush federal judge nominee shows why we cannot entrust the Constitution to liberals. They view it not as an institutional safeguard to our liberties, but as an instrument to advance their political agenda.That is why it's annoying when they repeatedly lecture us about President Bush's efforts to stack the court with conservative ideologues and judicial activists. They did it again in their April 28 editorial, "Another Ideologue for the Courts," in which they railed against Jeffrey Sutton, President Bush's nominee to the United States Court of Appeals for the...

The U.S. Senate just confirmed Jeffrey Sutton to the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals 52-41. Tom Harkin was bitterly opposed to the nomination.

Capitol Hill (CNSNews.com) - With the U.S. Senate set to vote on the judicial nomination of Jeffrey Sutton Tuesday, liberal groups on Monday turned up the pressure on Democrats to reject the nomination. Advocates for the disabled led the charge Monday, swarming the Capitol for some last-minute lobbying before Tuesday's vote. Unlike nominee Miguel Estrada, Sutton will actually get a vote on the Senate floor without having his confirmation delayed by a filibuster. Some of the groups that gathered Monday held out hope Sutton would be rejected. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) took the Senate floor later in the afternoon to...

It seems likely that Jeffrey Sutton, a nominee to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati, will be confirmed by the Senate this week. But it is important to recognize why he was selected, and how he fits the Bush administration's plan for an ideological takeover of the courts. Whichever way the Senate votes on him, it must insist that the administration start selecting judges who do not come with a far-right agenda. There is no shortage of worthy judicial nominees. Federal courts are filled with district court judges, Republicans and Democrats, who have shown...

Senate Sets Vote Date For Federal Judicial Nominee April 11, 2003 The U.S. Senate has scheduled a confirmation vote on April 29th on Columbus attorney Jeffrey Sutton's nomination to the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal in Cincinnati. By agreeing to a scheduled vote, Democrats essentially are giving up their procedural battle to block the former Ohio solicitor's confirmation. Republicans control the Senate 51-49. Sutton's confirmation has been stalled by partisan politics and opposition from disability-rights groups since President Bush nominated him in May of 2001. Meanwhile, the 6th Circuit nomination of Ohio Supreme Court Justice Deborah Cook hasn't yet...