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  • Man arrested for burning American flag near White House hours after Trump signs order

    08/26/2025 7:12:42 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 27 replies
    Fox 11(DC) ^ | 8/26/25 | Ida Domingo
    WASHINGTON (7News) — A man was arrested Monday evening after being seen on camera burning an American flag in Lafayette Park, near the White House. The incident happened only hours after President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at cracking down on the act of flag burning. The U.S. Secret Service said officers detained the man around 6:15 p.m. after he set the flag on fire. Agents quickly extinguished the flames before turning the man over to the U.S. Park Police, which has jurisdiction in the area. U.S. Park Police identified the charge as a violation of 36 CFR...
  • Supreme Court asked to hear dispute over school secretly transitioning teen to (what the school wants)

    08/25/2025 7:56:36 AM PDT · by WhiteHatBobby0701 · 38 replies
    Parents of an 11-year-old girl have asked the Supreme Court to hear their complaint against a Massachusetts school district that secretly transitioned her to (sexual deviancy) — even having her work with a gender-transitioning nonprofit behind their backs. Stephen Foote and Marissa Silvestri say the Ludlow School Committee, a Massachusetts public school system, socially transitioned their daughter against their wishes. School officials at Baird Middle School in Ludlow allowed her to transition to a (censored) identity, use boys’ facilities, go by a male name and use nonbinary pronouns, the parents’ complaint states. “For more than a century, this Court has...
  • One Supreme Court Justice Has Nosedived Into Irrelevance; Can You Guess Who?

    08/24/2025 6:52:56 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 42 replies
    Red State ^ | 08/23/2025
    Thursday, the Supreme Court announced its opinion in National Institutes of Health v. American Public Health Association. The case involved the fate of approximately $783 million in NIH research grants that were tied to DEI initiatives rather than to general scientific research. By a 5-4 vote, the court ruled that a single federal judge could not compel the federal government to spend nearly $1 billion on nonsensical pseudo-research it no longer wished to fund.This case may ultimately prove more important than the money it saved because it indicated the Supreme Court was losing patience with inferior courts and with one...
  • The judicial Calvinball of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

    08/24/2025 11:45:10 AM PDT · by Rummyfan · 74 replies
    The Hill ^ | 23 August 2025 | Jonathan Turley
    Jackson went ballistic after her colleagues reversed another district court judge who issued a sweeping injunction barring the Trump Administration from canceling roughly $783 million in grants in the National Institutes of Health. Again writing alone, Jackson unleashed a tongue-lashing on her colleagues, who she suggested were unethical, unthinking cutouts for Trump. She denounced her fellow justices, stating, “This is Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist. Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this administration always wins.” For some of us who have followed Jackson’s interestingly controversial tenure on the...
  • Justice Gorsuch Is Fed Up With Lower Courts Repeatedly Defying SCOTUS

    08/22/2025 5:42:41 PM PDT · by traderrob6 · 96 replies
    The Daily Caller ^ | 8/22/25 | Katelynn Richardson
    Justice Neil Gorsuch called out lower courts on Thursday for a pattern of defying Supreme Court rulings. Allowing the Trump administration to move forward with cutting millions in National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants marked the “third time in a matter of weeks” the Supreme Court had to reverse a lower court on an issue it had already addressed, Gorsuch wrote. “Lower court judges may sometimes disagree with this Court’s decisions, but they are never free to defy them,” Gorsuch wrote in an opinion joined by Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
  • US Supreme Court lets Trump cut diversity-related NIH grants

    08/21/2025 4:10:36 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 10 replies
    Reuters ^ | August 21, 20255:56 PM CDT | Andrew Chung
    Summary Researchers and 16 US states challenged NIH grant cuts Cuts involve billions of dollars in research support Trump targets diversity, equity and inclusion efforts The U.S. Supreme Court let President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday proceed with sweeping cuts to National Institutes of Health grants for research related to racial minorities or LGBT people, part of his crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and transgender identity.The justices, in a 5-4 decision, granted the Justice Department's request to lift Boston-based U.S. District Judge William Young's decision in June that the grant terminations violated federal law, while a legal challenge...
  • Supreme Court allows Trump to gut DEI-linked NIH grants

    08/21/2025 4:00:24 PM PDT · by CFW · 13 replies
    The Hill ^ | 8/21/25 | Zach Schonfeld
    The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling Thursday, enabled the Trump administration to cancel hundreds of millions of dollars in National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants linked to diversity initiatives. The decision partially lifts a Boston-based judge’s ruling that declared the cancellations illegal and blocked the administration from moving forward. Five of the court’s six Republican-appointed justices sided with the administration: Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. They said the judge wasn’t following the high court’s emergency decision this spring allowing the administration to cancel education grants. Gorsuch was the most pointed in...
  • How the Supreme Court could wind up scrapping high-profile precedents in coming months

    08/17/2025 4:31:31 PM PDT · by Salman · 55 replies
    CNN ^ | 2025-08-17 | John Fritze
    The Supreme Court’s landmark opinion on same-sex marriage isn’t the only high-profile precedent the justices will have an opportunity to tinker with – or entirely scrap – when the court reconvenes this fall. ... Even before Trump was reelected, the Supreme Court’s conservatives had put a target on a Roosevelt-era precedent that protects the leaders of independent agencies from being fired by the president for political reasons. The first few months of Trump’s second term have only expedited its demise. ... A recent Supreme Court appeal from Kim Davis, a former county clerk from Kentucky who refused to issue marriage...
  • US Supreme Court declines for now to block Mississippi social media age-check law

    08/14/2025 2:57:34 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 11 replies
    Reuters ^ | August 14, 20253:56 PM CDT | Mike Scarcella
    Summary Tech industry trade group sued to block Mississippi law NetChoice claims the law violates free speech protections WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Thursday to put on hold a Mississippi law requiring that users of social media platforms verify their age and that minors have parental consent in a challenge by a trade group whose members include Meta's (META.O), Facebook, Alphabet's (GOOGL.O), YouTube and Snapchat (SNAP.N). The justices denied a request by NetChoice to block the law while the Washington-based tech industry trade association's legal challenge to the law, which it argues violates the...
  • 19 Retired Generals, Admirals, and Former Top Defense Officials File Supreme Court Brief Against President Trump’s Immunity Bid, Claiming Trump’s Act “Threatens National Security” – Here Is the List

    04/09/2024 8:42:20 AM PDT · by bitt · 97 replies
    Nineteen retired generals, admirals, and former top civilian defense officials have filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, opposing former President Donald Trump’s plea for immunity from prosecution, claiming that granting such a request would pose a significant threat to national security. The Supreme Court is set to deliberate on Trump’s presidential immunity argument on April 25, as reported by The Gateway Pundit. The Supreme Court will deliberate on whether a president can be shielded from legal consequences for actions taken while in office. The decision, which may not arrive until late June, according to analysts, has significant repercussions...
  • Obama nominates CIA watchdog to fill long vacancy

    06/16/2016 7:47:43 PM PDT · by Fedora · 43 replies
    The Hill ^ | 06/16/2016 | Julian Hattern
    President Obama on Thursday nominated a former CIA officer and longtime lawyer who examined missteps in U.S. intelligence to be the spy agency’s next inspector general, hoping to fill a position at the watchdog office that’s been vacant for more than a year. If confirmed by the Senate, Shirley Woodward would fill the role left empty since David Buckley stepped down from in January 2015, on the heels of a landmark determination that CIA officials had gained unauthorized access to Senate computer files. Lawmakers called the episode a potential violation of constitutional separation of powers, and the spat led to...
  • WA gun shop asks US Supreme Court to review high-capacity magazine ban

    08/11/2025 12:40:23 PM PDT · by PROCON · 9 replies
    washingtonstatestandard.com ^ | Aug. 8, 2025 | Jake Goldstein-Street
    A Washington gun shop is taking its case against the state’s ban on the sale of high-capacity ammunition magazines to the U.S. Supreme Court.Gator’s Custom Guns in Kelso filed a petition this week, asking the high court to review the state Supreme Court’s decision in May upholding the controversial law. Supporters of the restriction see it as an important step for quelling gun violence.Walter Wentz, the Cowlitz County store’s owner, said Friday he hopes to convince the Supreme Court justices to “do their job and not accept all these lower courts waving their finger at them.”“I look forward to exercising...
  • Supreme Court formally asked to overturn landmark same-sex marriage ruling

    08/11/2025 8:43:11 AM PDT · by Morgana · 51 replies
    ABC news ^ | August 11, 2025 | Devin Dwyer
    Ten years after the Supreme Court extended marriage rights to same-sex couples nationwide, the justices this fall will consider for the first time whether to take up a case that explicitly asks them to overturn that decision. Kim Davis, the former Kentucky county clerk who was jailed for six days in 2015 after refusing to issue marriage licenses to a gay couple on religious grounds, is appealing a $100,000 jury verdict for emotional damages plus $260,000 for attorneys fees. In a petition for writ of certiorari filed last month, Davis argues First Amendment protection for free exercise of religion immunizes...
  • Refresh my memory re Supreme Court circa 1973.

    08/09/2025 5:59:32 AM PDT · by LouAvul · 30 replies
    They gave us abortion and legalized hard core pornography. Among others. Justices were Lewis Powell, Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun, William Rehnquist, Potter Stewart, William O. Douglas, Chief Justice Warren Burger, William Brennan, Byron White. Which were good and which were liberal?
  • Page 203 of IG Report says Loretta Lynch-Bill Clinton tarmac meeting was planned via Secret...

    07/01/2018 7:11:27 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 27 replies
    Biz Pac Review ^ | July 1, 2018 | Samantha Chang
    [FULL TITLE] Page 203 of IG Report says Loretta Lynch-Bill Clinton tarmac meeting was planned via Secret Service, FBI Stunning revelations from the IG report of DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz (an Obama appointee) suggests that the 2016 tarmac meeting between then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton was coordinated — contradicting their claims that the meeting was accidental and coincidental. In 2016, Lynch — the U.S. attorney general under Barack Obama — secretly met for 30 minutes with Bill Clinton on an airport tarmac in Arizona. At the time, then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was being investigated by the FBI...
  • Jasmine Crockett claims Trump is a 'piece of ****,' demands 'ethics guardrails' for Supreme Court

    08/04/2025 1:05:23 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 68 replies
    Post Millennial ^ | August 04, 2025 | Hannah Nightingale
    "Listen, Donald Trump is a piece of ****, okay? We know that. Yes, yes, he is. But in a functioning democracy, he still would not be able to get away with this." =========================================================================== At a rally in Arizona over the weekend, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) said that President Donald Trump was a "piece of ****," claiming that "in a functioning democracy," Trump "would not be able to get away with this." While telling the crowd at MoveOn’s "Won’t Back Down Tour" about how "corrupt" the Supreme Court has become, Crockett said, "listen, Donald Trump is a piece of ****, okay?...
  • THE GREAT RECLAMATION: SUPREME COURT UNLEASHES TRUMP TO PURGE THE DEEP STATE

    08/03/2025 11:51:17 AM PDT · by george76 · 27 replies
    X ^ | Aug 2, 2025 | ⁿᵉʷˢ Barron Trump
    The Supreme Court just handed Trump the nuclear key: the authority to fire entrenched Deep State agents embedded across federal agencies. For the first time in 90 years, the President can dismantle the bureaucratic dictatorship that’s hijacked our Republic. FOR 90 YEARS, THE PRESIDENCY WAS A PRISON.. Since 1935, unelected operatives hid inside “independent” agencies like the FTC, SEC, and CPSC. These ideological soldiers wrote regulations like laws. Enforced them like tyrants. And they couldn’t be fired—not even by the President. Until now. THE COURT SWINGS THE HAMMER – TRUMP TAKES THE SWORD.. In a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court...
  • Supreme Court poised to eliminate race-based gerrymandering

    08/02/2025 11:48:09 AM PDT · by Eccl 10:2 · 54 replies
    YouTube ^ | 8/2/2025 | Dr. Steve Turley
    "What if I told you that the Supreme Court just dropped a bombshell that is about to obliterate the Democrat party's chances of ever coming back to national power again?"
  • John Roberts has become the worst modern Supreme Court chief justice | Opinion [barf alert]

    07/29/2025 9:50:28 AM PDT · by Republican Wildcat · 47 replies
    Lexington Herald Leader ^ | 7/29/2025 | Gene Nichol
    With each passing week, Chief Justice John Roberts and his Republican-friendly colleagues bestow never-before-enjoyed authorities upon the Trump Administration. The plan seems to be — if we grant the president everything he dreams of, maybe he’ll leave the high court unmolested. The republic may fall but we’ll still have the cool robes and life tenure. John Roberts is becoming the Neville Chamberlain of post-democratic government in America. Recent steps by the Supreme Court have allowed the executive branch to decimate the Department of Education, summarily fire tens of thousands of other civil servants, permit “third country removals” to notoriously dangerous...
  • Trump reshaped the Supreme Court. Now emergency appeals are helping him reshape the government

    07/23/2025 3:41:11 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 17 replies
    AP News ^ | Updated 3:37 PM CDT, July 15, 2025 | MARK SHERMAN and CHRIS MEGERIAN
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Six months into his second term, President Donald Trump has gotten almost everything he has wanted from the Supreme Court that he reshaped during his first. The justices, three of whom were appointed by Trump, have cleared the way for stripping legal protections from more than 1 million immigrants, firing thousands of federal employees, ousting transgender members of the military, removing the heads of independent government agencies and more. The legal victories are noteworthy on their own, but how the president is achieving them is remarkable. Administration lawyers are harnessing emergency appeals, which were used sparingly under...