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The US Supreme Court on Monday ruled that Idaho can enforce its ban on sex changes for children. Healthcare professionals can face up to 10 years in prison for mutilating children or providing puberty blockers to them. In December Judge Lynn Winmill, a Clinton appointee, ruled that Idaho could not enforce the transgender ban while the lawsuit by two plaintiffs made its way through the courts. The US Supreme Court 6-3 granted an emergency request filed by Idaho’s Attorney General. Idaho previously enacted the Vulnerable Child Protection Act which protected children from dangerous puberty blockers and procedures that remove body...

Michigan legislators claim that the state government infringed on their constitutional rights when it used ballot initiatives to change election laws. Eleven Michigan Legislators have vowed to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court after U.S. District Court Judge Jane Beckering, a Biden-appointed judge, dismissed their federal lawsuit on April 11, citing a lack of standing. The lawmakers’ claim, filed Sept. 28, 2023, argues the 2018 and 2022 state constitutional amendments regulating time, place, and manner of federal elections are legally null and void because they usurped the legislators’ constitutionally protected rights. Plaintiffs include Republican Senators Jonathan Lindsey and Jim Runestad;...

The Constitutional Coalition and former Attorney General John Ashcroft filed an amicus curiae (Friend of the Court) in the United States Supreme Court in the case United States v. Trump. The appeal to the Supreme Court concerns the question of presidential immunity. More specifically, whether a subsequent president may criminally prosecute his (or her) predecessor, and current political rival, for official acts the previous president took while in office. This amicus brief was not filed on behalf of either party – Special Counsel Jack Smith (hired by Attorney General Merrick Garland to prosecute former President Trump) nor on behalf of...

the Ohio Republican US Senate Primary Bernie Moreno the candidate endorsed by President Trump winning... The US Air Force says that it successfully tested a hypersonic missile on Sunday... A cruise missile from Yemen fell north of the Israeli city of Eilat Sunday night... In Canada Foreign Minister Melanie Joly saying Canada will not sell arms to Israel... On Capitol Hill former top generals saying the Biden Administration's response to the need to evacuate Afghanistan when the Taliban won the war was too little and too late... The US Supreme Court giving the go ahead for Texas to enforce a...

Jewish organizations in the US pleased with today's US Supreme Court decision regarding religious accommodation... "Green" activist Greta Thunberg in Kiev meeting with Ukraine's President... The Russian military in Syria says that a US-led coalition drone approached one of its bases... In Fort Lauderdale, Florida former sheriff's deputy Scot Peterson found not guilty in connection with his response to the deadly attack at Parkland High School... The Russian Ministry of Defense says that two Ukrainian generals, 50 other Ukrainian officers and around 20 foreign mercenaries died in the strike on Kramatorsk... In Baghdad protesters storming into the courtyard of Sweden's...

It's being called a "congestion pricing program". New York Governor Kathy Hochul saying that as early as next spring anyone driving into the center of Manhattan... Hundreds of billions of dollars in US government COVID relief funds likely stolen by fraudsters... 500 million dollars more in US military aid heading for Ukraine... French police shot and killed a 17-year-old driver in Nanterre, a suburb of Paris, this morning... As the holiday period approaches here in the USA the move to pass judicial reform is moving forward in Israel... Today Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledging that Russian pilots were killed during...

A group of individuals filed a class action lawsuit against Dominion Voting Systems, Facebook, CTCL and Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, which is now going to the US Supreme Court. This group claims that the defendants worked together with government employees in a concerted and coordinated effort to change the results of the 2020 Presidential Election in ways that go against the US Constitution. Here is a timeline of how they got here.

Zachary Cohen was named the winner of a 2021 Lehigh County judge's race over David Ritter that had remained undecided after U.S. Supreme Court ruled undated ballots must be counted...

The courts have one job, and when they don't do it, we all suffer.Another day, another “masks required” sign on a business in Dane County, Wisconsin, thanks to a sweeping mask mandate handed down from the unelected health bureaucrats on high — and now thanks also to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which just refused to do anything about it.Despite the seven-day death average for the county remaining steady at zero since the middle of May, Janel Heinrich, the director of public health in Madison and Dane County, decreed that masks were once again mandatory. This wasn’t just for the unvaccinated...

The state is appealing lower court rulings that struck down a law banning most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The Supreme Court in Washington on Jan. 22, 2021.Stefani Reynolds / Bloomberg via Getty Images file

It's time for the U.S. Supreme Court to recognize that the Second Amendment right to 'keep and bear arms' does not end arbitrarily at a state’s border.There’s always a risk in trying to predict how the U.S. Supreme Court will decide a case. Justices have proven to be unpredictable in the past, and court watchers will admit that with the Supreme Court, conventional wisdom is anything but conventional. Still, there’s a buzz among the firearm industry and gun owners about the Supreme Court agreeing to hear an appeal in the case of New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v....

No. 22O155 In the Supreme Court of the United States STATE OF TEXAS, et al., Plaintiffs v. COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, et al., Defendants. On Motion for Leave to File Bill of Complaint MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE BRIEF AS AMICI CURIAE AND BRIEF FOR CONSTITUTIONAL ATTORNEYS AS AMICI CURIAE IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFFS ROY S. MOORE JOHN A. EIDSMOE* *Counsel of Record MATTHEW J. CLARK TALMADGE BUTTS CONSTITUTIONAL ATTORNEYS P.O. Box 179 Montgomery, AL 36101 256-510-1828 constitutionalattorneys@gmail.com Counsel for Amici Curiae

The flawed, fractured and possibly inaccurate spectacle of ballot-counting to which Americans have been treated as Pennsylvania became the focus of the 2020 election deserves all the challenges President Donald Trump is throwing at it, according to a group of Republican attorneys general.Democrat Joe Biden has been declared the winner in Pennsylvania, but the Trump campaign is raising serious questions about how the votes were counted. Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s lawyer, on Sunday said the number of challenged ballots is so high that it could flip the results.Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito last week ordered state officials to keep separate ballots...

The vote counting continuing today here in Pennsylvania with 96 percent of the vote said to be counted statewide and 95 percent of the Philadelphia vote said to be counted... And to update the situation as of 11 pm Eastern US time with tens of thousands more votes added the claim remains 96 percent of the vote counted statewide and 95 percent in Philadelphia with Biden leading the President by 28,200 votes... The Supreme Court order tonight is that all mail-in ballots received after 8 pm tonight must be separated... Michigan Republican Chair Laura Cox says that a "software glitch"...

Had Democrats given Trump's judicial nominees due respect and consideration, they could have had more influence over Barrett's nomination process. Judge Amy Coney Barrett is now Justice Amy Coney Barrett, replacing the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court. For invoking the “nuclear option” in the Senate back in 2013 and eliminating the filibuster for non-Supreme Court judges, Harry Reid deserves his round of applause. Reid is not the only Democrat to have worked hard on Barrett’s behalf — indeed, the Democratic Party’s actions during both the Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings played a pivotal role...

The leftist attacks on the faith, family, and character of Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett are — sadly — neither surprising nor new. The initial battle plan by establishment leftists to attack the faith, family, and character of Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett is neither surprising nor new. As a counsel on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee for more than five years, I gained a clear inside look at the tactics used by Senate Democrats to personally attack GOP judicial nominees.In 2003, I was working on the committee for Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, when Judge Janice...

A Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) worker is petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether the union dues he was forced to pay must be returned, thanks to the 2018 Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Union (AFSCME) decision. Benito Casanova was forced to pay dues to the local chapter of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) that represents CTA workers. He is represented by attorneys for the National Right to Work Legal Foundation (NRTWLF). The Court held in Janus that public sector employees who do not wish to join a union cannot...

WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Supreme Court is denying author Jon Krakauer's petition to force the State of Montana to release more records related to the University of Montana rape controversy of a few years ago. Krakauer has been fighting for the past several years to force the Montana Office of Higher Education to release full records of the 2013 investigation into reported sexual assaults at UM. Those incidents formed the basis of his book, "Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town."

Her writings on faith and jurisprudence should worry conservatives. The left is engaged in full-on panic over control of the U.S. Supreme Court—which Justice Scalia once described as having become a de facto sitting Constitutional Convention, subjecting every law in every state to the views of five lifetime appointees: an oligarchy of lawyers from Harvard, Stanford, and Yale. As Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s health concerns continue to loom, liberals are trying to spook Speaker Mitch McConnell into swearing off confirmation hearings for any Trump appointee during an election year. At the same time, The New York Times and The New...

Show me the motto. The Supreme Court rejected an atheist case Monday to remove "In God We Trust," the national motto, from all coins and currency from the Department of Treasury. Michael Newdow, the same activist attorney who tried to remove "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance, lost his case, arguing Congress' mandate to inscribe "In God We Trust" on currency was a government endorsement of religion and a violation of the First Amendment. Newdow argued in his petition to the Supreme Court that because his clients are all atheist individuals or atheist groups, the government violated their "sincere...