Written by Peter Heck
Something really started bothering me as I read the news that our sister site, The Babylon Bee, was forced into a lawsuit against Governor Gavin Newsom and the absurd California legislature for passing an anti-free speech law in their state.
I read that news the same day I saw a “thread” post from mega-minister Ray Ortlund that stated, “Never Trump, this time Harris, always Jesus.” The post was endorsed by Christian writer David French who affirmed, “This is the way.”… Continue Reading
Tags: Amy Coney Barrett, Barack Obama, Bill Maher, Brett Kavanaugh, David French, Donald Trump, First Amendment, Fran Lebowitz, Gavin Newsom, Harry Reid, John Kerry, Kamala Harris, MAGA movement, Neil Gorsuch, Ray Ortlund, The Babylon Bee, threat to democracy
Executive Branch, Federal Issues, Judicial Branch | David E. Smith | October 3, 2024 7:00 AM | Comments Off on The Left-Wing “Threat to Democracy”
Written by Tim Graham
It’s hard to believe, but our “news” media think U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito‘s wife hanging a flag upside-down outside their home for a few days is a much more serious matter than an attempted assassination of Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2022. That story was quickly squashed.
Start with taxpayer-funded National Public Radio, which never managed to produce a single feature story on the foiled Kavanaugh assassination but has provided multiple stories in the Alito flag frenzy.… Continue Reading
Tags: Brett Kavanaugh, Chris Hayes, Clarence Thomas, Elie Mystal, Ketanji Brown Jackson, NAACP, National Public Radio, Nina Totenberg, Ruth Bader, Samuel Alito, U.S. Supreme Court
Media Watch | David E. Smith | May 31, 2024 1:00 PM | Comments Off on Smearing Alito and Thomas as Racist Insurrectionists
Written by Daniel Horowitz
During his 2005 confirmation hearings, Chief Justice John Roberts compared the role of the U.S. Supreme Court to that of an umpire calling balls and strikes. But what happens when the umpire allows one team more at-bats than the other? Once again, the much-vaunted conservative U.S. Supreme Court is a one-way ratchet for left-wing litigation. Some things never change.
When Donald Trump was president, not a single major administrative policy went unchallenged by the officiously litigious left-wing legal movement.… Continue Reading
Tags: Alliance Hippocratic Medicine, Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump, FDA, FDA v. Alliance Hippocratic Medicine, John Roberts, Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife, Matthew Kacsmaryk, mifepristone, Neil Gorsuch, Population Council, U.S. Supreme Court
Federal Issues, Judicial Branch, Sanctity of Life | David E. Smith | April 5, 2024 7:00 AM | Comments Off on SCOTUS Waffles on Abortion Drugs
Written by Robert Knight
Whenever I hear the White House insist the border is secure, inflation is no problem, and that boys are really girls if they feel like it, I look around for Rod Serling.
You half expect to see the vintage TV show host emerge from a misty backdrop to say, “What you’re seeing is a replica of reality, not reality itself. You have been transported to a parallel universe where evil is good, wrong is right and bitter is sweet.… Continue Reading
Tags: Alejandro Mayorkas, Amy Coney Barrett, Border Crisis, border security, Brett Kavanaugh, Chip Roy, Clarence Thomas, Donald J. Trump, Elena Kagan, Greg Abbott, illegal immigrants, impeachment, John Kennedy, John Roberts, Josh Hawley, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Neil Gorsuch, Obamacare, Rod Serling, Ron DeSantis, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, Ted Cruz, Texas, Twilight Zone, U.S. Supreme Court
Executive Branch, Federal Issues, Immigration | David E. Smith | January 29, 2024 7:00 AM | Comments Off on A Twilight Zone America Endures The Border Crisis
Written by Daniel Horowitz
Six of the nine U.S. Supreme Court justices have been appointed by Republicans, yet red states are now being prevented by federal courts from keeping boys out of girls’ bathrooms. What was the point of the generation-long battle for control of the high court?
A three-judge panel for the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in August upheld a lower court ruling forcing the Metropolitan School District of Martinsville, Indiana, to allow people to enter the school bathrooms of their choice, not the one that matches their sex.… Continue Reading
Tags: Amy Coney Barrett, Bostock v. Clayton County, Brett Kavanaugh, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Clarence Thomas, COVID–19, Dianne Wood, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, Donald Trump, Education Amendments Act of 1972, John Roberts, Neil Gorsuch, Samuel Alito, U.S. Supreme Court
Federal Issues, Judicial Branch | David E. Smith | January 24, 2024 6:00 AM | Comments Off on How Conservatives Misjudge the U.S. Supreme Court
Written by Jorge Gomez
The U.S. Supreme Court is under all-out attack. Recent headlines reveal a concerted effort to manufacture an “ethics” scandal about Justice Clarence Thomas, the Court’s leading conservative and one of the foremost defenders of religious liberty. Justice Neil Gorsuch has also been the target of this smear campaign.
Democrats in Congress, along with their allies in left-wing radical groups and the media, are bringing back calls for radical court “reform.” A constitutionally suspect “judicial ethics” bill was introduced and the U.S.… Continue Reading
Tags: Amy Coney Barrett, Bill Clinton, Brett Kavanaugh, Chuck Schumer, Clarence Thomas, court packing, Dick Durbin, Elizabeth Warren, First Liberty, Hank Johnson, Michael Mukasey, Mike Berry, Neil Gorsuch, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Sheldon Whitehouse, Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen Breyer, Thomas Jipping, U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, U.S. Supreme Court
Federal Issues, Judicial Branch | David E. Smith | May 12, 2023 10:00 AM | Comments Off on Exposing the Radical Effort to Destabilize the Supreme Court
Written by Tim Graham
The easiest layup in proving the “mainstream media” is hyperpartisan is to study how they cover congressional hearings. After two years of obsessive media promotion and congratulation and live coverage of the Pelosi-picked panel on Jan. 6, the network “newscasts” can’t locate a hearing now with two hands.
On March 1, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee questioned Biden administration Attorney General Merrick Garland for the first time in the new Congress. The hearing was not devoid of newsworthiness.… Continue Reading
Tags: ABC, Brett Kavanaugh, Catholic, CBS, Jen Psaki, Joe Biden, Josh Hawley, Justice Department, Latin Mass Catholics, Mark Houck, Merrick Garland, NBC, Nicholas Roske, NPR, PBS, Ted Cruz, U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee
Executive Branch, Federal Issues, Media Watch | David E. Smith | March 3, 2023 8:06 AM | Comments Off on Congressional Hearings About Team Biden Die in Darkness
Written by Jorge Gomez
The U.S. Supreme Court recently announced it will hear 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, a free speech case that could have major implications for religious liberty. This is a case being handled by our friends at the Alliance Defending Freedom.
It involves Lorie Smith, a Christian web designer from the Denver-area who declines to create wedding websites for same-sex couples, because of her religious beliefs. The case is expected to be heard during the Court’s next term, which begins in October.… Continue Reading
Tags: 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, Aaron Klein, Alliance Defending Freedom, Amy Coney Barrett, Andrew McCarthy, Anthony Kennedy, Brett Kavanaugh, First Liberty Institute, Jack Phillips, Jorge Gomez, Lorie Smith, Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado, Melissa Klein, National Review, Oregon Supreme Court, religious freedom, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, SCOTUS, Stephen Breyer, Sweet Cakes by Melissa, U.S. Supreme Court
Religious Liberty | David E. Smith | March 4, 2022 7:00 AM | Comments Off on SCOTUS Case of Colorado Web Designer Has Big Implications for Religious Liberty
Written by Mike McManus
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments this week on whether to overturn its Roe v. Wade decision of 48 years ago that legalized abortion.
It is considering a Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks – well before the established point of fetal “viability” at around 24 weeks. Many pro-life leaders hope the nation’s highest court will use this opportunity to reverse Roe v. Wade to protect unborn children.
Roe v.… Continue Reading
Tags: Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, John Roberts, Marjorie Dannenfelser, Neil Gorsuch, Roe v. Wade, Scott G. Stewart, Susan B. Anthony List, U.S. Constitution, U.S. Supreme Court
Sanctity of Life | David E. Smith | December 2, 2021 8:00 AM | Comments Off on Should Legal Abortion Be Killed?
Written by Daniel Horowitz
James Madison once wrote, “Government is instituted to protect property of every sort” and that “conscience is the most sacred of all property.” Yet just before July 4 weekend, the U.S. Supreme Court, by denying an appeal in an important religious liberty case, has essentially abrogated both property and conscience rights, as well as the right to use one’s own property in accordance with deeply held religious beliefs. So much for self-evident truths, inalienable rights, and the institution of government to secure these rights.… Continue Reading
Tags: Amy Coney Barrett, Anthony Kennedy, Arlene's Flowers, Barronelle Stutzman, Brett Kavanaugh, Calvin Coolidge, Jack Phillips, John Roberts, Joseph Story, Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, SCOTUS, U.S. Supreme Court
Religious Liberty | David E. Smith | July 8, 2021 7:00 AM | Comments Off on Justices Kavanaugh and Barrett Deal Crushing Blow to Religious Liberty