Written by Robert Knight
The U.S. Supreme Court works in strange and mysterious ways.
It can enrage the progressive left with a solidly constitutional ruling like Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022), which overturned Roe v. Wade and sent the issue of abortion to the states.
But it can also amaze and frustrate conservatives, as when it refused before and after the 2020 election to review Pennsylvania officials’ unconstitutional changes to election procedures.
“We failed to settle this dispute before the election and thus provide clear rules.… Continue Reading
Tags: ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union, Amy Coney Barrett, Bostock v. Clayton County, Clarence Thomas, COVID–19, cross-sex hormones, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, Environmental Protection Agency, Facebook, gender reassignment surgery, Great Barrington Declaration, Hans von Spakovsky, hydroxychloroquine, Instagram, Ivermectin, Jay Bhattacharya, Martin Kulldorff, Murthy v. Missouri, Neil Gorsuch, Obergefell v. Hodges, puberty blockers, Roe v. Wade, Samuel Alito, Twitter, U.S. Supreme Court
Federal Issues, Judicial Branch | David E. Smith |
July 1, 2024 6:15 AM |
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Written by Robert Knight
The national parental rights group has again made the latest “hate map” of the Southern Poverty Law Center, the most prominent leftist smear machine outside of the legacy media itself.
Despite a scandal in 2019 that ousted its leadership, “SPLC annual revenue still reaches nine figures, and its assets are just shy of $700 million,” the Capital Research Center reports.
The Moms last year were designated partly because they supported reform-minded school board candidates who won elections.… Continue Reading
Tags: Alliance Defending Freedom, AmazonSmile, American Family Association, amily Research Council, Antifa, Black Lives Matter, Capital Research Center, Clarence Thomas, Coral Ridge Ministries, D. James Kennedy Ministries, Dustin Inman Society, Family Foundation of Virginia, hate map, Illinois Family Institute, Mission America, Moms for Liberty, Southern Poverty Law Center, The Washington Times, U.S. Supreme Court, W. Keith Watkins
Marriage, Family & Culture | David E. Smith |
June 11, 2024 4:00 AM |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Written by Robert Knight
Anything can happen in 2024.
But right now, as the new year dawns, former President Donald Trump holds an insurmountable lead for the GOP presidential nomination, barring an unforeseen circumstance.
The former president also holds a slim but steady lead in polls over President Biden, notably in several battleground states.
Even a conviction on one or more of the many bogus charges filed in four different courts by Democratic prosecutors and being heard by Democratic judges would not derail him.… Continue Reading
Tags: Brian Stelter, Brian Stelter Memorial Award, Clarence Thomas, Democrats, Donald Trump, Fox News Channel, Gavin Newsom, Ginni Thomas, GOP presidential nomination, Jason Johnson, Joe Biden, Joe Scarborough, Kamala Harris, Media Research Center, MSNBC, Sean Hannity
Federal Issues | David E. Smith |
January 3, 2024 8:00 AM |
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Written by Tim Graham
PBS isn’t for the “public.” It’s taxpayer-funded content for Democrats.
Last September, when President Joe Biden gave a nasty speech in front of a blood-red backdrop at Independence Hall, proclaiming, “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic,” PBS streamed this harsh rhetoric live with no “explanatory” text on screen for charges the Republicans are authoritarians.
But on June 13, when Trump spoke in New Jersey after being arraigned in Florida, the PBS livestream felt inexorably compelled to insert opinions on screen.… Continue Reading
Tags: Amna Nawaz, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Bill Moyers, Clarence Thomas, Colby Hall, David Brooks, Donald Trump, Islamic jihadists, Joe Biden, Julianne Malveaux, Little Red Book, MAGA, Mao Zedong, Marco Rubio, Mark Shields, Mediaite, Michel Martin, NewsHour, PBS, Tavis Smiley, Ted Cruz, Tom DeLay, Warren Hern, Zooey Zephyr
Media Watch | David E. Smith |
June 16, 2023 7:00 AM |
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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 |
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Written by David Harsanyi
As with ProPublica’s recent smear of Clarence Thomas, there’s a lot of excitement across the left-wing Twittersphere over a Politico hit on Neil Gorsuch. But even as a transparent piece of partisan propaganda, it is poorly conceived.
Politico kicks off the piece, “Law firm head bought Gorsuch-owned property,” with a purposefully deceptive claim: “For nearly two years beginning in 2015, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch sought a buyer for a 40-acre tract of property he co-owned in rural Granby, Colo.”… Continue Reading
Tags: Barack Obama, Brian Duffy, Chuck Schumer, Clarence Thomas, David Harsanyi, Dick Durbin, Elena Kagan, Greenberg Traurig, Harlan Crow, Heidi Przybyla, Hillary Clinton, LLC, Neil Gorsuch, New York Times, Obamacare, Philip Anschutz, Politico, ProPublica, Raphael Warnock, U.S. Supreme Court, Walden Group
Federal Issues, Judicial Branch, Media Watch | David E. Smith |
April 29, 2023 5:00 AM |
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Written by Daniel Horowitz
One thing we learned from the courts throughout COVID is that there is almost nothing state and local government officials cannot do to your life, liberty, and even body under the guise of public health. Yet for years, these same courts have placed limitations on the ability of government officials to pray in public when nobody is coerced to join them. Pagan groups have been empowered to shake down cash-strapped local governments in cumbersome lawsuits over the issue of public prayer, and Justice Clarence Thomas is finally calling for an end to this insanity.… Continue Reading
Tags: Clarence Thomas, COVID–19, Daniel Horowitz, Establishment Clause, Incorporation Doctrine, Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, NAACP, Neil Gorsuch, Ocala, U.S. Supreme Court, Valley Forge Christian College v. Americans United for Separation of Church & State
Faith & Religion, Federal Issues, Judicial Branch | David E. Smith |
March 10, 2023 6:00 AM |
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