Written by Robert Knight
About half of America’s 50 states seem to care more about children’s well-being than about being sufficiently “woke.”
That’s why they don’t embrace gender insanity and instead ban puberty-blocking drugs, cross-sex hormones and irreversible surgery for minors.
The U.S. Supreme Court this past week heard arguments on Tennessee’s law barring trans treatments for minors.
Some justices blew wide holes in the case for creating trans kids. But it’s by no means a lock that this allegedly conservative court will restore sanity on this issue.… Continue Reading
Tags: American Academy of Pediatrics, American Anthropological Association, American Family Association, Amy Coney Barrett, Bostock v. Clayton County, cross-sex hormones, Dr. Patrick Hunter, gender affirming care, Gender Identity, Georgia Purdom, hormone therapy, Josef Mengele, Matthew 19:4-5, Neil Gorsuch, sexual orientation, The Stand, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, U.S. Supreme Court
Federal Issues, Judicial Branch, LGBTQ Agenda | David E. Smith | December 9, 2024 4:00 AM | Comments Off on Transgender Delusion Needs to End
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 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 | Comments Off on SCOTUS Missed Opportunity to Uphold Freedom of Speech
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 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 | Comments Off on Media’s Hits Continues To Delegitimize SCOTUS
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 | Comments Off on Clarence Thomas Chides SCOTUS For Allowing ‘Offended Observer’ Lawsuits Against Public Prayer to Continue
Written by Robert Knight
Have you ever boarded an airliner during a rainstorm and then, minutes later, broken through the clouds to bright sunshine? It can be quite startling. People blink like moles emerging from their burrow.
The sun has been there all along, of course, but when we’re unable to see it from below we can forget how bright it can be.
That’s how believers view this world under God. No matter how bad things get, there is a Creator God who loves us and inspires hope in this life and the next.… Continue Reading
Tags: Babylon Bee, Barack Obama, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Christmas, CIA, COVID–19, Elon Musk, FBI, Homeland Security, Joe Biden, Karine Jean-Pierre, Neil Gorsuch, Respect for Marriage Act, Ron DeSantis, Russian Collusion, same-sex marriage, Twitter, U.S. Supreme Court, White House
Faith & Religion | David E. Smith | December 23, 2022 7:00 AM | Comments Off on Darkness Before The Dawn