The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled Wednesday that a female-only beauty pageant has the freedom to produce pageants designed to celebrate women. Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys represent United States of America Pageants and defended the pageant’s freedom to communicate messages consistent with its values as a female-only pageant.Continue Reading
The number of abortions performed in the United States increased between 2017 and 2020, reversing a 30-year trend, according to figures released today. The Guttamcher Institute, a research group that advocates for abortion rights, said its data showed 930,160 abortions were performed in 2020, an 8% increase from the 862,320 performedContinue Reading
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that the City of Boston violated the Constitution by censoring a private flag in a public forum open to “all applicants” merely because the application referred to it as a “Christian flag.” The High Court stated that it is not government speech, andContinue Reading
Civil rights attorney and Executive Director of Equal Rights Advocates (ERA), Noreen Farrell, put out the following statement concerning the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court: President Biden’s nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the Supreme Court today is historic—and long overdue. In theContinue Reading
The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked President Joe Biden’s vaccine or testing requirement aimed at businesses, but it allowed a vaccine mandate for certain health care workers to go into effect nationwide. The majority of justices, 6-3, sent a clear message that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), charged with protecting workplaceContinue Reading
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said some very disturbing and concerning things last week during oral arguments over two of President Biden’s vaccine mandate rules, some of which caught the attention (and rightfully so) of Fox News hosts and guests, while other cable news channels essentially ignored it. UPDATED TOContinue Reading
As the U.S. Supreme Court hears the case surrounding Mississippi’s 15 week abortion ban, former Vice President Mike Pence spoke to out to call for the justices to “to make history” and to “overturn Roe V Wade and restore the sanctity of life to the center of American law.” “Tomorrow,Continue Reading
Pennsylvania district attorney Kevin Steele filed an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate the 2018 Bill Cosby sexual assault conviction, arguing that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s June decision sets a dangerous precedent with “far-reaching negative consequences.” The June ruling hinged on a press release issued in 2005 byContinue Reading
A Christian college asked the U.S. Supreme Court Monday to reverse a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision that allows government to dictate who can teach the college’s faith. Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys represent Gordon College. Originally known as Boston Missionary Training School, the college requires students and faculty alike to sign aContinue Reading
A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Thursday in favor of a Catholic foster care agency in its biggest religion case of the year, which pitted religious freedom against LGBTQ rights. Justices said officials in Philadelphia violated the First Amendment by refusing to accommodate the faith-based agency’s religious beliefs. Legal precedent requiresContinue Reading
The Biden administration’s pro-death radical agenda continues as the fiscal 2022 budget proposal includes eliminating the Hyde Amendment, which will destroy a 40-year ban on federal funding for abortions and force taxpayers to pay for the intentional killing of unborn babies. The Hyde Amendment, which prohibits federal money from being used toContinue Reading
The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hear Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a challenge to a Mississippi law that prohibits nearly all abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy. While pro-life groups praise the move, leftists and members of the press are outraged, fearful that Roe v.Continue Reading
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) announced this morning they will consider Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban. The specific legal question is whether all pre-viability bans are unconstitutional, which could give SCOTUS an opportunity to reconsider erroneous precedent. Texas Right to Life Director of Media and Communication Kimberlyn SchwartzContinue Reading
The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in a 5-4 decision that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) policy requiring patients seeking mifepristone to pick up the pill in person at a hospital, clinic, or medical office be reinstated. Three lower courts had blocked the Food and Drug Administration’s in-personContinue Reading
Just like President-elect Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris before him, Reverend and Georgia US Senate Democratic candidate, Raphael Warnock totally sidestepped the question on whether he favored packing the Supreme Court Sunday evening in his debate with Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler. Warnock was asked by one of the journalistsContinue Reading
California Senator and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Dianne Feinstein has drawn the ire of NARAL Pro-Choice America prompting the organization to call for her replacement after she was apparently kind to Judge Amy Coney Barrett during questioning over her nomination to the Supreme Court this week. NARALContinue Reading
The Supreme Court on Friday night turned down a request by a Nevada church for permission to hold services on the same terms that other facilities in the state, including casinos, are allowed to hold gatherings during the COVID-19 pandemic. Chief Justice John Roberts joined the court’s liberal justices in denying theContinue Reading
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled about half of Oklahoma belongs to Native Americans, recognizing this part as a reservation. The justices decided 5-4 in the Jimcy McGirt 1997 child rape case, that Oklahoma’s eastern portion, including Tulsa, will now fall under federal jurisdiction for criminal prosecution and that theContinue Reading
Joe Rogan is one of the largest and most popular podcasters and said that banning police chokeholds is “F – ing crazy ” during his interview with former Navy Seal, now speaker and author Jocko Willink, discussing the defund the police movement and the policing crisis nationally. “I think it’sContinue Reading
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that courts and federal agencies can exceed their constitutional boundaries and redefine what “sex” means in federal law. In a 6-3 opinion written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a lengthy opinion holding that, “An employer who fires an individual merely for beingContinue Reading
The U.S. Department of Justice filed an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of a Catholic foster care agency because it refuses to compromise its religious beliefs by placing children with same-sex couples. The Supreme Court agreed to review Sharonell Fulton, et al. v. City of Philadelphia and oral argument is expectedContinue Reading
