By: Gerard Baker – wsj.com – May 24, 2019 If there’s one thing everyone knows about modern politics, it’s that the key to the next election and the longer-term trends beyond is the rising tide of younger voters. We’ve become used to the idea that the young—more progressive in their values and more Democratic in their voting habits—are the future, and...

By: Melanie Israel – cnsnews.com – May 30, 2019 The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a provision of Indiana law that requires abortion providers to bury or cremate fetal remains, while declining to review a portion of Indiana’s law—struck down by a lower court—that banned abortions on the basis of sex, race, and disability. Although the Supreme Court’s opinion in Box v. Planned...

By: Rachel del Guidice – dailysignal.com – May 29, 2019 The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development expects to propose a new rule later this year that would give homeless shelters the authority to largely use their own policies regarding what a person’s sex is, which affects shelters that serve either men or women or that segregate areas by sex. However, the...

By: Rachel del Guidice – dailysignal.com – May 29, 2019 The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development expects to propose a new rule later this year that would give homeless shelters the authority to largely use their own policies regarding what a person’s sex is, which affects shelters that serve either men or women or that segregate areas by sex. However, the...

By: Texas Tribune Staff –  apps.texastribune.org – May 27, 2019 Texas’ top political leaders wrapped the 2019 session of the Texas Legislature on Memorial Day with an air of accomplishment. They passed two major pieces of legislation that they had been working toward for years — a finance boost and a bill aimed at slowing the growth of property taxes....

By: Texas Tribune Staff –  apps.texastribune.org – May 27, 2019 Texas’ top political leaders wrapped the 2019 session of the Texas Legislature on Memorial Day with an air of accomplishment. They passed two major pieces of legislation that they had been working toward for years — a finance boost and a bill aimed at slowing the growth of property taxes....

By: Kevin Daley – dailysignal.com – May 28, 2019 The Supreme Court reinstated an Indiana law Tuesday requiring abortion clinics to cremate or bury fetal remains. In an apparent compromise, however, the justices declined to review a second provision of the Indiana law that banned abortions on the basis of sex, race, or disability. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said...

By: Myron Magnet – wsj.com – May 22, 2019 Justice Stephen Breyer lamented last week that the Supreme Court had overturned “a well-reasoned decision that has caused no serious practical problems in the four decades since we decided it.” Dissenting from Justice Clarence Thomas’s majority decision in Franchise Tax Board v. Hyatt, Justice Breyer added: “Today’s decision can only cause one to wonder...

By: Myron Magnet – wsj.com – May 22, 2019 Justice Stephen Breyer lamented last week that the Supreme Court had overturned “a well-reasoned decision that has caused no serious practical problems in the four decades since we decided it.” Dissenting from Justice Clarence Thomas’s majority decision in Franchise Tax Board v. Hyatt, Justice Breyer added: “Today’s decision can only cause one to wonder...

By: Raymond J. March – blog.independent.org – May 15, 2019 When he first took office, President Trump pledged to eliminate 75 to 80 percent of all Food and Drug Administration regulations. A recent deregulatory effort is a small step in this direction. It also serves as a comical (and a little concerning) example of how far the agency’s regulatory authority extends....