By: First Liberty Institue – firstliberty.org – June 28, 2018 Christmas In July! As Supreme Court term closes, First Liberty celebrates several victories that could change landscape of religious liberty Dear Friend of Liberty, This week has truly felt like Christmas in July. Today, we have yet another major religious freedom victory to announce as we head into the 4th of...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – June 28, 2018 Years ago, when I was a young lawyer, I had an interesting conversation with a much older judge. He was a Democrat, an old-school liberal, and he said something revealing: “There’s the law, and then there’s what’s right. My job is to do what’s right.” Or, to put the philosophy in...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – June 27, 2018 Earlier this afternoon, Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement. Court observers long thought it was possible that he’d step down after this most recent term, but now it’s confirmed. The moment has arrived. In the first two years of his first term, President Trump is set to nominate just as many...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – June 27, 2018 Earlier this afternoon, Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement. Court observers long thought it was possible that he’d step down after this most recent term, but now it’s confirmed. The moment has arrived. In the first two years of his first term, President Trump is set to nominate just as many...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – June 27, 2018 In Janus v. AFSCME, the court struck a strong blow against government-compelled speech for the third time this term. Perhaps the worst government affront to the rights of conscience, far worse than mere censorship, is compelled speech, the practice of forcing Americans to fund or express ideas they find abhorrent. It’s...

By: Ballotpedia.org – ballotpedia.org – November 17, 2017 President Donald Trump announced Judge Neil Gorsuch as his nominee to succeed Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court of the United States on January 31, 2017. On May 18, 2016, he released a list of individuals that Trump “would consider as potential replacements for Justice Scalia at the United States Supreme Court.”...

By: Ballotpedia.org – ballotpedia.org – November 17, 2017 President Donald Trump announced Judge Neil Gorsuch as his nominee to succeed Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court of the United States on January 31, 2017. On May 18, 2016, he released a list of individuals that Trump “would consider as potential replacements for Justice Scalia at the United States Supreme Court.”...

By:  Samuel Chamberlain – www.FoxNews.com – June 26, 2018 How much damage has family separations issue done to Trump? Newt Gingrich breaks down the optics of the president’s handling of the immigration debate. Attorneys general from 17 states and the District of Columbia sued the Trump administration Tuesday over its policy of separating families who cross the U.S-Mexico border illegally....

By: Adam Liptak & Michael D. Shear – www.nytimes.com – June 26, 2018 The Supreme Court upheld President Trump’s ban on travel from several predominantly Muslim countries, delivering to the president on Tuesday a political victory and an endorsement of his power to control immigration at a time of political upheaval about the treatment of migrants at the Mexican border....

By: Elizabeth Zwirz – foxnews.com – June 26, 2017 Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao tried to intercede between protesters and her husband, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, as they continually asked McConnell why he was “separating families,” at an event in Washington, D.C. on Monday. The couple was departing an event held at Georgetown University, The Hill reported, when the individuals...