By: First Liberty Staff – firstliberty.org – April 11, 2020 This afternoon, U.S. District Court Judge Justin Walker granted a temporary restraining order (TRO) preventing Louisville, Kentucky Mayor Greg Fischer from blocking On Fire Church from holding drive-in services on Easter.  The TRO was filed yesterday in the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky by First Liberty...

By: Melissa Quinn & Clare Hymes – cbsnews.com – April 16, 2020 As the coronavirus pandemic continues to upend daily life for millions of Americans, with nearly the entire population subject to mandatory stay-at-home orders, the public health crisis is pitting state and local officials against worshippers in some states, as they grapple with limitations on large gatherings. To curtail...

By: Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs & Jeremy W. Peters – msn.com – April 16, 2020 As President Trump and some of his supporters push for a more rapid return to pre-coronavirus economic activity, protesters in several states took to the streets this week to urge governors to relax the strict rules on commerce, work and daily life that health officials have said are...

By: Rick Green – patriotacademy.com – April 2020 “We’re saying no church worshiping,” decreed the Louisville Mayor on Easter weekend.  Pastors and pro-lifers, like my friend David Benham, arrested despite providing essential counseling services. Meanwhile, the abortionists in most states went on killing without interruption. Churchgoers in Mississippi were ticketed $500 each for attending “drive-in” church even though everyone stayed in...

By: Clare Foran – CNN.com – April 14, 2020 GOP Rep. Liz Cheney, the third highest ranking House Republican, pushed back against a false claim by President Donald Trump that he has “total” authority to decide to lift restrictions governors have imposed amid the coronavirus pandemic. “The federal government does not have absolute power,” Cheney, who serves as a member of House...

By: Pat Buchanan – townhall.com – January 21, 2020 On the holiday set aside in 2020 to honor Martin Luther King, the premier advocate of nonviolent Gandhian civil disobedience, thousands of gun owners gathered in Richmond to petition peacefully for their rights. King had preached that there was a higher law that justified breaking existing laws that mandated racial segregation. When...

By: Brad Slager – redstate.com – January 20, 2020 Nothing like proving your critics correct as you complain about their charges. When it comes to obliviousness and lack of self-awareness it is tough to find a group afflicted worse than our contemporary press corps. Maybe it is that they are charged with ferreting out and then delivering the facts that their...

By: Alex Parker – redstate.com – January 16, 2020 Are you pro-gun? If so, are you ready to march with your brothers and sisters in arms? I’m talking, of course, about Antifa. In a surreal turn, the apparently-unknowingly pro-fascism group will be hitting Virginia’s capital Monday to rally alongside Second Amendment advocates in response to the state’s clampdown on gun...

By:  Steve West – world.wng.org – November 5, 2019 The Kentucky Supreme Court vindicated a Christian printer who didn’t want to print pro-LGBT messages, but the victory may prove hollow. The court dismissed an LGBT organization’s discrimination claims last Thursday but left significant free speech questions unanswered. Since 2012, Blaine Adamson, the owner of Lexington, Ky., print shop Hands On...

By: Rebecca Klar – thehill.com – November 7, 2019 President Trump has officially appointed one in four circuit court judges as of Thursday, a milestone cheered by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who has often touted the rate of Trump’s judicial appointments. Leader McConnell ✔ @senatemajldr As of this afternoon, one in every four judges on the federal courts of appeals will...