By: Lathan Watts – americanthinker.com – August 8, 2019 If you ask most Americans if they want judges who are presently serving on state or federal courts to act like politicians, you’d likely get a resounding “No.” Take, for example, a 2016 Marist poll in which 52 percent of Americans say they want the Court to interpret the Constitution “as it was originally...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – August 15, 2019 When liberals worry about losing a major Supreme Court case, they usually make appeals to the Court’s “legitimacy.” This is intended to attract Chief Justice John Roberts by suggesting that a conservative outcome would damage the institution’s reputation. The ritual is disingenuous but usually subtle. Five Democratic Senators have had it...

Democrats order the Justices to drop a gun case—or else. Source: Senators File an Enemy-of-the-Court Brief – WSJ

By: ADF Staff – adflegal.org – July 20, 2019 Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing a Michigan funeral home filed a petition Friday with the U.S. Supreme Court that asks the court to review a lower-court decision that redefines the word “sex” in federal law to mean “gender identity.” A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit ruled...

By: Kimberley A. Strassel – wsj.com – August 8, 2019 Democrats insist there’s no more urgent job than ensuring Donald Trump is a one-term president. Which is odd, given how hard they are simultaneously working to alienate the voters they most need to make that happen. See this week’s debate on gun control. The weekend’s shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton,...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – August 6, 2019 The right to effective self-defense has never been more important. Few things are more frustrating than watching members of the media, politicians, and activists who often know very little about guns, have the resources to hire security when they face threats, and don’t understand the weapons criminals use telling me what I...

By: Reid Wilson – thehill.com – August 6, 2019 States with some of the most lenient gun laws in the country will debate new restrictions meant to combat mass shootings after two assaults in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, left dozens dead over the weekend. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) on Tuesday proposed a 17-point plan to curb gun violence,...

By: Anne Newman – wbdaily.com/education – July 13, 2019 When parents enroll their children in a summer literacy program, it’s likely that they don’t expect them to see a film about the shooting death of a middle school student, learn how to be “agents of change” for a political agenda, or to be indoctrinated with “tolerance” curriculum from the disreputable Southern Poverty...

By: Nicole Russell – stream.org – July 11, 2019 A Christian student group at Wayne State University will ask a federal court on Wednesday to require public universities to treat religious student groups equally to other campus groups. This particular case, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship v. Wayne State University, demonstrates the many ways progressives twist the concept of discrimination to serve their own purposes....

By: David French – nationalreview.com – June 25, 2019 Trump’s Supreme Court pick has a message for Congress: ‘Do your job.’ If you had to list the top five reasons for political polarization and the collapse of American confidence in American government, where would you start? Would you focus on discrete events such as the Iraq War or the Great Recession, or...