By: News Editor – christianaction.org – November 5, 2018 The federal 4th Circuit Court of Appeals scheduled oral arguments for and against a high school’s teaching of Islam that the Christian Action Network found is advancing Islam over Christianity. With this, the arguments stage of the process for the case of Wood v. Charles County Board of Education is slated...

  By: Saagar Enjeti – dailycaller.com – 1/7/2019 Quiet preparations are underway within conservative legal circles and the White House counsel’s office in the event that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg retires, two sources familiar with the process tell The Daily Caller. The 85-year-old Ginsburg did not appear for oral arguments at the Supreme Court on Monday, missing the...

By: Kelly Shackelford – baltimoresun.com – January 2, 2018 As many gathered around a Christmas tree last week, attorneys representing thousands of Americans were busy putting the finishing touches on friend-of-the-court briefs in support of the Bladensburg World War I Veterans Memorial. The “Peace Cross,” as local residents call it, is a simple cross-shaped memorial of concrete and bronze, sitting...

By: John Yoo & James C. Phillips – nationalreview.com – December 31, 2018 Earlier this year, the Defense Department limited the right of the transgendered to serve in the military. Three federal courts blocked the policy for infringing the constitutional rights of the transgender individuals. One of the judges relied on the same clause of the Constitution as the cake...

By: Mark Joseph Stern – slate.com – December 27, 2018 Few presidents have done as much to reshape the federal judiciary during their first two years in office as Donald Trump. Aided by the Federalist Society and former White House Counsel Don McGahn, Trump has packed the courts with staunch conservatives in record time. He has already installed two Supreme...

By: Todd Starnes – toddstarnes.com – December 20, 2018 Tavia Hunt, of Dallas, Texas, wanted to add a personal touch to her family’s Christmas cards this year. So she decided to create a customized stamp for her cards. Mrs. Hunt, the wife of Kansas City Chiefs chairman and chief executive officer Clark Hunt, selected a photograph that featured her family...

By: Todd Starnes – toddstarnes.com – December 20, 2018 Tavia Hunt, of Dallas, Texas, wanted to add a personal touch to her family’s Christmas cards this year. So she decided to create a customized stamp for her cards. Mrs. Hunt, the wife of Kansas City Chiefs chairman and chief executive officer Clark Hunt, selected a photograph that featured her family...

By: Graham Moomaw – richmond.com – December 6, 2018 A Virginia high school teacher was fired Thursday for refusing to use a transgender student’s new pronouns, a case believed to be the first of its kind in the state. After a four-hour hearing, the West Point School Board voted 5-0 to terminate Peter Vlaming, a French teacher at West Point...

By: Graham Moomaw – richmond.com – December 6, 2018 A Virginia high school teacher was fired Thursday for refusing to use a transgender student’s new pronouns, a case believed to be the first of its kind in the state. After a four-hour hearing, the West Point School Board voted 5-0 to terminate Peter Vlaming, a French teacher at West Point...

By: Gary M. Galles – fee.org – December 16, 2018 Early next year, the Supreme Court will hear American Legion vs. American Humanist Assn., involving whether a 40-foot tall cross in Bladensburg, Maryland, is an unconstitutional violation of the separation of church and state. But what is striking about the litigation is that neither those words nor the concept applied...