Texas Supreme Court: Cheerleaders Win Again! Court rejects the Kountze ISD latest attack on cheerleader’s freedom to have Bible verses on run-through banners. Austin, TX—The Texas Supreme Court today denied to hear the Kountze Independent School District’s appeal of an earlier decision protecting the right of cheerleaders in that district to have Bible verses on run-through banners. Lead appellate counsel...

The Senate should focus on questions designed to illuminate the excitement of constitutional reasoning. By: George Will – nationalreview.com – August 26, 2018 Senate Republicans and Democrats are at daggers drawn over confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Instead, they should unsheathe some questions designed to illuminate the excitement of constitutional reasoning. The Constitution vests in Congress the...

By: Kelly Shackelford – dailycaller.com – August 21, 2018 President Trump promised the American people that he would nominate constitutional conservatives to the federal bench. He has delivered on that promise in spades. But establishment politicians are pushing President Trump to nominate Judge Sul Ozerden to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. That would be a big...

By: Chris Enloe – theblaze.com – July 8, 2018 An Arkansas pastor is speaking out after he was accused of a “constitutional violation” for giving a Bible-based devotion at a high school football camp. What’s the background? Konnor McKay, pastor of Waldron Pentecostal Church of God in Waldron, Arkansas, was invited to his former high school last month to speak...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – August 21, 2018 Let’s be honest. If you own guns or you’re a gun-rights supporter, and if you’re concerned about government restrictions on your Second Amendment rights, the future looks bright. The elevation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court may well represent the death knell for draconian forms of gun control — including...

By: Kevin D. Williamson – nationalreview.com – August 19, 2018 Vox may still be keeping up its risible just-the-facts posturing, but it is tendentious to the point of dishonesty: “Colorado baker who refused to serve gay couple now wants to refuse to serve transgender person,” it says. That is not true, of course. (But everybody knows that.) Phillips serves customers...

By: Ross Kecseg – empowertexans.com – August 16, 2018 Conservative leaders are calling on the Texas governor to prevent non-citizens and other ineligible persons from voting illegally. According to a statement issued at today’s press conference, more than 280,000 non-citizens in Texas are registered to vote, with another four million registered voters in question. Direct Action Texas (DAT), a watchdog...

Evicting elderly residents from their home for holding a Bible Study is not only outrageous, it’s illegal. Ken Hauge is a retired Lutheran minister. He and his wife, Liv, received an eviction notice from Community Realty Company (CRC) stating the Bible study Ken leads in his apartment is a “business activity” and violates his lease. The Bible study previously met...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – August 16, 2018 Let’s begin with two assertions that should, at least, be relatively uncontroversial. First, Article II of the United States Constitution grants the president broad authority to defend the nation as commander in chief of its armed forces. Second, that authority is not so broad as to always override individual constitutional rights...

By: Jeremy Dys – townhall.com – August 6, 2018 Attorney General Sessions recently announced the formation of a special Department of Justice Task Force with these words: “Freedom of religion has been a core American principle from the very beginning of our country—indeed, it is our ‘first freedom.’” His announcement of a Religious Liberty Task Force to “institutionalize” the process...