States Trending Away From Death Penalty
The nation continues to trend away from capital punishment, at least on the state level. According to a report by the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC), 2019 marked the fifth year in a row that the country More...
Arizona Dispute Marks the Start of New Battles Over Unborn Embryos
When she froze seven embryos developed from her eggs, Ruby Torres was not thinking about setting a landmark legal precedent. She just wanted to make sure that she would be able to have children with her husband More...
Jackson County Indiana Courthouse Nativity scene case heads to appeals to defend free speech
Liberty Counsel filed an appeal today to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals refuting the opinion by an Indiana federal judge who ruled against the Nativity scene display at the Jackson County Courthouse. Liberty Counsel represents More...
Project 21 asks Supreme Court to support Louisiana abortion law to protect black women
The Project 21 black leadership network is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a Louisiana law requiring abortionists to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital, noting that black women are at risk More...
The Tennessee Valley Authority is Going to Face Major Personal Injury Lawsuits
The Supreme Court issued a ruling recently that the utility corporation known as the Tennessee Valley Authority is not allowed to claim sovereign immunity in order to avoid facing a flurry of personal injury lawsuits. More...
Trump wins another immigration lawsuit as SCOTUS rules to support ‘remain in Mexico’ policy
The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a win to President Trump on Wednesday by allowing his administration to enforce the “Remain in Mexico” asylum policy. This meant migrants had to get asylum protection More...
Atheist, Jewish, Catholic, and Muslim groups join to ask SCOTUS to rule on college student free speech case
An ideologically diverse array of groups submitted friend-of-the-court briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court this week that ask it to take a case filed by Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys on behalf of two former More...
Chuck Schumer threatens Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, John Roberts responds
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer made personal attacks against Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, threatening that they “pay a price” if they voted against his political belief More...
Trump moves to cut more Obama era rules at HHS, ending religious discrimination regulations
On this Religious Freedom Day, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is proposing a rule that implements President Trump’s executive order that removes current regulatory burdens on religious More...
Massachusetts abortion bill would allow abortion any time and eliminates parental consent
Democrat lawmakers hope to change the abortion law in Massachusetts with a new bill titled Remove Obstacles and Expand Abortion Access (ROE) Act which would allow abortion after 24 weeks if a physician deems abortion More...
Heartbeat International fights North Dakota abortion rules set to silence pro-life voices
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing the world’s largest affiliation of pregnancy resource centers filed their answer Tuesday following a federal district court’s decision to allow the centers More...
Liberty Counsel leads appeals of Maryland’s counseling ban
Liberty Counsel has filed the Opening Brief asking the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse the district judge’s decision to dismiss the lawsuit seeking a preliminary and permanent injunction against More...
Arlene Flowers, gay wedding case headed to Supreme Court
Maybe the Supreme Court will finally decided this type of case: discrimination or freedom of conscience. The U.S. Supreme Court has received numerous friend-of-the-court briefs in support of the freedom of a Washington More...
Supreme Court may hear Aimee Stephens, transgender funeral home case
Yesterday the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in three cases that will determine whether LGBTQ workers have federal protections against sex-based discrimination in the workplace in the wake of transgender firing More...
Liberty Counsel appeals Christopher Doyle’s case, the Maryland counseling ban
Liberty Counsel has filed an appeal asking the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse the district judge’s decision to dismiss the lawsuit seeking a preliminary and permanent injunction against Maryland’s More...
The Injustices of the Discovery Rule: Case of Geoffrey Hammond
When Geoffrey Hammond hired David F. Wentzel and Scott Blake, he hoped the two attorneys would represent his interests in a lawsuit and settlement negotiation involving his family’s $125 million estate. Instead, More...
NYC retreats on counseling ban for same-sex attractions, transgender, won’t pass Supreme Court
The New York City Council is seeking to repeal a citywide counseling ban out of concern that the ban would not survive the Supreme Court and would impact similar counseling bans across the United States. photo/ More...
Texas city councils in Omaha, Naples pass ordinances declaring abortion murder
The city councils of Omaha, Texas and Naples, Texas debated and voted on similar ordinances on September 9, declaring abortion to be murder and preventing the abortion industry from doing business within their cities’ More...
Walter Williams corrects the NY Times on slavery in the US: We are NOT a Democracy
The New York Times has begun a major initiative, the “1619 Project,” to observe the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe American history so that slavery and the More...
Vegan Cilla Carden sues neighbor over ‘meat smells’, she can’t sleep, counter protest BBQ set
An Australian woman had made headlines for suing her neighbor over the meat smells while they cook, saying it’s ‘devastating’ and preventing her from sleeping. “They’ve put it there More...
