Education
Iowa judge rules against parents’ request to block school district’s new transgender policyA district judge has denied a request to block an Iowa school district from enforcing its new transgender policy. The lawsuit was brought against the Linn-Mar School District by Parents… Read More
Courts
Missouri Supreme Court reprimands St. Louis Circuit Attorney over Greitens case(The Center Square) – The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed with a three-person disciplinary panel and publicly reprimanded St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberly M. Gardner for ethical violations. Read More
Courts
Judge issues permanent injunction on Biden ban on new oil and gas leasing on federal lands, waters(The Center Square) – A federal judge sided with Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry and 12 other plaintiff states in a Louisiana-led lawsuit, issuing a permanent injunction against the Biden… Read More
Courts
St. Louis aldermanic president, member plead guilty to federal bribery charges(The Center Square) – The former president of the St. Louis Board of Aldermen and a former alderman pled guilty on Friday to all charges filed against them and face… Read More
Immigration
7 more Texas counties declare invasion at southern border, bringing total to 17(The Center Square) – The judges and county commissioners of seven more Texas counties signed resolutions declaring an invasion at the southern border this week, citing unprecedented levels of illegal… Read More
National
Alito: U.S. seeing growing hostility to religious freedom(The Center Square) – Associate U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said there’s a “growing hostility to religion” in a keynote address he gave highlighting the unique protection of religion… Read More
Biden administration
Fauci, Biden officials served subpoenas in lawsuit over collusion to suppress free speech(The Center Square) – Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, other Biden administration officials and five social media companies have 30 days to respond to subpoenas… Read More
Courts
Federal Judge blocks Biden transgender rules from taking effect(The Sentinel) – In at least a temporary victory, a federal judge last week temporarily blocked a Biden administration rule forcing businesses and schools to allow transgender students and… Read More
National
Federal court halts vaccine mandate impacting Air Force service members(The Center Square) – A federal district court in Ohio has blocked the Department of Defense from imposing a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on all U.S Air Force service members whose… Read More
National
17 states file legal brief in support of Florida law banning sanctuary cities(The Center Square) – Seventeen Republican attorneys general have filed an amicus brief with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in support of a Florida law banning sanctuary cities. The… Read More
National, State Government
Former Kansas woman with desire to attack the U.S. pleads guilty to being leader of an all-female ISIS terrorist unitA former Kansas woman accused of training an all-female battalion of ISIS terrorists in Syria faces up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty Tuesday. Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, pleaded… Read More
National
Texas launches operations center to oversee 15-agency effort to thwart illegal immigration(The Center Square) – Gov. Greg Abbott is launching the Joint Border Security Operations Center to oversee a 15-agency effort to thwart illegal immigration funded by Texas taxpayers. Texas shares… Read More
National
Federal judge halts Biden administration from revoking Title 42 immigration enforcement(The Center Square) – A federal judge in Louisiana on Friday stopped the Biden administration from revoking Title 42, a public health authority that allows illegal immigrants to be quickly… Read More
National
Democratic judge in Texas border county implores Biden to visit before suspending Title 42(The Center Square) – Hidalgo County Judge Richard Cortez on Wednesday invited President Joe Biden to visit his county, imploring him to do so before making “any substantial changes to… Read More
National
Federal judge ends Biden’s mask mandate on planes(The Center Square) – A federal judge on Monday struck down the Biden administration’s controversial mask mandate for planes, airports and trains. U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle called the U.S. Read More
National
Americans more worried about crime amid violence, retail crime wave(The Center Square) – After a major spike in violent crime in recent years and a wave of retail theft, Americans are growing more concerned about crime. Newly released Gallup… Read More
National
Appeals court reverses ‘social cost of carbon’ ruling(The Center Square) – A federal appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling that blocked the Biden administration’s “social cost of carbon” policy, reviving the controversial government cost calculation… Read More
National
Biden’s Supreme Court nominee alarmingly soft on child sex and child porn offenders, says Missouri Sen. Josh HawleyAfter unearthing her lenient prison sentences for child sex offenders, Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley has moved from skepticism to hair-on-fire alarm about President Biden’s U.S. Supreme Court nominee. Ketanji Brown… Read More
State Government
Pritzker insists school masks still mandated despite judge and legislators blocking rule(The Center Square) – Despite a district court judge and a top legislative committee blocking Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s school mask and exclusion mandate, the governor says students are still required… Read More
State Government
Future of Missouri’s State Senate districts lies in the court’s handsJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The future of Missouri’s state Senate districts will now be decided by the courts, as the upper chamber’s bipartisan citizens commission failed to agree… Read More