Illegal Immigration
Public attorneys doing way more for illegal migrants than you might think(Daily Caller News Foundation) – Criminal migrants across the country are increasingly avoiding deportation thanks to an unlikely source: public attorneys using local taxpayer dollars to represent them in immigration… Read More
First Amendment
Supreme Court upholds preacher’s First Amendment lawsuit(The Center Square) – The U.S. Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, upheld that a street preacher can sue over a city ordinance that prevented him from exercising free speech… Read More
Kansas
Parents must OK student walkouts under proposed Kansas lawKansas students would be prohibited from walking out of school to protest without parental permission, if a provision passed by the state Senate survives the legislative budget process. Read More
Courts
U.S. Supreme Court to revisit birthright citizenship in April(The Center Square) – The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on April 1 over whether to uphold birthright citizenship in the United States. Trump v. Barbara challenges President Donald… Read More
Gender Identity
Supreme Court appears likely to allow state bans on biological males competing in female sports(The Heartlander) — A majority of the Supreme Court’s justices appeared inclined Tuesday to uphold state laws to protect female sports from biological males in a high-stakes showdown over whether… Read More
Gender Identity
‘Irreparable harm’: California teachers ask Supreme Court to block policy hiding gender from parents(The Daily Signal) – California teachers have filed an emergency appeal at the U.S. Supreme Court after an appeals court panel reinstated policies requiring teachers to hide students’ gender… Read More
Kansas City
Sparse crowd greets Kansas City Mayor’s Commission on Reparations, while law may preclude race-based payoutsTurnout at Kansas City’s first race reparations “community conversation” Saturday was modest enough that one of the approximately 30 participants suggested forgoing the scheduled breakout sessions. “We need to do… Read More
Illegal Immigration
Supreme Court to decide immigration asylum case(The Center Square) – The U.S. Supreme Court will decide a case that would determine at what point an individual seeking asylum "arrives" in the United States. The Trump administration… Read More
Economy
Trump predicts ‘ruination’ if Supreme Court rules against his tariffs(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump won’t attend arguments in a case before the U.S. Supreme Court challenging his tariff authority, but the U.S. president said if the high… Read More
Gender Identity
Supreme Court appears skeptical of Colorado conversion therapy ban(The Center Square) – The U.S. Supreme Court appeared ready to rule against a Colorado ban on conversion therapy during oral arguments on Tuesday. The challenge in Chiles v. Salazar,… Read More
Free Speech
Supreme Court to decide if states can police counselor-client conversations in battle over ‘conversion therapy’ law(The Heartlander) — Does the government belong in the counseling room? That’s the question a Colorado counselor is asking the U.S. Supreme Court as she challenges a state… Read More
Economy
Law professor explains why Trump could win tariff case(The Center Square) – The U.S. Supreme Court could side with the Trump administration on a multibillion-dollar case over tariffs despite two lower courts saying the power of the purse… Read More
Courts
WATCH: Trump to push Supreme Court for quick ruling on tariff authority(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump said Tuesday that his administration will ask the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to quickly take up his appeal on tariff authority after… Read More
Texas
Could Supreme Court intervene in case of absconding Texas Democrats?(The Center Square) – If courts in Democrat-led states don’t honor a request by the Texas House of Representatives to enforce civil warrants for the arrest of absconding Texas House… Read More
Federal government
Supreme Court allows Trump’s ‘transformation of the federal bureaucracy’ to proceed(The Daily Signal) – The Supreme Court Tuesday stayed a district judge’s injunction blocking President Donald Trump from carrying out a “critical transformation of the federal bureaucracy.” Trump signed … Read More
Gender Identity
U.S. Supreme Court to take up two transgender athlete cases(The Center Square) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to take up two cases in its next term on laws banning transgender women from participating in girls and… Read More
Opinion, Parenting
Government schools no longer ‘co-parents’ with America’s moms and dads, Supreme Court rulesAbsolutely no one won at the U.S. Supreme Court this term more than America’s parents and children. Parents, not public schools, can direct the upbringing of… Read More
Faith
Legal battle with USPS ends after securing more protections for religious workers(The Heartlander) — The United States Postal Service and a Christian postal worker who lost his job for observing Sunday as a Sabbath day have reached an agreement, ending a… Read More
Illegal Immigration
Supreme Court allows deportations of nearly 500,000 to proceed(The Center Square) – Deportation of nearly 500,000 people illegally in the country was cleared by the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday morning, handing a victory to the Trump administration. Read More
Opinion
Michigan court says state constitution allows no abortion limits(The Daily Signal) – The Michigan Court of Claims held on May 13 that state laws requiring informed consent for abortion violate the unlimited right to “reproductive freedom” that voters placed… Read More