[ad_1] Republican Senator Mike Braun, author of the “Reforming Qualified Immunity Act” speaks during a committee hearing in Washington, D.C., May 20, 2020. (Al Drago/Reuters) Republican members of Congress remain divided on the question of reforming qualified immunity for police officers, even as a GOP senator has proposed a bill that would curb the protections

[ad_1] SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk celebrates after the launch of his spacecraft at Cape Canaveral, Fla., on May 30, 2020. (Steve Nesius / Reuters) The world needs more Musk, not less. You know that friend you have who just says whatever comes to mind, does things on a whim, and lives more care-freely

[ad_1] Former Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain delivers the Tea Party Express response to U.S. President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address in Washington, D.C., January 24, 2012. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Herman Cain, a former 2012 Republican presidential candidate, was hospitalized Wednesday and is being treated for the coronavirus. Cain, 74, was informed on Monday that

[ad_1] A goldsmith shows wedding rings in a jeweller’s shop in Vienna, Austria, December 14, 2017. (Leonhard Foeger/Reuters) A left-leaning Massachusetts city has adopted a domestic partnership ordinance granting polyamorous groups the same rights as married couples. The Somerville City Council voted unanimously last Thursday to approve the measure, which affords domestic partnerships between two

[ad_1] In the course of an oh-so-predictably tiresome New York Times house editorial on the Supreme Court’s abortion ruling in June Medical Services v. Russo, I was very surprised to run across this cheap whack at Louisiana solicitor general Elizabeth Murrill: Another factor that’s nearly certainly at play here is that the lawyer who argued

[ad_1] A celebration following the result of the abortion referendum, Dublin, Ireland, May 26, 2018 (Max Rossi/Reuters) In May 2018, Ireland voted to repeal the Irish constitution’s eighth amendment, opening the door for full legalization of abortion, which officially became legal on January 1, 2019. A new report from Ireland’s Department of Health shows that

[ad_1] Ghislaine Maxwell, suspected of involvement in sex trafficking with friend Jeffrey Epstein, was arrested by FBI agents on Thursday morning. Maxwell has attempted to stay out of the media spotlight since the 2019 suicide of Epstein, who killed himself while awaiting charges of trafficking dozens of underage girls. Maxwell was arrested in New Hampshire

[ad_1] President Donald Trump delivers remarks to U.S. troops during an unannounced visit to Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, November 28, 2019. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) The House Armed Services Committee voted on Wednesday to set additional conditions to be met before President Trump can withdraw troops from Afghanistan. There are currently about 8,600 American soldiers in Afghanistan,

[ad_1] People raise their fists during events to mark Juneteenth, amid nationwide protests against racial inequality in New York, N.Y., June 19, 2020. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) The media blitz during these last several weeks revealed a generation that is poorly educated and yet petulant and self-assured without justification. When mobs tore down a statue of Ulysses

[ad_1] Ella Speer speaks with a doctor before getting tested for the coronavirus disease during an outbreak in Austin, Texas, June 28, 2020. (Sergio Flores/Reuters) Over 50,000 new coronavirus cases were counted nationwide on Wednesday, a new single-day record for the U.S. as spikes in the southern and western parts of the country continued. According

[ad_1] (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Coming on the heels of the uber-textualist opinion in Bostock, it is especially noteworthy that the Court as well as the dissenters in Espinoza ignored it — the text that is. As the Chief Justice wrote in the opening paragraph of the Court’s opinion, the Montana constitutional provision at issue barred public

[ad_1] (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) Yesterday the Supreme Court handed down a major victory for religious liberty and for people of faith as it eviscerated the insidious Blaine amendment for schools. In Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, a 5–4 majority of the Court pushed back on a shameful, 150-year legacy of discrimination against religious schools in an

[ad_1] The head of a statue of Christopher Columbus was pulled off overnight amid protests against racial inequality in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd in Boston, Mass., June 10, 2020. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) Republican senators Ron Johnson (R., Wis.) and James Lankford (R., Okla.) introduced an amendment Wednesday that would replace Columbus Day

[ad_1] President Donald Trump, Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto and Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attend the USMCA signing ceremony before the G20 leaders summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina November 30, 2018. (Andres Stapff/REUTERS/) That’s the U.S.–Mexico–Canada trade agreement that replaced NAFTA. The Republican National Committee and others are using the occasion of the deal’s

[ad_1] Supreme Court nominee judge Neil Gorsuch smiles at his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill, March 20, 2017. (Jim Bourg/Reuters) Remy Green and Avika M. Cohen have launched a series of articles explaining why the tirelessly reiterated tautology of Justice Gorsuch’s Bostock decision is not just correct, but obviously correct. Further, they

[ad_1] A man clears debris following the clashes between police and anti-government protesters after a two week campus siege of the Polytechnic University in Hong Kong, China, November 16, 2019. (Adnan Abidi/Reuters) History goes where we push it. And if we don’t push, someone else will. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE Y ou have to see Hong

[ad_1] (Evgen_Prozhyrko/Getty Images) The claim that billionaire wealth has surged ‘since the beginning of the pandemic’ is flatly untrue. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE O ver the weekend, ABC News claimed that “as 45 million Americans lost their jobs . . . between March 18 and June 17, as the pandemic raged, the combined wealth of the

[ad_1] President Donald Trump speaks in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, D.C., June 16, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) President Trump wants to send Americans another round of coronavirus relief checks, saying in a Wednesday interview that he supports “larger numbers than the Democrats” but stressed “it has to be done properly.” Trump,

[ad_1] Chief Justice John Roberts departs as the impeachment trial of President Trump continues in Washington, D.C., January 27, 2020. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) A Message from the Chief Ever since I was a little boy, the other boys never called me “John” or “Johnny” or even “Roberts.” It was always “John Roberts.” The words would always

[ad_1] French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris, April 2, 2019. (Philippe Wojazer/Reuters) A party built around one man is exceedingly difficult to sustain in the long run. French president Emmanuel Macron suffered a major defeat in Sunday’s municipal elections: Hoping that a strong result would anchor his party’s support, Macron had

[ad_1] Last night, President Trump sent out a tweet saying that he may entirely put an end to the Obama-Biden administration’s outrageously intrusive Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) regulation. As the president put it: At the request of many great Americans who live in the Suburbs, and others, I am studying the AFFH housing regulation

[ad_1] Migrant families turn themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol agents to seek asylum after illegally crossing the Rio Grande River in Hidalgo, Texas, August 23, 2019. (Loren Elliott/Reuters) A federal judge has overturned a Trump administration policy mandating that asylum seekers first apply for asylum in countries they pass through on their way to

[ad_1] (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) It took a century and a half, but the Supreme Court finally rejected the Blaine amendments. The Court’s decision in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue is a victory for religious believers, schoolchildren, poor and working-class parents, and the rule of law. It is a loss only for bigots, militant secularists, and

[ad_1] Even though there was already evidence of violence and extortion there, earlier this month, Mayor Jenny Durkan of Seattle defended the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone as a kind of “block party” run by idealists. On June 11th she tweeted that “#CHAZ is not a lawless wasteland of anarchist insurrection – it is a peaceful

[ad_1] A member of Congress holds a copy of the Constitution in Washington, D.C., June 20, 2017. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) By making the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau accountable to the president, the Supreme Court has done right — but it could’ve done even better. Is the president the nation’s chief executive? That was the question that

[ad_1] The Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., June 11, 2018 (Erin Schaff/Reuters) Montana parents like Randi Meyer had something to celebrate Tuesday. In Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, the Supreme Court toppled a barrier that for more than a century has handicapped Catholic schools in Montana and other states and discriminated against parents like Randi searching

[ad_1] President Donald Trump takes questions during a news conference at the White House in Washington, D.C., June 24, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) One of the president’s most devoted defenders, Jeffrey Lord, writes over at The American Spectator: As this is written, the Trump White House is awash in almost the identical kind of political nonsense

[ad_1] Harvard University, November 16, 2012 (Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters) Harvard has announced it will lift a blacklist on unrecognized single-sex student organizations, including fraternities and sororities, following the Supreme Court’s ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County. That ruling decided that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects gay or transgender employees from discrimination

[ad_1] President Trump and Ivanka Trump during a meeting in the East Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., June 26, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) A New York judge issued a preliminary injunction on Tuesday blocking the publication of a Trump family tell-all by President Trump’s niece. Robert Trump, the brother of President Trump, took

[ad_1] A pregnant woman receives an ultrasound. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) In the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling yesterday in June Medical Services v. Russo, abortion-rights groups are hailing the decision as a victory for women’s health care. Anyone familiar with the specifics of the Louisiana law — and not financially invested in propping up our