Category: constitutional rights

Supreme Court Strikes Down Affirmative Action Policies at US Colleges

The Supreme Court has struck down the use of racially discriminatory admissions policies at U.S. colleges. The decision ends the use of so-called affirmative action in higher education, a longtime goal of conservatives. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that for too long universities have “concluded, wrongly, that the touchstone of an individual’s identity is not…


Supreme Court Strikes Down Race-Based Admissions at Colleges

The Supreme Court has struck down the use of racially discriminatory admissions policies at U.S. colleges. The decision ends the use of so-called affirmative action in higher education, a longtime goal of conservatives. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote (pdf) that for too long universities have “concluded, wrongly, that the touchstone of an individual’s identity is…


NEWS ANALYSIS: Americans Believe Free Speech Is Eroding in America, Recent Poll Finds

If you believe the constitutional right to free speech has been curtailed in America, you are not alone. A poll conducted in June by the Commonwealth Foundation in Pennsylvania found that most people—56 percent of respondents—feel the right to free speech is more restricted than it was 10 years ago, and 41 percent said they…


CISA Tried to Cover Up Domestic Censorship, Big Tech Collusion: House Report

A federal government agency set up to protect cybersecurity and critical infrastructure tried to cover up its domestic censorship practices, according to an interim report released by the House Committee on the Judiciary and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. The report released on Monday sheds light on the concerning nexus…


Supreme Court to Decide Scope of Congress’s Taxing Power

The Supreme Court agreed on June 26 to consider a challenge to an arguably unconstitutional wealth tax that was levied on capital gains a Washington state couple never received. The Mandatory Repatriation Tax, also known as the Section 965 Transition Tax, was part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passed by the then-Republican-controlled Congress…


GOP Presidential Candidates, Senators Urge Christians to Fight for Life, Truth

Conservatives waged a 50-year battle to overturn Roe v. Wade, but when the U.S. Supreme Court gave them that long-sought victory in its Dobbs ruling last summer, the dog that caught the car lost its nose for the chase. In that vacuum, six-of-six pro-life ballot measures failed, and Democrats blunted an anticipated “red wave” in…


Supreme Court Issues Ruling Against Prisoner Given 27 Years for Possessing Gun

The Supreme Court issued a 6–3 ruling (pdf) Thursday that a man’s conviction on gun charges cannot be thrown out. The conviction was called into question by a recent high court decision. The man, Marcus DeAngelo Jones, was given a 27-year prison term for violating a federal law that is designed to keep firearms out of the…


Ban on Encouraging Illegal Immigration Not Unconstitutional: Supreme Court

A U.S. law that bars encouraging illegal immigration for advantage or gain is lawful, the Supreme Court ruled on June 23. “After concluding that this statute criminalizes immigration advocacy and other protected speech, the Ninth Circuit held it unconstitutionally overbroad under the First Amendment. That was error,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a Trump appointee, wrote…


Warner Mendenhall: Medical Malpractice, Unprecedented Overreach, and Hospital Protocols That Killed

“The upper bounds of damages against Pfizer would be $3.6 trillion dollars. And obviously, Pfizer’s not worth $3.6 trillion dollars. That company would have to be seized in bankruptcy, its assets distributed and sold off, and I think that’s an appropriate end for that company. So I’m doing everything I can to get there.” After…


[PREMIERING NOW] Warner Mendenhall: Medical Malpractice, Unprecedented Overreach, and Hospital Protocols That Killed

“The upper bounds of damages against Pfizer would be $3.6 trillion dollars. And obviously, Pfizer’s not worth $3.6 trillion dollars. That company would have to be seized in bankruptcy, its assets distributed and sold off, and I think that’s an appropriate end for that company. So I’m doing everything I can to get there.” After…