Tag: constitutional rights

Analysis: Abortion Could Be Severely Limited in 23 States If Supreme Court Overturns Roe V. Wade

Abortion would be banned or severely limited in 23 states if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, an analysis by the Guttmacher Institute indicates. “Changes to the makeup of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2018 raise the possibility that Roe v. Wade could be severely undermined—or even overturned—essentially leaving the legality of abortion…


What’s In the Leaked Supreme Court Opinion Overturning Roe v. Wade?

A leaked majority draft opinion written by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito suggests the highest court in the land has decided to strike down Roe v. Wade, the seminal 1973 precedent that federalized abortion policy, overriding the states and making the procedure lawful throughout the entire United States. The gist of Alito’s draft opinion is that,…


Trucker Convoy Files Lawsuit Against Washington for Blocking Access to City

Members of The People’s Convoy trucker group that has protested against COVID-19 rules filed a lawsuit against officials in Washington, D.C., for what they said was a violation of their First Amendment rights. Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), they wrote in the suit, erected blockades to prevent them from entering the city. Sixteen members and…


Supreme Court Has Decided to Overturn Roe v. Wade, Leaked Opinion Suggests

A document that Politico describes as an “initial draft majority opinion” written by Justice Samuel Alito suggests the Supreme Court has decided to strike down Roe v. Wade, the seminal precedent that in 1973 wrested the regulation of abortion from the states and made the procedure lawful throughout the entire United States. The leaking of the…


[PREMIERING 5/7 at 7:30PM ET] Jeffrey Tucker: How the US Adopted CCP-Inspired COVID-19 Control Policies, a Timeline

This episode will premiere on Saturday, May 7, at 7:30 p.m. ET.     “How come HHS [Health and Human Services] released its lockdown blueprint on March 13 when Trump hadn’t even given his approval to anything remotely resembling lockdowns until two days later? There’s a lot that we need to know.” Why did the United…


Boston’s Refusal to Allow Christian Flag to Fly Is Unconstitutional, Unanimous Supreme Court Finds

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously on May 2 that allowing national flags and flags about historic events, causes, and organizations to fly outside a city hall while refusing to raise a Christian flag is an unconstitutional example of government censorship. The court’s opinion (pdf) in the case, Shurtleff v. Boston, court file 20-1800, was written by…


Lockdowns Show Erosion of US Founding Principles: Jeffrey Tucker

After living through more than two years of extreme pandemic mitigation policies, experts are saying we need answers from the government about why public health officials were allowed to make decisions that damaged peoples’ economic, physical, and mental health. Jeffrey Tucker, author and president of the Brownstone Institute, said it will take years to have a…


‘No-Compromise’ Gun Lobby Group to Challenge Biden’s Ghost Gun Rule in Court

Gun Owners of America, which describes itself as the “no-compromise gun lobby,” is preparing a legal challenge to President Joe Biden’s ghost gun regulation, according to GOA Senior Vice President Erich Pratt. In a memorable April Rose Garden press conference, during which Biden showed how to put together gun parts, he announced a new rule…


Senate Democrats Consider Calling on Elon Musk to Testify About Plans for Twitter, Content Moderation

Some Democrats in the Senate are considering calling on Elon Musk to testify in Congress about his purchase of Twitter. The lawmakers did not indicate they were concerned about the legality of the purchase, but rather about Musk’s intention to loosen content moderation in light of the billionaire’s recent comments about the importance of free…


‘I Couldn’t Just Sit on the Sidelines Anymore’: North Carolina Parents Run for Local School Boards

Like many parents who chose to run for their district school boards this year, Crissy Pratt had never been involved in local politics. That changed during the COVID-19 lockdowns when Pratt began watching the live-streamed Guilford County Board of Education meetings in North Carolina to keep up with the ever-changing COVID restrictions. What she saw…