Tag: Supreme Court

Supreme Court Uproots the Administrative State; Biden Calls to Drop Filibuster to Codify Roe V. Wade

A Supreme Court ruling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) could reel in government overreach by restoring the constitutional process for creating laws. Agencies will now have a more difficult time when bypassing the legislative process to create regulations. This follows other recent rulings from the Supreme Court that bring back a more traditional interpretation…


Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Cuomo Aide’s Bribery Appeal in Pay-to-Play Scheme

The Supreme Court agreed to review the corruption convictions of Joe Percoco, formerly a longtime aide to former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a case that may call into question the legality of honest-services fraud prosecutions. Over the opposition of the Biden administration, the high court decided June 30 to hear Percoco v. United…


Texas Man Arrested for Threatening to Use AK-47 Rifle Against Supreme Court After Roe V. Wade Reversal

A Texas man was arrested and charged in connection with a terrorist threat he allegedly made against the Supreme Court on social media hours after the court overturned the 1973 abortion precedent Roe v. Wade. Mikeal Deshawn Archambault, 20, of The Colony, a suburb of Dallas in Denton County, Texas, allegedly posted on Twitter: “I’m…


LIVE 7/4 at 10:30AM ET: Supreme Court Uproots the Administrative State; Biden Calls to Drop Filibuster to Codify Roe V. Wade

A Supreme Court ruling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) could reel in government overreach by restoring the constitutional process for creating laws. Agencies will now have a more difficult time when bypassing the legislative process to create regulations. This follows other recent rulings from the Supreme Court that bring back a more traditional interpretation…


Supreme Court Security Chief Sparks War of Words Over Police Protection of Justices

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and Montgomery County, Maryland, Executive Marc Elrich sharply rebuked Supreme Court Marshal Gail Curley after she wrote letters to both demanding they do more to protect justices whose lives have been threatened. Both officials say they are doing their best in difficult circumstances and that protecting the justices is primarily the…


Maryland, Virginia Governors Respond to Letter From Supreme Court Calling to Protect Justices

The governors of Virginia and Maryland responded to a letter from the Supreme Court’s top security official calling on them to provide more police resources to prevent protests outside the homes of justices following the landmark ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade. Left-wing protesters have continued to appear outside their homes since the ruling. Over…


The Mighty Gorsuch Versus the Administrative State: Quotes From West Virginia v. EPA

Commentary The power of the administrative state to destroy liberty and property—to blast through legislation, science, and judicial oversight—was never more on display than in the last two and a half years. One would hope that the deep bureaucracies would have learned their lessons on how not to respond to a new pathogen. There is…


After Dobbs, What Comes Next for the Conservative Legal Project?

Commentary This past week and a half has been truly remarkable. From a conservative perspective, and a legal conservative perspective more specifically, there has not been a condensed period of such consistent, meaningful winning in my entire adult lifetime. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Biden v. Texas, the “remain in Mexico” policy immigration challenge, is…


House Republicans Seek to Designate June a ‘Month of Life’ in Celebration of Supreme Court Ruling

Rep. Carol Miller (R-W.Va.) has led 46 other House Republicans in introducing a congressional resolution aiming to declare June as the “Month of Life,” in commemoration of the Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling. “As a mother and grandmother, I know the joy that children bring to a family,”…


Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Truckers’ Challenge to AB5, California’s Anti-Freelancing Law

The Supreme Court turned away a challenge to California’s “radical” worker-classification law that virtually outlaws independent contracting, including independent trucking, and clamps down on the so-called gig economy. The ruling has the effect of ending a temporary stay preventing enforcement of the law, known as AB5, against motor carriers while the appeal to the Supreme…