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As SCOTUS weighs West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Hecox v. Little, New Hampshire’s governor still refuses to sign clear protections for women’s sports and single-sex spaces, even as Granite State women, parents, and coaches mobilize to defend biological reality. Tomorrow’s Supreme Court hearings are about more than one athlete, one state, or one season. They … Read more
New Jersey’s demands for donor lists may have gone too far The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on December 2 in First Choice Women’s Resource Centers, Inc. v Platkin. The court’s forthcoming decision will have far-reaching impacts for pregnancy centers across the country that have experienced fierce attacks in pro-abortion blue states. At issue … Read more
This week, on the Elsa Kurt Show, we dig into whether unsealing the Epstein files can restore trust without real accountability and why the release may disappoint. We debate Supreme Court ethics, the NDAA’s priorities, and the risks of releasing sensitive drone footage in the AI era, then pivot to campus speech, Texas politics, media … Read more
Fifth Circuit Ruling Stands – Government cannot censor speech, but it has no First Amendment obligation to provide it. The US Supreme and Circuit Courts have already answered a question that, by extension, applies to many First Amendment challenges. Mostly progressive plaintiffs continue to argue that defunding NPR or rejecting some titles that are then … Read more
The US Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in a case challenging a Colorado law prohibiting conversion therapy, which involves counseling gay or transgender counselees who question their gender identity or sexual orientation. The law prohibits therapists from discussing gender dysphoria and sexual orientation with minors unless they are “affirming” transgender identities or gay behaviors. … Read more
Free Speech and Religious Rights Case Appears Poised to Do Just That! With apologies to those who couldn’t care less what happens in the nation’s Highest Court, as well as to those who rightly ask why any of it matters. It is, after all, merely a temporary adjustment until some other be-robed hoodlums flip a … Read more
New Hampshire ruling kicks the issue back to the Supremes Frustration over activist judges issuing sweeping national injunctions to block the president’s initiatives culminated in the US Supreme Court decision of Trump v CASA, Inc. The nation’s highest court ruled that US district courts lack the constitutional authority to veto executive orders with broad, nationwide injunctions. … Read more
In yet another bombshell decision for its 2025 term, the US Supreme Court ruled on June 27 that Maryland unconstitutionally burdened the religious exercise of parents by using schoolbooks in the classroom about gay relationships and trans identities that threatened to undermine family religious beliefs while denying them an opportunity to opt out. The ruling … Read more
The directionless, leaderless Democrat Party has had only one weapon against Donald Trump, which is to tie up every effort to fulfill his promises to America in court. The Democrats do not have the numbers in the House or Senate to legislate, even if they had the desire to do so. Therefore, they have taken … Read more
The Democrats are doing what they do best. Projecting while yesterday’s last-day drop of US Supreme Court decisions had most right-of-center court watchers relieved. Amy Comey Barrett upped her street cred by dissing dopey Judicial “peer’ Ketanji Brown Jackson, and the day couldn’t get much better after that. Schools can’t force kids to participate in … Read more
The US Supreme Court has ruled that nationwide injunctions by district court judges infringe on Executive Authority. Thanks to Megan Kelly for the heads up. This puts an end, at least on paper, to judge shopping to freeze executive branch orders, though it will be interesting to see how that plays out. This, for example, … Read more
How to wreck nationwide injunctions for everyone else Following on the heels of my Substack post on the most excellent ruling by Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil (District court judges are not the elected Chief Executive), we get this. The nation’s high court did not explain the decision, but it said the stay of the lower … Read more
When Democrats declare themselves the party of something, you must immediately assume they are its nemesis. Perhaps not today, but eventually. The Cultural Marxists undermining every institution are many things, but they are also patient. The walk through the institutions, for example. The multi-decadal capture of nearly every foundation of Western Civilization. Law, Journalism, higher … Read more
The Nation’s highest court has ruled today that the 14th Amendment does not prohibit states from banning transgender transition treatments on minors. The 6-3 ruling does not prevent states from advocating for them or protecting them, it simply states that it is not discrimination to deny a child access to transgender “health care.” “The Equal … Read more
A Maine family’s then-five-year-old son was vaccinated in November 2021 with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a public school without his parents’ consent. After the family filed suit, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled that their state claims for damages were pre-empted by the federal Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act, holding that their … Read more
It might appear at first blush that the Supreme Court’s June 2 rejection of a Petition for Writ of Certiorari challenging Maryland’s 2013 ban of so-called “assault rifles” means blue-state restrictions on these and other controversial weapons are constitutionally secure. However, the Court has not decided any such thing; it has only deferred when that … Read more
Members of a majority group have the same Civil Rights Act protections as everyone else. That’s the ruling passed down by the US Supreme Court in a 9-0 unanimous decision delivered by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Being discriminated against in the workplace because you are heterosexual is illegal. Happy Pride Month. “The Sixth Circuit has … Read more
The Supreme Court of the United States exists as the last refuge, the last court of review, the last place where the Constitution of the United States, and only the Constitution of the United States, should determine how a brief is resolved. One would hope that the Justices could put aside their personal biases and … Read more
The US Supreme Court just laid out an 8-0 decision (Justice Neil Gorsuch recused himself) that to me looks devastating for the environmental psychopaths in the climate cult. And while I may be reading too much into it, this was a unanimous outcome. Even the liberal justices agreed. To what? The court ruled that the … Read more
…To Sidestep Scrutiny for Misconduct Leading to Use of Deadly Force In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a legal doctrine that helped shield police from accountability for recklessly escalating confrontations and then using deadly force. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Barnes v. Felix makes clear that when determining whether an officer’s use of deadly force … Read more