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Clinton Judge Blocks Iowa Law Preventing Schools from Imposing Mask Mandates

(Headline USA) A federal judge on Monday ordered the state of Iowa to immediately halt enforcement of a law that prevents school boards from ordering masks to be worn. Judge Robert Pratt, a Bill Clinton appointee, claimed in an order signed Monday that the law passed in May substantially increases...

More than Half of States Vow to Fight Biden’s Vax Mandate

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Twenty-seven Republican governors or attorneys general have vowed to fight the latest executive order issued by President Joe Biden mandating that over 80 million private employees receive COVID vaccinations or undergo weekly testing, or their employer will be fined. The executive order directs the U.S. Department...

Legal Challenges Await Biden’s Vaccine Mandate

(The Center Square, Casey Harper) – President Joe Biden’s controversial vaccine mandate has sparked major pushback and talks of legal challenges, likely setting up a tense court battle that could go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Biden announced the new mandates in a speech Thursday, saying his...

Parents Sue Calif. Over School Curriculum that Includes Chants to Aztec Gods

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Three parents and the Californians for Equal Rights Foundation, (CFER), a civil rights group, have sued the state of California over a public school curriculum that includes teaching the state’s 1.7 million high school students how to pray and chant to Aztec gods. The Thomas More...

Justice Breyer on Democrat Court Packing: ‘What Goes Around Comes Around’

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer warned Democrats on Friday that packing the high court with partisan operatives could provoke a Republican response, saying that "what goes around comes around," according to The Hill. "And if the Democrats can do it, the Republicans can do it," Breyer told NPR in an...

Judge Forces Apple to Relax App Store Restrictions; Stops Short of Calling It a Monopoly

(Headline USA) A federal judge ordered Apple to dismantle a lucrative part of the competitive barricade guarding its closely run iPhone app store, but rejected allegations that the company has been running an illegal monopoly that stifles competition and innovation. The ruling issued Friday continues to chip away at the...

Biden to GOP Governors Threatening Legal Action: ‘Have At It’

President Joe Biden dismissed Republicans’ threats to take him to court over his sweeping employer vaccine mandate, saying they can “have at it.” The new rule, which requires employers with more than 100 employees to mandate vaccination or weekly testing, is legally dubious, according to several GOP governors who plan...

Democrat Atty. Gens.: SC Pro-Life Law Creates ‘Vast Abortion Deserts’

(Headline USA) Twenty Democrat attorneys general have voiced their support for a lawsuit challenging South Carolina's new abortion law, arguing that the restrictive measure could harm their states by taxing resources if women cross borders to seek care. “The effects of the law are not confined to limits on particular procedures...

Federal Judge Blocks Florida from Enforcing Anti-Riot Law

(John Haughey, The Center Square) Another controversial 2021 bill adopted by Florida lawmakers during one of their most ideologically-charged legislative sessions in decades has been set aside by a judge. U.S. District Judge Mark Walker Thursday released a 90-page ruling declaring ‘The Combating Public Disorder Act,’ the anti-riot bill adopted along...

Black Laborers Sue Farm Operation for Hiring Immigrants Instead of Them

(Headline USA) Six black farmworkers in Mississippi say in a new lawsuit that their former employer brought laborers from South Africa to do the same jobs they were doing, and that the farm has been violating federal law by paying the white immigrants more for the same type of work. Mississippi...

Federal Court Rules Against Catholic School That Fired Gay Teacher

(Associated Press) A gay substitute teacher was wrongfully fired by a Roman Catholic school in North Carolina after he announced in 2014 on social media that he was going to marry his longtime partner, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge Max Cogburn ruled Friday that Charlotte Catholic High...

ACLU & Democrat Counties Sue Texas Gov. Abbott for Election Integrity Bill

(Headline USA) Opponents of a Republican election integrity bill in Texas sued Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday, going to court even before he had signed into law changes to protect the state's vulnerable elections. Two lawsuits, filed in separate federal courts in Texas, are believed to be the first to...
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