(Headline USA) Two and a half seconds before Kyle Rittenhouse began shooting in the streets of Kenosha, someone in the crowd fired a shot into the air, a detective testified at Rittenhouse's murder trial Thursday.
The defense has said that that shot made Rittenhouse think he was under attack.
Rittenhouse, 18,...
According to Amy Howe at SCOTUSblog, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh "openly worried" during oral arguments Monday that part of the recently passed Texas Heartbeat Act can "easily be replicated in other states ... to target gun rights, free speech rights or religious rights."
Some took it as an indication...
The Biden administration is once again trying to end former President Donald Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” immigration policy despite a court order requiring the government to reimplement it.
Administration officials asked the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week to vacate an August decision from a federal district court...
In a verdict that may lead to some semblance of sanity in the application of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a North Carolina jury has awarded $10 million to a health care executive allegedly fired to make room for "diversity and inclusion" hires.
NBC News reported that David Duvall...
(Headline USA) Students in Rhode Island are asking a federal appeals court to affirm that all public school students have a constitutional right to a civics education.
They say that they aren't taught how to meaningfully participate in a democratic and civil society and that the Jan. 6 uprising at...
More than 50 federal employees sued the Biden administration this week over its COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
The Federal Practice Group, which represents dozens of federal government workers, filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, alleging the mandates requiring all federal government employees to be...
(Elizabeth Troutman, The Center Square) Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich asked the U.S. District Court in Arizona for a temporary restraining order and nationwide preliminary injunction against the Biden Administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
“The COVID-19 vaccine mandate is one of the greatest infringements upon individual liberty, federalism, and the separation...
(Headline USA) Ohio’s top lawyer filed suit against the Biden administration on Monday seeking to restore a Trump-era ban on abortion referrals by family planning clinics that President Joe Biden reversed earlier this month.
The action filed by Ohio's Republican attorney general, Dave Yost, in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati...
(Headline USA) A federal judge's recent ruling to extend person-hood to animals may be another breakthrough for anti-abortion advocates who have asked the courts to confer the right to life on pre-natal infants.
The ruling comes as the US Supreme Court prepares to hear two pivotal abortion challenges from Texas...
A judge may decide at a hearing Monday whether use-of-force experts can testify at Kyle Rittenhouse's trial for shooting three people during a race riot in Kenosha, Wisconsin last year.
The hearing is likely the last before Rittenhouse goes on trial Nov. 1 for the shootings that came during chaotic...
Texas and Missouri sued the Biden administration this week in an effort to force President Joe Biden to restart construction of the southern border wall.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court, argues the Biden administration’s decision to suspend construction and not use all of the funds appropriated by Congress for...
(Headline USA) The Supreme Court is allowing the Texas law that bans most abortions to remain in place, but has agreed to hear arguments in the case in early November.
The justices said Friday they will decide whether the federal government has the right to sue over the law.
Answering that...