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Colorado’s Jack Phillips Under Legal Assault Again Over Refusal to Bake Trans Cake

Colorado baker Jack Phillips has to go to court once again after a judge sided with a transgender woman who sued him for refusing to make a cake celebrating a gender transition. Alliance Defending Freedom, the conservative legal group representing Phillips, vowed to appeal the judge’s decision, slamming it as...

Supreme Court Dismisses States’ Challenge to Obamacare Because They Lacked ‘Standing’

(Headline USA) The Supreme Court has dismissed a challenge to Obamacare. The justices, by a 7-2 vote, left the entire law intact Thursday in ruling that Texas, other Republican-led states and two individuals had no right to bring their lawsuit in federal court. The Biden administration claims 31 million people have...

SCOTUS Unanimously Sides w/ Catholic Foster Agency Over Same-Sex Couple Placements

(Associated Press) The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously sided with a Catholic foster care agency that says its religious views prevent it from working with same-sex couples as foster parents. The justices said the city of Philadelphia wrongly limited its relationship with the group as a result of the agency's policy. Philadelphia...

BLM, 11 Other Leftist Groups Call on Liberal SCOTUS Justice to Retire ASAP

Twelve left-wing groups, including Black Lives Matter, called on Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to "immediately announce his intent to retire" so that Democrats can confirm his successor while they still have the slimmest-possible Senate majority. The groups ran a full-page advertisement in Politico on Wednesday, the Huffington Post reported. "If...

Rancher Says Biden’s Anti-White Loan Program Designed to ‘Racially Humiliate’

A plaintiff in a federal lawsuit challenging racial minority provisions that exclude whites in the farm and ranch relief sections of the American Rescue Plan Act, laid out her case in a New York Post op-ed. Leisl Carpenter owns the Flying Heart Ranch in Wyoming’s West Laramie Valley that raises...

Judge Blocks Biden’s Suspension of New Oil and Gas Leases

The Biden administration’s suspension of new oil and gas leases on federal land and water was blocked Tuesday by a federal judge in Louisiana. U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty's ruling came in a lawsuit filed in March by Louisiana’s Republican attorney general, Jeff Landry and officials in 12 other states....

Senate Confirms Biden’s First Appeals Court Judge

(Headline USA) The Senate on Monday confirmed the first appellate court judge of President Joe Biden's tenure, elevating a judge with strong prospects of landing on the president's short list should a Supreme Court vacancy arise. Senators voted 53-44 to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson to serve on the Court of...

Southern Poverty Law Center Sues Florida for Election Reforms

(Headline USA) Two more groups sued Florida over its new election integrity laws Monday, adding to the far-left organizations who claim, without evidence, that the rules could keep eligible voters from casting ballots. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Tallahassee by the Fair Elections Center and the...

UPDATE: Supreme Court Defers Case on Harvard’s Discrimination Against Asian-Americans

UPDATE 11:00 AM 6/14/21 VIA AP: With abortion and guns already on the agenda, the conservative-dominated Supreme Court is considering adding a third blockbuster issue — whether to ban consideration of race in college admissions. The justices on Monday put off a decision about whether they will hear an appeal...

AOC: Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer Should Retire

Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY) said over the weekend that liberal keystone Justice Stephen Breyer should retire from the Supreme Court soon so that President Joe Biden can nominate his replacement. In the wake of last year’s fight over the replacement after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died while still serving...

Mich. Supreme Court: State MUST Certify Petition to Revoke Whitmer’s Emergency Powers

(Scott McClallen, The Center Square) The Michigan Supreme Court ruled Friday the Board of State Canvassers must certify the Unlock Michigan petition to remove Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s 1945 emergency powers. In April, the Board of State Canvassers deadlocked 2-2 three times on votes whether to certify or investigate further Unlock Michigan. “In the...

Federal Judge: Houston Hospital May Force Employees to Get COVID Shot

(Headline USA) A federal judge threw out a lawsuit filed by employees of a Houston hospital system over its requirement that all of its staff receive the experimental COVID-19 shot. The Houston Methodist Hospital system suspended 178 employees without pay last week over their refusal to get the shot. Of them,...
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