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Fed. Court Upholds NSA’s ‘State Secrets’ Claim in Domestic Spying Case

(Headline USA) A divided federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of an ACLU lawsuit challenging a portion of the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance of Americans' international email and phone communications. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that the lawsuit must be dismissed after the government...

LAWSUIT: You Can’t Force Vax on Americans If You Don’t Force It on Illegals

(Cole Lauterbach, The Center Square) Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich has fired the opening salvo in the anticipated legal fight over President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate. Brnovich filed the lawsuit Tuesday in the U.S. District Court of Arizona, claiming Biden’s mandate violates the Equal Protection Clause by favoring migrants who...

Justice Department Seeks Order Against Texas Abortion Law

(Associated Press) The Justice Department has asked a federal court in Texas to stop the enforcement of a new state law that bans most abortions in the state while it decides the case. The Texas law, known as SB8, prohibits abortions once medical professionals can detect cardiac activity — usually around six...

Texas Atty. Gen. Sues Schools Who Defy Gov.’s Ban on Mask Mandates

(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed lawsuits against school districts that have defied Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order prohibiting government entities, including public schools, from requiring indoor mask wearing. Abbott on July 29, 2021, amended the first executive order he issued March 13, 2020, related...

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...
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