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The Biden Administration’s SAVE student loan forgiveness program was struck with another massive legal blow on Friday when the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled to block its implementation. The three-Republican-appointee panel deemed the effort to allow borrowers enrolled in the Saving on a Valuable Education, or SAVE, program to restructure their loan payments as …
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) violated the First Amendment rights of animal rights activists whose social media comments were deleted by the agency, a federal appeals court ruled last week. The agency had been deleting all comments on its Facebook and Instagram pages that contained certain keywords related to criticism of the agency’s use of animal …
FIRE secures yet another First Amendment legal victory, this time for the Young Americans for Freedom chapter at Clovis Community College when the school’s administration removed their anti-communist flyers and rejected their request to post pro-life flyers, claiming both were “inappropriate or offensive.” h/t Greg Lukianoff
🚨 #BREAKING: The Supreme Court has DENIED President Trump’s request to delay his September sentencing in the New York “hush money” case pending his appeals And now they’re going to try to jail Trump during the final stretch of the campaign. LAWFARE! pic.twitter.com/Ia46QwGOCr — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 5, 2024 Washington — The Supreme Court on …
US Federal Judge Declares Google Search a Monopoly in Historic Court Ruling. Judge Amit Mehta says in his ruling that the company “is a monopolist” and has violated US antitrust law, specifically, Section 2 of the Sherman Act. A federal judge ruled on Monday that Google illegally maintained a monopoly in search, saying in the …
They are threatening a complete and total takeover of the government just like Mao’s China Revolution. This country will be unrecognizable in 10 years if they steal this next election. Schumer: I’ll DISMANTLE the Supreme Court if Democrats win big in November… https://t.co/pq1dODx1On — Steve Ferguson (@lsferguson) August 3, 2024 Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer …
Amazing response. I think the NY judges and the doj who have been committing egregious political acts against Trump need to watch out because our Supreme Court is on the side of law and order and basically said as much. — Monica (@monibucci) August 4, 2024 During the interview, Justice Neil Gorsuch also expresses concern …
X and SpaceX headquarters heading to Texas after “final straw” for Elon Musk. AG Rob Bonta told school districts to ignore “reasoning” of gender-identity injunction and “several” deputies told defendant not to apply it beyond plaintiff teachers, updated suit says. California Gov. Gavin Newsom and his Democrat-run Legislature just lost two major employers by enacting …
An Ontario court ruled in favor of Meththa Fernando, a woman who refused a COVID-19 nasal swab test upon returning to Canada in April 2022. She was initially convicted and fined $6,255 for failing to comply with the Quarantine Act. However, Ontario Court Justice Paul Monahan overturned her conviction, stating that the requirement for a nasal …
The Washington D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that the 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign and an affiliated super PAC violated federal election law in spending that totaled close to $6 million. The amount in question is more than 45 times the $130,000 a Manhattan court convicted former President Donald Trump of misreporting in business …
According to a recent ruling by the Dusseldorf Administrative Court, members of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party cannot legally possess firearms under Germany’s weapons law. The AfD has been deemed a suspected extremist group, and as a result, a married couple who were party members must surrender all of their firearms. Germany’s domestic intelligence …
View post on imgur.com Mr.WeRP “If Trump wins, no one here at DU is safe Trump has threatened his own supporters in campaign emails with punishment if they don’t donate enough or fail to vote for him, saying these records are public. While your specific vote may not be, your campaign donations are and election …
The Supreme Court has become consumed by a corruption crisis beyond its control. Today’s ruling represents an assault on American democracy. It is up to Congress to defend our nation from this authoritarian capture. I intend on filing articles of impeachment upon our return. — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) July 1, 2024 AOC to IMPEACH all …
The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that a local ordinance to bar anyone without a permanent residency from sleeping outside does not amount to “cruel and unusual” punishment under the Eighth Amendment. The 6-3 opinion authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch reversed an appeals court ruling that found an outdoor camping ban in Grants Pass, Oregon …
Steve Bannon, a former White House chief strategist, lost an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Chief Justice John Roberts rejected his motion to stay his prison sentence. As a result, Bannon is required to report to a federal prison in Connecticut by July 1st. This development follows his conviction for defrauding donors in …
The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that state and local officials may accept gifts and payments for past favors without violating federal anti-corruption laws. In a 6-3 decision, the justices overturned the conviction of a former Indiana mayor who received a $13,000 payment from a local truck dealership after helping them secure city contracts. The …
Israel’s Supreme Court recently made a unanimous ruling that ultra-Orthodox Jewish men must be drafted into the military. This decision ends a decades-old system that previously granted exemptions to ultra-Orthodox men from military service. The court emphasized that there was no legal basis for differentiating between yeshiva students and other eligible Israelis for conscription, effectively removing …
BREAKING Mike Johnson just announced that he has authorized the House to submit a congressional Amicus Brief on behalf of Steve Bannon to the Supreme Court and Justice Roberts. Finally some positive momentum for Bannon.https://t.co/gH9mR2XI8Y — Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) June 26, 2024
Spain’s Supreme Court recently ruled that a kiss without “tacit consent” can be considered sexual assault. This decision came just months before former football federation chief Luis Rubiales will stand trial over an unsolicited kiss at the Women’s World Cup. The court upheld a lower court ruling from the southern region of Andalusia, which convicted a police officer of sexual assault. The …
https://twitter.com/AGAndrewBailey/status/1805357030888423743 Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced that the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri granted his motion to block what he called President Biden’s latest illegal student loan handout scheme. Bailey said that Congress never gave Biden the authority to saddle working Americans with half-a-trillion dollars in other people’s debt and …
(Bloomberg) — The US Supreme Court signaled it will take the unusual step of extending its term into July as it finishes work on about a dozen cases, including Donald Trump’s bid for immunity from prosecution for attempting to overturn his 2020 election loss. The court, which had already scheduled Wednesday as an opinion day …
A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ‘Experts Group’ that included deep state ‘laptop letter’ partisans James Clapper and John Brennan, advocated using Jan. 6 and the Mar-a-Lago raid to justify expanding surveillance of political dissent. Illustration via aflegal.org This latest bombshell comes from America First Legal, which is suing the Biden DHS along with former …
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider Tennessee’s ban on child sex change procedures. The case, United States v. Skrmetti, considers whether a Tennessee law that bans medical procedures intended to enable “minor[s] to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex ” — such as cross-sex hormones, puberty blockers …
WASHINGTON — An appeals court denied former Trump adviser Steve Bannon’s request to remain out of prison Thursday while he appeals his conviction on contempt of Congress charges. The three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia denied Bannon’s request in a 2-1 ruling, with two judges deciding that …
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) called for legislation to outlaw bump stocks after the Supreme Court struck down a President Donald Trump-era ban on the gun accessory. A 6–3 opinion by the high court found that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) exceeded its authority when it interpreted a federal firearms …
BREAKING – US court allows liquidation of AJ’s assets BREAKING – US court allows liquidation of Alex Jones' assets: media — Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) June 14, 2024 HOUSTON (AP) – A federal judge on Friday ordered the liquidation of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ′ personal assets and was still deciding on his company's separate bankruptcy case. …
In a landmark decision, the 5th Circuit Court has delivered a damning verdict: the Biden administration, the FBI, and the CDC have all flagrantly violated the First Amendment by colluding with Big Tech to censor Americans. This unprecedented ruling unveils a dark chapter of governmental overreach and the erosion of free speech rights. Where are …
In a significant victory for Second Amendment enthusiasts and firearm owners across the nation, a federal court has dealt a blow to Joe Biden’s attempts to regulate and tax AR-15 style “pistols.” The ruling, delivered by the Texas-based U.S. District Court, deemed the administration’s effort to be “unlawful” and “illegitimate.” The 12-page decision invalidated a …
Some Supreme Court justices have “used a loophole” to avoid financial disclosures “that could be important to litigants trying to assess whether a justice has a conflict of interest,” according to Joyce Vance, the former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama. Vance made the claim on her Substack blog, in which she questioned …
