Two major Second Amendment groups called on the Supreme Court to hear a case challenging Maryland’s stringent “Assault Weapons Ban of 2013,” after a lower court ruled the ban constitutional. The Firearms Policy Coalition filed a petition to the high bench asking them to hear Snope v. Brown – alternatively Bianchi v. Frosh – which...
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Most Americans reject push by Biden, Dems to change Supreme Court: poll
A new nationwide survey highlighted in a Wall Street Journal opinion editorial found that most Americans don’t support sweeping changes to the Supreme Court, despite President Biden’s last-minute push for such a measure. The WSJ cited a Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy survey that found “support for the separation of powers just as many of the...
Federal judge rules transgender student can play on girl's tennis team in Virginia
The Hanover County School Board in Virginia can’t block an 11-year-old transgender student from playing on a girls’ middle school tennis team, U.S. District Court Judge M. Hannah Lauck ruled last week. The student is currently engaged in a lawsuit against the school board for discrimination. Lauck issued a preliminary injunction on the matter Friday,...
Marilyn Mosby asks federal appeals court to toss perjury, mortgage fraud convictions
Former Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby is continuing her fight to have her name cleared and is now pleading with a federal appeals court to find flaws in the two trials where she was convicted of mortgage fraud and perjury. In a new court filing first reported on by the Baltimore Sun and obtained...
Tester, Sheehy weigh in after parental consent abortion law struck down by Montana Supreme Court
The abortion issue has taken center stage this week in Montana in the midst of a closely watched U.S. Senate race. On Wednesday, the state’s supreme court invalidated as unconstitutional a law restricting abortion access for minors to those who obtained parental consent. “No politician should be in the business of making health care decisions...
DOJ suddenly located Biden biographer transcripts created by Robert Hur: watchdog
During an ongoing lawsuit aimed at forcing the Justice Department (DOJ) to produce records from Special Counsel Robert Hur’s probe into Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents before being elected president, the DOJ revealed the discovery of 117 pages of transcribed discussions between the president and his ghostwriter. The find was highlighted Wednesday by the...
'Corruptly influencing the courts': Climate justice group that trains federal judges under scrutiny
FIRST ON FOX: A new report by an American energy advocacy group is sounding the alarm on a legal training program that it says is “corruptly influencing the courts and destroying the rule of law to promote climate cult alarmism.” The new report released by the American Energy Institute (AEI) alleges that the Environmental Law...
Conservative watchdog notches win in court as CDC ordered to stop deleting emails
A conservative government watchdog group secured a legal victory against the Biden-Harris administration by compelling the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to stop deleting employee emails they say had been done in violation of the Federal Records Act. America First Legal, the right-leaning, Washington, D.C. based public interest organization founded by former Trump...
Illegal immigrants on voter rolls spurs watchdog group to sue Maricopa County
Conservative watchdog group America First Legal is suing an Arizona county for allegedly refusing to remove thousands of illegal immigrants from its voter rolls. “America First Legal is leading the charge to keep illegal aliens from voting in 2024,” AFL president Stephen Miller said in a statement. “Maricopa County, in direct violation of state law,...
Trump Jan. 6 case: Judge sets date for conference to determine steps forward after SCOTUS ruling
The federal judge presiding over Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Jan. 6 case against former President Trump has ordered a conference on Aug. 16 to determine the next steps forward. Judge Tanya Chutkan wasted no time after she received the case back from the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled last month on the scope of Trump’s...









