LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kevin Daley Chief Justice John Roberts, who just two years ago blasted the Supreme Court’s decision to legalize same-sex marriage as a usurpation of democratic governance, seems to have embraced the Court’s marriage equality holding in significant part. The dissenters in contentious 5-4 decisions often try to keep such…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kevin Daley The U.S. government will restore the Washington Redskins’ trademarks, after an appeals board rescinded the marks because they gave offense to American Indians. Politico’s Josh Gerstein first flagged a letter from the federal government to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, conceding that a recent Supreme…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kevin Daley The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will review lower court rulings blocking enforcement of President Donald Trump’s executive order on refugee and migrant entry, and stayed injunctions barring the order’s enforcement. The announcement is a major victory for the president, whose signature immigration policy has been…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kevin Daley The Supreme Court struck down a federal law banning the registration of disparaging trademarks Monday, finding the law violates the First Amendment’s free speech clause. The ruling, written by Justice Samuel Alito, says that trademarks are private, not government speech, and that the government may not curtail…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield Arkansas officials vowed to keep the state’s remaining five executions on track after Monday came and went without either of the state’s two scheduled executions taking place, reports the Washington Times (WT). “There are five scheduled executions remaining with nothing preventing them from occurring, but I will continue…