Laurel Duggan The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, a case that could potentially overturn the Roe v. Wade precedent which enshrines elective abortions throughout the first six months of pregnancy nationwide. Overturning Roe would not outlaw abortion in the U.S., but would instead allow individual states to restrict…
This is part two of a two-part series serving as a post-mortem on the presidency of Donald Trump. Thank you for coming back for more punishment. Last week’s piece is here. This is divided into three sections: the good, the bad, and the ugly. Last week, we talked about the good of the Trump presidency…
On January 6, 2021, the electoral college elected Joe Biden the 46th President of the United States. The Republic still stands, although worse for wear due to the siege of the Capitol and the fact that one-third of citizens lack trust in the election results. Polarization will intensify dramatically due to “Big Tech’s” purge of…
Chuck Ross on October 10, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said Friday that voters do not deserve to hear his position on expanding the Supreme Court before the head to the polls next month. “No, they don’t,” Biden responded to a reporter when asked if voters have a right to learn his position on…
Mary Margaret Olohan on September 22, 2020 Former vice president Joe Biden said Monday that he has not released his list of Supreme Court Justices yet because potential nominees would be “subject to intense criticism for a long time.” The 2020 presidential candidate discussed President Donald Trump’s pending announcement of his Supreme Court justice nominee…
It has been over 150 years since the last of the wars between the U.S and Native American tribes. The history of settling the western lands is littered with many well-known brutal conflicts such as Custer’s Last Stand and the Trail of Tears. These conflicts ended when the U.S. granted large tracts of territory to…
New York is one of the most highly restrictive states in the union when it comes to gun rights, and their excessive regulations elicit retaliation from policy groups such as The New York State Rifle & Pistol Association. That institution was capable of appealing a court case regarding the legality of particular regulations within the…
Libertarians and other political third-parties will soon find out if fairness in federal courts extends to political third-parties, or is fairness confined to major party candidates. The answer will establish the degree of loyalty each branch of government has to political parties over the Constitution. On the week of February 10, 2020 the U.S. Court…
Kevin Daley – A coalition of 207 lawmakers from both houses of Congress filed a legal brief pressing the Supreme Court to reconsider Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision creating abortion rights. – The brief argues abortion case law is “radically unsettled” and should be fundamentally reconsidered. – The filing was submitted in a…
Kevin Daley An Illinois woman will soon ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear her challenge to a state law barring the non-consensual dissemination of private sexual images, colloquially known as “revenge porn.” Though the Supreme Court’s First Amendment precedents are generally protective of explicit or obscene images, the justices may consider the constitutionality of…