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Justice Roberts Needs To Get His Own Branch In Order Before Going After Trump

People should pay attention when the heads of two of the three branches of our national government get into a verbal contretemps. When President Donald Trump complained about an injunction issued by a...

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Memo to Mitch McConnell: Come January, Confirm ALL the Judges

I don’t know Mitch McConnell, but my guess is that he enjoys being the Senate majority leader. I would also guess that if he had his druthers, he would rather see the Republican Party survive as a...

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Leftist Judges Rule with a New Constitution – And It’s Less Than 20 Words!

Did you know that federal judges have given us a new U.S. Constitution? It’s true. We’ve had the old one for years, but its lengthy, over 4,000 words. More recently federal judges have discovered a new...

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Liberal 9th Circuit Being Remade with Trump Nominations Rolling In

President Donald Trump is moving to make over the liberal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which has delivered some of the most stinging judicial setbacks to his agenda. Trump announced three nominations...

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Former State Supreme Court Justice Sentenced to 2 Years in Prison

Allen Loughry, a former justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, was sentenced to a two-year prison term Wednesday, following his conviction for fraud and lying to federal investigators....

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Confidence in Judges Is in the Gutter and We Need Term Limits To Fix It

Lifetime appointments are a bad idea. A little more than three years ago, Gallup released the results of an important poll which went largely under-reported and unnoticed. It indicated that Americans’...

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WH Senior Adviser Blasts Leftists over Death of 7-Year-Old, Details Exactly...

The liberal media turned their outrage dial back up to 11 this past week following reports of a 7-year-old Guatemalan girl who died from severe dehydration hours after being taken into custody by U.S....

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Trump Is in the Process of Dismantling One of the Left’s Strongholds: The 9th...

CORRECTION, April 5, 2019: As originally published, this article claimed that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had recently overseen a rules change that makes it easier to replace judges on the...

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Obama-Appointed Judge Again Blocks Trump Admin’s New Rules for Asylum Seekers

Human traffickers received a gift from an Obama-appointed federal judge, White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said Monday after the Trump administration was handed a setback in its efforts to...

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With One Year To Spare, Trump Breaks Record for Judges Appointed in First Term

President Donald Trump has so remade the face of the judiciary that, with a year to spare, he’s already broken the record for judges appointed in his first term. Surprisingly, the president is taking a...

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SCOTUS Justices Thomas and Alito Urge the Court To Reconsider 2015 Gay...

The U.S. Supreme Court has officially decided that it will not hear the case of a former Kentucky county clerk who refused, on religious grounds, to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. As is...

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Just Days After Confirmation, ACB Faces Decision on Abortion Case

The Supreme Court may be faced with a major abortion case soon, making it one of the first cases Justice Amy Coney Barrett could decide on. The Supreme Court on Monday decided it would consider the...

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Lone Dissenter: Chief Justice Roberts Enraged Over 8-1 Win for First...

The Supreme Court ruled Monday, over a firm dissent from Chief Justice John Roberts, that a wronged alumnus had every right to seek damages from the Georgia college that violated his First Amendment...

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Biden Nominates Progressive Favorite for Key Judicial Position

President Joe Biden, who while campaigning for minority support before the election vowed to appoint a black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court, on Tuesday announced his nomination of a high-profile black...

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The Field: Biden Shows His Hand, Unveiling 11 Progressive Judicial Nominees

The White House rolled out its first wave of judicial nominees Tuesday, making early headway on President Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign promise of progressive appointments to rival the high court...

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All Hell Breaks Loose When Sen. Hirono Interrupts Cruz, Accuses Him of...

It’s a rare day when I feel sorry for Georgia Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff. Ossoff is the youngest member of the Senate and arguably its least accomplished. He comes to […] The post All Hell Breaks Loose...

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Activist Judge Steps In, Blocks Arkansas from Protecting Vulnerable Kids from...

U.S. District Judge James Moody temporarily put a stop to a new Arkansas law protecting children from sex-change surgeries and drugs. The Little Rock-based judge granted an injunction Wednesday that...

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Tyranny: Canadian Pastor Forced by Gov't to Repeat 'Medical Experts' from the...

Pastor Artur Pawlowski attracted international attention earlier this year when he was arrested for hosting an “illegal” church service in Calgary, Canada. Now, the government is forcing him to echo...

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Watch: Biden Judicial Nominee Can't Answer Simple Yes-or-No Question About...

How many ways can you avoid answering a yes-or-no question during a judicial hearing? At least eight, in the case of Anne Traum. Traum, a law professor at the University […] The post Watch: Biden...

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GOP Sen. Kennedy Savages Biden Judicial Nominees for Failure to Answer One...

It’s a fascinating study in evasiveness: Put one of President Joe Biden’s nominees for federal court positions up before the Senate Judiciary Committee and watch them try to answer a simple question....

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Republicans Accuse Biden White House of a 'Cover-Up' as New Details on SCOTUS...

Senate Republicans are claiming the Biden White House withheld information that bolsters the GOP position that Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is far too lenient in child pornography...

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If Complaint Is Successful, Judge Who Approved Warrant for FBI Trump Raid...

Tea Party Patriots Action, a nonprofit conservative group, filed a federal complaint seeking to remove the Florida judge who had approved the FBI warrant used to raid the private Florida residence of...

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Federal Judge Blasts Wokeness, Refuses to Hire Clerks from Yale Law and Urges...

U.S. Court of Appeals Judge James C. Ho took aim at Yale Law School during a keynote address at the Kentucky Chapters Conference of the Federalist Society titled “Agreeing to Disagree — Restoring...

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Ballot Integrity Breached: State Supreme Court Goes Woke, Strikes Down Vital...

The Supreme Court of North Carolina has eroded election integrity in the state by striking down a 2018 state constitutional amendment requiring voters to show a valid photo ID before being allowed to...

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SCOTUS Conservative Majority Could Be Taken Away, And It Wouldn't Even...

Left-wing activists masquerading as judicial reform advocates are trying to dilute the conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court by using the pretext of stricter “ethics codes” to force recusals....

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Guest Host Who Filled In for Dan Bongino Showered with Praise: 'Very...

Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich won high praise for her stellar performance guest-hosting “Unfiltered with Dan Bongino” this weekend. Pavlich filled in for Bongino on Saturday and delivered a...

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Russell Brand Rips Trump Indictment, Compares His Charges to Other Former...

British comedian and actor Russell Brand blasted the inexcusable weaponization of the judicial system to prosecute former President Donald Trump, saying the media hysteria is contrived, as are the...

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Trump Shares What Went Down Inside Manhattan Courthouse During Arrest:...

Former President Donald Trump said his arraignment last week at the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse in New York was bittersweet because while it was a “sad” moment in history, it was also a “beautiful”...

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Attorney General Calls for Trump's Trial to Be Moved to His State to Ensure...

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey called for a change of venue in the Department of Justice’s sham prosecution of former President Donald Trump, saying there’s no way he can get a fair...

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Fed-Up Trump Storms Out of Courtroom, Leaves Secret Service Agents Chasing...

Former President Donald Trump bolted out of a New York courtroom after the presiding judge, a Democrat, denied his request for a directed verdict despite the fact that the testimony […] The post Fed-Up...

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