Tag: Supreme Court

Beltway Confidential

Supreme Court has opportunity to protect religious foster agencies from anti-Christian assault

Nicole Russell · February 25, 2020 6:04 pm

The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court gather for a formal group portrait to include new Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, top row, far right, at the Supreme Court Building in D.C.

President demands that two liberal Supreme Court justices recuse themselves from ‘Trump related’ matters

Anthony Leonardi · February 25, 2020 12:43 pm

The entrance to the Georgetown Preparatory School Bethesda, Md., is shown, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018. Mark Judge spent decades mining his recollections and writing books and articles full of semi-confessional details about the suburban Maryland prep school he attended with future Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Now, though, Judgeâs memory has drawn a blank.

Beltway Confidential

Federal court strikes blow to atheist activists attacking religious monuments

Nicole Russell · February 24, 2020 7:50 pm

In an order Wednesday, the court stayed part of a district court decision "with respect to refugees covered by a formal assurance." (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

Supreme Court to decide if faith-based adoption agencies must serve gay couples

Nicholas Rowan · February 24, 2020 3:01 pm

Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor speaks at a civics event Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018, in Seattle. The Civic Learning Initiative Summit is part of a statewide effort for students to learn about and engage in government.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor: Supreme Court ‘putting a thumb on the scale’ for Trump

Mike Brest · February 22, 2020 9:35 pm

Supreme Court sets April 29 hearing for Obamacare birth control case

Kimberly Leonard · February 21, 2020 7:08 pm

Magazine - Features

The case for repealing FISA and reforming the FBI and CIA

Andrew C. McCarthy · February 21, 2020 4:00 am

John Lipscombe, a Travis County judge since 2011, was charged with driving while intoxicated after reportedly attempting to back his car into an already occupied parking spot at a hotel in North Austin on Saturday around 12:30 a.m.

Beltway Confidential

Supreme Court can protect religious schools from liberal legal onslaught

Nicole Russell · February 13, 2020 11:04 pm

Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks at the Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2019.

‘I’d like it to start over’: Ginsburg challenges Equal Rights Amendment

Spencer Neale · February 11, 2020 8:42 pm

Pro-life activists converge in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, Friday, Jan. 27, 2017, during the annual March for Life. Thousands of anti-abortion demonstrators gathered in Washington for an annual march to protest the Supreme Court's landmark 1973 decision that declared a constitutional right to abortion.

Democrats adopt a radical litmus test on abortion

Margot Cleveland · February 11, 2020 3:54 pm

Beltway Confidential

Florida might soon execute an innocent man, reminding us why conservatives should oppose the death penalty

Hannah Cox · February 11, 2020 11:00 am

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden, left, speaks as Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., looks on during a Democratic presidential primary debate, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019, in Atlanta.

Beltway Confidential

2020 Democrats and state-level shifts prove party’s pro-abortion transformation is complete

Margot Cleveland · February 10, 2020 4:34 pm