— Coach Joseph Kennedy is a former U.S. Marine who coached football at Bremerton High School, in Bremerton, Washington, until 2015, when he was suspended from his job by the school district for defying an order to not public engage in a post-game prayer. Now, after a series of court setbacks, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to rule on whether Kennedy’s religious liberties were trampled when the district first forbid him from praying with his players, and then ordered him to pray in secret. At issue in this case is whether public employees can be legally prohibited from private and personal displays of religious faith on “Establishment Clause” grounds.
In the American constitutional order, Congress makes laws. The President and federal agencies are tasked with executing, enforcing and sometimes interpreting those laws, in cases where Congress used ambiguous language. But how much latitude and discretion does the executive branch have when it comes to the interpretative part of its mission, if the text of the law isn’t clear? On that question a lot depends, given the vast regulatory power the modern administrative state wields like a hammer.
Playing on popular misconceptions and fears, the State of Maryland bans what it deems “assault weapons”—a non-technical public relations term, used to demonize commonly owned and constitutionally protected firearms. A group of plaintiffs have sued Maryland’s attorney general, challenging this unconstitutional ban and seeking a full restoration of their natural right to self-defense—now they’re asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their case.
Former Colorado Corrections Sergeant Josh Young is suing the Centennial State over divisive and bigoted “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” training that created a hostile and discriminatory workplace, further ratcheted-up racial tensions in the prison, and recklessly undermined the morale, cohesiveness and safety of the facility’s guard force and inmate population.
Case Summary Firefighter unions in Austin, Texas, have negotiated terms in their labor contract that allow union representatives on the force to conduct private union business, including politicking and lobbying,…
This case raises the question of how property owners and businesses along the Missouri River should be compensated in response to government-caused flooding that destroyed crops, devalued their farmland and damaged their businesses. One Court already has ruled that they’re the victims of a government-caused taking. But Washington continues to resist paying the damaged parties just compensation for the harm that Washington did.
While it may seem obvious that scholastic achievements should be merit-based rather than race-based, that isn’t true at numerous American colleges and universities. Schools of higher education have for too long been permitted to legally discriminate against qualified student applicants in order to benefit less-qualified applicants of favored racial or ethnic groups.
Case Summary Americans have a natural, constitutionally protected right to choose the self-defense tools they deem necessary, whether that’s a firearm or some other form of weaponry. “Arms,” as in “to…
Case Summary Beachfront property along California’s gorgeous Pacific coast must be among the most coveted acreage in the world. But Hollywood stars, tech moguls, and golf course developers aren’t alone…
Those who wrote the law believed good intentions gave them a pass on thinking these matters through more carefully — a misjudgment that laid the predicate for the legal challenge we bring today.
The State of Colorado is trying to force a Christian web designer to create a website that celebrates same-sex marriage, even thought that message violates her religious convictions.
Denver educator Celeste Archer is a luminary in the Colorado education community. She is the Executive Director of the University of Colorado Denver’s National History Day in Colorado program. But in a Kafkaesque turn of events, school officials summarily barred Archer from campus based on an anonymous allegation that she had tested positive for COVID-19, had COVID-19 symptoms, or had been exposed to them. The exclusion order was issued without advance notice, without an investigation, without a hearing, and without Archer having an opportunity to rebut the claim.
hat contradicts the plain meaning of the law, as well as longstanding Federal standards, the Department of Justice (DOJ) seeks to redefine many pistols with stabilizing braces as “short-barreled rifles,” by a rule proposed for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) in June 2021. Owners of these newly redefined guns would be subject to an incredibly stringent set of registration requirements and taxes—as well federal felony convictions for any wrong step—under the National Firearms Act.
Can the Biden Administration be trusted to defend the signature achievement of the previous administration’s Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos? It doesn’t take a crystal ball to see that is doubtful.
For years, gun control activists tried to force the federal government to regulate all kinds of objects that do not meet the legal definition of a “firearm.” Now, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (“ATF”) are doing the work for them.
Our tolerance for differences, whether racial, ethnic, attitudinal, or religious, is what makes American society so unique. But now that tolerance is being undermined from above. President Biden and his shadowy administrative state are trying to forcefully impose their radical new definition of “sex discrimination” on unwilling housing providers, including religious colleges.
Case Summary Contrary to the natural rights of the People, as protected by the Second Amendment, ordinary citizens of New York are unable to carry firearms for self-defense outside the…
Case Summary As part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 signed by President Biden, Congress created a farm loan forgiveness program for non-white farmers. Under the program the…
White farmers and ranchers are excluded from the American Rescue Plan Act’s “socially disadvantaged” farmer and rancher debt relief program solely due to their race.
Since 2018, with limited exception, New Jersey has banned the possession of firearm magazines able to hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition. But these magazines are protected by the Second Amendment and are commonly owned, often as a standard part of guns kept by law-abiding Americans. New Jersey’s ban on these magazines violates the People’s natural right to keep and bear arms, as protected by the Second Amendment. Accordingly, the Center to Keep and Bear Arms filed an amicus curiae brief with the U.S. Supreme Court arguing against New Jersey’s unconstitutional ban.
In March 2021, the Biden administration signed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) COVID-19 stimulus plan, providing $4 billion to forgive loans for socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers. But white farmers and ranchers are excluded in violation of the Constitution’s guarantee of Equal Protection.
At stake in this case is the question of whether federal agencies should be allowed to create law, enforce law, and then avoid judicial review by relying on a dubious legal doctrine called “Chevron deference.”
Ken Flick’s decades-old conviction—for importing and selling counterfeit cassette tapes in 1987—should not result in a lifetime ban from gun ownership.