Pursuant To Court Order, Defense Department Will Allow Transgender Americans To Enlist
Transgender Americans will be able to enlist in the military beginning January 1st thanks to a ruling from a Federal District Court Judge.
Transgender Americans will be able to enlist in the military beginning January 1st thanks to a ruling from a Federal District Court Judge.
The longest-serving member of the House has retired amid allegations of sexual misconduct.
A Federal Judge in Washington, D.C. has blocked the Trump Administration from implementing its ban on transgender soldiers.
A legal setback for Ezekiel Elliott and the Dallas Cowboys.
The Trump Administration has been hit with two new lawsuits over the President’s decision to end the DACA program.
The University of California has joined the list of Plaintiffs suing the Trump Administration over its decision to end DACA.
As expected, a group of Democratic states is suing the Trump Administration over the decision to end the DACA program.
Several Democratic Attorneys General are threatening to sue the Trump Administration over the decision to end DACA, but their legal arguments appear to be especially weak.
The NFLPA alleges “egregious violations of legal due process” in the Ezekiel Elliot suspension.
President Trump’s effort to ban transgender Americans from serving in the military faces two new legal challenges.
The pardoning of Joe Arpaio was distasteful and an affront to the Rule of Law, but it was completely within the powers of the President and should not be a ground for impeachment.
Just about two weeks after being announced, the President’s proposed ban on military service by transgender troops is being challenged in Court.
The Supreme Court made it harder for states to keep fines and other payments in cases where defendants are exonerated.
Another judicial slap at the Trump Administration.
A potentially controversial commutation from President Obama today.
On the eve of the 115th Congress, House Republicans voted to gut a key office charged with investigating Congressional ethics.
Wherein a law professor makes the absurd argument that the Electoral College, which exists pursuant to the Constitution, is unconstitutional.
Donald Trump resurrects an old debate and desecrates the Constitution in the process.
Over the course of twenty-four hours, Donald Trump has had three separate positions on how he’d deal with illegal immigrants already in the country.
A report over the weekend raises questions about whether or not Donald Trump is changing positions on a central tenet of his campaign.
New England Patriots Quarterback Tom Brady has abandoned his option to appeal the ‘Deflategate’ ruling to the Supreme Court and will serve his four game suspension beginning in September.
In overturning former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell’s conviction, the Supreme Court has sent a powerful message to overly zealous prosecutors.
As expected, the Senate rejected four gun control measures introduced in the wake of the attack in Orlando.
Continuing a pattern that began six years ago, the Supreme Court has again declined to hear an appeal in a case involving a challenge to state gun control laws.
Donald Trump’s open contempt for the Rule of Law and Freedom of the Press should disqualify him from being considered an acceptable candidate for President.
The eighth Democratic debate raises the question of whether we really need this many debates.
At least one DHS official seems to be against the idea of using no-fly list to stop people from buying firearms.
The Governors of Connecticut and New York are joining President Obama and Hillary Clinton in favor of a really bad idea.
The Director of the F.B.i. told Congress today that the San Bernardino shooters were apparently radicalized much earlier than previously believed.
Donald Trump’s plan to bar all Muslim immigration to the United States is being widely condemned by his fellow Republicans and others, but the proposal probably won’t hurt him politically in a Republican Party that is deeply bigoted against Muslims in general.
The no-fly list is a flawed, arbitrary mess that has kept innocent people from flying for years. Using it to deny people rights recognized by the Constitution is, quite honestly, insane.
Remarks by a Democratic politician in Virginia regarding the Administration’s Syrian refugee program have brought up disturbing reminders of a shameful time in American history.
The Supreme Court is now considering a case that deals with the problem of overly broad civil asset forfeiture laws and a Defendant’s right to counsel under the Sixth Amendment.
The nurse who was detained by New Jersey officials in a quarantine despite not displaying any symptoms of Ebola is suing Chris Christie and others for civil liberties violations.
In the wake of yesterday’s shootings in Oregon, President Obama took the airwaves to offer the same empty rhetoric he has on this issue in the past, and to make the false claim that there are simple solutions to what is a very complex problem.
Even if Donald Trump isn’t the Republican nominee in 2016, he could still end up causing real harm to the party’s chances of winning the White House and holding on to the Senate.
Connecticut eliminated the death penalty several years ago, and now the state’s Supreme Court has ruled that the men remaining on death row cannot be executed.
The Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the way the death penalty is administered, dealing a serious blow to opponents of the death penalty.
Wherein I take the view that as our understanding of language changes, so too does our application of the Constiution.
I have been reading, mostly in passing, a number of pieces about an alleged new climate on college campuses in which students are raising significant complaints due to difficult or emotionally sensitive material. The latest example did not impress me.
A plan to distribute migrants from the conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa across the entire European Union seems destined to cause political conflict.
An attack on al Qaeda outposts in January resulted in the death of two hostages, but also resulted in the death of two high value al Qaeda targets.
Another commentary on the National Security Strategy, this one at The Hill.
Unlike Ray Rice, Adrian Peterson has lost his bid to have his suspension overturned.
Apparently, law schools are in the business of coddling their special snowflake children now.
Civil asset forfeiture gives “highway robbery” a whole new meaning.
An unsurprising ruling from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals that only seems to bring closer the day when same-sex marriage will be legal nationwide.