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The Arkansas legislature is making an improvement to the state constitution’s right to keep and bear arms language to the ballot for the next election. Here is the current Arkansas Constitution Article 2, § 5: Right to Bear ArmsThe citizens of this State shall have the right to keep and bear arms, for their common defense.The current language is problematic because it only mentions “common defense” and does not specifically mention individual rights, although individual rights are implied. Arkansas became a Constitutional Carry state on April 4th, 2013. On April 12, 2023, Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee signed SB480 into law,...

This morning at 10:00, the Supreme Court will be releasing Opinions from cases from the October 2024 term.A list of those cases can be found here: October 2024 casesScotusblog will be live-blogging the opinion release and we will be following along.

The Supreme Court has agreed to examine the Trump administration’s challenge to judges issuing nationwide injunctions, setting a date for a case that could have a major impact on the president’s ability to carry out his agenda as well as on the entire country. This comes after three federal judges issued separate nationwide injunctions blocking an executive order by President Donald Trump ending birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants. On Thursday, the court consolidated the three cases into one and set oral arguments to examine the fundamental question of whether district judges can issue rulings that affect the...

This morning at 10:00, the Supreme Court will be releasing Opinions on cases from the October 2024 term. A list of those cases can be found here:October 2024 termOpinions for all cases from the October sitting have been issued and there are only a couple remaining from the November sitting. Of interest from the December sitting is: U.S. v. Skrmetti, No. 23-477 [Arg: 12.4.2024] Issue(s): Whether Tennessee Senate Bill 1, which prohibits all medical treatments intended to allow “a minor to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor’s sex” or to treat “purported discomfort or...

The Supreme Court vacated Jeb Boasberg's orders banning the deportation of illegals covered by the Alien Enemies Act. But that's not the end of Boasberg's crusade to prove the Trump adm wrong. Citing the wrong jurisdiction and the wrong measure of relief, the Supreme Court on Monday night vacated D.C. District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg’s two temporary restraining orders prohibiting the immediate deportation of illegal Venezuelans tied to Tren de Aragua, a foreign terrorist organization according to the Trump administration. In a 5-4 decision, the Court—with Amy Coney Barrett again siding with the three liberal harpies—determined it had limited...

The Supreme Court will be issuing Opinions today beginning at 10:00 a.m.Scotusblog will be live blogging the opinions Here and we will be following along.Here is a list of the cases for the October 2024 term.

Six questions for Congress about their duties related to the federal judiciary. 1. What is Congress doing to ensure that proper standards for good behavior are being enforced for Judges on both of the supreme and inferior Courts of the United States of America? 2. What Regulations shall Congress make to ensure that Cases brought before inferior federal courts so that proper appellate jurisdiction is exercised on these Cases as to Law and Fact? 3. What laws shall Congress make to direct the Places that Trials take place for Crimes not committed within any State? 4. What is Congress doing...

The states pushing legislation to display the Ten Commandments in public schools are all but guaranteed to end up at the Supreme Court.Lawmakers across the country are following Louisiana’s lead with legislation calling for the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools. Elected officials from Texas to Pennsylvania seem undeterred by the fact that Louisiana’s law, passed last year, never went into effect. I’m guessing they know it is only a matter of time before Louisiana is victorious in defense of the law’s constitutionality in court. In my work with legal historian Professor Mark David Hall, we’ve shown that...

The Trump administration came to the Supreme Court on Friday morning, asking the justices to allow it to enforce an executive order that directs government officials to quickly remove, without a hearing, noncitizens who are designated as members of a Venezuelan gang. The order relies on a 1798 law that until now has only been invoked during wartime. Earlier this month, Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg barred the federal government from removing any of the alleged members of the gang, or anyone else, under the Alien Enemies Act. In 40-page filing, Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris told the justices...

When I hear Democrats whine about a duly elected president being a “threat to democracy,” I can’t help but think about a line from “Fight for Your Right” by the Beastie Boys: “Your pops caught you smoking, and he says, ‘No way!’ That hypocrite smokes two packs a day!” In other words, it’s a bit ridiculous for someone with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth to demand that you refrain from doing the same thing. And this is about as hypocritical as what Democrats are doing when they decry threats to democracy. When Democrats said democracy would be in...

The United States District Court for the District of Columbia, the source of many of the cases interfering with President Donald Trump’s authority, has 15 judges, (Counting Chief Judge James Boasberg) and five of them were born outside the United States. While country of origin doesn’t come up in most jobs, it is worth asking if judges with ties to foreign nations and cultures are the right ones to make decisions affecting the U.S. military or immigration. The concept of foreign-born judges is a newer phenomenon in this district. In addition to the 15 main judges, the D.C. District has...

The Supreme Court will be issuing Opinions from the October 2024 term this morning at 10:00.Scotusblog will be live-blogging the opinions here:Live blog March 26A list of the cases pending for this term are located here:October 2024 term

Article II, Section 2, Clause 1: The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.

The Supreme Court will release Opinions from the October 2024 at 10:00 a.m. this morning.Scotusblog will be live-blogging the opinions as they are released. You can follow that blog here.The cases for the October 2024 are listed at the link below: October 2024 termThere are two cases that remain undecided from the October sitting. Those are:Garland v. VanDerStok, No. 23-852 [Arg: 10.8.2024] Issue(s): (1) Whether “a weapon parts kit that is designed to or may readily be completed, assembled, restored, or otherwise converted to expel a projectile by the action of an explosive” under 27 C.F.R. § 478.11 is a...

President Donald Trump angered much of America’s education establishment Thursday when he signed an executive order to begin the dismantling of the Department of Education “as quickly as possible.” Predictably, ahead of the signing, teachers unions issued dire warnings about how this would imperil students. Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, arguably the nation’s most influential teachers’ union, called Trump’s anticipated plans an “attack” on education that would cause “chaos.” In fact, if the department were to vanish, American parents would be surprised at how little things would change. It would merely return power closer to the...

The far-left judicial insurrectionists and institutions have already filed 129 legal challenges against President Trump less than two months into his second term. This is more than twice as many legal challenges that he went through during his first full term. It is obvious that this is a coordinated attack by the far-left to destroy Trump’s all-star administration and the nation. And, Chief Justice Roberts is lecturing President Trump?

Congress can eliminate the far left D.C. Circuit Judges with a majority passing Act. Some experts here can chime in but here's the legal background per Wiki: The Judiciary Act of 1789 (ch. 20, 1 Stat. 73) was a United States federal statute enacted on September 24, 1789, during the first session of the First United States Congress. It established the federal judiciary of the United States.[2][3][4][5][6] Article III, Section 1 of the Constitution prescribed that the "judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and such inferior Courts" as Congress saw fit to establish....

The state of Washington filed a lawsuit against the Adams County Sheriff’s Office and Adams County on Monday for violating the Keep Washington Working Act, which established the state as a sanctuary for undocumented immigrants. Attorney General Nick Brown argues in the complaint that the Adams County Sheriff’s Office, since at least 2022, has been “consistently engaged in several practices that violate state law.” The lawsuit alleges that deputies have “unlawfully held people in custody based solely on their immigration status” and “have gone out of their way to enable federal immigration agents to interview or question people in custody,...

I heard this yesterday on the radio. I thought it an exception show by Levin. I have heard his shows before but this one I thought well written. Hoping ones will listen to the broadcast, it is only online for 14 days I believe. I wish I could find a transcript to print but I could not.

Opponents of President Donald Trump’s USAID spending freeze will take cheer from the Supreme Court’s refusal to intervene this week. But there is less cause for celebration than they claim. The Justices’ decision to allow a trial judge’s order resuming spending to proceed is merely the first procedural skirmish in a larger constitutional battle that will return to the Court. In the meantime, Trump’s campaign to restore executive energy will still play out with the home field advantage created by the Constitution itself.