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Mob rule on college campuses has suffered a serious legal setback. The Jewish professor suing the California College of the Arts in San Francisco for threatening to fire her because she gently reproached pro-Hamas students won a significant legal battle earlier this month when a federal judge ruled that the case can proceed, rejecting a motion to dismiss from the College.Hopefully, the ruling is going to prove a cautionary note to college administrators who coddle pro-Hamas students and resort to railroading any professors who dare challenge them. United States District Court Judge Haywood Gilliam, Jr., ruled that the professor, Karen...

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday ruled that President Trump’s use of emergency powers to allocate millions of dollars in funding for the construction of a southern border wall was illegal, the latest blow to the Trump administration’s effort to limit immigration. In the 2-1 decision, the court upheld a December 2019 district court summary judgment in favor of a request from the advocacy groups the Sierra Club and the Southern Border Communities Coalition against Defense Secretary Mark Esper, acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf and “all persons acting under their direction ... from using military construction funds...

A San Francisco leftist who gave big bucks to Democrats endangers national security. An Obama judge in San Francisco issued a nonsensical, lawless order May 24 temporarily stopping President Trump from accessing reallocated military funding to pay for the construction of a desperately needed wall on the nation’s leaky southern border. The case will almost certainly end up before the Supreme Court in the future. U.S. District Judge Haywood S. Gilliam Jr., appointed by then-President Barack Hussein Obama in 2014, enjoined the Trump administration “from taking any action to construct a border barrier” with reassigned U.S. Department of Defense funds...