Judge: $360K judgment stands against Kentucky clerk who denied same-sex marriage licenses A federal judge has refused to overturn judgments totaling $360,104 against a former Kentucky county official who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Attorneys for Kim Davis argued ... 04/24/2024 - 2:37 am | View Link
National News Dueling protests are taking shape outside the Supreme Court as the justices prepare to consider an abortion case. The case being heard Wednesday will determine when doctors can provide abortions ... 04/24/2024 - 2:04 am | View Link
A majority of Americans no longer trust the Supreme Court. Can it rebuild? In December 2021, the Supreme Court ruled that a Texas law effectively outlawing abortion could stay in effect, even though it conflicted with Roe, which was then still the law. The justices did not ... 04/23/2024 - 10:06 pm | View Link
Consult the faithful on ministerial covenants for Catholic school teachers When determining covenantal expectations for Catholic school educators — including what "conduct or lifestyles" should be grounds for termination — bishops should listen to the faithful. 04/23/2024 - 9:35 pm | View Link
Is the Supreme Court running the clock out on Trump’s immunity case? The Framers would laugh at Trump’s immunity claim. So why are the court’s constitutional originalists taking so long? 04/23/2024 - 6:17 am | View Link
“The United States last week secretly shipped a new long-range missile system to Ukraine, and Ukrainian forces immediately used the weapons to attack a Russian military airfield in Crimea last Wednesday and Russian troops in the country’s southeast overnight on Tuesday,” the New York Times reports.
Brian Beutler: “Ahead of Thursday’s Supreme Court argument over Donald Trump’s claim to immunity for everything he did while president, the New York Times published a stirring call for the Supreme Court to rule against Trump with haste and in no uncertain terms—so that Trump can’t tee up a new series of dilatory appeals, and the case can go to trial before the election…”
“The author was Liz Cheney.”
“I’m obviously glad Cheney’s out there making this case.
Theodore Schleifer reports Elon Musk “has made it known that he is considering either endorsing Trump after the summer — or at least making some kind of formal statement opposing Joe Biden — beyond his hourly diatribes on X.”
Lara Trump told Fox News that the RNC will have poll watchers who can actually touch ballots at polling places on election day.
Said Trump: “We now have the ability at the RNC not just to have poll watchers – people standing in polling locations – but people who can physically handle the ballots.”
She added: “So, there was a moratorium for about 40 years on the RNC actually training people to work in these polling locations and the tabulation centers where the mail-in ballots come in.
“For the third week in a row, lawmakers return to the Arizona Capitol on Wednesday with abortion dominating their agendas. Even when it’s not on the agenda,” the Arizona Republic reports.
“Democrats say they will try again to move for a repeal of the 1864 near-total abortion ban that was revived earlier this month by the state Supreme Court.”
New York Times: “The previous attempts to undo the Civil War-era ban ended in chaotic failure after Republican leaders beat back efforts by Democrats and a handful of members of their own party.”