The nation’s highest court has weighed in on a case related to North Carolina’s voter ID law. The state’s requirement has faced challenges since 2018, but this SCOTUS case decides how those disputes will be heard. In the case of Berger v. North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, the nation’s highest court ruled 8-1…

The Texas Republican convention is talking about secession again. Specifically, it’s pushing a referendum for Texans to decide in 2023 if the state should become its own nation. Legal experts have asserted that the state could not legally secede from the union. After the South lost the Civil War and more than 600,000 Americans died,…

The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that states could not prohibit students from using state aid to attend private schools which include religious instruction. This ruling is the latest in a long line of decisions on whether government funds can be given directly or indirectly to organizations with ties to religious institutions. In the case of…

The January 6th Committee investigating attack on the Capitol held its third hearing Thursday, focused on former President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign to get former Vice President Mike Pence to reject the outcome of the election during the electoral certification. The hearing included testimony about attorney John Eastman’s plan to keep Donald Trump in office…

The House committee hearings into the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol have begun, and already there is debate on what impact they will have on former President Donald Trump. He fired off a 12-page response following the second hearing that saw several former aides testify that they told him his claims of election fraud were…

The House joined the Senate in a nearly unanimous vote to pass the “Supreme Court Police Parity Act of 2022”, a bill that expands police security to the families of justices and senior officers of the court. The Senate had passed the bill shortly after a leaked opinion indicated the court was set to overturn…

Colonel Gail Curley, the Supreme Court marshal, has begun investigating the leaked draft opinion regarding Dobbs v. Jackson. The final ruling in this case could overturn precedents that protect abortion rights, including Roe v. Wade. As part of that investigation, officials have required law clerks to provide their phone records, according to a CNN report.…

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas recently expressed alarm about the leaked draft opinion that would strike down Roe v. Wade. What has received little attention, in contrast, is the event where the 73-year-old Justice made his remarks. Straight Arrow News contributor Star Parker reminds us of the rich history of the Old Parkland Conference and its…

Police said a California man went to Maryland to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Now, there’s a renewed push to pass a law that would increase protections to keep Supreme Court justices safe. U.S. Marshalls arrested 26-year-old Nicholas John Roske on Wednesday. He’s charged with attempted murder of a Supreme Court justice. Authorities said…

Police arrested an armed California man near Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home in Maryland, according to the Washington Post. People close to the investigation told the paper that the man wanted to kill the conservative justice. Authorities took the man, who is in his mid-20s, into custody around 1:50 a.m. Wednesday in Chevy Chase…