The Supreme Court heard arguments Friday morning on whether to allow two separate Biden administration COVID vaccine mandates to take effect. Those mandates include a vaccine-or-testing requirement that applies to large employers and a separate mandate for most health care workers. Together, these mandates affect about 84 million people. Specifically, justices are tasked with deciding…

The House committee investigating January’s Capitol riot will defer its request for some of the Trump administration documents the committee had previously requested. The decision was not publicly announced, but can be found in a Dec. 16 letter from the White House counsel’s office. The Associated Press obtained the letter Tuesday. The deferral is in…

The House of Representatives voted 222-208 to hold former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress. Meadows joined former White House advisor Steve Bannon, whom the House also found to be in contempt of Congress. Tonight, the House voted on a bipartisan basis to hold Mark Meadows, who has key information…

If abortion rights activists pin their case on bodily autonomy, does the same hold true for anti-vaxxers? While both sides shout “My body, my choice!”, those against vaccines mandates are ignoring an extremely important issue in this battle. If you don’t take advantage of access to a safe, readily available vaccine, you contribute to the…

A growing number of Americans are in favor of a national divorce. According to a Bright Line/YouGov poll, 37% of respondents expressed a willingness for their state to secede. Some Texans have been threatening secession for years, but states like California and New Hampshire also have growing secessionist groups. But could a state actually legally…

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Thursday American women are no longer required to pick up abortion pills. Under the change, women will be able to get a prescription via an online consultation and receive the pills through the mail. The FDA stopped enforcing the in-person requirement earlier due to the pandemic. Thursday’s decision…

The Supreme Court has turned to its ‘shadow docket’ more frequently and for bigger decisions. Between November 2020 and  September 2021, the Supreme Court used its shadow docket for emergency injunctions seven times. Steve Vladeck, the Charles Alan Wright Chair In Federal Courts at the University of Texas Law School testified as much to a…

The Supreme Court granted wins to both sides of the legal battle over the Texas abortion law Friday, allowing a lawsuit against the law to proceed while leaving the law in effect. The court heard arguments on whether abortion providers could sue over the law last month. The vote was 8-1 to allow the lawsuit…

A day after former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett was convicted on five of six counts of disorderly conduct for lying to police about being the victim of a racist, homophobic attack, a British appeals court overturned a lower court ruling Friday that could lead to WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange being extradited to the United States.…

Did you see the scene outside the Supreme Court as justices heard arguments about abortion in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization? Our nation is clearly deeply divided on this issue. Polling demonstrates it as well. For those who say abortion is morally acceptable, there are an equal number who say it’s…