Documents reveal the University of Wisconsin may be illegally funding abortion training for medical students at abortion centers.
Section 20.9275 of the Wisconsin law prohibits state and local funding for pregnancy programs, projects or services that: provide abortion services; promote, encourage or counsel in favor of abortion services; or make abortion referrals when not directly and medically [...]
According to city of Gilbert, Ariz., officials, their zoning ordinance bans churches from meeting, holding Bible studies, or having any other activities in private homes, regardless of their size, nature.
In November 2009, city officials sent a cease-and-desist letter to a pastor and his wife of Oasis of Truth Church ordering them to terminate all religious meetings [...]
An 18-year-old lesbian in Mississippi has filed a lawsuit claiming her high school violated her free-speech rights by canceling the prom after she asked to take her girlfriend and to wear a tuxedo instead of a dress.
Constance McMillen, a senior at Itawamba Agricultural High School, was told by the school that she could not arrive at the prom with her [...]
A federal appeals court ruled Thursday on two separate cases that the phrase “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance and our national motto, “In God We Trust,” do not violate the Constitution’s separation of church and state.
“The Pledge is constitutional,” wrote Judge Carlos Bea for the majority in the 2-1 ruling by the 9th [...]
Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr. of U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana was impeached for allegedly taking money and gifts from attorneys before his court and for lying in a bankruptcy filing.
“Judge Porteous is one of a kind and it is time for him to receive his comeuppance,” said Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, [...]
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts visited the University of Alabama Law School on Tuesday in which he said the President’s rebuke during the State of the Union was “very troubling.”
Justice Roberts addressed students at the law school about the history of the nations highest court and then took time to answer questions from members [...]
A New York federal judge said Congress’ move to cut funding to the activist and controversial group ACORN, is unconstitutional.
In a written ruling Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Nina Gershon said ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) was punished by Congress without the enactment of administrative processes to decide if money had been handled [...]
An Amicus Brief was filed in the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday seeking the court to protect the privacy rights of individuals who want to repeal a law that gives all the privileges of marriage to same-sex partners in Washington State.
Liberty Counsel, a “nonprofit litigation, education and policy organization,” filed the brief seeking the court to [...]
Same-sex couples waited in line for hours Wednesday to apply for marriage licenses on the first day same-sex unions became legal in Washington D.C.
The nation’s capital is now the sixth place in the nation where gay marriages can legally take place. Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont also issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
Because [...]
Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund filed an appeal Wednesday regarding a court decision that restricts a North Carolina county from opening public meetings with prayers calling on the name of a deity.
In the case, Joyner v. Forsyth County, federal judge James A. Beaty ruled on January 28 that Forsyth County’s invocation policy is unconstitutional. [...]
