Another amicus brief was filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in a case that will consider the constitutionality of a Arizona school-choice tax credit program that provides students with scholarships to private schools. Liberty Counsel filed the brief in the case, Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn, in which the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last [...]
Elena Kagan won Senate confirmation Thursday becoming the 112th person and the fourth woman in history to wear the black robe of America’s highest Court. Despite firm opposition from most Republicans, the vote was 63 to 37 with five Republicans voting for her and one Democrat, Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska voting against her. The [...]
The U.S. Senate began debate Tuesday on Elena Kagan’s nomination for the Supreme Court with the majority Republicans opposing her, saying she is a political activist who lacks experience as a judge, is deceitful, and unfriendly to the Constitution. Democrats control the Senate, 59-41, and five Republicans have said they will support her and one [...]
Justice Scalia said Wednesday that the Supreme Court should abandon any idea of a “living Constitution,” a doctrine that has eroded the nation’s moral fabric and character and made the Court moral arbiters for the American people. “Nothing that I learned in my courses at Harvard law school, none of the experience I acquired practicing [...]
A former Surgeon General is asking senators to reject Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan over the role she played in partial-birth abortion legislation when she worked as a policy aide to President Clinton. In an letter released Monday, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop accused Kagan of manipulating the language in a 1997 medical policy statement [...]
In a near party-line vote, President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan, was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee. The vote was 13-6 with Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina being the only Republican joining the majority Democrats. President Obama praised the Senate Judiciary Committee for its endorsement, saying that it was a “bipartisan affirmation.” [...]
A group of Christian students was told to cease their prayers while they stood on the public steps leading up to the U.S. Supreme Court building, because a court police officer said it was against the law. On May 5, a teacher, Maureen Rigo, along with students from her American History class at Wickenburg Christian Academy in [...]
In a 5-4 opinion, the Supreme Court ruled for the first time that the individuals right to bear arms is not only fundamental to American freedom but it also applies to all 50 states. The High Court held in the case, McDonald v. Chicago, that the Second Amendment’s right to keep and bear arms is [...]
The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the rights of a California public law school to deny recognition to a national Christian student organization because that organization’s beliefs violate the school’s policy on nondiscrimination. In the 5-4 opinion, the Court upheld the lower court rulings in Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, saying the group’s (student chapter [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the public disclosure of the names and addresses of signers of referendum petitions does not violate the First Amendment of those who signed the documents. Voting 8-1, the judges unanimously rejected a broad challenge to the state of Washington’s Public Records Act (PRA) enacted in mid-2009, which [...]
