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Understanding the ‘Transgender’ Case Before the Supreme Court
After the Civil War, the equal protection clause was added to the Constitution as part of the 14th Amendment to protect the rights of black Americans. Simply stated, the equal protection clause provides that every American is to be treated equally under the law. In the case United States v. Skrmetti, attorneys representing the U.S…. -
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6 False Claims Backing ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ in Key Supreme Court Case
The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on the pivotal transgender case U.S. v. Skrmetti, and both the lawyers arguing against a Tennessee ban on “gender-affirming care” and three Supreme Court justices made dubious claims and stated outright falsehoods in support of experimental transgender “treatments.” Tennessee’s SB1 bans medical procedures on minors for the purpose of… -
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Supreme Court Case Exposes Medical Scandal of Epic Proportions
It’s hard to wrap your head around just how grotesque it is that many medical associations and the federal government have adopted the idea that it’s healthy to sterilize children in an attempt to “affirm” a stated transgender identity. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will shed much-needed sunlight on this medical scandal of epic proportions…. -
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FREE OF CHARGE: Protesters Flock to Supreme Court to Oppose Ban on ‘Gender-Affirming Care’
Organizations in favor of child sex changes will protest the Supreme Court as the nine justices hear oral arguments Wednesday in a case that will decide whether states may ban irreversible transgender medical interventions for children. LGBTQ+ activists with the American Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal, Human Rights Campaign, Gender Liberation Movement, Young Feminist Party, and… -
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Democrats Make Last-Minute Push to Confirm Controversial Biden Judicial Nominees During Lame Duck Session
THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Senate Democrats are pushing to confirm more than two dozen of President Joe Biden’s remaining judicial nominees during their final weeks in the majority, including several with controversial records. The Senate has already confirmed four judges during the lame duck session: Judge Mustafa Taher Kasubha to the District of Oregon, Judge Embry Kidd to the… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Ted Cruz on the Judicial Appointments Senate Fistfight
Sen. Ted Cruz joins “The Tony Kinnett Cast” to discuss President Donald Trump’s first 100 days, whether President Joe Biden’s remaining judicial nominees will get confirmed, and what the American people want lawmaekrs to do. Watch above or read a lightly-edited transcript below. Tony Kinnett: Welcome back to “The Tony Kinnett Cast” here on The Daily… -
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Reverse Discrimination? SCOTUS Takes Unusual Case on Sex Discrimination in Employment Requiring Bostock Revisit
The Supreme Court on Friday issued an order granting review in what’s sure to be an incredibly high-profile case on sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the federal law prohibiting employment discrimination on the basis of sex (among other characteristics). The Supreme Court will hear the case of an Ohio woman, Marlean Ames,… -
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Ghost Guns at SCOTUS: The ATF Once Again Seeks an Expansive View of Its Own Authority
It’s like déjà vu all over again. Another Supreme Court term has started and another government agency finds itself before the justices trying to justify taking an expansive view of its own authority. In Garland v. VanDerStok, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives seeks to defend a rule it promulgated two years ago… -
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New Supreme Court Case Poses Question: ‘What’s Point of Antidiscrimination Law?’
A case that the Supreme Court will hear this year raises a fundamental question about why we outlaw some types of discrimination. It’s worth thinking through that question, given that discrimination is, unfortunately, an ever-present human phenomenon, and because America, unique among other nations, is so deeply committed to stopping it. The case is Ames… -
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The Biggest Cases on the Supreme Court’s New Docket
The Left might hate the Supreme Court, but it’s the Left that keeps the court in business by shoving its strange obsessions onto its docket. For this new term that begins Monday, the Left has forced the court to confront its obsessions with child “sex changes,” banning guns, and protecting pornographers from laws that keep… -
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Supreme Court to Decide Whether Gun Manufacturer May Be Liable for Cartel Crimes
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Supreme Court will hear a case to decide whether Mexico may sue American gun manufacturers and distributors for crimes committed by drug cartels with their firearms, according to court documents released Friday. The high court will rule on whether gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson and firearms distributor Interstate Arms are protected… -
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Dems Hatch Another Plot to Pack Supreme Court
After suffering a series of losses before the U.S. Supreme Court, leftists in Congress are once again trying to remake the court to suit their own political purposes. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., on Thursday introduced the Judicial Modernization and Transparency Act, which would expand the number of Supreme Court justices from nine to 15 over the next… -
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4th Circuit Decision Sets Up Next Potential 2A Showdown at Supreme Court
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld Maryland’s ban on so-called assault weapons earlier this month, likely setting the stage for the next major Second Amendment showdown at the Supreme Court. The case, Bianchi v. Brown, features Maryland residents who challenge the constitutionality of a 2013 state law that generally prohibits them… -
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Biden’s Supreme Court ‘Reforms’ Are ‘Shameful’ and ‘Dangerous,’ Legal Expert Warns
President Joe Biden’s proposed changes to the Supreme Court are “shameful” and “dangerous,” legal expert John Malcolm says. Last week, Biden announced a “bold plan to reform the Supreme Court,” including ending lifetime appointments in favor of 18-year terms, implementation of an enforceable code of ethics, and an attempt to reverse the U.S. Supreme Court’s… -
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Left Lets Mask Slip on Plans to Demolish the Supreme Court
The Left has let the mask slip and made clear that it intends to pack or otherwise decimate the Supreme Court. President Joe Biden announced last week in a Washington Post op-ed that he would promote a “reform” of the nation’s highest court that would include term limits and new “ethics” rules for justices. The… -
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Democrats Promise to Save ‘Democracy’ by Destroying Supreme Court
It’s difficult to make substantive arguments against the Democrats’ Supreme Court “reform” proposal, since everyone knows it’s just a cynical ploy to delegitimize both the court and the Constitution. Ask yourself this: Would any Democrat support the president’s court-packing scheme if they believed Republicans would win both houses of Congress and the presidency? Of course… -
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How The Heritage Foundation Helped Deprogram Me From the Cult of Social Justice as a Teen
I have a confession to make. If you told me five years ago that I’d be an intern at The Heritage Foundation, the most influential conservative think tank in America, I would have been stupefied. I’m a Californian born and raised, so inevitably, I was a very passionate liberal for most of my teenage years…. -
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For First Time, Senate Judiciary Committee Nixes Biden Judicial Nominee
The Senate on Thursday rejected President Joe Biden’s nominee to the Manhattan federal trial court. It was the first time a Biden judicial nominee has been rejected in the Democratic-majority Senate. The Senate Judiciary Committee, on an 11-10 vote, rejected federal magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn’s nomination to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District… -
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Supreme Court’s Murthy v. Missouri Ruling: A Blow to Free Speech Protections
Last week, in Murthy v. Missouri, the U.S. Supreme Court hammered home the distressing conclusion that, under the court’s doctrines, the First Amendment is, for all practical purposes, unenforceable against large-scale government censorship. The decision is a strong contender to be the worst speech decision in the court’s history. (I must confess a personal interest in… -
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‘No More Souters’: Strategies for Conservative Success on Judicial Nominees
The current Supreme Court term is now over, but conservatives have already suffered notable defeats in cases involving Big Tech censorship and free speech, states’ lawful ability to proscribe abortion, the ubiquity of the abortion pill (mifepristone), the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the possibility of a future wealth tax, and taxpayer responsibility…