LawNews
Female Athlete’s Injury Creates Outrage Around Coed Sports
A Massachusetts student athlete had two teeth knocked out Thursday when she was struck in the face by a male opponent during a high school… Read More
LawNews
Christian Wedding Photographer Who Refused to Celebrate Same-Sex Marriage Wins Settlement
Virginia state officials agreed to settle a lawsuit with a Christian wedding photographer after he refused to use his business to celebrate same-sex marriage, according… Read More
LawCommentary
3 Absurd Claims About the Lewiston Shooting Made by Gun Control Activists
An Army Reservist and military firearms instructor with a history of serious mental health problems murdered 18 people and wounded 13 others Oct. 25 at… Read More
LawNews
3 States Sue FDA for Allowing Abortion Pills to Be Shipped Via Mail
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced Monday that several states sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for allowing abortion pills to be shipped through the… Read More
LawCommentary
Time for Scrutiny of DEI Policies of Administrative Office of US Courts, Judicial Conference
Federal courts have their own administrative state, and that’s a problem. Like many of its executive branch counterparts, the Administrative Office of U.S. Courts came… Read More
LawNews
Supreme Court Agrees to Review Federal Ban on Bump Stocks
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear a case challenging the federal ban on bump stocks, an accessory that increases a semiautomatic rifle’s rate of… Read More
LawNews
‘Shocking’ Fraud on Video Prompts Judge to Toss Election Outcome in Connecticut’s Largest City
Just days before a scheduled general election in Connecticut’s largest city, a judge threw out the results of a primary election for mayor, citing “shocking”… Read More
LawCommentary
The BorderLine: New York’s ‘Right to Shelter’—Why Are Taxpayers Forced to House Unlimited Illegal Aliens?
The BorderLine is a weekly Daily Signal feature examining everything from the unprecedented illegal immigration crisis at the border to immigration’s impact on cities and… Read More
LawCommentary
Judges Have No Legal Authority to Bar Trump From 2024 Ballots
Editor’s note: On Tuesday, Dec. 19, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that former President Donald Trump was not eligible to appear on the ballot in… Read More
LawAnalysis
Untested Legal Imagination’s the Mother of Trump and Jan. 6 Prosecutions
Donald Trump doesn’t know Thomas Robertson. But the former president’s fate appears inextricably tied to that of the former Army Ranger, who was convicted last… Read More
LawNews
Newsom Signs Bill Mandating Diversity Reporting in Venture Capital, Vetoes Similar Bill Aimed at His Office
Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill on Oct. 8 requiring the governor’s office to report the ethnic breakdown of its appointees the same… Read More
LawNews
Harris Seizes on Maine Mass Shooting to Push for Australian-Style Gun Laws
In the aftermath of the killing of 18 in a mass shooting in Maine on Wednesday, Vice President Kamala Harris praised Australian gun bans at a luncheon… Read More
LawNews
VA Won’t Explain What It Means to Save the ‘Health’ of the Mother in an Abortion
One year since it began performing abortions, the Department of Veterans Affairs released annualized data to the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee under threat of a… Read More
LawCommentary
Justices Again Show Undue Deference to Feds, but Take Case That Could Undo That
In the spirit of football season, let’s imagine a short-yardage run play. The running back barrels into a mass of bodies, and the ball disappears… Read More
LawCommentary
Election Integrity Wins in Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, but Trouble Brews in Pennsylvania
With many eyes focused on the 2024 presidential election, issues of election integrity are again coming to the forefront of the national conversation, as they… Read More
LawCommentary
University of Michigan Law School Exposed as Rotten to Core
If you want to spend almost $100,000 a year to turn your son or daughter into a radical, America-hating extremist whose goal is to bring… Read More
LawCommentary
Will Supreme Court Take Down ‘Biden’s Vast Censorship Enterprise’?
A hugely important case about government censorship of Americans’ speech online is going to the Supreme Court. “We look forward to dismantling Joe Biden’s vast… Read More
LawCommentary
With Carjacking, New Orleans DA’s Radical Policies Come Back to Bite Him
Earlier this week, two criminals carjacked New Orleans’ Soros-backed district attorney, Jason Williams, as he walked his 78-year-old mother to his SUV. Fortunately, both Williams… Read More
LawCommentary
Trans Access to Girls’ Restrooms and Related Legal Claims Fail in Federal Court
A federal district court in Idaho just declined to halt the operation of a state law mandating that public schools separate their bathrooms and housing… Read More
LawNews
Father Whose Son Had Transgender Surgery Despite Court Order Issues Dire Warning About Parental Rights
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A California father has urged a court to find his ex-wife, her lawyer, his son’s lawyer, and a hospital in contempt… Read More
LawCommentary
Authoritarian Thugs Continue Persecution of Colorado Cake Shop Owner
I’ve been writing about Denver-area baker Jack Phillips for more than a decade now. It’s clear to me he’s going to be badgered into the… Read More
LawCommentary
Pirates in California? In 2023? The Coast Guard to the Rescue!
The city of Oakland, California, is dealing with pirates—not as a fantastical feature of a new Disney film, but as a genuine feature of liberal… Read More
LawCommentary
Why Does NPR Want Courts to Defer to Executive Agencies?
Age is not coextensive with legal merit where judicial opinions are concerned. As then-Justice Antonin Scalia remarked, longevity “alone does not make up for brazen… Read More
LawCommentary
Chief Judges of DC’s Local Courts Must Answer for Questionable Conduct
Judges are supposed to be impartial, and they’re supposed to appear impartial, too. That means that generally judges cannot comment on matters that might appear… Read More
LawCommentary
The Politically Charged Rulings of Judge Overseeing Trump Case
At her first appearance in the criminal case against Donald Trump for his alleged attempt to overturn the 2020 election, U.S. District Court Judge Tanya… Read More
LawCommentary
Transgender Lawyer Who Wanted to ‘Correct the Errors’ of Jack Phillips’ Thinking May Have His Own Case ‘Corrected’
The First Amendment prohibits the government from acting with hostility against sincere religious beliefs, yet Colorado twice prosecuted Christian baker Jack Phillips with such hostility…. Read More
Another Concerning Revelation About the FBI
As the 2024 presidential election looms, the FBI has decided to classify supporters of former President Donald Trump as potential “domestic extremists,” a Newsweek investigation… Read More
LawNews
Biden Admin Teams With Conservative Critic as Maine Defends Blocking Access to Voter Data
Maine heads to court Thursday to defend its policy of shielding voter registration records from public disclosure against unlikely allies—a conservative election integrity watchdog and… Read More
LawCommentary
State Abortion Laws Being Reversed as State Courts’ Ideological Compositions Change
For 50 years, the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade, which invented a fictional “right to abortion,” prevented most efforts to protect human… Read More
LawCommentary
Supreme Court Sends Mixed Signals on Constitutionality of CFPB Funding in Oral Arguments
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services, argued Tuesday before the Supreme Court, is nominally an industry challenge to the bureau’s payday-lending rule. But… Read More
