The University of Missouri at Columbia (Mizzou), the state’s flagship public university, has a problem on its hands: Some students and professors are seeking to shut down reporting at the campus, in the wake of unrest that has been growing for weeks, and which led to yesterday’s resignation of university President Tim Wolfe. As the…
Much of President Barack Obama’s executive action legacy will be decided by the courts after he leaves office, but he had a rough judicial record while serving. Though Obama has frequently touted his pen and phone policymaking, these actions on immigration, environmental policy, and presidential appointees have often been swatted away by the Supreme Court….
Attorney General William Barr said in a statement Tuesday that “even in times of emergency,” federal law prohibits religious discrimination. The attorney general released a statement on religious practices and social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic. It came after Barr intervened in a Mississippi church’s lawsuit against Greenville police, who ticketed congregants during a drive-in…
Facebook recently announced the first 20 members of its new oversight board. The role of the board is to guide Facebook through decisions on what controversial content should be allowed to stay up or be deleted. Michael McConnell, professor and director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School and a co-chair of Facebook’s…
A great-grandmother’s eight-year court battle for her religious freedom finally has come to an end. “This week, I have put to rest the last legal considerations for a decision my husband, Darold, and I made nearly a decade ago,” Washington state florist Barronelle Stutzman said in a written statement Thursday. Stutzman, who describes herself as…
The president thinks that if you don’t want children to receive life-altering chemical treatments based on an ideological definition of gender, you’re “hateful.” The Department of Health and Human Services recently released an order that said it would be adding federal protections to ensure “transgender youth receive the care they need.” During a video commemorating…
At the end of July, tragedy struck New York City when a deeply troubled Nevada man drove across the country to a Park Avenue office building and opened fire, killing four people before taking his own life. Police believe the gunman intended to target the National Football League, which is headquartered in the building and…
A federal judge temporarily blocked the Biden administration from fully enforcing a gun background check rule Sunday night. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the rule covering background checks for firearms purchases April 10, claiming it was based on bipartisan legislation passed in the wake of a deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. United States District Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk…
Democrats’ freak-out about the mental state of President Joe Biden has been far too delicious for conservative media. Democrats and the legacy media—pardon me for repeating myself—find themselves between the Scylla of a decrepit figurehead and the Charybdis of his most likely replacement, the cackling hyena oft described as “Madame Vice President.” We conservatives must…
Virginia’s new “convention ban” outlaws the ability of political parties to choose their candidates through their own conventions and instead virtually requires them to use taxpayer-funded primary elections where voters from the opposing party can interfere in the candidate selection process. Now, a local Republican Party is challenging the law as an unconstitutional violation of…
As they begin debate on the SAVE America Act—a bill requiring photo identification and proof of citizenship in federal elections—Republicans in the Senate are pursuing an unusual strategy which provides little assurance of the bill getting passed. “We look forward to putting the Democrats on record and showing just the lack of commonsense that they…
The Washington Supreme Court on Tuesday heard the case of a 72-year-old florist who is facing fines after declining to make flower arrangements for a gay couple’s wedding. During the hearing, lawyers for the florist, Barronelle Stutzman, were asked to explain how declining to make flower arrangements for a same-sex wedding is different from discrimination…
Media sources are all breathlessly reporting that the Trump administration’s proposed termination of federal funding to sanctuary cities has been enjoined by a federal judge. But that is misleading, and the media is misinterpreting the injunction order in the same way the federal judge misinterpreted President Donald Trump’s executive order. At issue in the lawsuit…
The University of California, Berkeley is trying to dismiss a free speech lawsuit filed following the cancellation of Ann Coulter’s speech at the school in April. UC Berkeley attorneys insist the claims made by Young America’s Foundation and the Berkeley College Republicans are “moot,” according to a court document obtained by Campus Reform Friday. “The alleged restrictions…
The Electoral College is under fire. Again. Delaware last week joined 12 other states that have pledged to award their Electoral College votes to the presidential candidate who gets the most votes nationwide, regardless of who wins their state. Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, is set this week to introduce a constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College,…
Rep. Louie Gohmert is warning that America stands at a moral turning point. “We are near the end of the road of no return. There’s still time to get back on track, but not a lot of time,” the Texas Republican told attendees Saturday at the annual Values Voter Summit at the Omni Shoreham Hotel….
Churches, synagogues, and other places of worship faced extraordinary challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in liberal states such as California. Rob McCoy, senior pastor of Godspeak Calvary Chapel of Thousand Oaks in California, joins a bonus episode of “The Daily Signal Podcast” to talk about how he kept his church open during COVID-19 amid…
In her recent guest essay in the New York Times, former Times reporter and columnist Linda Greenhouse accuses Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito of weaponizing religious liberty. In reality, Alito merely issued a plea that religious liberty is provided “special protection” promised by the Constitution. It appears Greenhouse actually believes religious liberty should be relegated…
It’s been a wild year, to say the least. In May, someone leaked the the Supreme Court’s draft majority opinion in the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade’s green light to abortion on demand. The leak was completely unprecedented and followed by months of pro-abortion protests outside justices’ homes….
KYIV, Ukraine—The shaky cease-fire in eastern Ukraine has reached a “tipping point,” a high-level Ukrainian government official says. The official’s comments underscore how geopolitical events—from the war in Syria to the rise of nationalist parties across Europe—have tested international resolve to maintain sanctions on Russia. “There is no alternative” to the current cease-fire, the official…