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Court ruling on vaccine mandates takes broad view of ‘public health’
Defending COVID-19 policies against legal challenges, government officials relied heavily on Jacobson v. Massachusetts, a 1905 case in which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a smallpox vaccine mandate imposed by the Cambridge…
New Jersey Supreme Court bars ‘shaken baby syndrome’ testimony at trial
New Jersey on Thursday became the first state in the U.S. to bar expert testimony on "shaken baby syndrome" (SBS) from the courtroom when there is no other evidence of trauma. In a 109-page opinion, a 6–1 majority…
Judge Fires Shots in Texas Redistricting Case
On Tuesday, the media was filled with stories that a three-judge panel had voted 2-1 to issue a 160-page order blocking the Texas legislature’s new congressional redistricting plan. The order claimed the redistricting was…
Trump Scores Election Security Win, but Could Be Fleeting
The Trump administration scored a preliminary court victory on the election integrity battlefront when a Joe Biden-appointed judge at least temporarily allowed a citizenship verification database to continue to be accessible…
The Supreme Court’s next big immigration case
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed this week to reenter the fractious national debate over immigration by taking up a new case, which asks whether asylum seekers who present themselves at the U.S. border may be lawfully turned…
Grand juries are declining to indict in many cases brought by Trump’s DOJ
In August 2025, President Donald Trump took control of the police force in Washington, D.C., and deployed the National Guard throughout the city. To justify the incursion, he said the district was experiencing a "crime…
Why does SCOTUS hear so few Second Amendment cases?
The Second Amendment occupies a curious place in American legal history. It has been sitting right there in the Bill of Rights since those amendments were first added to the Constitution in 1791. Yet it was not until the 2008…
Supreme Court Reconsiders Sentences Under First Step Act
The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on whether convicted felons can petition for reduced sentencing under the First Step Act, a criminal justice reform law that President Donald Trump signed during his first term. …
‘Without Consent’ recounts Greta Rideout’s landmark spousal rape trial
Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle To Make Spousal Rape a Crime, by Sarah Weinman, Ecco, 320 pages, $32 A woman shows up at the police station and says she would like to press charges for rape.…
Obama Judge Who Greenlit Secret Subpoenas Targeting GOP Hit With Ethics Complaint
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Judge James Boasberg, an Obama appointee who serves as chief judge of the D.C. District Court, is facing an ethics complaint for “political bias” against President Donald Trump and his…
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