Article III Project founder Mike Davis tells NTD the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has double standards, after a senator revealed that the DOJ dissuaded U.S. Marshals from arresting protestors who were picketing the homes of Supreme Court judges.
The senate has confirmed 100 judges nominated by President Biden since he took office. Democrats are celebrating the diverse backgrounds of the judges, while Republicans express concern about their competence.
Federal Communications Commission board nominee Gigi Sohn appeared at a Senate committee hearing for the third time Tuesday. She was met with strong opposition from Senate Republicans.
A poll from the American Principles Project shows the culture war is going to be a critical battleground in 2024. It shows Republican voters in the presidential primary are most likely to support candidates tackling things related to critical race theory and gender ideology. Terry Schilling, president of the American Principles Project, joins the show to analyze the results.
The Biden administration has urged the Supreme Court to reject a Republican bid to re-empower state legislatures to regulate congressional and presidential elections as they say the U.S. Constitution requires, including removing the judiciary’s power to weigh in on redistricting and other disputes. The legal filing came in a high-stakes case, Moore v. Harper, court […]
The chief justice of the Supreme Court in his year-end report called on federal judges to work hard to adhere to ethics rules after over 100 were caught violating a rule that requires judges recuse in any matter in which they have a personal financial interest. Chief Justice John Roberts cited (pdf) a Wall Street Journal […]
A judge in Fairfax County, Virginia, ruled that a black defendant must not be tried in a courtroom with portraits of former white judges. Circuit Court Judge David Bernhard is ordering the courtroom to remove these portraits during the trial.
Britain may pull its judges out of Hong Kong’s highest court, a move that could deal a blow to the city’s legal reputation. The presence of foreign judges serving in Hong Kong is enshrined in its Basic Law, the mini-constitution that guarantees the city’s freedoms under Chinese rule. UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said on […]
The independence of Hong Kong’s judicial system is under assault from the Communist Party leadership in Beijing, senior judges in the city told Reuters, posing the gravest threat to the rule of law since Britain handed its former colony back to Chinese sovereignty in 1997.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Dec. 22 accused the media of being so “obsessed” with the impeachment of President Donald Trump that it hasn’t highlighted the confirmation of 13 of the president’s conservative judges. Rubio made the remarks on Twitter after Senators confirmed 13 of Trump’s judicial nominees last week, bringing to 102 the number […]
Back in May, three Indiana judges got into a fight. It was the crescendo of an incident brimming with colorful details: a gaggle of judges drinking the night before a judicial conference, a failed attempt to visit a strip club called the Red Garter, a brawl in the parking lot of an Indianapolis White Castle.
The altercation started sometime after 3 a.m., when one of the judges, Sabrina Bell, raised a middle finger at two men yelling from a passing SUV and ended after one of those men shot two of the judges.
