Nearly two dozen states announced the filing of lawsuits Friday against President Biden's decision requiring large private businesses to mandate the COVID-19 vaccine for their employees or pay for regular testing. Published November 5, 2021
Republican attorneys general and a conservative news site are fighting President Biden's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private employers, a government mandate that legal scholars say is unprecedented. Published November 4, 2021
The Daily Wire, a conservative news site, is challenging the Biden administration's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private employers by suing in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, the company announced Thursday. Published November 4, 2021
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced plans to file a lawsuit on Friday against the Biden administration over its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private employers. Published November 4, 2021
The Supreme Court split along ideological lines during a hearing Wednesday on a case involving the right to carry a firearm outside the home -- the first major Second Amendment challenge before the high court in more than a decade. Published November 3, 2021
President Biden announced a new wave of judicial nominees on Wednesday, days after the Senate confirmed one of his nominees to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, flipping the federal appeals court to a majority of Democratic-appointed judges. Published November 3, 2021
The Senate confirmed the first openly lesbian judge to a federal circuit court on Monday, flipping the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit to a majority of Democrat-appointed judges. Published November 2, 2021
The Biden administration warned the Supreme Court on Monday of an avalanche of state laws seeking to challenge federal constitutional rights should the justices leave in place Texas' new law banning most abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected. Published November 1, 2021
The Supreme Court announced Monday it would not hear a challenge against New York's requirement that employers provide abortion coverage with health insurance plans. Published November 1, 2021
The Supreme Court announced Monday it would not hear a challenge over a Catholic hospital declining to provide transgender surgery, leaving in place the lower court's ruling in favor of the transgender man. Published November 1, 2021
The Supreme Court on Friday upheld Maine's COVID-19 vaccine mandate, declining to halt its enforcement with a 6-3 ruling. Published October 29, 2021
The Supreme Court announced Friday it would hear a challenge from a group of red states, led by West Virginia, against Environmental Protection Agency rules aimed at limiting greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. Published October 29, 2021
An Oklahoma man was put to death Thursday after the Supreme Court lifted a stay of execution issued by a lower court over his challenge to Oklahoma's three-drug cocktail for putting him to death. Published October 29, 2021
President Biden's Justice Department argued in court papers Wednesday that the Supreme Court must allow Texas officials to be sued for banning abortions in the state after a fetal heartbeat is detected. Published October 27, 2021
An informal survey published this month by the National Judicial College suggests that most judges support term limits for Supreme Court justices. Published October 27, 2021
Members of the military, federal workers and government contractors have filed a class action against President Biden's federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate, arguing they have not been afforded religious exemptions -- or had those honored -- for the shots. Published October 26, 2021
LGBTQ advocates are issuing challenges to Christian foster care programs by targeting their government funding -- and suing the federal government -- in a gambit that could involve the Supreme Court, which sided with a Catholic foster program earlier this year. Published October 26, 2021
Pro-life doctors are pushing back against the notion that most women don't know they are pregnant by the time a fetal heartbeat is detected at six weeks, a claim made by pro-choice groups in lawsuits challenging Texas' abortion ban. Published October 25, 2021
Former Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder accused Vice President Kamala Harris of illegally campaigning for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe by having churches play a video endorsement asking attendees for their support. Published October 22, 2021
The Supreme Court refused to halt Texas' law banning abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, but it did agree to quickly take up the case, scheduling it to be heard Nov. 1. Published October 22, 2021
