The California Supreme Court announced Thursday that the next stage in the ongoing legal challenge of Proposition 8, which made same-sex marriage illegal through a statewide referendum vote in 2008, is set for Sept. 6.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals — where the Prop 8 case
The recent Supreme Court decision upholding the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act, which penalizes employers that knowingly hire undocumented workers by revoking their business licenses, is the subject of a policy brief released by the Migration Policy Institute today.
The brief argues that the 2007 Arizona case, Chamber of Commerce v. More…
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is set to tell her side of the SB 1070 drama in a provocatively titled memoir due out in November. “Scorpions For Breakfast: My Fight Against Special Interests, Liberal Media and Cynical Politicos to Secure America’s Border” is scheduled to be published in November by Broadside More…
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is set to tell her side of the SB 1070 drama in a provocatively titled memoir due out in November. “Scorpions For Breakfast: My Fight Against Special Interests, Liberal Media and Cynical Politicos to Secure America’s Border” is scheduled to be published in November by Broadside More…
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer announced today that the state will appeal lower court rulings blocking some parts of Arizona’s famous–or infamous–Senate Bill 1070 all the way to the United States Supreme Court.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the U.S. Department of Justice has decided to let the FBI keep domestic terror suspects in custody longer than the average criminal suspect without reading them their Miranda rights. The FBI memo is yet another move that shows the Obama administration keeping, institutionalizing and More…
On Thursday, The American Independent reported on an IRS action that could send shockwaves through the medical marijuana industry — even destroy it completely.
Tonight’s State of the Union address will likely be full of many showy “bipartisan” moments. President Obama will likely make a number of statements about reaching across the aisle, and many Republicans and Democrats in Congress will sit with a member of the other party to break up the traditional More…
With the confirmation of Judge Albert Diaz on Dec. 18 to the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, President Obama’s influence on the court seems firmly in place. Diaz is the fourth Obama nominee to take a seat on the 15-member court. How much impact Obama nominees have had More…
The Supreme Court heard a case yesterday that serves as a good example of the complexities of immigration law: A Mexican-born man who grew up with an American-citizen father in the United States is asking the court to protect him from deportation, claiming the law would have granted him citizenship More…
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