McClaughry: Property rights victories at SCOTUS
The Pacific Legal Foundation said “the Tyler decision is a vindication of fundamental property rights. It will change the lives of thousands of Americans across the country.”
About the Nevada murder and the death penalty
In murder cases like this one, and with serial killers, where the guilt is indisputable, it’s time to bring the death penalty back.
U.S. Supreme Court erodes WOTUS rule
The decision issued Thursday erodes the rule, also known as the “WOTUS” rule, that would have brought all of the nation’s streams and wetlands under the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency, a rule that U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., compared to “regulating puddles.”
U.S. Supreme Court rolls back Biden EPA’s expansive water regulation
“By narrowing the Act’s coverage of wetlands to only adjoining wetlands, the Court’s new test will leave some long-regulated adjacent wetlands no longer covered by the Clean Water Act, with significant repercussions for water quality and flood control throughout the United States,” Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote.
Officials in and out of Statehouse as talks on new juvenile facility continue
“I think we have to keep in mind that many of these kids are violent and can do extreme damage to physical property — but more importantly staff members and other kids. I encourage you to listen and call it what it really is,” Sen. Dick Sears said.
Advocates ask legislators to add students to discrimination and harassment reform bill
The bill, S.103, passed in the Senate late last month and is moving through the House. Its core goal is to get rid of the existing legal requirement that harassment or discrimination must be “severe or pervasive” to be considered unlawful.
Zuckerman calls for expanded U.S. Supreme Court with term limits
Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman on Thursday led a small group of Progressive legislators calling for national legislation to expand the U.S. Supreme Court by four seats.
McClaughry: Another blow to the administrative state
In plain English, if you believe you are unfairly or extralegally regulated by a federal agency, you now have a constitutional right to have that dispute settled by an independent third party judge — not a judge employed by and accountable to the regulators.
VT GOP chair on Trump indictment: ‘Some people see this as a continual persecution of a political opponent’
On “Vermont Edition,” a radio show associated with Vermont Public, VT GOP Chair Paul Dame on Monday discussed reactions to the indictment against former president Donal Trump.
Christian school sues Maine for trying to sidestep SCOTUS decision on religious discrimination
In response to Carson v. Makin, Maine lawmakers passed legislation that limited the ability for religious schools to gain an exemption from certain nondiscrimination rules while participating in the school choice tuitioning program, prompting a lawsuit on behalf of Bangor Christian School on Tuesday.
Here’s how lawsuits could take down the child sex change industry
Lawsuits from detransitioners — people who once identified as transgender but now regret medically transitioning — could bring the child sex change industry to a halt by making it too financially risky to administer cross-sex medications and surgeries to minors.
Could one SCOTUS case upend the Internet as we know it? Legal experts weigh in
It’s hard to believe the court will hand down a decision in Gonzalez v. Google that dramatically shifts the current interpretation of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, a law at the center of the debate over moderating speech on the internet, legal experts say.