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Biden Judge Blocks DOJ From Targeting 20,000 Suspected Noncitizen Ballots

October 31, 2026 1:50 pmOctober 31, 2026 1:50 pm

U.S. District Judge Trina L. Thompson, a Biden appointee on the Northern District of California bench in San Francisco, granted an ex parte temporary restraining order late Friday blocking the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security from demanding...

Google Challenges LVMPD Reverse Keyword Warrant as ‘Illegal General Warrant’ in Homicide Probe

October 14, 2026 2:36 pmOctober 14, 2026 2:36 pm

Google is fighting a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department warrant that seeks data on everyone who searched a specific set of keywords, calling the order an unconstitutional “illegal general warrant.” The challenge (see below), filed in September in Clark County’s...

Supreme Court Clears Trump Admin to Use Voter Citizenship Verification

September 25, 2026 11:47 amSeptember 25, 2026 12:10 pm

The Supreme Court on Friday cleared the way in a 6-3 decision, for the Trump administration to move forward with its plan to use a modified centralized database to verify voters’ citizenship. In a seven-page opinion issued just 39 days...

California Parents Have to Guess Whether the School Is Socially Transitioning Their Child

September 23, 2026 7:00 amSeptember 23, 2026 7:01 am

If a child broke an arm at recess, no serious person would argue that the school should keep it a secret until a parent happened to ask the right question. Gender distress is treated as the exception. In California, a...

DOJ Sues San Jose Over $1,600 Concealed Carry Fee: ‘An Unconstitutional Tax on the Second Amendment’

September 17, 2026 1:00 pmSeptember 17, 2026 1:00 pm

The Justice Department sued the City of San Jose and the San Jose Police Department on Wednesday, arguing the city’s nearly $1,600 concealed-carry permit fee is an unconstitutional barrier to the Second Amendment, the highest such fee in the nation...

Trump DOJ Takes Chattah Appointment Fight to the Supreme Court

September 11, 2026 12:12 pmSeptember 11, 2026 12:14 pm

The Trump administration on Tuesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a Ninth Circuit ruling that Nevada’s top federal prosecutor, Sigal Chattah, was unlawfully kept in office after Senate Democrats vowed to block her confirmation, the same vacancies maneuver...

A Field Trip to One Faith Isn’t Comparative Religion

August 30, 2026 6:02 amAugust 30, 2026 6:03 am

Fifteen-year-old girls at Palo Alto High School were handed hijabs and encouraged to wear them if they wanted to fit in with the visit. Their classmates were handed Qurans to take home. A Council on American-Islamic Relations chapter director gave...