Posts Tagged ‘news’
We Are Still A Few Votes Shy of Killing the Kagan Nomination
Liberty Alerts, Gun Owners of America The hearings on Elena Kagan to be a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court are over. Senate Democrats slammed them through quickly, in the same way they did ObamaCare. And, like ObamaCare, they made sure that Senate Republicans would not have the material they needed to review Kagan's record -- withholding, [...]
Lawmakers Settle Abuse Cases With Tax Dollars
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles For nearly a decade and a half, U.S. taxpayers have annually dished out about $1 million to settle lawsuits against federal lawmakers accused of abusing or harassing staffers. The money buys silence and quietly vanishes hundreds of complaints from congressional employees who have been sexually harassed [...]
No to Ground Zero Mosque
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice It's a critical time in New York City as we represent a number of families and friends of victims of 9-11 in opposing the building of an Islamic mosque at Ground Zero - where thousands of U.S. citizens were murdered by Islamic terrorists. An important hearing is taking place this week in New [...]
‘No English’ Defense Works In N.J. Drunk Driving Case
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles New Jersey drunken drivers who don’t understand a police officer’s English commands are immune from prosecution thanks to a state Supreme Court ruling, which this week overturned three separate court decisions to side with a Spanish-speaking drug dealer. The case involves a suspected illegal [...]
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham Crucial to Defeating Kagan
By John Velleco Senator Lindsey Graham was one of nine Republicans to vote to confirm Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. During the course of her confirmation hearings, Sotomayor told the Senate and all Americans that she would respect the Heller decision and the individual right to keep and bear arms. The assurances made by Sotomayor, not [...]
Obama Administration is Sabotaging Defense of Marriage Act
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Boston, MA – In his decision declaring section 3 of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional, Judge Tauro characterizes Congress’s decision to define marriage for federal purposes as between one man and one woman as an "irrational" desire to "punish[]" same-sex couples based solely on [...]
Race, Gender Quotas In Finance Bill
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles The financial reform bill recently approved by the House of Representatives and expected to pass in the Senate after the summer recess creates government “minority inclusion” offices and requires private financial institutions to implement race and gender employment quotas. Known as the Dodd-Frank [...]
Most Americans Oppose Obama’s Arizona Lawsuit
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles In a major blow for the Obama Administration just months before the midterm elections, an overwhelming majority of Americans oppose the federal government’s lawsuit against Arizona’s new immigration control law. Most Americans, not only back Arizona’s measure, they support a similar bill aimed [...]
Massachusetts Court Rules Defense of Marriage Act Unconstitutional
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Boston, MA – Yesterday Massachusetts federal judge Joseph Tauro ruled against a section of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) which defines marriage for federal purposes as a union between one man and one woman. In Gill v. Office of Personnel Management, Judge Tauro ruled that Section 3 of DOMA [...]
Strong Support for National Day of Prayer
Liberty Alerts, ACLJ There's a real bi-partisan effort in Congress to protect the National Day of Prayer under attack in the federal courts. Today we filed a critical amicus brief on behalf of nearly 70 members of Congress urging a federal appeals court to uphold the constitutionality of the National Day of Prayer. As you may recall that [...]
Welfare Program Pays Felons’ Energy Bill
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles In yet another fraud-infested welfare program to assist low-income residents with energy costs, the government has paid the air conditioning bills for thousands of dead people, convicted felons and federal employees. The $5 billion Low-Income Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) supposedly helps the needy [...]
Defending National Day of Prayer
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law & Justice We are once again in federal court defending the constitutionality of the National Day of Prayer. This time representing members of Congress in a critically important amicus brief to be filed in a federal appeals court. As you know, a federal district court in Wisconsin recently ruled in [...]
ACLJ Will Defend Arizona Immigration Law
Liberty Alerts, ACLJ It's a disturbing that the U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit challenging the new immigration law in Arizona. This latest attempt to stop Arizona's law by the DOJ is flawed and represents nothing more than a waste of taxpayer funds. It's troubling that the federal government, which has repeatedly failed [...]
ACLJ Wins 9th Circuit Appeal in Massive Fraud Case Against Planned Parenthood Affiliates in California
Liberty Alerts, ACLJ (Washington, DC) – The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled in favor of the American Center for Law and Justice’s (ACLJ) client in a multi-million dollar fraud case against Planned Parenthood (PP) affiliates in California. ACLJ attorneys are representing a former employee of the PP [...]
GOA Attorney Testifies Against Kagan Before Sen. Schumer’s Committee
Liberty Alerts, Gun Owners of America On Thursday, Gun Owners of America had the important opportunity to testify concerning the Second Amendment views of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. William J. Olson, counsel of record on amicus briefs for GOA in both the Heller and McDonald Supreme Court cases, testified at the hearing that Kagan [...]
White House Interferes with New York Times Investigation of Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan
Liberty Alerts, Judicial Watch Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained documents from Hunter College High School regarding a White House effort to deny New York Times education reporter Sharon Otterman access to Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s [...]
Minneapolis Schools Sued for Denying Equal Access to Good News Clubs
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Minneapolis, MN – Today Liberty Counsel is filing a lawsuit on behalf of Child Evangelism Fellowship of Minnesota (CEF), the sponsor of Good News Clubs, against the Minneapolis Special School District No. 1 for unfairly denying equal inclusion in its promotion of after-school programs. CEF was an approved [...]
African Centre for Law & Justice — Zimbabwe Update
The constitution-making process in Zimbabwe finally seems to be making headway. The outreach exercise was already several months behind schedule due to delays caused by endless squabbles over the composition of the teams, talking points to shape the hearings, donor funding, allowances to be paid, and other issues. The three principals in the [...]
Victory: University of Idaho Drops Charges of Harassment and Discrimination for ‘Offensive’ Speech
Liberty Alerts, TheFIRE.org, Peter Bonilla After FIRE intervened, the University of Idaho (UI) abandoned disciplinary charges of "harass" and "discrimination" against student Alexander Rowson relating to political statements he made at two campus events. On or about March 30, during César Chávez Day at UI, there was a musical [...]
Defense Documents Show Kagan Defied Law
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Hours after a U.S. Senator revealed that Elena Kagan defied federal law by obstructing military activity during wartime a news report exposed the Supreme Court nominee for repeatedly supporting government secrecy as Obama’s solicitor general. Both revelations are troubling for a Supreme Court nominee [...]
Pelosi Trying to Shove DISCLOSE Act Through Congress Once Again
Liberty Alerts, Gun Owners of America The Washington Post corroborates what Gun Owners of America has been hearing on Capitol Hill. Top Democrat leaders in the House are trying to make another go at the DISCLOSE Act... and they think they are very close to getting the votes to pass it. According to the Post article from [...]
Obama Arrives: Health Premiums Jump 20 Percent
Liberty Alerts, NewsMax.com WASHINGTON - U.S. health insurers are raising prices by an average of 20 percent for working age adults who buy their own policies, according to a survey released by a nonprofit healthcare group on Monday. Such premium cost increases affected more than three-quarters of the 14 million U.S. adults who buy their own [...]
Take Action — Keep Kagan Out!
Liberty Alerts, Eagle Forum Today is "Keep Out Kagan" Day, which means that Americans all over the nation will be phoning their two Senators to tell them what they think of President Obama's second Supreme Court nominee, former Harvard Law School Dean and current Solicitor General (SG) Elena Kagan. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat [...]
Gibbs Sidesteps Social Security Question
Liberty Alerts, World Net Daily The White House apparently isn't going to answer questions about a mystery uncovered by private investigators, who, working independently, found that President Obama is using a Social Security number set aside for applicants in Connecticut, while there is no record he ever had a mailing address there. WND [...]
National Security Agencies Fail To Protect U.S.
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles Nearly a decade after the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, government agencies charged with protecting the nation from terrorism can’t seem to get their act together, repeatedly failing to adequately shield the U.S. from threats mainly because they [...]
Hawaii elections clerk: Obama not born here
Liberty Alerts, World Net Daily, Joe Kovacs A college instructor who worked as a senior elections clerk for the city and county of Honolulu in 2008 is making the stunning claim Barack Obama was definitely not born in Hawaii as the White House maintains, and that a long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate for Obama does not even exist in [...]
JBS Weekly Update: Obamcare Action Plan
Liberty Alerts, JBS Weekly Member Update So what have you done this week to choose freedom and stop ObamaCare? Our new campaign certainly gives all of us plenty to do to educate and influence others, especially those people who are elected or hold important positions in local communities. We tend to focus our time on [...]
Murkowski’s Anti-Cap & Tax Vote is Today!
Liberty Alerts, Eagle Forum Today's floor vote on S. J. Res. 26, Senator Lisa Murkowski's Resolution of Disapproval of the EPA's "Endangerment Finding," remains too close to call, so we need as many phone calls as possible into both district and Capitol Hill Senate offices this morning and this afternoon before the vote! As we mentioned in our [...]
Mexico Gives IDs To Illegal Immigrants In U.S.
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles In a baffling development, a major U.S. county is allowing Mexico’s government to operate a satellite consular office to offer the area’s illegal immigrants identification cards that will facilitate life in the United States. It gets better. Mexican officials [...]
Illinois Spends $55 Mil To Insure Illegal Immigrants
Judicial Watch, Corruption Chronicles A universal children’s health insurance program created by Illinois’ corrupt former governor is covering mostly illegal immigrants and costing taxpayers tens of millions of dollars amid a perplexing $13 billion state budget deficit. About 75% of the children [...]
