Supreme Court and Abortion Law
The Supreme Court has placed a hold on a Louisiana abortion law that would force all but one clinic in the state to close. The Justices reversed an earlier ruling from a Federal Appeals Court, which...
View ArticlePresident Obama Nominates Merrick Garland to SCOTUS
Republican leaders have said that they will refuse to hold any hearings for any nominee made by President Obama to fill the vacancy left by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court....
View ArticleThe SCOTUS Ruling on TX Abortion Law
The Supreme Court overturned a controversial Texas abortion law last week. The law, House Bill 2, required abortions to be preformed at ambulatory surgical centers by doctors with hospital admitting...
View ArticleRace for the White House 2016
In the race for the White House, Donald Trump surprised his critics this week with visits to Mexico and to an African-American church in Detroit. Trump met with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto,...
View ArticlePreviewing Tonight’s Presidential Debate
We are less than 12 hours from what is expected to be a major milestone in the race for the White House. Republican Donald Trump facing off one-on-one with Democrat Hillary Clinton. The first...
View ArticleDonald Trump and Flag Burning
Burn the flag, go to jail. The President-elect proposed jailtime or loss of citizenship for anyone caught burning the American flag. That’s despite two U.S. Supreme Court rulings protecting the act...
View ArticleHouston Lawsuit Targets Same-Sex Marriage
The Texas Supreme Court has agreed to hear a Houston case challenging the legalization of gay marriage. A lawsuit is seeking to halt same-sex spousal benefits offered to Houston’s municipal employees....
View ArticleTrump and the State of the Union
President Donald Trump’s war on the press, what he terms ‘fake news,’ intensified last week when he blocked several news organizations from joining a White House press briefing. CNN, the New York...
View ArticleAssessing the State of the Union
Last night President Donald Trump delivered his first State of the Union address. He stuck to the script last night and read off of his teleprompter. Trump is graded on such a curve that pundits are...
View ArticleRun, Beto, Run!
Beto O’Rourke is the Democrat best positioned to win Texas, and transform America By Mustafa Tameez To win the future, reform our government, and transform America, the Democratic Party needs to break...
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