The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) issued opinions in 74 cases during its October 2017 term. It reversed 52 lower court decisions (70.3 percent) and affirmed 19 (the remaining three cases were original jurisdiction). This term’s reversal rate was slightly higher than the average rate of reversal since 2007 (70.1 percent). Fifteen of the October 2017 term cases originated in […]

The federal government has reopened the investigation into the murder of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African-American boy whose mutilated body was left in Mississippi’s Tallahatchie River in 1955 in one of the most notorious racist killings of the Jim Crow-era Deep South. Two men, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, both white, were prosecuted but acquitted by an all-white jury after […]

NPR attempting to hit a blow to Trump The Trump administration announced Thursday that it had reunited all eligible children under age 5 who were separated from their parents at the Mexican border, two days after a court-set deadline. Administration officials said they reunited 57 of 103 children fitting the criteria, but could not return the rest to their undocumented […]

Sam and Dean were the best of friends as well as two of the biggest baseball fans the world has ever seen. All of their lives, Sam and Dean would talk about baseball. They went to all the games they could get to. They even made a pact, as kids, that when one of them dies – the other will […]

Australian parks and wildlife rangers captured a monster of a crocodile Monday (July 9), according to The Sydney Morning Herald. The beast was 15 feet 5 inches long (4.7 meters) and weighed a whopping 1,300 lbs. (600 kilograms). If a reptile long enough to block two lanes of traffic sounds big to you, you’ve got good instincts. Experts told Live […]

  by Michelle Malkin USA – -(Ammoland.com)- I thought we had seen it all from radical feminists — and what we’ve seen is way, way more than anyone other than a gynecologist needs to see. Six years ago, Code Pink zealots traipsed across the fruited plain in giant female reproductive organ costumes demanding “respect” for women’s bodies and women’s abortion rights. They called […]

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Of President Donald Trump’s explosion at Angela Merkel’s Germany during the NATO summit, it needs to be said: It is long past time we raised our voices. America pays more for NATO, an alliance created 69 years ago to defend Europe, than do the Europeans. And as Europe free-rides off our defense effort, the EU runs trade surpluses at our […]

Nominee Brett Kavanaugh appears to be on track for confirmation among Senate Republicans, including abortion rights supporters Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. The pressure is on centrist Democrats (The Hill). Wisconsin Democrat Sen. Tammy Baldwin, who is up for reelection in a state Trump won in 2016, announced her opposition to Kavanaugh on Thursday. Senate […]

We are going to make this a short day today…. President Trump will hold a joint press conference with British Prime Minister Theresa May this morning followed by noon tea with Queen Elizabeth II in Berkshire, a day after storming out of Brussels, having played the part of disruptor at the annual NATO summit. At the 8:45 a.m. presser with […]