Month: June 2024

The Supreme Court’s ruling kicks the case back to a lower court, which must now evaluate the facts of the National Rifle Association’s allegations. A Supreme Court decision in a case involving the National Rifle Association could make it harder for regulators to discourage banks from doing business with specific industries. The case, decided unanimously

Breadcrumb Trail Links NP Comment Our task is to defeat cultural socialism and restore cultural wealth while accepting that some attention to equal outcomes and protection for minorities is part of the good society Published Jun 03, 2024  •  Last updated 11 hours ago  •  7 minute read The American flag is set on fire during

Thursday’s unanimous decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in National Rifle Association v. Vullo represents a needed breath of fresh air in a First Amendment atmosphere that has lately been heavy with suffocating arguments for punishing speech. Moreover, the fascinating concurrence by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson offer hints about the big social media cases everyone

We are long overdue to use more precise language about our national obsession with guns, and our repugnant aversion to gun safety legislation. The biggest problem is the willingness by politicians and news outlets to echo the term ‘Second Amendment’ when it is babbled by gun extremists. It makes no sense to ask the question,

The United States doesn’t fully meet the definition of a banana republic—we don’t have an economy dependent on resources, like bananas. But in terms of unstable politics in which government officials misuse powers and the courts to punish foes, the U.S. resembles that term more every day. The concluded hush-money trial of former (future?) President

In Short: National Rifle Association members expect unrest surrounding 2024’s elections and are buying ammo ahead of the fall, according to a recent survey conducted by AmmunitionToGo.com. Methodology and Margin of Error The survey, conducted in person at the 2024 National Rifle Association Annual Meetings in Dallas, Texas, included nearly 1,000 respondents. The NRA claims

Life, Liberty, Property #63: The road to economic ruin we’re on, with the U.S. economy  being propped up by massive federal government deficit spending. (Analysis) by S.T. Karnick IN THIS ISSUE: The Road to Economic Ruin SCOTUS Upholds First Amendment Yes, We Have Gone Bananas A Libertarian for Trump Cartoon SUBSCRIBE to Life, Liberty & Property (it’s free).

Anthony Fauci will testify before Congress on Monday, bringing the controversial doctor back into the news cycle and potentially raising questions that neither presidential campaign wants to answer. Fauci, who for many was the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, retired in late 2022, but he has been dragged into a scandal involving his former aide

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. (Lev Radin/ZUMAPRESS/Newscom) In its recent decision in NRA v. Vullo, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled against the Superintendent of New York’s Department of Financial Services in a case where that agency undertook various enforcement actions against financial institutions pressuring them to stop doing business with the NRA, because of that

Donald Trump has been destined to become the first president convicted of a felony since the day he came down the escalator at Trump Tower and announced he was running for president. The man had no respect for convention, for law or for the Constitution , and now he has been branded a criminal with

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump lost his right to buy or possess firearms and ammunition on Thursday after a Manhattan jury convicted him on 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal payments to keep a porn star quiet during the 2016 presidential election. Trump has long enjoyed strong support from the largely conservative

WASHINGTON — A unanimous Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for a National Rifle Association lawsuit against a former New York state official over claims she pressured companies to blacklist it following the deadly 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Fla. Giving the NRA a new chance to prove its case, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote

The Supreme Court reaffirmed the bedrock First Amendment principle that a “government official cannot coerce a private party to punish or suppress disfavored speech on her behalf.”  Those words were written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor for a unanimous Court on Thursday. And they precisely describe the claims at issue in National Rifle Association v. Vullo.  The NRA argued

WASHINGTON (TND) — On Thursday, The Supreme Court unanimously backed The National Rifle Association in a First Amendment ruling that could make it harder for state regulators to pressure advocacy groups. “It’s about our First Amendment right in this country to free speech,” said Betsy Brantner Smith, Spokesperson for The National Police Association. The ruling

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that a free speech lawsuit from the National Rifle Association against a New York state official could move forward. The ruling was written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, one of the liberal justices of the highest court in the land. ‘Government officials have no business using their regulatory authority to