Jason Miller, a former senior adviser to Donald Trump, launched a new social media platform on July 4 at 10 a.m. ET called GETTR. The name comes from the idea of “getting together” as one online community. It was launched on July 4 to declare “independence” from Big Tech. Miller... Read More »
On June 28, the Supreme Court voted 6-3 to vacate the judgment and send the case of Lombardo v. City of St. Louis to the lower court to look at again. The original decision in the case says that a police officer acted with proper force in restraining a prisoner... Read More »
A 65-year-old hot dog vendor was attacked during a Pride event on Sunday, June 25 around 11 p.m. at Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village. Police say that the attack started because of a disagreement in prices, but onlookers who caught the attack on tape say it started because the... Read More »
The Supreme Court refused to take a case from Virginia where a student was allowed to use a bathroom that matches his gender identity. Therefore, the decision of the lower court will stay as-is. Gavin Grimm started going to Gloucester High School in September 2014. Grimm was born a female... Read More »
Gov. John Bel Edwards vetoed a bill that would not allow transgender females to play on girls’ sports teams in Louisiana, despite many other southern states passing this type of legislation. Edwards has called this type of legislation discriminatory. "As I have said repeatedly when asked about this bill, discrimination... Read More »
A bill recently passed unanimously in the Louisiana House (99-0) and Senate (36-0) would help curb the number of children who cannot read. However, the bill does not have any funding attached to it. Gov. John Bel Edwards has signed the bill into law. Two other bills regarding education (Senate... Read More »
California’s ban on assault weapons was overturned by US District Judge Roger Benitez. In his ruling, Judge Benitez held that the ban violates the Second Amendment which gives people the right to bear arms, and that it prevents people from owning weapons that are allowed in other states. "We cannot... Read More »
In 1994, President Bill Clinton signed into law the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act, which banned “semiautomatic assault weapons”- which were defined to include 18 different guns and all firearms with two or more “military characteristics.” Examples of “military characteristics” are bayonet mounts and flash suppressors. There... Read More »
The First Amendment protects free speech. However, the line becomes tricky when it comes to social media. Can social media platforms regulate what you say or is what you say on the platform protected by the First Amendment? Social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, etc. will take down any content... Read More »
On June 21, 1989, the Supreme Court voted to uphold a protestor’s right to burn the American flag for the sake of protesting. In the Texas v. Johnson case, the court voted 5-4 in favor of Gregory Lee Johnson, who burned the American flag during a protest at the Republican... Read More »
In yet another decision that displays the justices’ commitment to protecting religious freedoms, the US Supreme Court ruled that the City of Philadelphia could not refuse to work with a Catholic agency that refused to place children with same-sex foster parents. The case, titled Fulton v. Catholic Social Services, was... Read More »
Some gun restrictions that are commonly in place around the country include background checks, restrictions on gun ownership for felons, and gun licensing. The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) is a phone system that a Federal Firearms Licensee (FFL) calls to do a background check on people who... Read More »
A Northwestern Medicine study has been published in a pre-print and is waiting to be accepted by a journal. For now, it is preliminary. The study found that the Federal Assault Weapons Ban (FAWB) that existed from 1994-2004 led to a large decrease in mass shootings and the number of... Read More »
Back in 1994, the U.S. Congress passed a federal ban on certain assault weapons due to a large number of mass shootings with assault weapons. The official name for the ban was the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act. Nineteen models of assault weapons were banned. “Copies or... Read More »
During the “For God & Country Patriot Roundup” conference last month in Dallas, attorney Sidney Powell said that Trump “can simply be reinstated.” She continued, saying "And Biden is told to move out of the White House. And President Trump should be moved back in. I'm sure there's not going... Read More »
