WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is seeking a hold on a court order that mandated the government to allow those who identify as the opposite sex to enlist in the military beginning Jan. 1. “Specifically, Defendants request that the court stay the portion of its preliminary injunction requiring Defendants to begin accessing transgender individuals into the military […]
WASHINGTON — A federal judge appointed to the bench by then-President Bill Clinton has issued an order clarifying her recent injunction against the Trump administration’s ban on “transgender” enlistment in the U.S. Armed Forces, and has outlined that the government must allow the enlistment beginning Jan. 1. “[The previous] order was to revert to the […]
WASHINGTON — A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction against President Trump’s ban on “transgendered” persons in the military, finding that the five service members who sued over the ban had a likelihood of success in the lawsuit. “[T]he presidential memorandum is causing Plaintiffs serious ongoing harms and will cause them further harms in the […]
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court has granted a request by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) to attempt to find a non-government entity to be what is called in immigration law “a sponsor” of an undocumented teen who has sought to obtain an abortion after being informed while […]
AUSTIN, Texas — A federal appeals court has temporarily blocked a ruling by a lower court that ordered the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) to allow an illegal immigrant teenager to obtain an abortion “promptly and without delay.” U.S. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia issued the […]
WASHINGTON — The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued “interim final rules” that would expand protections for religious employers who are opposed to the contraceptive mandate in Obamacare, also known as the “abortion pill mandate.” “Upon further examination of the relevant provisions of the Affordable Care Act and the administrative record on which […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore, also known as the “Ten Commandments Judge,” is maintaining his lead in the polls ahead of Tuesday’s primary runoff election despite President Donald Trump’s appearance at a rally on Friday for his opponent, Luther Strange. The data analytics group Optimus, which conducted a poll on Friday and […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Justice has filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in support of a Colorado baker who was ordered to make a cake for an event celebrating the union of two homosexual men. “The department filed an amicus brief in this case today because the First Amendment protects the […]
WASHINGTON — President Trump has proclaimed Sunday as a National Day of Prayer for those affected by Hurricane Harvey, calling upon “Americans of all faiths and religious traditions and backgrounds” to pray individually and corporately in their houses of worship. “From the beginning of our nation, Americans have joined together in prayer during times of […]
WASHINGTON — President Trump signed a directive on Friday instructing Defense Secretary James Mattis to revert to the nation’s longstanding ban on open “transgenders” in the U.S. military. “In my judgment, the previous administration failed to identify a sufficient basis to conclude that terminating the departments’ longstanding policy and practice would not hinder military effectiveness […]