LUBBOCK – An electrical equipment company, represented by the Texas Public Policy Foundation, has brought suit against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission contending that Congress violated the Quorum Clause in allowing its members to vote by proxy, and not in person, on a spending bill which authorized the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act – one tenet of which is that employers must accommodate employees seeking an elective abortion.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s ill-informed comments and questions at the recent oral argument in the challenge to the Biden Administration’s COVID vaccination mandate case (National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor) provide a timely reminder that the hyper-elite legal talent on the nation’s High Court is not always what it is cracked up to be.
After two years, the extraordinary government measures—federal, state, and local—taken in response to the COVID pandemic, some of which were supposed to be temporary, have finally begun to abate, along with the fear and panic that inspired them.
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton, alongside the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) on behalf of Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne, sued the Biden Administration for its asserted illegal mask mandate for airlines and airports, a press release states.
HOUSTON - A legal dispute between the Houston Astros and season ticketholders has been put on hold, as the 14th Court of Appeals issued an order yesterday abating the ballclub’s appeal.
Kidney disease is a life-changing diagnosis. Since I went into renal failure, I’ve believed that patients should only have to worry about the care they need to get well, not the high costs that come with it.
Legal scholars continue to explore the frontier of constitutional interpretation, with recent books by Ilan Wurman (The Second Founding; A Debt Against the Living), Kurt Lash (The Fourteenth Amendment and the Privileges and Immunities of American Citizenship; The Reconstruction Amendments), Randy Barnett (The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment; Our Republican Constitution), and many others.
Peckar & Abramson, Pc Welcomes Angela Connor, Freddy X. Muñoz, and Brian D. Waller to the Firm’s Partnership; Announces Additional Promotions to Senior Counsel and Senior Associate Ranks.
Austin —The Texas Association of Business (TAB), Texas Public Policy Foundation, local chambers of commerce, and additional business associations sent a letter to the Texas congressional delegation in opposition to the federal reconciliation bill.
NEW ORLEANS - A recent OSHA mandate requiring employees of covered employers to undergo COVID-19 vaccination or take weekly COVID-19 tests and wear a mask “violates the constitutional structure that safeguards our collective liberty,” according to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Loudoun County, Virginia, an affluent suburb of Washington, D.C., represents the contentious zeitgeist bedeviling the body politic. As I reported elsewhere last year, the Loudoun County school board has become ground zero in an escalating culture war in which concerned parents oppose leftist indoctrination posing as curriculum.
In 2004 my dad had his first dialysis treatment after flatlining from a heart procedure. We were not sure he would make it through the night as his organs were shutting down, but we were told that dialysis would help and at the time, we wanted to just do whatever was needed to save him. When my dad left the hospital, we were told that his kidneys would require dialysis in the future and his doctors would monitor him.
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Attorney General Ken Paxton joined a 10-state coalition suing the Biden Administration over a recent Executive Order in which the President established a “working group” of federal bureaucrats charged with calculating the “social costs” of certain emissions.
After signing the United States Constitution in 1787, as Benjamin Franklin was leaving the building, he was asked, “What have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” Without hesitation, Franklin replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.”
