Should animals get the same constitutional protection against slavery as humans? That’s what a federal judge in California will decide after hearing arguments this week from a leftwing animal rights group that claims an amusement park treats captured killer whales like slaves. It marks the first time in U.S. history that a federal court considers

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Liberals are crying racism in the aftermath of an Arizona judge’s ruling that a city council candidate be removed from the ballot because she doesn’t speak English proficiently enough to hold public office in the state. The case comes from San Luis, a Mexican border town in southwestern Arizona with about 25,000 mostly Hispanic residents.

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In a classic “only in America” case, a federal court has found that prison officials in one state violated a transgender inmate’s constitutional rights by refusing to provide taxpayer-funded laser hair removal treatments. The bizarre case comes from Massachusetts where a male inmate, who identities as female, is serving a sentence at a correctional institution

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President Obama’s quest to transform federal courts by appointing unqualified leftist ideologues is worse than previously imagined, according to a mainstream newspaper that reports the notoriously liberal American Bar Association (ABA) has rejected a “significant number” of potential judicial nominees, most of them minorities and women. This is hardly earth-shattering news considering Obama’s judicial appointments

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Following a number of incidents in which individuals were arrested for videotaping police officers, a federal appellate court has ruled that filming government officials while on duty is protected by the First Amendment as most of the arrestees have claimed.Police departments across the U.S. have long asserted that citizens don’t have the right to videotape

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