Texas Governor Rick Perry is back in the news this week – this time being called out by grand jurors, complainants and the special prosecutor for his efforts to spin facts surrounding his recent indictment. You should recall that on August 15, Perry was indicted by a Travis Country grand jury on two felonies stemming […]
Austin American-Statesman is reporting that a Texas district court judge out of Austin issued a warning on Thursday that she intends to protect the grand jury that indicted Gov. Rick Perry from threats, implied or otherwise. The Governor was indicted on two felonies August 15 by a Travis County grand jury for abusing the power […]
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric on Wednesday that she believes the male Supreme Court justices who voted against her in the Hobby Lobby case have a “blind spot” when it comes to women. Couric asked Ginsburg whether she “believed the five male justices truly understood the ramifications of their […]
Questions arise concerning future methods of carrying out the death penalty after an Arizona execution took nearly two hours, on Wednesday. The execution of double-murderer Joseph Wood was conducted using a two-drug cocktail that the state had never tried before. As NBC reports, everything began normal with doctors administering an IV into one of Wood’s […]
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) challenging Obamacare. Judge William C. Griesbach, the Chief United States District Judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, issued the ruling on Monday which could prove ominous for House Republicans as they prepare their own lawsuit against […]