Bowe Bergdahl has retained the legal services of Eugene R. Fidell, a former judge advocate in the Coast Guard who teaches military justice at Yale Law School. As reported by NBC, Fidell “has eagerly taken on the most complex legal questions of the 21st-century American military — the future of Guantanamo Bay, the fate of […]
Richard George Kopf, a federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska, declared earlier this week that it’s time for the Supreme Court to “STFU.” Kopf published the request as part of an article on his blog about the Supreme Court’s recent decision Burwell v. Hobby Lobby. Appointed by George H.W. […]
“Dogma should not trump our civil liberties,” reads the full-page ad which appears in the front news section of the New York Times. The ad ran on July 3rd and was sponsored by the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) Pictured at the top of the ad is birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger, the founder of […]
Progressives, liberals, conservatives, men women and children are taking to the streets to protest the recent Hobby Lobby ruling. In New JerseyNorthJersey.com reports that “A dozen protesters sought to disrupt the Monday morning opening ceremony of the Hobby Lobby store on Route 46 and urged customers not to shop at a company that the Supreme […]
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg warned that “The court, I fear, has ventured into a minefield” in her blistering dissent to the Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling in the Hobby Lobby case. A mere three days later, lawyers representing two Guantanamo Bay detainees have filed motions asking a federal court to block officials from preventing them from taking […]