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Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon taken into custody at federal prison
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National, The Daily Caller

Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon taken into custody at federal prison

By KATELYNN RICHARDSON | The Daily Caller Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon reported to prison Monday and is now officially in custody, according to The Associated Press. Bannon will serve a four-month sentence for his conviction on contempt of Congress charges for ignoring a subpoena from the Jan. 6 select committee. The Supreme Court declined on Friday to postpone his sentence while he appeals the conviction. The Bureau of Prisons confirmed Monday that he is now in custody, according to the AP. He began his sentence at Federal Correctional Institute Danbury just before noon, ABC News reported. “I am proud to go to prison,” Bannon said before entering the prison, according to ABC News. “If this is what it takes the stand up to tyranny, if this way it takes the stand up to the ...
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Supreme Court sides with Jan. 6 defendant against obstruction charge
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National, The Washington Times

Supreme Court sides with Jan. 6 defendant against obstruction charge

By Alex Swoyer and Stephen Dinan | The Washington Times The Supreme Court ruled Friday for a Jan. 6 defendant challenging an obstruction charge used by federal prosecutors to ding people who entered the U.S. Capitol that day in 2021. The 6-3 ruling wasn’t ideologically divided, with Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Ketanji Brown Jackson switching wings of the court to join colleagues in their respective decisions. A majority of the court ruled that federal prosecutors couldn’t use an obstruction charge against a Jan. 6 defendant without showing the individual impeded or destroyed a document or evidence used in an official proceeding. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE WASHINGTON TIMES
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Davis: The final days of this Supreme Court term
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Commentary, National

Davis: The final days of this Supreme Court term

By MIKE DAVIS | Substack, Guest Commentary The 2023-24 Supreme Court term already is a dynamic one. The justices, among other rulings, unanimously rejected a leftist effort to throw President Trump off of ballots based on the Insurrection Clause of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment. Several blockbusters await announcement this week. The most crucial case is Trump v. United States. The Court is considering whether a former president has immunity from criminal prosecution for his official presidential acts. Special Counsel Jack Smith indicted Trump after the January 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol. One of the allegations is Trump contemplated firing his acting attorney general—clearly an official act. If presidents fear their successors will imprison them for their official acts, this...
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GOP resolution calls on SCOTUS to ‘intervene’ in Trump’s hush money case
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National, Politico

GOP resolution calls on SCOTUS to ‘intervene’ in Trump’s hush money case

By GISELLE RUHIYYIH EWING | Politico Rep. William Timmons (R-S.C.) introduced a resolution Friday urging the Supreme Court to “intervene” in the hush money case against former President Donald Trump before the 2024 election — a move that experts say is a political stunt that faces significant legal obstacles. Citing the “All Writs Act,” by which the court “may issue all writs necessary or appropriate in aid of their respective jurisdictions and agreeable to the usages and principles of law,” the resolution calls on SCOTUS to intervene in the case “with all deliberate speed and possible urgency.” The resolution argues for the court’s intervention on the basis that Americans need to make “informed decisions” in the upcoming election. It also echoes Trump’s oft-us...
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Colorado e-cigarette company settles with FDA, DOJ on unapproved products
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The Center Square, State

Colorado e-cigarette company settles with FDA, DOJ on unapproved products

By Joe Mueller  | The Center Square A federal court ordered a Colorado company to stop manufacturing, distributing or selling unauthorized vaping products. Earlier this month, a complaint against Boosted LLC, which markets itself as Boosted E-Juice, and its owner, Cory Vigil, was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado. The complaint stated the company violated the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act by introducing or delivering for interstate commerce adulterated products and others misbranded as tobacco, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. The complaint alleges the defendants manufactured and sold electronic finished nicotine delivery systems products and e-liquids. The Food and Drug Administration warned the company its products, including flavore...
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1st Amendment case of Jack Phillips and Masterpiece Cakeshop in front of Colorado Supreme Court
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National Review, State

1st Amendment case of Jack Phillips and Masterpiece Cakeshop in front of Colorado Supreme Court

By NATAN EHRENREICH | National Review America’s favorite baker, Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop, is back in front of the Colorado Supreme Court today for yet another round of state-sponsored persecution. The question before the court: Does the First Amendment apply in Colorado, or can the state continue to harass, target, and bully speakers who don’t ascend to the state’s view of cultural issues, in direct contradiction of recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings? That is not hyperbole. The Supreme Court already ruled once that Colorado unconstitutionally targeted Phillips for his religious beliefs. It also ruled a year ago that the application of Colorado law to compel speech violates the 1st Amendment. One might believe that Colorado didn’t get the message, but that’s false. It did ...
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Gun rights groups sue to overturn ban on firearms at post offices
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National, The Washington Times

Gun rights groups sue to overturn ban on firearms at post offices

By Stephen Dinan | The Washington Times Second Amendment advocates went to federal court Tuesday to challenge the federal government’s ban on carrying firearms in post offices, saying it’s an unconstitutional limit on the right to bear arms. The lawsuit, brought in federal court in Texas, argues that the ban cannot survive the Supreme Court’s new approach to gun litigation, which holds that only policies that would have been countenanced by the founding era can survive constitutional scrutiny. The Firearms Policy Coalition and the Second Amendment Foundation said the founders envisioned restrictions at polling places, legislative assemblies and courthouses — all places where the federal government already provides its own security. But none of those are analogous to post offices. ...
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Legal battle heating up from the killing of a Trump supporter by 9News’ unlicensed, contracted security guard
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Rocky Mountain Voice, State

Legal battle heating up from the killing of a Trump supporter by 9News’ unlicensed, contracted security guard

By Rocky Mountain Voice Staff The Colorado Court of Appeals has found Denver’s 9News could potentially be held liable in a fatal shooting of a Trump supporter during a 2020 protest in Denver. Matthew Dolloff, an unlicensed security guard allegedly acquired by a contractor 9News used, was accompanying a 9News producer at a protest between the group "Patriot Muster" and a "BLM-Antifa Soup Drive" when he shot and killed Trump supporter Lee Keltner, according to CBS News. Denver District Attorney Beth McCann refused to prosecute at the time of the shooting: "Under Colorado's law, Matthew Dolloff had no duty to retreat and was legally justified in his actions. While I do not agree with Mr. Dolloff's decision to use lethal force, the fact remains he had the right to...
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Shooting of man standing at door not covered under ‘Make My Day’ immunity, Colorado Supreme Court rules
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coloradopolitics.com, State

Shooting of man standing at door not covered under ‘Make My Day’ immunity, Colorado Supreme Court rules

By Michael Karlik | Colorado Politics A defendant cannot avail himself of the immunity Colorado law affords those who use lethal force against home intruders, the state Supreme Court ruled on Monday, because his victim was not inside any "dwelling" when he fired the shots. Joseph M. Howell stands accused of attempted murder and other charges. In February 2023, a man allegedly came to the ground-floor apartment in Denver where Howell lived with his mother. The man was reportedly acting "wild" and "threatening." At one point, the man stepped onto the concrete pad separating apartment complex's yard from Howell's door. From the apartment, Howell shot the man in the face through a barred, closed security door. In response to the criminal charges, Howell invoked Colorado's "Make My Day...
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Judge blocks Biden’s transgender student protections in 6 more states
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National, THE HILL

Judge blocks Biden’s transgender student protections in 6 more states

By BROOKE MIGDON  | The Hill A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked a Biden administration rule expanding federal nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ students.  The decision by U.S. District Judge Danny C. Reeves halts enforcement of changes to Title IX — the federal civil rights law preventing sex discrimination in schools and education programs that receive government funding — that were finalized in April by the Education Department in Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. The new rule, which covers discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity for the first time, had been set to take effect later this summer.  READ THE FULL STORY AT THE HILL
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