When War Comes Home: A Constitutional Warning

Judge Freezes Border Wall In Big Bend, A Sector Covering A Quarter Of The Border But Just 1-3% Of Apprehensions A federal judge in El Paso on Friday halted border wall construction across Texas's Big Bend region, a stretch of the frontier that accounts for only a sliver of illegal crossings. US District Judge Kathleen Cardone read her order from the bench, issuing a preliminary injunction against "ground-disturbing activities" that stays in place while the case plays out, the Texas Tribune reports. She found the plaintiffs' constitutional claims likely to succeed. The...

Texas Doctor Found Guilty For Illegally Distributing Millions Of Opioid Pills Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A federal jury in Texas found a physician guilty of unlawfully distributing over a million pills of opioids and other controlled substances from a Houston-area clinic that operated as a pill mill, the Justice Department announced Monday. Tablets of opioid painkiller Oxycodone delivered on medical prescription in Washington on Sept. 18, 2019. Eric Baradat/AFP via Getty Images Dr. Barbara Marino, 65, of Tomball, was the sole prescribing physician at Angels Clinica, where...

Federal Judge Blocks Oklahoma Religious Ban On Jewish Charter School Bid Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A federal judge in Oklahoma on Sept. 24 blocked the state from using religion as an automatic bar to a charter application, allowing a proposed Jewish virtual school to keep seeking approval after officials rejected it because of its faith. The Oklahoma Supreme Court in Oklahoma City on May 19, 2014. Sue Ogrocki/AP PhotoU.S. District Judge David Russell granted a preliminary injunction to the National Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School Foundation,...