by Kaitlin Housler | Apr 21, 2025 | Education, News, Tennessee, The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, The South
Tennessee Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson (R-Franklin) said he hopes a bill making its way through the Tennessee General Assembly regarding illegal immigrant children who attend taxpayer-funded schools in the Volunteer State will be the test case for the U.S....
by Kaitlin Housler | Apr 4, 2025 | Lawfare, National, News, Tennessee, The Michael Patrick Leahy Show
Mike Benz, a former Trump State Department official and current Foundation for Freedom Online executive director, highlighted U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts’ relationship with anti-Trumper attorney and former U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic Norm...
by Kaitlin Housler | Mar 10, 2025 | Justice, News, Tennessee, The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, The South
Mark Pulliam, a retired attorney and Misrule of Law blogger, said a bill in the Tennessee General Assembly would essentially “tie” the hands of Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti when defending the separation of powers and constitutional rights of...
by Kaitlin Housler | Feb 26, 2025 | Justice, News, Tennessee, The South
Former Republican Tennessee State Senator Brian Kelsey entered federal prison on Tuesday to begin serving his 21-month sentence on charges stemming from his federal campaign finance case. Kelsey was indicted in October 2021 by a federal grand jury in Nashville on five...
by Kaitlin Housler | Feb 25, 2025 | Justice, News, Tennessee, The South, TN LEAD
The U.S. Supreme Court denied a request to review a lower court’s decision to uphold Tennessee’s Adult Entertainment Act in the case Friends of George’s v. Mulroy on Monday. The Adult Entertainment Act, which was signed into law in 2023 by Governor Bill Lee, prohibits...
by Kaitlin Housler | Feb 14, 2025 | News, Policy, Tennessee, The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, The South
Aaron Gulbransen with the Tennessee Conservatives Coalition said a bill filed in the Tennessee General Assembly is “designed” to serve as a challenge to the 1982 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Plyler v. Doe. The bill filed by Tennessee House Majority Leader William...
by Kaitlin Housler | Jan 16, 2025 | Justice, National, News, Tennessee
The U.S. Supreme Court may issue a ruling in the case TikTok, Inc. v. Garland on Friday, the nation’s highest court signaled through a message on its website. On its website, the Supreme Court said opinions “may” be announced on Friday beginning at 10 a.m. on the...
by Kaitlin Housler | Jan 9, 2025 | Justice, National, News, Tennessee
Jacob Huebert, president of the Liberty Justice Center, detailed this week’s upcoming oral arguments in the case TikTok, Inc. v. Garland before the U.S. Supreme Court, explaining how the plaintiffs in the case are seeking to prevent the current law requiring TikTok to...
by Kaitlin Housler | Jan 8, 2025 | Justice, National, News, Tennessee
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has been assigned to oversee President-elect Donald Trump’s appeal to the nation’s highest court submitted on Wednesday that seeks to halt a criminal sentencing scheduled for Friday morning in the New York hush money case....
by Kaitlin Housler | Jun 28, 2024 | Justice, News, Tennessee, The South
U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) joined many elected officials and conservative leaders who expressed disappointment with the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Murthy v. Missouri on Wednesday. The Republican attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana and five...
