The ACLU has filed the first federal lawsuit contesting House Bill 1523. The lawsuit names the Mississippi State Registrar of Vital Records as the defendant because that state office would have to collect a list of clerks who are recusing themselves from issuing same-sex marriage licenses as allowed in House Bill 1523, the “Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act” …
The tense state of relations between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia has been roiled lately by two issues: a pending bill in Congress that would allow lawsuits against countries found to have been involved in terrorist attacks on American soil, and the so-called “28 pages,” parts of a congressional inquiry after September 11th that are said to detail possible Saudi complicity in …
Comedian Arsenio Hall slaps Sinead O’Connor with $5MILLION lawsuit calling her a ‘desperate attention-seeker’ for claiming he’d ‘supplied Prince with drugs’ and ‘spiked her at Eddie Murphy’s house’ …
An Army captain sued President Obama on Wednesday, alleging that he doesn’t have the proper congressional authority to wage war against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS. Capt. Nathan Michael Smith filed the suit in U.S. District Court in Washington as the president is deploying more special operations forces to the region – and a day after a Navy SEAL was killed in …