The Volunteer State’s oldest and largest pro-life advocacy organization, Tennessee Right to Life, is celebrating three years of the state’s Human Life Protection Act being in effect.
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State Representative Lee Reeves (R-Franklin), who is running for the Republican nomination in the race for Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District, and U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) were featured during a live segment filmed in Nashville during Thursday’s edition of Fox News’ “Fox and Friends.”
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Three of the attorneys representing Kilmar Abrego Garcia in his second civil lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), filed to prevent his anticipated deportation to Uganda, are part of the New York firm, Quinn Emanuel Trial Lawyers, where they previously represented prestigious clients including Elon Musk and Tesla, the global investment bank Credit Suisse, and debtors owed money by Sam Bankman-Fried’s bankrupt cryptocurrency company, FTX Trading Ltd.
Paperless orders signed on Wednesday by a deputy clerk confirm that Andrew J. Rossman, Sascha N. Rand, and Olivia G. Horton were admitted to represent Abrego Garcia in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland pro hac vice, a Latin legal phrase meaning for this occasion only.
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The U.S. Department of Justice said Thursday it has filed charges against a Tennessee woman accused of threatening U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn.
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Two of the criminal defense attorneys representing Kilmar Abrego Garcia in his federal human smuggling case in Tennessee did not respond to Thursday press inquiries from The Tennessee Star, which sought to confirm that Abrego Garcia reviewed and rejected a plea deal that would have seen him ultimately deported to Costa Rica.
Neither Rascoe Dean of the Nashville-based Sherrard Roe Voight & Harbison, nor Sean Hecker of the New York law firm, Hecker & Fink, replied to the Thursday morning request from The Star to clarify their Saturday filing, which revealed the existence of the plea deal for the first time.
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Tennessee U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) was named in the third annual TIME100 AI list, which recognizes the 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence (AI).
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It was reported on Thursday that the Legal Clinic operated by the Tennessee Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence (TCEDSV), a taxpayer-funded nonprofit, closed due to a loss of state funding. The nonprofit’s website, which contains both English and Spanish language instructions to visitors, confirms that the Legal Clinic closed on June 30.
While The Tennessee Lookout reported on Thursday that the Legal Clinic served “immigrant crime victims,” a listing of services by the Immigration Advocates Network suggests the legal clinic provided a variety of legal services to illegal immigrants, including those who did not claim to be the victim of a crime.
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rolled out a new rule on Thursday limiting how long foreign students can remain in the country, closing a loophole that officials say has allowed some foreign nationals to become “forever students.”
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State Representative Gino Bulso’s (R-Brentwood) campaign launched its first television ad in the Republican primary race for Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District.
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Republicans are calling for 35 inland counties to secede from California and create a new state.
The GOP announced the plan Wednesday as their response to Democrats’ congressional redistricting efforts.
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The Tennessee Public Charter School Commission reversed a decision by Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools and approved an application for a school designed for at-risk youth.
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Among the litany of mistakes and falsehoods pushed by U.S. military commanders and President Biden in 2021 was the fiction that Afghanistan fell in only “eleven days” in mid-August 2021. In reality, the Taliban takeover unfolded over multiple months following then-President Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal “Go-to-Zero” order on April 14, 2021. The architect responsible for that house of cards was then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mark Milley.
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Over half of Americans approve of how President Donald Trump is handling crime, according to an AP-NORC poll released Wednesday.
Of those surveyed, 53% said they approve of Trump’s approach to tackling crime, including 46% of independents and 16% of Democrats, according to the poll. The survey was conducted after the president announced on Aug. 11 that he is deploying the National Guard to help stamp out violent crime in the Washington, D.C.
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My mother’s cousin Henrietta (not her real name), up until that point a solid Democrat, was approaching her Chicago polling place in 1980 when she was greeted by her Democratic precinct worker. “Sorry, George,” she said, “I can’t bring myself to vote for Jimmy Carter again.” “That is all right, Henrietta,” George said without a pause. “We don’t care how you vote on the national ticket.”
Lost to history is whether George was expressing his own or the Chicago Democratic machine’s disaffection from President Carter, whom native son Ronald Reagan would beat in Illinois by almost 8%, or whether George was simply professional enough a political hack to pick his persuasion battles. But to understand why the US Constitution leaves the question of redistricting to the states, George’s “we don’t care” offers a helpful signpost both to what our Founders anticipated and to what we have now.
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