What the Supreme Court’s Coordinated-Spending Ruling Means for Maryland
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The Supreme Court's decision Tuesday in NRSC v. FEC, striking down federal limits on how...
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Supreme Court Clears States to Bar Transgender Athletes From Girls’ Sports — Where Does That Leave Maryland?
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that states may lawfully restrict girls' and women's...
Supreme Court Upholds Mail-In Ballot Grace Periods — Maryland’s Rules Survive the Challenge
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that states may continue counting mail-in ballots that...
Montgomery County Schools Faces Supreme Court Petition After Barring Teacher for Refusing to Keep Parents in the Dark
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The cert petition landed at the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday. Kimberly Ann Polk, a...
Maryland Officials Find Their Voice — Just Not for Taxpayers
By MDBayNews Staff Two of Maryland's most prominent Democratic officials issued statements today following the Supreme...
Supreme Court Ruling Puts Maryland’s Gun Law on Constitutional Life Support
By MDBayNews Staff The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 today in Wolford v. Lopez that Hawaii's law requiring licensed...
Ferguson Reverses on Redistricting — After Spending a Year Blocking It
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson spent the better part of a year standing in the way...
SCOTUS Lets Virginia’s Redistricting Map Die — And Maryland Democrats Should Take Note
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The U.S. Supreme Court closed the last exit ramp for Virginia Democrats on Thursday,...
High Court’s VRA Ruling Exposes Maryland’s Racial Gerrymander — and Democrats’ Hubris
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews A landmark Supreme Court ruling handed down Wednesday could reshape Maryland's political...
Brown Rushes to SCOTUS to Defend Birthright Citizenship — But Who Is He Really Defending?
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews When Anthony Brown announced that he was defending birthright citizenship before the...
California’s Redistricting Green Light Puts Maryland on Notice
By MDBayNews Staff The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision this week to allow California’s new congressional map to take...
Maryland Joins Lawsuit Defying Scientific Caution on Youth Gender Medicine
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Staff Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown has joined a multistate lawsuit...
DOJ Sues Washington, D.C. Over Gun Laws, Citing Ongoing Defiance of Supreme Court Precedent
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday filed a sweeping civil rights lawsuit against the...
Maryland Voting Rights Act: Safeguard or State-Level Overreach?
By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews An opinion piece published last week by Gilda Daniels, a University of Baltimore law...
Jamie Raskin: Professor of Partisanship, Congressman of Chaos
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) has become one of the loudest and most polarizing voices in Congress—not because he’s...
Finally, A Course Correction: Why Shrinking the U.S. Department of Education Is Long Overdue
By Michael Phillips The Left is in meltdown mode after the Supreme Court’s July 2025 decision to uphold major cuts to the...
Victory for Parents: Supreme Court’s Mahmoud v. Taylor Ruling Reaffirms Parental Rights and Religious Liberty
By Michael Phillips In a decision destined to resonate for generations, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a landmark 6-3...
The Supreme Court Dodges the Gun Rights Fight — For Now
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a case challenging Maryland’s sweeping ban on so-called “assault...
A Voice for Justice: How Jeff Reichert Turned to an ADA Advocate to Defend His Rights and Protect His Son
In a family court system increasingly criticized for opacity, jurisdictional gamesmanship, and disregard for the rights of...