Maggie Hroncich

Nov 21, 2024 | nysun.com | Maggie Hroncich

Arguments over Louisiana’s law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom are set for January, as a debate is ramping up around the country about the role religion can play in taxpayer-funded schools. The Fifth Circuit Court this week kept in place a district court’s order halting the state from forcing every public classroom to display the Ten Commandments, while also expediting oral arguments for January 23.

Nov 20, 2024 | nysun.com | Maggie Hroncich

Two legal battles over transgender athletes competing in female sports are unfolding in a federal court in New Hampshire, making the state a critical one to watch as the topic has become a central part of a culture war raging across America. One of the lawsuits, Tirrell v.

Nov 19, 2024 | nysun.com | Maggie Hroncich

Very few Americans are using so-called “woke” terminology such as antiracism, toxic masculinity, critical race theory, and cultural appropriation, a new survey finds, suggesting that far-left politicians and activists pushing such vocabulary could be wildly out of touch with the average American voter. The polling, conducted several days after the election by YouGov, asked more than 1,000 adult citizens what their familiarity was with 30 “woke” or social-justice-oriented terms.

Nov 19, 2024 | nysun.com | Maggie Hroncich

The cost of federal student loan programs has “exploded” in the last ten years, transforming them from what was expected to be  a “money-maker” for taxpayers to a “significant money-loser” for the federal government, according to a fiscal watchdog’s new report. The programs over the past decade have cost hundreds of billions of dollars more than originally projected, a report by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, states, citing new data from the Congressional Budget Office.

Nov 18, 2024 | nysun.com | Maggie Hroncich

A migrant “invasion,” “President Biden’s border crisis,” “unprecedented levels of illegal immigration” —  this is how lawmakers defended passing legislation to enforce immigration matters at the state level earlier this year. Yet with President Biden on his way out of office, and a significantly tougher-on-immigration president on his way in, the legal and political landscape is likely to change soon for several state-level immigration laws that are pending in the courts.