Constitution

NRA Warns That Obama Would Assault Gun Rights in 2nd Term

If President Obama is reelected in 2012, he would unlawfully seek to infringe upon the God-given right to keep and bear arms enshrined...

Alex Newman February 13, 2012

Lawyer for Gitmo Detainee Challenges Mail-reading Rule

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. February 13, 2012

An attorney for an American accused of conspiring to carry out the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 has filed suit in the...

Courts and Dept of Justice Agree: Videotaping Police is OK

Bob Adelmann February 10, 2012

Ken Paulsen (left), president and CEO of the First Amendment Center, wrote in USA Today that “just as police officers use technology to...

The U.S. Constitution: Too Old to be Attractive?

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. February 9, 2012

Hot on the heals of the news that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg suggested that new nations look elsewhere for their constitutional...

Federal Court Rules Against Traditional Marriage in California

Dave Bohon February 8, 2012

In a long anticipated decision, a federal appeals court has ruled that California’s Proposition 8, which effectively defines marriage as only between a...

Government Asks Supreme Court for More Time to Defend ObamaCare

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. February 6, 2012

On Friday attorneys for the Obama administration filed a motion with the Supreme Court requesting more time in which to make its oral...

Paul Ryan Proposes Giving President Obama Line Item Veto Power

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. February 6, 2012

The Washington Post reports: "It’s not often that Congress voluntarily surrenders power, and even less common for both parties to agree to do...

Missouri State Senator Introduces Nullification Bill

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. February 3, 2012

In Federalist No. 46, James Madison predicted: But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments,...

Washington State Lawmakers Join War on NDAA Indefinite Detention

Alex Newman February 2, 2012

Lawmakers in Washington State joined a growing nationwide rebellion this week against the federal government’s purported new power to indefinitely detain Americans suspected...

Government Cites NDAA as Authority to Detain Gitmo Prisoner

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. February 2, 2012

Alexander Hamilton wrote in the Federalist Papers that: “[T]he practice of arbitrary imprisonments [has] been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable...

Virginia Lawmaker Introduces Bill to Nullify NDAA

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. February 1, 2012

“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State...

Anti-gun Group to Boycott Starbucks on St. Valentine’s Day

Bob Adelmann January 30, 2012

Elliot Fineman (left), CEO of the National Gun Victims Action Council (NGAC) announced last Monday that its members will boycott Starbucks starting on...

Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist Files Suit Challenging NDAA

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. January 28, 2012

A Pulitzer Prize-winning former Middle Eastern correspondent for the New York Times is suing President Obama for his signing of the National Defense...