Feds’ Lies About Body Scanners Laid Bare
After years of assurances from government officials that the feds’ full-body scans of airline passengers and other persons are discarded immediately and never...
Constitution
Despite Kagan, Public Knows Little About Supreme Court
Now that Elena Kagan has been confirmed as Justice of the Supreme Court following several weeks of highly publicized hearings, the public remains...
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Do We Need a Speedy Senate?
Senate Democrats are expressing great frustration with rules that make it difficult to proceed with legislation. Senator McCaskill of Missouri asks: “What in...
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Feds Grant Permission to Challenge Targeting of U.S. Citizens
On Wednesday, officials from the Department of the Treasury removed a hurdle from the path of two organizations seeking to challenge the constitutionality...
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Elena Kagan and Chief Justice Roberts: Same Difference?
A recent story published by the respected online political magazine, Politico, proposes to set forth similarities between the philosophies of constitutional interpretation espoused...
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A Stark Contrast Between Liberty and Tyranny
Does the U.S. Constitution limit the federal government to a few, specifically enumerated powers, with all other powers retained by the states or...
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Senators Call for Hearings on 14th Amendment Citizenship Clause
Several key GOP senators are calling for congressional hearings into the 14th Amendment’s supposed grant of citizenship to children born in the United...
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No Compromise on Compromise
From infancy on, most Americans hear a steady litany of "compromise, compromise, compromise." Whether parents are breaking up a toddler fight in a...
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Does the District Court Have Jurisdiction in Case Against Arizona?
Apart from the question of whether there exists an enumerated power in Congress to legislate in matters of immigration policy, there is the...
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Is There an Enumerated Power Over Immigration?
In Judge Susan Bolton’s ruling granting the federal government partial preliminary injunction of several key provisions of Arizona's S.B. 1070, she made specific...
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Obama Seeks Expanded Internet Surveillance Authority
Just one week after the American Civil Liberties Union issued a report castigating the Obama administration for its extension and expansion of Bush-era...
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ACLU: Obama’s “New Normal” Is Bush’s Old One
Though neoconservatives and other pro-national security-state types would have Americans believe that President Obama has made a clean break with the Bush administration’s...
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Federal Judge Blocks Enforcement of Key Provisions of S.B. 1070
The ink on S.B. 1070 hadn’t dried before motions to enjoin its enforcement were filed in federal district court. One of those motions,...
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Elena Kagan Furthers the Funding of Radical Islam
Elena Kagan has a problem with fundamentalism — Christian fundamentalism. Kagan has no similar qualms about Sharia, the jurisprudential expression of Islamic fundamentalism,...
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Massachusetts Moves to Circumvent the Electoral College
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is on the verge of passing a new law that will circumvent the Electoral College system so that future...
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