New Iran Sanctions: President Signs Executive Order Citing NDAA Authority
Once again, a provision of the National Defense Authorization Act is being cited by Washington as justification for a new policy position. ...
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Arizona Files its First Brief in Supreme Court Immigration Case
On Monday, attorneys representing Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (left) filed their opening brief with the clerk of the U.S. Supreme Court. In the filing, the Governor asks the high court to...
The U.S. Constitution: Too Old to be Attractive?
Hot on the heals of the news that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg suggested that new nations look elsewhere for their constitutional inspiration than to our own founding charter of...
Government Asks Supreme Court for More Time to Defend ObamaCare
On Friday attorneys for the Obama administration filed a motion with the Supreme Court requesting more time in which to make its oral arguments in defense of ObamaCare. ...
Paul Ryan Proposes Giving President Obama Line Item Veto Power
The Washington Post reports: "It’s not often that Congress voluntarily surrenders power, and even less common for both parties to agree to do so." ...
S.C. Attorney General Asks Court to Unblock Immigration Law
On December 22, 2011, a judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina issued a preliminary injunction blocking the enforcement of key provisions of the South Carolina...
Missouri State Senator Introduces Nullification Bill
In Federalist No. 46, James Madison predicted: But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single...
Government Cites NDAA as Authority to Detain Gitmo Prisoner
Alexander Hamilton wrote in the Federalist Papers that: “[T]he practice of arbitrary imprisonments [has] been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instrument of tyranny.” This principle of constitutional...
Virginia Lawmaker Introduces Bill to Nullify NDAA
“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.” These words were...
Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist Files Suit Challenging NDAA
A Pulitzer Prize-winning former Middle Eastern correspondent for the New York Times is suing President Obama for his signing of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). ...
Court of Appeals Rejects José Padilla’s Unlawful Detention Suit
Earlier this week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond, Virginia upheld the dismissal of the complaint filed by José Padilla (left), an American citizen and convicted...
N. Mex. Man Spends Two Years in Solitary Confinement for DWI
According to reports out of Las Cruces, New Mexico, a man convicted of Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) spent two years in solitary confinement in the county jail. Now, he has received...
“Poor” Greeks Drive Porsches; U.S. Provides Payments through IMF
Imagine this scenario: Your neighbor comes to you asking for money. He confesses to having gone on a lottery-winner spending spree year after year, to buying his kids everything without making...
Obama Calls for UN Reform Without Reduction in U.S. Funding
“The United Nations does extraordinary good around the world — feeding the hungry, caring for the sick, mending places that have been broken. But it also struggles to enforce its will,...
The Enemy Expatriation Act and the NDAA: Due Process Destroyed?
As has been reported here since the bill was first proposed, of all the evils perpetrated by the National Defense Authorization Act, one of the most sinister is the denial of...