High Court Faces Highly Charged Issues in New Term
The Supreme Court justices who raised political storms in the last few years with controversial landmark decisions face no shortage of opportunities to...
Constitution
Update: Michigan Counties Continue the Fight Against NDAA
Soon Michigan may join the list of other states who have passed legislation checking the president’s power under the National Defense Authorization Act...
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Illinois Pharmacists Not Required to Dispense Plan B Pills
An Illinois appeals court has ruled that pharmacists may refuse to dispense the "morning-after pill" after a seven-year-long protracted legal battle involving two...
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Justice Department Trained Police to Link Political Activism With Terror
The Department of Justice is under fire after a leaked terror training presentation aimed at state and local law enforcement revealed that police...
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Court Gives TSA Another Six Months to Hold Hearings on Nude Body Scanners
A federal appeals court has given the Transportation Security Administration another six months to comply with the court's 14-month-old order to "promptly" hold...
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Salt Lake County to Print Ballots in Spanish: Is It Following Federal Law?
Salt Lake County (Utah) Mayor Peter Corroon has announced that for the November election his county will print ballots in Spanish. But critics...
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Before 2012, HHS Claimed No Authority to Grant Welfare Work Waivers
The Government Accountability Office found that prior to the Department of Health and Human Services' July memorandum granting waivers of welfare work requirements,...
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Fed. Appeals Court Skewers CIA on Charade of Secrecy About Drone Program
During a hearing on a lawsuit challenging the CIA’s persistent stonewalling of a petition seeking details of its death-by-drone program, federal appeals court...
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Attack of the Drones
The proliferation in the use of drones overseas and at home threatens timeless principles of constitutional liberty, including due process and the prohibition...
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High Court Will Rule on Gay “Marriage,” Ginsburg Predicts
Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg predicted Wednesday that the U.S. Supreme Court will tackle the issue of same-sex marriage some time during the...
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ACLU Demands CIA Disclose Details of Death-by-Drone Program
Attorneys representing the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) are scheduled to appear today in a federal appeals court in defense of that organization’s...
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Appeals Court Judge Reinstates Indefinite Detention — for Now
On Monday, September 17, on the 225th anniversary of the signing of the final draft of the Constitution, with a one-page order a...
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Whistleblower Protests Illegal NSA Data-Mining
A former employee of the National Security Agency (NSA) has released information revealing that the U.S. government has been extracting vast amounts of...
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The “Living Document,” Buried Alive
The Constitution may still be living, but it has been buried alive by deceit and sophistry. It may take archaeological tools to unearth the Declaration...
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UN Promotes Another Gun-Grabbing Program
A United Nations conference aimed at ridding the world of the "scourge" of privately-owned weapons ended recently and the report of the meeting...
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