Federal Court Rules N.Y. Town’s Prayers Too Christian
A federal appeals court has ruled that the prayers opening the monthly government meetings in Greece, New York, over the past 10 years...
Constitution
U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers of Ala.: TSA Needs to Get “Tougher”
Despite the increasing examples of the Transportation Security Administration's unconstitutional intrusion into the lives of American citizens, leading to a harsh public outcry...
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NDAA: No Detaining Americans Allowed, Says Federal Judge
President Barack Obama must surely rue the day he appointed Katherine Forrest to the federal bench. On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest...
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Democrats Mocked Over Bill to Tax Billionaire Who Gave Up U.S. Citizenship
After billionaire Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin drew global attention to the growing number of Americans giving up their U.S. citizenship to preserve their...
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Is the NSA Using Google to Spy on Account Holders?
Last the week the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed...
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Federal Judge Blocks Enforcement of NDAA’s Indefinite Detention Provisions
Judge Katherine Forrest of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a preliminary injunction on Wednesday preventing the...
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Obama Order Backing Yemen Dictator Threatens Free Speech, Critics Say
President Obama is under fire after passing a so-called “Executive Order” threatening anyone, including American citizens, who interferes even “indirectly” with the transition...
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NLRB’s “Ambush Rule” Overturned, for the Moment
On Monday, U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg ruled against the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) “ambush rule” that would greatly shorten the...
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DHS Will Be Collecting DNA Samples, Reports EEF
According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Department of Homeland Security will be collecting DNA samples from its suspects over the age of...
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The Case for Nullification
Americans who wish to reverse the growing power of the federal government only need to remember that any federal law that is unconstitutional...
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Justice Dept. Wants to Track All Cellphones Without a Warrant
The demand that Congress give more power to the Justice Department to track citizens through their cellphones is meeting resistance. ...
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Senator Carl Levin tells the CFR: the NDAA Makes Us Safer
In a letter published in Foreign Affairs, the official journal of the Council on Foreign Relations, Senator Carl Levin claims that the NDAA...
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Drones Over America
When most Americans think of surveillance drones, it conjures up an image of a Predator drone in a far-off land unleashing a missile...
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Circuit Court Grants Qualified Immunity to Torture Memos’ Author John Yoo
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals granted qualified immunity to John Yoo, shielding him from liability for torture carried out using guidelines set...
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Government Is Keeping Tombstone, Ariz., From Accessing Drinking Water
According to a lawsuit filed by the Goldwater Institute, the U.S. Forest Service is preventing the town of Tombstone, Arizona from repairing the...
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