Lawmakers Consider “Repeal Amendment”
The passage of President Obama’s signature, and unconstitutional, health care law prompted a number of reactions at the state level. Some states are considering the prospect of nullification to overturn the...
Constitution
Justice Scalia to Teach Bachmann’s Constitutional Seminar
Republican Representative Michelle Bachmann of Minnesota announced in July that she would be forming a Tea Party Caucus. With the creation of the constitutional conservative caucus, Bachmann also indicated that she...
Supreme Court Set to Hear Challenge to Arizona Campaign Finance Law
As the October session came to an end after Thanksgiving, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a First Amendment challenge to Arizona’s controversial campaign finance legislation. ...
How to Steal $190,000 — and Get Away With It
On October 18, brothers Jesus and Jose Martinez were robbed of over $190,000 by an armed man. They know who the man is and who employs him, and both the thief...
Breyer Suggests Second Amendment Out of Date
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, speaking this past weekend on Fox News Sunday, declared that the Founding Fathers did not intend firearms to go unregulated. Breyer was one of four dissenting...
Supreme Court to Hear Arizona Immigration Law Case Wednesday
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will begin hearing the debate over an Arizona law that punishes employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens in the United States. ...
Don’t Nap Yet: Tea Party Caucus Members Request $1 Billion in Earmarks
The December 2 National Journal reported this head-shaker: Tea Party Caucus members requested earmarks. Of the 52 members, only 16 did not request them in 2010. The 764 requests of the...
Conservative Constitutionalism Called Vague, Arrogant
It will probably come as no surprise to readers of The New American that the views upheld by constitutional conservatives are not widely respected in the circles of the media elite....
Report: Homeland Security Compiling TSA Enemies List
The Department of Homeland Security is gathering names and information about anti-Transportation Security Administration activists, members of the media, and other supposed troublemakers for investigation and possible tracking, according to an...
States Should Enforce, Not Revise, the Constitution!
According to a Gallup poll published on October 13, 2010, 59 percent of Americans think the federal government has too much power. This represents a dramatic, 20-percent increase over the past...
Our “Constitutional” Supreme Court?
The November 22 New York Times editorial titled “Our Constitutional Court” included the surprising observation that the Supreme Court "… rewrite[s] the terms it uses to fulfill the constitutional mission of...
TSA “Freedom Grope” May Lead to Highway Fatalities
Amidst the understandable furor over the TSA’s current systematic violation of the Fourth Amendment rights of American citizens, an aspect of the crisis at the nation’s airports that has not received...
Revolutionary Communist Party Proposes New Continental Constitution
Lately, even many soi-disant conservatives are calling for the drafting of a new constitution. Many believe that the government that has developed from the matrix established by our Founding Fathers has...
New Jersey Supreme Court Rules Against Recall
On November 16, the Supreme Court of New Jersey held that a committee seeking to recall Senator Robert Menendez in advance of the end of his term may not proceed. ...
California Supreme Court Holds Illegals Can Attend College at In-State Rates
The California Supreme Court reversed a lower state court ruling that struck down a 2001 California law providing that in-state illegal-alien residents could pay much lower college fees than out-of-state students....