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...
Constitution
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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Obama Retreats From “Religious Freedom” to “Freedom of Worship”
The wisdom of the Founding Fathers of the American Republic was such that the preservation of religious liberty was enunciated in the first...
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Judge Andrew Napolitano Renews Call For Indictment of Bush/Cheney
Fox Business Channel host of Freedom Watch Andrew Napolitano has renewed a call for the indictment of former President Bush and Vice President...
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NY National Guard Violate Posse Comitatus
Reports from the Empire State indicate that the National Guard is assisting local law enforcement in Albany, that state's capital city, to search...
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Oakland Officials Get SMART to Circumvent the Constitution
The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is clear: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and...
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ACLU Tries to Ground No-Fly List
Once in a while the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) gets something right. Case in point: the ACLU’s lawsuit challenging the federal no-fly...
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The McDonald Decision and the Second Amendment
The Supreme Court has issued its ruling in the case of McDonald v. City of Chicago. The court found, in a 5-4 vote,...
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Black Landowners Fight to Reclaim Land Taken by Feds
A group of black former residents of an area of McIntosh County, Georgia, known as Harris Neck has banded together in an attempt...
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Kagan Promises She’ll Reread Federalist Papers
President Barack Obama nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan on May 10 to occupy the chair that would be soon left vacant by Supreme...
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