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Latest Articles: U.S. Constitution
Worse than Obamacare: Housing Case Lets Feds Target ‘Unconscious’ Racism
Post Date: 2015-06-25 19:07:05 by cranky
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As bad as the Supreme Court’s ruling in Obamacare was, the other decision it handed down on Thursday, in Texas Housing v. Inclusive Communities, is even worse. Like the opinion in King v. Burwell, in which the Court effectively rewrote the plain language of the so-called Affordable Care Act, in Texas Housing the 5-4 majority decided that Congress had allowed claims of housing discrimination to be brought based on population statistics, when in fact it has never done so. Now, plaintiffs do not need to show there was actual racial discrimination, or an intent to discriminate. Instead, they can just point to the racial makeup of a neighborhood and infer that discrimination must have ...
OBAMACARE-SCOTUSCARE UPHELD
Post Date: 2015-06-25 11:32:50 by nolu chan
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OPINION OF THE COURT, Roberts CJ. King v Burwell, Scotus 14-114 (25 Jun 2015) OPINION of the Court, Roberts - - - - - DISSENTING OPINION OF JUSTICE SCALIA, with Thomas and Alito, JJ. King v Burwell, Scotus 14-114 (25 Jun 2015) DISSENT Scalia
The Washington raisin thief gets busted [Takings Clause]
Post Date: 2015-06-25 09:35:39 by Tooconservative
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Back in April I wrote about one of the more curious cases to hit the Supreme Court in a while. It dealt with the the Raisin Administrative Committee, which is apparently a real thing and occasionally scoops up (pun intended) the crops of raisin farmers for the general good. This alleged use of the Takings Clause was designed to keep prices up at a certain level to benefit the farmers. The filched raisins would later be sold on the international market with some of the proceeds going back to the farmers, but not at anything resembling the fair market price. Yesterday the Supremes rendered their verdict and in an 8 -1 decision they said the practice failed to meet constitutional muster. (New ...
Cop Will not Face So Much as a Slap on the Wrist for Leaving K-9 in Hot Car Until he Died
Post Date: 2015-06-23 09:17:31 by Deckard
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K9 Officer Mason, 3, died after heat exposure, according to a report. (GSPD) Gulf Shores, AL — Alabama law makes it illegal to engage in activities which can cause serious physical harm or death to animals. Serious physical harm, as defined by Alabama state law is as follows: Any physical harm that carries a substantial risk of death, permanent or temporary maiming or disfigurement, or that causes pain or suffering of any gravity or duration. Article 11 of the Alabama Criminal code makes it illegal to subject any animal in person’s custody to cruel neglect. The act of causing intensive or prolonged pain or serious physical injury, or death to an animal through neglect falls under ...
Fox News: Senator Ted Cruz Declares Himself A "Natural Born Citizen" And Eligible To Be President
Post Date: 2015-06-18 10:49:44 by Hondo68
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Canadian-Born Senator Ted Cruz Declares Himself A "Natural Born Citizen" And Eligible To Be President Senator Ted Cruz just told Fox News' Sean Hannity that he's a "natural born Citizen" and is eligible...VIDEO HERE:( Video via Fox News )CDR Kerchner educates: No matter what one thinks of his politics, Ted Cruz is NOT constitutionally eligible. And the two major political party lawyers Katyal and Clement can spin and put out disinformation to lend support to constitutionally ineligible people in both major parties, but they cannot change the original intent, meaning, and understanding of who is a "natural born Citizen" which comes from Natural ...
Warning: Federal Court Rules that 2nd Amendment Right is Now a Reason for Cops to Detain You
Post Date: 2015-06-18 08:56:15 by Deckard
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In a stunning violation of 2nd Amendment rights, the U.S. District Court of Western Michigan ruled police have the legal authority to detain individuals that choose to exercise their constitutional right to open carry a firearm. Open Carry is also specifically allowed under Michigan law. The ruling means that people in Michigan who choose to exercise this constitutional right are now subject to being stopped by law enforcement for engaging in a completely lawful activity. Officers detained Johann Deffert in early 2013. He was walking down the sidewalk with a holstered FNP-45 pistol, after receiving a 9-1-1 call from a woman who spotted Deffert with the open carried, but holstered, handgun ...
Video: Man Interrogated, Searched, Detained for ‘Suspicious’ Filming of Cops
Post Date: 2015-06-17 08:50:03 by Deckard
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A man exercising his First Amendment right to film in public was confronted by police who proceeded to interrogate, search, handcuff and detain him in what appears to be a blatant violation of his civil rights. The man, who goes by the handle The Battousai on Youtube, routinely conducts what he terms “First Amendment audits” to ensure police around Central Texas are upholding their fellow citizens’ constitutional rights. Last Tuesday, while filming a police substation in North Austin, the activist was approached by three uniformed Austin police officers who demanded to know what he was up to. The activist, in accordance with his right to remain silent, refused to answer any ...
Un-Reasonable: Feds Declare War on Blog Commenters
Post Date: 2015-06-13 18:22:56 by Deckard
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I’ve previously written about Ross Ulbricht, an American political prisoner sentenced to life for the “crime” of running a business without the US government’s permission. Among libertarians, the response to Ulbricht’s abduction and show trial has been, in some cases, less than polite and temperate. Now, the state is moving against its critics. Last week, as Ken White of Popehat reports, the US Department of Justice served Reason — a popular libertarian magazine and web site — with a grand jury subpoena demanding that it provide “any and all identifying information” it possesses regarding certain commenters on reporter Nick Gillespie’s ...
Every Kill A 'Good' Kill: How Police And The Media Cooperate To Disparage The Dead
Post Date: 2015-06-12 14:25:10 by Deckard
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from the 'past-performance-ALWAYS-indicative-of-this-thing-that-just-now-happened' dept Cops kill a lot of people. Depending on who's counting, they've already killed between 385 and 470 people this year. This isn't to say that some of these killings weren't justified, but when details begin leaking out about the those killed, the amount of force in relation to the threat posed is often questionable. Because no PD wants to look like the home of trigger-happy thugs, the media spin begins almost before the "suspect" has expired. Usaamah Abdullah Rahim, shot by Boston cops, was instantly memorialized by law enforcement and a compliant press with the ...
Casebolt, McKinney, and Legal Liability
Post Date: 2015-06-11 19:03:17 by nolu chan
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Casebolt, McKinney, and Legal Liability nolu chan June 11, 2015 Numerous sources cite the initial report being about a group of teens lacking permission to be at the pool and refusing to leave. Reportedly, they later received a call about a fight. The only reported physical altercation is the one depicted on video showing it was three females. What crime was Casebolt responding to? What evidence did he have? He arrived and detained exclusively Blacks, and almost exclusively black males. No male was engaged in the reported physical altercation. United States v. Cortez, 449 U.S. 411, 418 (1981) Courts have used a variety of terms to capture the elusive concept of what cause is ...
Forget Jade Helm: Obama quietly implementing OUTRAGEOUS rule against gun owners
Post Date: 2015-06-09 16:14:01 by redleghunter
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The Second Amendment to our U.S. Constitution states, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” That statement is pretty clear to understand and comprehend, yet some folks just can’t seem to get over it. There are liberal progressive folks of the left who feel it is their mission in life to relegate the Second Amendment as meaningless. Now, what I am about to say will probably anger some people but so be it. I’m often asked about FEMA camps along the interstate, Walmart stores closing, and the impending Operation Jade Helm. I continue to tell people that while ...
Department Of Justice Uses Grand Jury Subpoena To Identify Anonymous Commenters on a Silk Road Post at Reason.com
Post Date: 2015-06-09 15:25:18 by Hondo68
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The United States Department of Justice is using federal grand jury subpoenas to identify anonymous commenters engaged in typical internet bluster and hyperbole in connection with the Silk Road prosecution. DOJ is targeting Reason.com, a leading libertarian website whose clever writing is eclipsed only by the blowhard stupidity of its commenting peanut gallery. Why is the government using its vast power to identify these obnoxious asshats, and not the other tens of thousands who plague the internet? Because these twerps mouthed off about a judge. Last week, a source provided me with a federal grand jury subpoena. The subpoena1, issued by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern ...
Dear U.S. Military- Beware, America Will Be Watching You
Post Date: 2015-06-08 10:21:17 by Deckard
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Now that Jade Helm 15 "pre" exercises are underway in Flint Michigan (and around the country) and Army obedient soldiers are showing early signs of their willingness to commit treason against Americans if told to do so, critical thinking and freedom loving Americans everywhere are on higher alert. Unfortunately for the Army, the rest of the U.S. military and all their obedient even possibly well meaning stooges, the living manifestation of humanity is more real, more important and more meaningful than any "order" they are given by their commanders. So here is a direct message to every U.S. military troop who thinks that obeying orders is a valid excuse for committing ...
Can a Christian Be a Cop?
Post Date: 2015-06-01 12:48:24 by Deckard
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Can a Christian in good conscience be a cop? Can a libertarian with principles be a cop? Can anyone with respect for individual liberty, private property, and morality be a cop? I have spent many years making the case that Christians have no business “serving” in the U.S. military, including as chaplains who serve two masters and medics who are accomplices to murder. But in addition to questions about military “service,” I have also received many e-mails over the years from Christians, libertarians, and Christian libertarians asking me some question about Christians and/or libertarians “serving” on the police force. I usually refer them to the writings of Will ...
SURVEILLANCE POWERS LAPSE WITH NO DEAL IN SENATE
Post Date: 2015-06-01 04:47:44 by out damned spot
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The National Security Agency lost its authority at midnight to collect Americans' phone records in bulk, after GOP Sen. Rand Paul stood in the way of extending the fiercely contested program in an extraordinary Sunday Senate session. But that program and several other post-Sept. 11 counter-terror measures look likely to be revived in a matter of days. With no other options, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, in an about-face, reluctantly embraced a House-passed bill that would extend the anti-terror provisions, while also remaking the bulk phone collections program. Now, the question is whether the Senate will pass a bill the House can live with. If so, the ...
Cop Claims Freedom of Speech Does Not Give Citizens the Right to Question Police
Post Date: 2015-05-27 17:42:40 by Deckard
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“You don’t have the right to question me about what we’re doing out here…Freedom of speech does not include questioning me, it doesn’t work like that.” Hartford, CT — Entrepreneur and police accountability activist, Michael Picard was out warning drivers about a DUI checkpoint ahead when he caught a cop speaking quite candidly about his authority. On his YouTube channel, Picard explains how the night progressed: On Friday, May 15th, I cop blocked a DUI checkpoint in Hartford, CT, holding up a sign that read, “Cops ahead (Turn now).” Many people ignored the sign and went through the checkpoint, undoubtedly thinking, like most people do, that they ...
Home News National Federal appeals court deals blow to President Obama’s amnesty
Post Date: 2015-05-26 15:57:22 by cranky
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A federal appeals court upheld an injunction against President Obama’s new deportation in a ruling Tuesday that marks the second major legal setback for an administration that had insisted its actions were legal. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled in favor of Texas, which had sued to stop the amnesty, on all key points, finding that Mr. Obama’s amnesty likely broke the law governing how big policies are to be written. “The public interest favors maintenance of the injunction,” the judges wrote in the majority opinion. Mr. Obama had acted in November to try to grant tentative legal status and work permits to as many as 5 million illegal immigrants, ...
JONES AND MCGOVERN START CONSTITUTIONAL WAR STUDY GROUP
Post Date: 2015-05-16 16:04:24 by Hondo68
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – This month, Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) and Congressman Jim McGovern (MA-2) started a Constitutional War Study Group to focus on the history, philosophy, legal authority and political need behind Congress’ constitutional war powers. The Constitutional War Study Group is open to all members of Congress and will hold regular meetings with academic, legal, and military scholars who will brief the group on how Congress can reclaim its constitutional authority and legislative process for debating and declaring war. On Friday, May 1, Congressmen Jones and McGovern will speak about the Constitutional War Study Group on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal from 8:00 ...
Marijuana Prohibition Is Unscientific, Unconstitutional And Unjust
Post Date: 2015-05-16 15:10:39 by Deckard
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Next Thursday I am scheduled to debate Robert White, co-author (with Bill Bennett) of Going to Pot: Why the Rush to Legalize Marijuana Is Harming America, on Glenn Beck’s radio show. Each of us will get half an hour or so to make his case before taking questions from Beck and each other. Here is what I plan to say: Marijuana Prohibition Is Unscientific A few days before the House of Representatives passed a federal ban on marijuana in June 1937, the Republican minority leader, Bertrand Snell of New York, confessed, “I do not know anything about the bill.” The Democratic majority leader, Sam Rayburn of Texas, educated him. “It has something to do with ...
The Prohibitionist Song Remains the Same
Post Date: 2015-05-15 15:55:06 by Tooconservative
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Proponents of drug decriminalization, “with their cry of personal liberty … have about wrecked the true concept of government control of evils,” complained John A. Lapp, President of the National Conference of Social Workers. From Lapp’s perspective, opposition to the federal War on Drugs is itself a gateway drug to outright anarchism, which is the ultimate goal of “destructionists” who conceal their true intentions behind cynical appeals to personal liberty. “To be consistent those same destructionists go so far as to condemn any and all control of conduct,” Lapp insisted. “What may the government regulate, control, or prohibit if not such ...
Scalia Defends The Constitution, Questions The 17th Amendment
Post Date: 2015-05-15 06:29:36 by tpaine
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http://www.westernjournalism.com Scalia Defends The Constitution, Questions The 17th Amendment Argues that without the Constitution, the Bill of Rights is "just words on paper.” Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia reaffirmed his commitment to defending the Constitution while speaking to the Federalist Society in his home state of New Jersey on Friday. Scalia, the preeminent conservative firebrand of the court, told the audience it is the structure of the government under the Constitution and not the liberties guaranteed under the Bill of Rights that makes us free. As reported by The Daily Signal: “Every tin horn dictator in the world today, every president for life, ...
Let’s All Disobey Stupid Laws
Post Date: 2015-05-14 09:57:00 by Deckard
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Many freedoms we take for granted exist because of lawbreakers. Charles Murray, already controversial for writing books on how welfare hurts the poor, on ethnic differences in IQ and on (less controversial, but my favorite) happiness and good government, has written a new book that argues that it's time for civil disobedience. Government has become so oppressive, constantly restricting us with new regulations, that our only hope is for some of us to refuse to cooperate.Murray's suggestion—laid out in By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission—will make some people nervous. He argues that citizens and companies should start openly defying all but the most useful ...
Oath Keepers Founder: Traitor McCain Should Be 'Hung By The Neck Until Dead'
Post Date: 2015-05-13 16:46:48 by Hondo68
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The founder of the Oath Keepers, a loose-knit group of current and former law enforcement officials and military who pledge to defend the Constitution, called for Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) to be "hung by the neck until dead" for treason last week as the president of the Arizona Senate looked on. Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, state Senate President Andy Biggs (R) and "constitutional sheriff" movement leader Richard Mack were all on hand at an event on May 5 in Tempe, Arizona. The stated topic of discussion at the event, which was hosted by a group called the Arizona Liberty Caucus, was the "Dangers of an Article V / Constitutional Convention." Rhodes ...
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