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Latest Articles: U.S. Constitution
Examining the Stasi, Seeing the NSA
Post Date: 2015-02-05 05:37:43 by Deckard
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Exclusive: For many years, the East German Stasi was viewed as the most totalitarian of intelligence services, relentlessly spying on its citizens during the Cold War. But the Stasi’s capabilities pale in comparison to what the NSA can now do, notes former U.S. intelligence analyst Elizabeth Murray.By Elizabeth MurrayOn a chilly morning in late January 2015, an unlikely assortment of former U.S. and U.K. intelligence officers gathered at the former headquarters of the Stasi — the former East Germany’s Ministerium fuer Staatssicherheit [Ministry of State Security] — for a tour of Berlin’s “Stasi Museum.”The delegation – which ...
State Passes Law to Legalize Shooting Police
Post Date: 2015-02-03 23:36:00 by Hondo68
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Finally some rational legislation is passed concerning ‘public servants’ unlawfully entering another person’s property. All too often, we see examples of cops breaking into the wrong house and shooting the family dog, or worse, killing a member of the family. Well, Indiana has taken action to “recognize the unique character of a citizen’s home and to ensure that a citizen feels secure in his or her own home against unlawful intrusion by another individual or a public servant.” This special amendment is no revolutionary new thought, only common sense. Self-defense is a natural right; when laws are in place that protect incompetent police by removing one’s ...
Ted Cruz’s Obamacare repeal bill might be the first to be sent to the White House
Post Date: 2015-02-03 00:23:50 by out damned spot
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Democrats in Congress are fond of reminding the public that congressional Republicans have voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act over 50 times. They note, and not without some accuracy, that House Republicans freely forced repeal votes over the course of the last four years as a form of political positioning. None of those repeal measures had any hope of passing the formerly Democrat-led Senate, much less getting to Obama’s desk where it would be vetoed. That calculation changed slightly when Republicans retook control of the upper chamber of Congress. Today, Obamacare repeal efforts have a reasonable chance of being sent to the White House where the president will be forced to ...
Sen. Ted Cruz Second Q&A with Attorney General Nominee Loretta Lynch
Post Date: 2015-01-30 23:36:45 by out damned spot
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Republicans to open February with vote to repeal Obamacare
Post Date: 2015-01-29 19:07:51 by out damned spot
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House Republicans will kick off February with a vote to repeal Obamacare, giving new members the chance to record their opposition to the law while the party pursues its own health plan. “We will begin the month renewing our commitment to individual freedom and opportunity,” House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California said Thursday in a memo to the GOP caucus. Republicans have voted dozens of times to repeal all or part of the Affordable Care Act since its passage in 2010, but this will be the first full-scale repeal vote of the new Congress. The bill also directs relevant committees to work up GOP-driven health reforms that could replace Obamacare after repeal. The ...
DOJ's Attempt To Turn 4th Amendment Into A 'Useless Piece Of Paper' Called Out By Justice Sotomayor
Post Date: 2015-01-28 20:32:34 by Hondo68
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from the you-can-have-a-drug-war-or-you-can-have-a-Fourth-Amendment,-but-not-both dept The Supreme Court's recent track record on the Fourth Amendment has been inconsistent, to say the least. For every win -- like the warrant requirement for cellphone searches incident to arrest (Riley v. California) -- there's been a loss -- the court's granting of permanent forgiveness for officers who predicate stops on nonexistent laws (Heien v. North Carolina), as long as the mistake is determined to be "objectively reasonable." The oral arguments in Rodriguez v. United States [pdf link] deal with another attempted expansion of law enforcement powers at the expense of the Fourth ...
Police Steal $100,000-worth of Legal Guns and Ammo From Citizen
Post Date: 2015-01-28 08:36:14 by Deckard
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Imagine you get into a loud argument in your home with an adult son. Though it’s resolved peacefully, the police had been called. They then confiscate your legal firearms and ammunition — valued at $100,000. Even though you’ve been convicted of nothing. Even though you weren’t even charged. And here’s the kicker: The police say they’re going to keep your property. This is exactly what disabled 9/11 ex-New York City firefighter Marc Weinstein alleges happened to him, in a lawsuit, Weinstein v. Krumpter, et al., he filed earlier this month in U.S. District Court for Eastern New York. On February 25, 2014, Weinstein got into a loud dispute with his son over the ...
Sheriff Tells Citizens to Defy NY SAFE Act’s Pistol Permit Renewal Rule at Oath Keepers Meeting
Post Date: 2015-01-28 05:45:52 by Deckard
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At a January 17 meeting of the Oath Keepers, Fulton County Sheriff Thomas J. Lorey told attendees to defy the state's new pistol permit recertification rule in an effort to gum up the law's enforcement by causing an overwhelming number of permit expirations on the same day. At a January 17 meeting of a New York chapter of the Oath Keepers, an organization of current and former military and law enforcement personnel who have sworn to disobey any orders which violate the US Constitution, Fulton County Sheriff Thomas J. Lorey told local pistol permit carriers that they would soon receive invitations to renew their permits, a step that is now required every five years under ...
Felony Conviction of Reid Contributor Upheld By Ninth Circuit
Post Date: 2015-01-28 01:23:11 by out damned spot
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In the midst of his recovery from a serious accident at his home in Nevada, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has gotten some more bad news: the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the felony conviction of Harvey Whittemore, a big financial supporter of the senator. According to the Ninth Circuit’s opinion, which was released on Jan. 26, Whittemore is “a prominent attorney, developer and lobbyist who has long been active in Nevada politics and political fundraising.” In 2007, he was the chairman of “a holding company with significant interests in golf courses, land development, oil and gas properties, and dairy operations.” The Federal Election Commission website ...
Supreme Court Allows Detroit Judge To Have Sex In Chambers With Litigant
Post Date: 2015-01-27 01:49:47 by TEA Party Reveler
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Supreme Court ends lawsuit against 'shirtless judge' who had an affair with woman whose child support case he was overseeing Wayne County judge Wade McCree had affair with Geniene La'Shay Mott At time, he was presiding over case of Mott and ex-husband, Robert King After affair was revealed, King accused McCree of violating his civil rights But on Monday, Supreme Court ended lawsuit against the 'shirtless judge' Justices said judges are immune from suits stemming from judicial actions. The Supreme Court has ended a lawsuit against a disgraced Detroit judge who had an affair with a woman whose child support case he was presiding over, it was revealed on Monday. Former ...
N.M. court upholds ban on switchblades, suggests broader knife bans might be constitutional, too.
Post Date: 2015-01-26 13:30:30 by tpaine
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N.M. court upholds ban on switchblades, suggests broader knife bans might be constitutional, too Viewed from any approach, the switchblade statute is a modest infringement. Because Section 30–7–8 bans only a small subset of knives, which are themselves a peripheral subset of arms typically used for self-defense or security, the statute effects an unsubstantial burden on the right to keep and bear arms. Cf. Heller I, 554 U.S. at 629 (“[T]he American people have considered the handgun to be the quintessential self-defense weapon…. [H]andguns are the most popular weapon chosen by Americans for self-defense in the home[.]”). And switchblades are designed for uses ...
Law Has Been Murdered (Government Kangaroo Courts)
Post Date: 2015-01-26 05:25:40 by Deckard
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Barrett Brown, Kathy Kelly, and Bonny Mahoney are the kind of people who are imprisoned in America. It is not the perjurers and liars, the torturers, war criminals and mass murderers. It is the good people who peacefully protest the crimes of those who control the US government and its policies. Since around 1990 I have studied and reported on cases that have resulted in the erosion of the protective features in law that made law a shield of the people instead of a weapon in the hands of the government. Barrett Brown’s statement to the Judge in his show trial shows that the US Department of Justice has been successful in preventing the system from delivering any justice. The US Court ...
White supremacist cop killer with tattoos all over his face loses right to an attorney after continuously threatening them and saying they do not have the honor of being in his 'Aryan GOD presence'
Post Date: 2015-01-24 09:40:47 by cranky
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Curtis Allgier was an inmate when he murdered Stephen Anderson in 2007Escaped his shackles during a doctors appointment and shot the guardAccepted a plea which spared him the death penalty - but he is appealingReferred to his lawyers as clowns and described them as incompetentAlso threatened them by saying he 'knew how to find people outside' A white supremacist cop killer with a tattooed-covered face has lost his right to an attorney because he has repeatedly threatened them and called them 'clowns', according to court documents.Curtis Allgier also told his legal representatives preparing his appeal that they did not have the honor of being in his 'Aryan GOD ...
Teen Arrested for His Choice of Emojis in a Facebook Post
Post Date: 2015-01-23 09:17:54 by Deckard
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Apparently you do not even need to use words to be “making a threat” these days. Seventeen year old Osiris Aristy was arrested on Sunday evening after posting a Facebook status using the police officer emoji and the gun emoji. There was no written threat included in the post we found. Upon looking at his Facebook, there were seemingly no threats towards police written at all, at least not in any recent public posts, however, he did use over 200 emojis in just three days. According to the criminal complaint, on January 15, Aristy posted “N***a run up on me, he gunna get blown down,’ followed by an emoji of a police officer with three gun ...
Who Will Keep Our Freedoms Safe?
Post Date: 2015-01-22 05:26:36 by Deckard
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While the Western world was watching and grieving over the slaughter in Paris last week, and my colleagues in the media were fomenting a meaningless debate about whether President Obama should have gone to Paris to participate in a televised parade, the feds took advantage of that diversion to reveal even more incursions into our liberties than we had known about. We already knew that the NSA, our 60,000 domestic spies, has captured and retained the contents of nearly all emails, text messages, telephone calls, bank statements, utility bills and credit card bills of all Americans since 2009. We already knew that Obama has used CIA drones to kill Americans overseas and claims that he somehow ...
Private high-speed rail has eminent domain powers in Texas
Post Date: 2015-01-21 19:30:09 by Willie Green
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Texas Central Railway's privately funded bullet train will need to buy private land as it makes its way from Dallas to Houston. For landowners in the path of the tracks, the first-of-its-kind project will have eminent domain powers as a last resort. The $10 billion project would use Japanese N700 Shinkansen trains capable of going more than 200 mph. More than 60 trains a day could be making the 90-minute trip between Dallas to Houston by 2021. The majority of the route will follow existing utility lines or freight tracks. But the tracks will also cross private land. Click on the photos above to see the routes being considered as part of the federal environmental feasibility study. ...
The Supreme Court’s early years: When censorship was constitutional? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-01-20 14:14:59 by SOSO
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The Supreme Court’s early years: When censorship was constitutional? TweetShare on printShare on emailBy Eric Black | 11/13/12 In the first decade-plus of its history, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down zero congressional enactments. At the risk of being slightly snarky, I would point out that the first two presidents (George Washington and John Adams) were Federalists, the first Congresses were dominated by Federalists, so all of the early Supreme Court appointees were nominated and confirmed by members of the same party that was also passing and signing all the laws and, coincidentally or not, none of the laws were struck down, nor even challenged, as unconstitutional. This is ...
New police radars can 'see' inside homes
Post Date: 2015-01-20 08:36:04 by Deckard
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WASHINGTON — At least 50 U.S. law enforcement agencies have secretly equipped their officers with radar devices that allow them to effectively peer through the walls of houses to see whether anyone is inside, a practice raising new concerns about the extent of government surveillance.Those agencies, including the FBI and the U.S. Marshals Service, began deploying the radar systems more than two years ago with little notice to the courts and no public disclosure of when or how they would be used. The technology raises legal and privacy issues because the U.S. Supreme Court has said officers generally cannot use high-tech sensors to tell them about the inside of a person's house ...
The Conscience of the Constitution
Post Date: 2015-01-19 13:50:48 by tpaine
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The Conscience of the Constitution The Conscience of the Constitution: The Declaration of Independence and the Right to Liberty documents a vital, forgotten truth: our Constitution was written not to empower democracy, but to secure liberty. In fact, the word "democracy" does not occur in either the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence. Yet, to author and constitutional scholar Timothy Sandefur, the overemphasis on democracy by today's legal community--rather than the primacy of liberty, as expressed in the Declaration of Independence--has helped expand the scope of government power at the expense of individual rights. Now, more than ever, the Declaration of ...
Rand Paul: “I’m a judicial activist.”
Post Date: 2015-01-17 10:15:43 by tpaine
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Rand Paul: “I’m a judicial activist.” In a recent speech, Senator Rand Paul urged an audience of conservatives to embrace judicial activism. According to Paul, judicial activism is a good thing because it advances liberty and furthers conservative goals. Legislatures do “bad things,” Paul argues, and judicial activism is helpful to stop that: Judicial activism can overturn liberal laws such as Obamacare and the employment laws at issue in Lochner v. New York. According to Senator Paul, there is “a role for the Supreme Court to mete out justice.” As a result, he considers himself a judicial activist in debates over Locher, the New Deal in the 1930s, Brown ...
You promised to “defend the Constitution” against “all enemies, foreign and domestic.” Now what
Post Date: 2015-01-15 20:23:01 by tpaine
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You promised to “defend the Constitution” against “all enemies, foreign and domestic.” Now what? Article VI of the Constitution requires Officials to take an oath “to support this Constitution.” Today, 5 U.S.C. 3331 specifies the language of the oath for federal officials. According to this statute, officials must “solemnly swear (or affirm)” that they “will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic” and that they “will bear true faith and allegiance to the same.” The oath required by 5 U.S.C. 3331 actually dates back to 1868, when it was required of former Confederate ...
Killing the North American Union Conspiracy
Post Date: 2015-01-15 16:55:26 by yukon
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“By 2010, the integration of Mexico, Canada and the U.S. will be almost complete. Congress and the media will not know what happened. Americans will be as clueless as ever; thanks to the complicity of the brain-dead media, the triumph of a bloodless bureaucratic elitist coup will become a reality, or close to it.” — Diane Alden “President Bush signed a formal agreement that will end the United States as we know it, and he took the step without approval from either the U.S. Congress or the people of the United States.” — Lou Dobbs Tonight “President Bush is pursuing a globalist agenda to create a North American Union, effectively erasing our borders with ...
Judge Threatens To Impose A “Secret Jury” After Activists Try to Inform Jurors of Legal Rights
Post Date: 2015-01-15 12:51:33 by Deckard
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New York City, New York – According to multiple reports, Judge Katherine Forrest has threatened to impose a secret jury in the case of accused Silk Road operator Ross Ulbricht, in response to jury nullification outreach that has been taking place outside the courtroom all week. For those who don’t know, jury nullification is basically the right for any juror to not only judge the facts of the case, but to also actually judge the validity of the law itself. This means that if a jury feels that a defendant is facing an unjust charge, they actually have the right to rule in the defendant’s favor, even if they are technically guilty under the court’s standards. However, ...
What Not Even the King of England Could Do
Post Date: 2015-01-13 08:52:36 by redleghunter
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A federal researcher points out George III couldn’t suspend laws — as many say Obama just did. Remember those WWJD bracelets that were so popular in the ’90s? Well, an expert at the Law Library of Congress — a non-partisan branch of the Library of Congress that has advised Congress and the Supreme Court since 1832 — tackled a slightly different question: What would George III do when faced with a law he didn’t like? Not even the King of England at the time of the American Revolution had the authority to suspend laws unilaterally, the Law Library expert wrote in a memorandum to the Senate committee tasked with responding to President Obama’s recent ...
German newspaper that reprinted Charlie Hebdo cartoons firebombed
Post Date: 2015-01-11 15:09:08 by tpaine
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German newspaper that reprinted Charlie Hebdo cartoons firebombed By Eugene Volokh January 11 at 1:03 PM Arsonists struck at the Hamburger Morgenpost in Hamburg, northern Germany, on Sunday morning. The newspaper ran caricatures from Charlie Hebdo after the French satirical newspaper was attacked Wednesday. (Bodo Marks/DPA via AP) Fortunately, this happened at night, and no-one was injured. The Associated Press reports: Police in Germany have detained two men suspected of an arson attack early Sunday against a newspaper that republished the cartoons of French weekly Charlie Hebdo. The newspaper Hamburger Morgenpost said on its website the overnight arson attack destroyed several ...
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