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Latest Articles: U.S. Constitution
PBS: Gun Owners of America Exposed Sen Manchin’s Gun Control Plans
Post Date: 2015-01-10 18:58:12 by out damned spot
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PBS’s new special, Gunned Down: The Power of the NRA, includes looks at other gun rights groups–like Gun Owners of America (GOA)–and actually credits GOA with dragging Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) into the light when he tried to cloak his 2013 gun control push with words like “compromise” and “loopholes.” According to PBS, when GOA’s Larry Pratt saw Manchin working behind the scenes crafting and then pushing gun control in the wake of Sandy Hook, he called Manchin out and pressed other gun rights groups to refuse Manchin’s efforts as well. Pratt saw Manchin as an opportunist who was stepping in while the hearts of the American people were aching, ...
House votes down ObamaCare’s 30-hour workweek, 252-172
Post Date: 2015-01-09 22:47:31 by out damned spot
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The House on Thursday in a 252-172 vote approved legislation that would waive fees on businesses that do not offer health insurance to employees working fewer than 40 hours per week. The legislation – which has been at the center of a heavy corporate lobbying campaign – only received 12 Democratic votes. Eighteen Democrats backed the bill during a House vote on the same issue last spring. No Republicans opposed the measure. The White House has threatened to veto the bill, which strikes at the healthcare law’s mandate that businesses provide insurance. The legislation is the GOP’s first chance to deliver an anti-ObamaCare bill to the president’s desk. It will now ...
Urgent: Obama Tells States They Can’t Block His Immigration Order
Post Date: 2015-01-09 21:45:11 by out damned spot
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Urgent: Contact Your Governor Obama claims his unconstitutional immigration order is unreviewable. He has also BANNED PUBLIC INPUT. While we are watching the events in Paris, twenty-five states, that have sued to block Barack Obama’s executive order allowing millions of illegals to stay in the U.S., have been told by the federal government that it is above judicial review. The Dictator is not only ignoring Congress, he is ignoring the courts and he is trampling states’ rights. His goal is to destroy the co-equal branches of government and the constitutional protections against a rogue president. It is not hyperbole to call him a dictator. He is dictating. On immigration, he ...
Obama Imposed 75,000 Pages of New Regulations in 2014
Post Date: 2014-12-30 20:51:39 by out damned spot
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Just in the last few weeks, the Obama administration has proposed or imposed over 1,200 new regulations on the American people that will add even more to the already crushing $2 trillion per year cost burden of the federal regulatory machine. According to data compiled from the federal government’s Regulations.gov website by the Daily Caller, most of the new regulatory schemes involve energy and the environment — 139 during a mere two-week period in December, to be precise. In all, the Obama administration foisted more than 75,000 pages of regulations on the United States in 2014, costing over $200 billion, on the low end, if new proposed rules are taken into account. Just one of ...
The Cops Are Sacking Their Own Cities
Post Date: 2014-12-23 05:46:27 by Deckard
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Philadelphia prosecutors agreed Thursday to halt efforts to seize the homes of two of the lead plaintiffs in a widely publicized federal suit challenging the city’s use of civil forfeiture laws in drug cases. Philadelphia drops a Civil Asset Forfeiture case to prevent any court from ruling just seizing people’s property is unconstitutional. Phily.COM has reported the case of Christos Sourovelis and Doila Welch,who were both caught up in having their homes seized to pay police pensions when the police arrested a relative they claimed was dealing drugs on their properties. Today, you basically have to shun relatives and never pick up a hick-hiker in trouble for if they have any ...
For Punitive Populists, “Comply or Die” IS The “Law”
Post Date: 2014-12-20 18:31:13 by Deckard
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“Our will is the law, and if you submit to it, we won’t kill you.” That’s the actual message behind the motto displayed on a line of t-shirts designed by South Bend, Indiana police officer Jason Barthel. The shirts display a badge insignia against set the “Blue Line” logo — the universal colors of the State’s privileged gang-banger fraternity — with the inscription: “Breathe easy — don’t break the law.” The t-shirt design is intended as a rebuke to the “I can’t breathe” protest meme inspired by the police murder of Eric Garner. “We are not here to do anything negative to the public,” insists Barthel. ...
US v Juarez-Escobar, PAWD 14-cr-00180-AJS Doc 32, Memorandum Opinion, Obama Immigration Exec Action Unconstitutional
Post Date: 2014-12-18 17:51:04 by nolu chan
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HTML conversion by nolu chan. For original document as [ublished by court, see link. Not all formatting retained here, such as columns on title page and indentations throughout. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2014/12/Juarez-Escobar.pdf Case 2:14-cr-00180-AJS Document 32 Filed 12/16/14 Page 1 of 38 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA Criminal No. 14-0180 ELECTRONICALLY FILED UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, v. ELIONARDO JUAREZ-ESCOBAR, Defendant. MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER OF COURT RE; APPLICABILITY OF PRESIDENT OBAMA'S NOVEMBER 20, 2014 EXECUTIVE ACTION ON IMMIGRATION TO ...
BREAKING: FEDERAL JUDGE STRIKES BLOW AT OBAMA EXECUTIVE AMNESTY
Post Date: 2014-12-16 21:21:29 by out damned spot
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What would we do without Jonathan Adler, whom AmericanHealthLine names today one of the top 14 “movers and shakers” in health care in 2014 because his legal analysis led to the upcoming Supreme Court case on Obamacare’s state subsidies that may blow the ACA sky high. Anyway, Jon flags a U.S. District Court opinion out this morning that finds Obama’s immigration executive action exceeds the proper understanding of “prosecutorial discretion”: According to the opinion by Judge Arthur Schwab, the president’s policy goes “beyond prosecutorial discretion” in that it provides a relatively rigid framework for considering applications for deferred ...
California Attorney General Sued to Stop Disclosure of Conservative Group's Donor Addresses
Post Date: 2014-12-14 22:18:45 by out damned spot
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Conservative think tank Americans for Prosperity (AFP), co-founded by principals of Koch Industries, sued in federal court to prevent ultra-liberal California Attorney General Kamala Harris from using her office to disclose the names and addresses of their 90,000 donors. Harris may have a problem with AFP being a major force behind the Tea Party movement and its support of free markets, entrepreneurship, lower taxes, and limited government spending and regulation. As a federally registered 501(c)(4), not-for-profit educational organization, Americans for Prosperity is allowed under federal law to raise and spend money educating the public regarding issues associated with political ...
BOEHNER OMNIBUS BILL SIZE GROWS AN EXTRA 171 PAGES OVERNIGHT, NOW 1774 PAGES LONG
Post Date: 2014-12-11 20:17:14 by out damned spot
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Speaker John Boehner’s more than $1 trillion omnibus spending bill is actually getting longer -- it grew an extra 171 pages last night. “With the adoption of the rule in the House, the CRomnibus grew from 1,603 pages to 1,774 pages,” a congressional GOP aide tells Breitbart News. “The rule amended the bill to add some material on pensions that total 171 pages.” The bill is stalled in the House right now and it’s unclear if Boehner and his lieutenants, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California and Majority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana, will be able to save it. The bill has come under enormous criticism from both Republicans and Democrats, conservatives ...
Floor Drama: Boehner Embarrassment As House Nearly Kills Omnibus On Procedural Vote
Post Date: 2014-12-11 20:00:49 by out damned spot
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The final vote on Speaker John Boehner’s 1,603-page, more than $1 trillion omnibus spending bill is in jeopardy after members almost killed the bill on the rule. A total of 214 members voted for it, less than the majority of members in the House, but since all members weren't voting, the 212 against the rule wasn’t enough to kill it. Time for voting had run out minutes before, and briefly the nays—those against the rule—had the majority. At least one Republican had switched a vote from being against the rule to for it, at which time the presiding officer used procedural chicanery to quickly call the vote passed. Republican Reps. Justin Amash (R-MI), Michele ...
The 'Thin Blue Line' Serves No Purpose
Post Date: 2014-12-11 10:53:39 by Hondo68
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Like many people, I grew up watching numerous television shows and mainstream movies depicting a world in which the common police officer stood as a sentinel of civilized society against a seething underbelly of violence and chaos just beneath the surface of the world around us. Through public schooling, we were indoctrinated to fear the drug culture as a breeding ground of gangland destruction and to worship law enforcement officials as the only barrier between us and a cocaine-frosted wasteland. We were led to believe that every day police were holding back a tide of crime and terrorism. The so-called “thin blue line” was an indispensable part of a safe and prosperous nation. ...
SHERIFF JOE SCORES VICTORY AGAINST OBAMA'S AMNESTY-Legal challenge now on fast track
Post Date: 2014-12-11 03:29:16 by out damned spot
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A judge has sided with Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in the first clash in what is expected to be a major court fight over the legality – or not – of Barack Obama’s looming amnesty program, ordering a fast track for case arguments and hearings. The announcement came on Wednesday from U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell in Washington, and granted a motion from Arpaio’s attorney, Larry Klayman of FreedomWatch, to move things along quickly. Two Justice Department lawyers representing Obama in the fight had wanted their initial response delayed for weeks – for one thing because of the coming Christmas season. But Howell ordered Obama to respond to Arpaio’s ...
Heritage Staff Pull an All-Nighter Reading the ‘Cromnibus’ Spending Bill
Post Date: 2014-12-10 20:05:15 by out damned spot
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Last night, lawmakers released the massive, 1,603-page, $1.1 trillion spending bill that will fund the government for the coming year. Since lawmakers almost certainly won’t have time to read the so-called “Cromnibus” bill in time for Thursday’s budget deadline, Heritage Foundation experts stayed up past midnight reading the text. Update: Here’s a time-lapse video of their reading session, which lasted well past midnight: Heritage’s Romina Boccia says bills like this are part of the reason government has grown so wildly out of control. Do you think lawmakers should vote on legislation like this without reading it first?
Boehner Drops 1,603-Page Omnibus Spending Bill, Securing Future of Obama's Amnesty
Post Date: 2014-12-09 23:23:24 by out damned spot
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Election results in November that emboldened the House Republican majority and delivered the U.S. Senate majority to the GOP be damned, House Speaker John Boehner is desperately turning to the Democrats to pass his omnibus bill that enables President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty. The full bill, the text of which was publicly introduced at about 8:20 p.m. on Tuesday after congressional leaders missed several self-set deadlines throughout the day, is 1,603 pages long. That means it will be impossible for any member of the House or Senate to read the entire bill before voting on it this week. The pure numbers in Congress suggest Boehner can’t get enough Republicans to pass his ...
Obama, Holder, and their supporters want preference not equality
Post Date: 2014-12-09 11:37:20 by nativist nationalist
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President Obama knowingly has taken America another step toward widespread racial violence. Between his implicit endorsement of what the looters, arsonists, and rioters have done in Missouri, and his plan to spend hundreds of millions on cameras for policemen so they can help Obama, Holder, and other Black bigots railroad them into prison, Obama has emerged in full splendor as both a racist and a teacher of hate and violence. For myself, I think it would better serve Americans if Obama had to wear such a camera so that all of us can see who he meets in his ongoing effort to make the United States into a Third World economic basket-case and an even more laughable and war-losing military ...
Texas et al v United States, TXSD, 14-cv-00254 COMPLAINT (3 Dec 2014) IMMIGRATION, 18 states
Post Date: 2014-12-06 18:00:55 by nolu chan
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Texas et al v United States, TXSD, 14-cv-00254 COMPLAINT (3 Dec 2014) See PDF (at link above) of complete Complaint as filed for all original formatting such as double spacing and indentation. Case 1:14-cv-00254 Document 1 Filed in TXSD on 12/03/14 Page 1 of 75 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS BROWNSVILLE DIVISION STATE OF TEXAS; STATE OF ALABAMA; STATE OF GEORGIA; STATE OF IDAHO; STATE OF INDIANA; STATE OF KANSAS; STATE OF LOUISIANA; STATE OF MONTANA; STATE OF NEBRASKA; STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA; STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA; STATE OF UTAH; STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA; STATE OF WISCONSIN; GOVERNOR PHIL BRYANT, State of Mississippi; ...
Head fake? Obama never signed amnesty order
Post Date: 2014-12-05 06:29:39 by out damned spot
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NEW YORK – It’s common knowledge President Obama signed an executive order directing the Department of Homeland Security to forgive millions of illegal aliens for their past violations of immigration law, right? Wrong. Today the National Archives and Records Administration, responsible for such maintaining such filings, said no such executive order was ever signed or filed, confirming WND’s report Wednesday. A National Archives librarian, Jeffrey Hartley, made the confirmation in an email Thursday to WND. “As I indicated, it would appear that there is not an Executive Order stemming from the President’s remarks on November 20 on immigration,” Hartley ...
BREAKING NEWS: Injunction Filed To Prevent Amnesty, By Joe Arpaio And Freedom Watch
Post Date: 2014-12-04 18:17:14 by out damned spot
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AUN-TV has just found out that minutes ago an injunction was filed against President Obama’s Illegal Alien Amnesty program by Freedom Watch on behalf of Sherriff Joe Arpaio. We have reviewed the key points and believe that Freedom Watch (Larry Klayman) has an exceptionally good case as the Obama Administration has set themselves up, due to the reasoning they have presented as to why “discretion” is warranted in this case. Obama has claimed they have to do it because they do not have enough money to process all the illegal aliens. However Congress not only gave Obama all the money he requested for this issue, they gave him more and Obama never asked for more. So the legal ...
Multistate Coalition Sues Over Immigration Order
Post Date: 2014-12-03 18:04:01 by out damned spot
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Texas is leading a 17-state coalition suing over President Barack Obama's recently announced executive actions on immigration, arguing in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that the move "tramples" key portions of the U.S. Constitution. Many top Republicans have denounced Obama's unilateral move, which was designed to spare as many as 5 million people living illegally in the United States from deportation. But Texas Gov.-elect Greg Abbott took it a step further, filing a formal legal challenge in federal court in the Southern District of Texas. His state is joined by 16 other mostly conservative states, largely in the south and Midwest, such as Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana ...
OBAMA LECTURES AMERICA ABOUT THE JUSTIFIED ANGER TOWARDS LAW ENFORCEMENT IN MINORITY COMMUNITIES
Post Date: 2014-11-27 04:50:43 by out damned spot
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Tuesday at Copernicus Community Center in Chicago, IL, President Barack Obama addressed the riots and protests going on throughout the country in reaction to the grand jury announcement that Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson will not face charges for the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by justifying the anger as, "It's rooted in reality, " but condemning the violence as non-productive. Partial transcript as follows: A grand jury made a decision yesterday that upset a lot of people. And as I said last night, the frustrations that we have seen, are not just about a particular incident. They have deep roots in many communities of color, who have a sense that our laws are not ...
Moral Befuddlement in Ferguson
Post Date: 2014-11-26 01:18:10 by nativist nationalist
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“It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.” Edmund Burke’s insight returned to mind while watching cable news coverage of the rampage in Ferguson, Missouri, after St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch announced that officer Darren Wilson would not be indicted in the shooting death of Michael Brown. The rioting, looting, arson and gunfire that began after McCulloch relayed the grand jury’s decision, a decision long predicted and anticipated, revealed the unspoken truth about Ferguson. The problem in Ferguson is not the 53-man police department. The problem is the ...
Four words that could deep-six Obamacare
Post Date: 2014-11-23 07:50:40 by out damned spot
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WASHINGTON — The most serious challenge to President Obama's health care law since it survived the Supreme Court by a single vote in 2012 isn't a balky website, public opinion or the Republican takeover of Congress. It's the Supreme Court — again. In a case likely to be heard in March and decided in June, the justices will dissect the meaning of four words on page 95 of the 906-page Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — four words that could render health insurance premiums unaffordable for millions of Americans. Here's a look at the issues in King v. Burwell: Question: Why the fuss over four words? Answer: The law states that tax credits will be ...
The Use and Abuse of Executive Orders and Other Presidential Directives
Post Date: 2014-11-22 10:53:34 by CZ82
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The Use and Abuse of Executive Orders and Other Presidential Directives By Todd F. Gaziano In recent years, there has been renewed interest in the proper use and possible abuse of executive orders and other presidential directives. Many citizens and lawmakers expressed concern over the content and scope of several of President Bill Clinton's executive orders and land proclamations. Congress responded with hearings and the consideration of several bills designed to curb the President's authority to issue such directives. In an exceedingly rare act, the courts reacted by striking down one of President Clinton's executive orders, and litigation to contest the validity of other ...
Arpaio v Obama, DCDC 14-cv-01966, Doc 1 COMPLAINT
Post Date: 2014-11-21 21:28:02 by nolu chan
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Converted from PDF to HTML by nolu chan. Some formatting not retained, such as double spacing and centering. Case l:14-cv-01966-BAH Document 1 Filed 11/20/14 Page 1 of 19 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Mr. JOE ARPAIO, Elected SHERIFF of Maricopa County, State of Arizona 550 West Jackson Street Phoenix, AZ 85003 Plaintiff, v. The Honorable BARACK OBAMA, individually and in his professional capacity as President of the United States of America 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, D.C. 20500 and The Honorable JEH JOHNSON, individually and in his professional capacity as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security 12th & C Street ...
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