Randy Barnett, Cato Institute Senior Fellow and author of Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty, testified today in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on the Constitutionality of the individual mandate in Obama Care. He, very logically and methodically, picked apart the individual mandate and showed how it is blatantly unconstitutional and [...]
A New Orleans judge has ruled that the Obama administration acted in contempt by continuing to block new offshore drilling after a judge struck down the drilling moratorium. After the first ban was struck down, the administration instituted a second ban, then lifted it just before it too was about to be struck down. [...]
District Judge Roger Vinson, a Reagan appointee, declared the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) unconstitutional today. But what makes this decision really great is that Judge Vinson didn’t just say that the segment of the law requiring every citizen to purchase insurance was unconstitutional, as the federal Judge in Virginia [...]
Representative Louise Slaughter (D-NY) is the House rules chairwoman. She, along with the Democratic leadership, has designed a rule regarding the health care bill that trashes the Constitution and openly shows the Fascist tendencies of the Democrat party. This rule, called the Slaughter Solution (after her name, not because it slaughters the [...]
The small city of King, North Carolina declared a state of emergency due to the winter storm that hammered the mid Atlantic region of the country a few days ago. As part of this state of emergency declaration, the city empowered itself to severely infringed upon residents Constitutionally protected right to keep and bear [...]
Thursday, the Supreme Court struck a victory for the 1st amendment by declaring large portions of the McCain-Feingold finance law unconstitutional. Justice Kennedy, writing for the majority said,
…when Government seeks to use its full power, including the criminal law, to command where a person may get his or her information or [...]
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