Posts Tagged ‘constitution’
Catholic Group to Sue Obama Administration over Obamcare
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, PRIESTS FOR LIFE Staten Island, NY - Priests for Life, a New York based international pro-life organization of Catholic clergy and laity, today announced that it will be filing a lawsuit against the Obama Administration in an effort to seek injunctive relief from impending regulations that would require the organization to [...]
Eyewash Battle for the Constitution: A Letter to “Eric Holder”?
CONSTITUTION, LEE.SENATE.GOV Today, Senator Mike Lee joined Senators Charles Grassley, Orrin Hatch, Jon Kyle, Jeff Sessions, Lindsey Graham, John Cornyn, and Tom Coburn in signing a letter addressed to Attorney General Eric Holder regarding the recent appointment of four officials to various positions in the Obama administration. Excerpts of [...]
ObamaCare: A Costly, Job-Robbing Boondoggle
iberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice "With government spending and regulations out of control, small businesses don’t know what’s going to hit them next." That from U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Thomas J. Donohue. The fact is small businesses are going to get hit again - this time they will be hit very hard by [...]
Defeat ObamaCare: Take Nothing for Granted
ObamaCare, American Center for Law and Justice The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the ObamaCare case at the end of March. With arguments still two months away, speculation is already growing on what the court will do. There's an interesting story in The Hill that suggests that backers of ObamaCare "have lost the high level of [...]
DOJ Memo Backing Obama 2 Days Too Late
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice It can only be described as a smokescreen to cover the actions of President Obama. The Department of Justice today released a memo backing President Obama's disturbing "recess appointments" made earlier this month. The memo is dated January 6th, two days after the appointments occurred. [...]
Obama’s Power Grab: “Recess Appointments” When There is No Recess
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice President Obama ignored the Senate and the Constitution in making four “recess appointments” while the Senate is still in session, defiantly stating “I refuse to take ‘no’ for an answer.” On Wednesday, President Obama made “recess appointments” of former Ohio Attorney [...]
Beneath Growth, a Sea of Poison
Mike Brownfield, Heritage Foundation Today’s jobs report from the Department of Labor was encouraging news for the U.S. economy. It shows that 200,000 jobs were created and the unemployment rate ticked down from 8.7 percent to 8.5 percent. Jobs were created in every sector of the economy save one — government! This report is consistent with [...]
Obama Appointments Shred the Constitution
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice President Obama is creating a constitutional crisis with the four “recess appointments” he made yesterday, bypassing the authority of the U.S. Senate. His unconstitutional actions contradict centuries of precedent, as well as recent legal analysis by both the Clinton and Bush White House [...]
The Future of ObamaCare
By Phyllis Schlafly The U. S. Supreme Court scheduled an extraordinary five and a half hours for oral argument in the legal challenge to ObamaCare, officially known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The last time the U.S. Supreme Court granted so much time for oral argument was 35 years ago, and that was for four consolidated [...]
Morning Bell: Faith in America
Matthew Spalding, Heritage Foundation “The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time,” Thomas Jefferson once wrote. “The hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.” Among the American Founders, there was a profound sense that faith and freedom were deeply intertwined. Nowadays, we are often told that religion is [...]
Supreme Court Sets Argument Date on ObamaCare
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice The Supreme Court has just announced that it will hear oral arguments on ObamaCare over a three-day period from March 26-28, 2012. These arguments to determine the constitutionality of this pro-abortion law are scheduled to occur just days after the two-year anniversary of its [...]
2011 Victory: Students Can Wear Religious Symbols to School
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice This is the latest installment in a year-end series looking back at a few of the hundreds of victories by the ACLJ in 2011. It may be hard to believe that in 2011, in the United States of America – the land of liberty – and after countless court cases, students could be suspended for [...]
Posturing Persists in Run-Up to ObamaCare Arguments
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice As we prepare our legal arguments to file with the Supreme Court in an amicus brief detailing why ObamaCare should be declared unconstitutional, it's interesting to note posturing is already underway - not in the courtroom - but in the court of public opinion and in the halls of [...]
ObamaCare: The Fight Continues
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice Two years ago, when ObamaCare was ramrodded through Congress at the eleventh hour, the American people were squarely against this pro-abortion law that forces Americans to buy a particular good or service as the price of citizenship. Today, only a meager 34% still support this law. Since [...]
Obama Violates Federal Law by Forcing Abortion Rights on Kenya
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice A recent investigation by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the investigative arm of Congress, revealed that the Obama administration has broken the law. The GAO’s report establishes that at least one Obama grantee openly lobbied to expand abortion in Kenya despite the longstanding [...]
UPDATE: ObamaCare Opposition Growing
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice The response has been overwhelming. In the first 24 hours after the Supreme Court announced it would determine the constitutionality of ObamaCare, nearly 40,000 Americans expressed their opposition to this flawed law and signed on to our upcoming amicus brief urging the Justices to declare the [...]
ObamaCare, the Supreme Court, and Our Schizophrenic Constitution
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice At present we have a schizophrenic constitution — at least as interpreted by several decades of Supreme Court precedent. In the arena of civil liberties, the power of the federal government is properly fenced. From free speech to search and seizure to any number of areas — enumerated and [...]
ObamaCare Cases: What’s at Stake?
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice This post is co-authored with Erik Zimmerman, ACLJ Associate Counsel. As we noted previously, the Supreme Court recently agreed to consider whether the “individual mandate,” the key provision of the massive, unpopular federal health care law passed in early 2010 commonly known as [...]
Supreme Court Agrees to Consider Mandate and Severability as ACLJ Urged
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice Today, the Supreme Court officially announced that it will decide the constitutionality of ObamaCare. Just three weeks ago the ACLJ filed an amicus curia brief to the Court on behalf of 105 Members of Congress and tens of thousands of Americans urging it to take up this landmark case. Our [...]
No Man is an Island: Why Individualism Can’t Sustain Freedom
Ryan Messmore, Heritage Foundation Is individualism adequate to sustain liberty and rein in government? This issue surfaced during the Republican primary debate last week in Las Vegas. “This country has always put people in groups” and treated them accordingly, said Representative Ron Paul (R–TX). America needs to move away from this [...]
Who Is Responsible for Protecting America?
Mike Brownfield, Heritage Foundation On October 25, 1983, the first of 7,000 U.S. troops landed on the shore of Grenada under the command of President Ronald Reagan. The goal of the mission? Put down a violent coup that threatened to put the country in the Communist bloc and give the Soviet Union another foothold in America’s [...]
Another ObamaCare Case Headed to the Supreme Court
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice Last week I told you that the Obama Administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take the case out of Florida (involving 26 states challenging ObamaCare) and review the decision of a federal appeals court striking the individual mandate of ObamaCare. Now, Virginia has filed its petition [...]
A Constitutional Graduation Setting
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice We're hopeful that a recent decision by a federal appeals court concerning the venue for a high school graduation ceremony will clear the way for students to use a Christian church in a case we're involved with in Connecticut. As you may recall, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh [...]
Let’s Celebrate Constitution Day
By Phyllis Schlafly This Saturday is Constitution Day, the anniversary of the day our great United States Constitution was signed in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787. It should be as important a national holiday as Independence Day. Our Constitution is unique in the world. Most Western democracies have constitutions that are lists of what [...]
Time to Study the U.S. Constitution
By Phyllis Schlafly Federal law makes it mandatory for all schools to teach about the Constitution on Constitution Day, which is September 17, or during Constitution Week if it falls on a weekend, as it does this year. It would be a good idea for you to check with your local public school and see how it is planning to comply with this [...]
Preserve the Constitution, Now More Than Ever
Ed Meese, Heritage Foundation The Constitution of the United States of America has endured over two centuries. It remains the object of reverence for nearly all Americans and an object of admiration by peoples around the world. Unfortunately, the assault by 20th century liberal theorists and activist judges has seriously undermined respect for [...]
Disappointed but Not Deterred – ObamaCare will be Decided by Supreme Court
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice While the other days decision by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals rejecting Virginia’s challenge to ObamaCare is disappointing, it does nothing to change the fact that the Supreme Court will ultimately decide the constitutionally of this health care law. As you know, the ACLJ filed an [...]
Americans Get It – ObamaCare Must Go
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice The American people understand. The pro-abortion, government-run, costly health care law put forth by President Obama must go. In a new poll, there's even stronger opposition to ObamaCare. According to Rasmussen, 57% of voters surveyed want to see the health care law repealed. And nearly [...]
Legal Smackdown for ObamaCare
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice It is a critical step forward to undoing ObamaCare. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals today declared the individual mandate, the provision forcing Americans to purchase health insurance, unconstitutional. In a split decision, posted here, the court found that "the individual mandate [...]
The Federalist Papers, No. 38: James Madison
Liberty Letters, James Madison, Federalist No. 38 Saturday, January 12, 1788 IT IS not a little remarkable that in every case reported by ancient history, in which government has been established with deliberation and consent, the task of framing it has not been committed to an assembly of men, but has been performed by some individual [...]
Pledge Problem in Oregon
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice It's difficult to believe. But, one city in Oregon is limiting the voluntary recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance before city council meetings to four times a year. That's right, the Pledge of Allegiance apparently is too controversial and too divisive to be a part of every council [...]
The Federalist Papers, No. 14: James Madison
Liberty Letters, James Madison, Federalist No. 10 Friday, November 30, 1787 WE HAVE seen the necessity of the Union, as our bulwark against foreign danger, as the conservator of peace among ourselves, as the guardian of our commerce and other common interests, as the only substitute for those military establishments which have subverted the [...]
States Push Back Against Federal Power
By Henry Lamb To listen click here Texas State Rep. Lois Kolkhorst has introduced a bill that could have massive implications for every state government as well as the federal government. Her bill HB 1129 directs the State Attorney General to conduct an investigation, and report to the legislature before the end of 2012, how international [...]
A Plunge into Constitutional Chaos
By Phyllis Schlafly Several state legislatures are considering resolutions to use a never-before-used power in our Constitution's Article V to petition Congress to call a new national convention to amend the U.S. Constitution. Most of these resolutions say they want the convention to consider only the one amendment that state is [...]
Many Are Called… — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, I just completed reading a book written back in 1967 by H. Verlan Andersen, Many Are Called, But Few Are Chosen. A quick read, only 83 pages from cover to cover; about the amount of time it takes to watch the movie Avatar or Titanic. Don’t let the title fool you, it’s not just for scripture thumpers; this book is a [...]
Libertarians, Conservatives, and Qualities of Governance
American Gumbo with Diane Alden Former Law and Order star, Michael Moriarity says about Libertarians what I have been thinking. While I admire and believe in about half of their tenets, some of them are so really stupid and anti-human and so out of touch with any of the beliefs the Founders had in mind that I have trouble accepting a rational [...]
As the U.S. Constitution is Read on the Floor
Liberty Alerts, Gun Owners of America It's never been done before. The U.S. Constitution has NEVER been read on the floor of the Congress. And to no one's surprise, the voting records of most Congressmen demonstrate they've never read the document for themselves! So as you know, GOA initiated a campaign early last month to require the [...]
Slaves Were Persons Not Property, Original Constitution Says So
By Bryan Fischer The Democrats have been in full howl over how the Republicans read the Constitution on the House floor on Thursday. Here’s the odd thing: they criticized the Republicans not because of what they read, but because of what they didn’t read. And what they didn’t read is stuff that’s no longer in the Constitution, because [...]
America’s Culture War and How to Fight It
Facing the Facts in 2011 Liberty Alerts, Eagle Forum As America enters the year of 2011, new government officials are taking their seats all over the nations, at all levels of government. If our nation is to survive and thrive (neither of which has been happening in recent years), we must all face certain fundamental facts and act accordingly. [...]
New Congress Can Define Issues For 2012
By Christopher G. Adamo One nightmarish chapter of the Obama/Reid/Pelosi has mercifully ended. The “lame duck” debacle is at last at an end. And America waits expectantly to see if all of the efforts of the grassroots to begin the work of restoring the nation hold any promise of paying off. Admittedly, the options of the incoming Congress [...]
Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution
Free Enterprise Zone, The Freeman, Joseph Stromberg This book is a well-executed account of the Constitutional Convention, clearly the fruit of many years of scholarly work. It will doubtlessly and quite deservedly come to be seen as one of the best nationalist accounts of the origins of the Constitution. (And since nationalist accounts [...]
John Adams to Officers of the Massachusetts Militia
American Papers As war with France threatens, local militias volunteer for the defense of the new nation. President John Adams replies to the officers of one of the units. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. ___________________________ To The Officers of the [...]
Flashback: Leahy on Obamacare: ‘Nobody’ Questions Our Authority
Liberty Alerts, Matt Cover, CNSNews.com Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) would not say what part of the Constitution grants Congress the power to force every American to buy health insurance--as all of the health care overhaul bills currently do. Leahy, whose committee is responsible for vetting Supreme Court nominees, was [...]
Gates Blackmails Senate With Threat of Hyperactive Judiciary
By Bryan Fischer The Secretary of Defense is blackmailing the United States Senate into normalizing homosexuality in the military by threatening them with out-of-control judicial activism. If the Senate does not legalize sexual deviancy in the armed forces, says Robert Gates, the U.S. military will be at the “mercy of the courts.” In saying [...]
Send in the Clowns — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Maybe elephants dropped a load on Main Street as Ringling Brothers came to town; while that isn’t the case, don’t take your brown shoes off just yet. Here in Houston, Texas, Harris County District (Activist) Judge Kevin Fine will hold hearings on the constitutionality of the capital punishment prior to a murder trial in [...]
Political DNA Expanded — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Every now and then somebody drops a challenge into the comment section of an article which begs for more than a simple reply. One such entry was left at my blogsite after posting “Political DNA?” under the moniker “h8”. The article suggested recent “scientific” evidence has identified, ‘“the liberal gene,” DRD4 [...]
Political DNA? — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, There have been a couple of articles recently which claim to validate the theory that individuals are predisposed toward either conservative or liberal mindsets according to their DNA. Jeremy A. Kaplan wrote a piece entitled, Researchers Find the ‘Liberal Gene’ , which appeared on the Fox News website. “A new study has [...]
The Case Against Red Light Cameras — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Municipalities all across the nation have installed traffic cameras that issue citations to folks who run red lights or, in some instances, citations for excessive speed. Traffic citations are issued under the flawed logic that a police officer reviews each photograph which somehow satisfies the law’s demand for a competent [...]
Yearning for days gone by — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, My folks have a painting in their living room, a pastoral hunting scene by Currier and Ives. It serves as an historical reminder of days gone by, rural landscapes with horses and dogs chasing through the brush, their riders dressed fashionably for the ride. Glancing through the internet I found a similar painting by Currier and [...]
Court Dismisses Suit Challenging Display of Pledge & National Motto
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice There's been an encouraging victory in a case we've been involved with now for nearly a year. A federal district court dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Freedom From Religion Foundation challenging the engravings of the national motto and Pledge of Allegiance at the Capitol Visitor Center [...]
