Posts Tagged ‘news’
More Challenges Ahead to Stop Ground Zero Mosque
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice The New York City Lower Manhattan Community Board 1 (“LMCB”) voted 24-11, with two abstentions and one recusal, to recommend that the city deny landmark status for the building at 45-47 Park Place, the planned site of the controversial Ground Zero mosque. Landmark designation would [...]
Documents Uncovered by JW Detail Meeting between DHS Secretary Napolitano and Controversial Islamic “Community Leaders”
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has uncovered documents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that detail a two-day meeting on January 27 and 28, 2010, between DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano and Arab, [...]
Arizona Appeals Ruling on Immigration Law Amid Protests, Dozens of Arrests
Liberty Alerts, Fox News PHOENIX -- The showdown over Arizona's immigration law played out in court and on Phoenix's sun-splashed streets on Thursday, as the state sought to reinstate key parts of the measure and angry protesters chanted that they refused to "live in fear." Dozens were arrested. A federal judge's decision a day earlier to [...]
ACLJ Extremely Disappointed With Federal Court Decision Blocking Key Provisions of AZ Immigration Law
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice (Washington, DC) – The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) said today it is extremely disappointed with a federal court decision that blocks key provisions of Arizona's immigration law S.B. 1070 from taking effect. The ACLJ, along with the Immigration Reform Law Institute, [...]
Papers Prepped to Disbar Elena Kagan
Liberty Alerts, World Net Daily, Drew Zahn One of Washington D.C.'s most feared and fearless corruption watchers has told WND he intends to file an ethics complaint to have Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan disbarred from practicing before the court she aspires to join – and possibly subjected to criminal prosecution – for her role in an [...]
Victory for Academic Freedom: ‘Human Heredity’ Professor Receives $100,000 Settlement
Liberty Alerts, TheFIRE.org SAN JOSÉ, Calif., July 26, 2010—Nearly three years after terminating her over her protected classroom speech, the San José/Evergreen Community College District (SJCCD) has agreed to pay adjunct professor June Sheldon $100,000 in lost earnings in exchange for dismissal of her First Amendment lawsuit. In [...]
Senate Scheduled to Vote on Free Speech Stranglehold Bill
Liberty Alerts, Gun Owners of America Just as gun owners are engaged in the intense battle over anti-gun Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) introduced a new version of a bill that will gut the First Amendment rights of groups like GOA. The so-called DISCLOSE Act, which passed the House last month, puts severe [...]
Judicial Watch Sues Pasadena Police Department for Records Detailing Illegal Alien Sanctuary Policy
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has filed an open records lawsuit against the Pasadena Police Department (PPD), and PPD Police Chief Christopher Vicino, to obtain documents related to the department’s alleged [...]
Help Block Obama’s Lawsuit Against Arizona
Liberty Alerts, JBS.org Freedom Campaign A very important and worthy amendment was just defeated in the Senate by a 55-43 vote. Senators Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and David Vitter (R-La.) introduced an amendment designed to stop the Obama Administration’s lawsuit against the State of Arizona and its taxpayers for SB 1070, the immigration bill [...]
Join Us at the Freedom Action National Conference
Join Us at the Freedom Action National Conference at Valley Forge, PA on August 12 – 14, 2010. The John Birch Society is a cosponsor of this conference. Two of our staff members, Bill Jasper and Larry Greenley, are speaking at the event, and we'll also have an exhibit there. We invite you to join us at this conference with such an [...]
Shariah Law is Already Here: Judge Allows Spousal Rape on Islamic Grounds
By Bryan Fischer Christianity, the foundation of American law, teaches that husbands are to “love their wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her” (Ephesians 5:25). Elsewhere, husbands are told, “ive with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you [...]
U.S. Calls Illegal Mexican Pot Farmer “Displaced Traveler”
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles In an insane case of political correctness, a federal government agency has classified an illegal immigrant arrested for cultivating marijuana in a national forest as a “displaced traveler from Michoacán Mexico.” The illegal alien (Gauldry Almonte-Hernandez) was recently busted during a U.S. [...]
ACLJ & Members of Congress Urge Federal Court to Reject DOJ Suit Challenging AZ Immigration Law
Liberty Alerts, ACLJ (Washington, DC) – The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) and the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) have filed an amicus brief on behalf of 81 members of Congress in support of Arizona's new immigration law which is being challenged in federal court by the U.S. Department of Justice. The brief urges the [...]
Kagan Sails Through Senate Judiciary Hearings!
Liberty Alerts, Gun Owners of America Contact Your Senators Before the Full Senate Votes! The Senate Judiciary Committee recently voted to send the nomination of Elena Kagan to the full Senate floor. The 13-6 vote was not a surprise. Democrats outnumber Republicans 12-7 on the committee, and their ranks include the anti-gun extreme [...]
University at Buffalo Revises Unconstitutional Speech Code
Liberty Alerts, TheFIRE.org, Samantha Harris In January 2009, FIRE named the University at Buffalo (also known as SUNY Buffalo) our Speech Code of the Month for a residence hall "Statement of Civility" which provided that Students are expected to act with civility. To be civil means to be courteous and polite or, simply put, to be [...]
Sanctuary Cities Immune From Federal Law
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Days after suing Arizona for “intruding” on the government’s authority by passing a state version of its immigration laws, the Obama Administration has revealed that it will also ignore violations of the federal statute. A Justice Department official confirmed in a news report this week that [...]
Supreme Court Case Regarding Pickets Could Weaken First Amendment Protections
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Washington, DC – The case involving controversial protests at the funerals of fallen soldiers is raising concerns about the future of First Amendment protections for all Americans. Liberty Counsel is concerned about the effects this case could have on First Amendment rights and has filed an amicus brief [...]
Urgent Message From Ron Paul and Campaign For Liberty’s John Tate
Liberty Alerts, Ron Paul and Campaign For Liberty Dear Liberty Activist, The FEC has launched a pair of investigations on Campaign for Liberty. Both are meritless, but could seriously disrupt our growing program. Please read Campaign for Liberty [...]
Harry Reid Must Go!
Liberty Alerts, Gun Owners of America Gun Owners of America is backing Sharron Angle in the United States Senate race in Nevada, and we have compiled a list of 42 reasons why Harry Reid MUST be defeated. This is one of the top races in the country and one WE MUST WIN! If any gun owner or sportsman has any doubt if Reid is pro-gun or [...]
N.Y. Public Schools May Observe Muslim Holidays
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Muslim religious holidays will be officially observed by the largest public school district in the United States under a bill pending in the New York State Legislature. A similar proposal was overwhelmingly approved by the New York City Council last year but got nixed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg. That [...]
We Are Still A Few Votes Shy of Killing the Kagan Nomination
Liberty Alerts, Gun Owners of America The hearings on Elena Kagan to be a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court are over. Senate Democrats slammed them through quickly, in the same way they did ObamaCare. And, like ObamaCare, they made sure that Senate Republicans would not have the material they needed to review Kagan's record -- [...]
Lawmakers Settle Abuse Cases With Tax Dollars
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles For nearly a decade and a half, U.S. taxpayers have annually dished out about $1 million to settle lawsuits against federal lawmakers accused of abusing or harassing staffers. The money buys silence and quietly vanishes hundreds of complaints from congressional employees who have been sexually [...]
No to Ground Zero Mosque
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice It's a critical time in New York City as we represent a number of families and friends of victims of 9-11 in opposing the building of an Islamic mosque at Ground Zero - where thousands of U.S. citizens were murdered by Islamic terrorists. An important hearing is taking place this week in [...]
‘No English’ Defense Works In N.J. Drunk Driving Case
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles New Jersey drunken drivers who don’t understand a police officer’s English commands are immune from prosecution thanks to a state Supreme Court ruling, which this week overturned three separate court decisions to side with a Spanish-speaking drug dealer. The case involves a suspected illegal [...]
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham Crucial to Defeating Kagan
By John Velleco Senator Lindsey Graham was one of nine Republicans to vote to confirm Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. During the course of her confirmation hearings, Sotomayor told the Senate and all Americans that she would respect the Heller decision and the individual right to keep and bear arms. The assurances made by [...]
Obama Administration is Sabotaging Defense of Marriage Act
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Boston, MA – In his decision declaring section 3 of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional, Judge Tauro characterizes Congress’s decision to define marriage for federal purposes as between one man and one woman as an "irrational" desire to "punish[]" same-sex couples based solely on [...]
Race, Gender Quotas In Finance Bill
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles The financial reform bill recently approved by the House of Representatives and expected to pass in the Senate after the summer recess creates government “minority inclusion” offices and requires private financial institutions to implement race and gender employment quotas. Known as the [...]
Most Americans Oppose Obama’s Arizona Lawsuit
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles In a major blow for the Obama Administration just months before the midterm elections, an overwhelming majority of Americans oppose the federal government’s lawsuit against Arizona’s new immigration control law. Most Americans, not only back Arizona’s measure, they support a similar bill [...]
Massachusetts Court Rules Defense of Marriage Act Unconstitutional
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Boston, MA – Yesterday Massachusetts federal judge Joseph Tauro ruled against a section of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) which defines marriage for federal purposes as a union between one man and one woman. In Gill v. Office of Personnel Management, Judge Tauro ruled that Section 3 of DOMA [...]
Strong Support for National Day of Prayer
Liberty Alerts, ACLJ There's a real bi-partisan effort in Congress to protect the National Day of Prayer under attack in the federal courts. Today we filed a critical amicus brief on behalf of nearly 70 members of Congress urging a federal appeals court to uphold the constitutionality of the National Day of Prayer. As you may recall [...]
