In 2005, the National Rifle Association of America enacted a law that probably saved the American gun-making industry from bankruptcy. And just this last week, the Supreme Court rejected a constitutional challenge to this landmark legislation, ensuring this law stays on the books to preserve America's culture of lawful firearm ownership.
Markos Moulitsas Zuniga is the proprietor of the influential liberal blog Daily Kos. The blog is a must-visit site for those who are serious about the direction of the Democratic party. The blog was influential in the rise of Vermont's former Gov. Howard Dean in the run-up to the 2004 election.
As Fiscal Year 2010 finally begins, a judge has struck down Congress' law ending federal funding of ACORN. It's ironic in that de-funding ACORN was the only example of fiscal restraint we've seen from Barack Obama, even more so since he's now stacking the courts with judges that will continue to issue such rulings. And perhaps that's what he's wanted all along.
Asked about the constitutionality of his healthcare bill's key provision, President Obama said it's legal because people have to buy car insurance. That statement is so dead wrong as a matter of constitutional law that it makes anyone who practices constitutional law wonder how the Harvard Law School faculty would now grade their most famous graduate.
President Barack Obama has completed his months-long "deliberations" over his latest Afghanistan policy. He got more applause from Republicans than from Democrats after his long-running Hamlet act. The Prince of Denmark was famous for his indecision: "To be or not to be..."
What if there was a federal law stating that anytime you owe anyone a duty to be honest and you violate that duty, you're committing a federal felony? Guess what--there already is. And now the Supreme Court is deciding whether to strike it down.
The Supreme Court heard arguments in a case over an executive-branch agency that is completely outside presidential control. Team Obama argued that the Court should keep it that way, leaving in place an agency that meddles in business affairs, but cannot be stopped by the public and for which Obama cannot be blamed.
Congress wants the White House staff director involved in the now-infamous "gatecrasher" dinner to explain what happened. She won't, because President Obama is invoking executive privilege. While there's a decent claim for executive privilege here, Barack Obama's hypocrisy is nothing short of stunning.
The case McDonald v. City of Chicago presents to the Supreme Court the issue of whether the Second Amendment right to bear arms is applicable to state and local governments, or instead is only a right that Americans have against the actions of the federal government. Specifically, the question is whether the right to bear arms applies (or is “incorporated”) to the states through either the Privileges or Immunities Clause or the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
On November 23, the ACRU, joined by three other organizations, argued that the Second Amendment should be incorporated to the states through the Privileges or Immunities Clause, […]
The American people are fed up with an out-of-control government, largely run by unaccountable officials like President Obama's "czars." The Constitution strictly limits how officials can get their jobs and their power, and the Supreme Court is about to weigh in on one of those cases.
