Those Smearing SCOTUS Are The Biggest Threat To American ‘Democracy’
BY: DAVID HARSANYI Destroying trust in the court opens the floodgates for government abuse and destabilizes the nation in unprecedented ways. The other day, Chris Murphy was on MSNBC with ...
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Clearing up the confusion about Marbury v. Madison
By Publius Huldah It is true that the Constitution does not expressly say that the federal courts have the power to strike down acts of Congress which are unconstitutional. What ...
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The Supreme Court Demonstrates Again Why It Can’t Be Trusted to Defend Our Gun Rights
By: TJ Martinell A recent decision by U.S. Supreme Court not to take up a gun rights case demonstrates that all too often, the high court does not act in a ...
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Vetting Kavanaugh Or Any Judicial Candidate According To The Constitution
By KrisAnne Hall, JD When Donald Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh for the supreme Court, he did what is likely the most important act a president of these United States can ...
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The Peculiar Institution and the Supreme Court
by Joyce Lee Malcolm Paul Finkelman, in his new book, Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation’s Highest Court, plunges into the private lives of the three most prominent Supreme Court ...
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Supreme Court Lets Trump’s Bump Stock Ban Stand
By: TJ Martinell WASHINGTON (March 31, 2019) – In the film Princess Bride, Wesley tells the revenge-bent Indigo Montoya to “get used to disappointment.” This is also good advice for ...
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Donald Trump signs executive order promoting free speech on college campus
Here are the Constitutional uses of Executive Orders: To enforce Constitutional laws passed by congressTo NOT enforce unconstitutional laws passed by congressGeneral Housekeeping in the Executive BranchExecutive orders are to ...
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McCulloch: A “Rule of Construction” Too “Broad and Pliant”
by Kevin Gutzman On October 22, 1819, Chief Judge Spencer Roane of the Virginia Court of Appeals (now the Virginia Supreme Court) dashed off a quick cover letter to former ...
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The “General Welfare” Clause
by JOHN W. BUGLER We Americans find ourselves faced with the disquieting specter of a national debt measured in trillions of dollars: a sum truly inconceivable. Many economists and politicians ...
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The New Federalism and the New Federal Judiciary
by Thomas Ascik The federal lawsuit filed by fifteen blue states (and Michigan) to stop President Trump’s February 15 Proclamation on Declaring a National Emergency Concerning the Southern Border of ...
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