From The College Fix: Michigan’s Kellogg Community College arrested and jailed a student and two “associates” for passing out pocket copies of the U.S. Constitution on a campus sidewalk last fall, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday…
Topic: Constitution
Democrats Unhappy with Trump’s Education Pick on Views on Due Process
From The College Fix: President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, is being declared unfit to serve not for her best-known cause – K-12 reform and school choice – but because the…
Abandoning Defensive Crouch Conservative Constitutionalism
Randy Barnett of Georgetown Law wrote a great piece on conservatives going full-throttle, with Constitution in hand, under the Trump administration: Yes, despite current complaints about supposed Republican obstruction of Obama administration judicial appointees, Hans…
Writer: Obama has Expanded Unchecked Government Power
Our friend George Leef with the insightful read on expanding government power under Barack Obama: We face, as the book’s subtitle puts it, the unchecked expansion of the state. That unchecked power did not begin…
The Left’s All-Out Assault on the First Amendment
The Left wants to silence opposition: The Constitution has long been subject to attacks from individuals hostile to its guarantees of freedom, economic opportunity, and limited government, but in recent days no other provision has…
When to Take the Fifth (Amendment)
The Fifth Amendment may be the Left’s favorite entry on the Bill of Rights but a relatively conservative law professor makes a pretty persuasive case that it should be more universally embraced. “The use of…
The U. S. Constitution: The Ultimate Endangered Species
Back during the 1972 campaign, satirist Mort Sahl, long thought to be a man of the Left but actually quite independent-minded, said something like this: “In less than 200 years we’ve gone from Madison, Adams,…
Indiana’s Fraternities’ 4th Amendment Rights Could be at Risk Under New Policy
The U.S. Constitution was written the way it was for a reason: Update on a proposal that has just become explicit policy: Indiana University-Bloomington will indeed require its Greek organizations to accept searches without a warrant by campus…
Libertarians Remind Americans that Both Democrats, GOP Like a Surveillance State
Reason pointed out that despite Obama’s speech (and Leon Panetta, one of Obama’s appointees) at the DNC convention last week, he’s been a willing participant in the enforcement of an American surveillance state.
7th Circuit Court Judge Called Tributes to Late Justice Antonin Scalia “Absurd”
A sitting judge of the 7th Circuit Court, Richard Posner, said that tributes to the late Justice Antonin Scalia are “absurd.” He also said that judges shouldn’t have to sit down and read the Constitution extensively. Huh?
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Book Review: Is ‘The Dying Citizen’ a Prediction of America’s Future?
America’s ongoing and seemingly-constant crises have left Americans scrambling to find a sense of normalcy and safety. Just in time, to cut through the chaotic bombardment of conflicting messages and opinions while providing a voice…
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