From the Archives: Russia-gate mania spread beyond a strategy for neutralizing Donald Trump or removing him from office into an excuse for stifling U.S. dissent that challenges the New Cold War, reported Joe Lauria on Dec. 4, 2017. By Joe Lauria…Read more →
(CD) — Denouncing the U.S. right to birthright citizenship—guaranteed by the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution—as “ridiculous,” President Donald Trump has falsely claimed that he has the power to subvert that guarantee by presidential fiat – his latest effort to mainstream a noxious lie and xenophobic trope while also furthering what critics call his authoritarian approach […]
Regent University School of Law Professor James Duane presents a list of legal reasons why Americans should always exercise their 5th Amendment rights when questioned by police or government officials. Amazingly, the majority of convictions are, in part, a result self-incrimination on some level. Learn how to avoid those outcomes. Watch:
A dictatorship does not represent the public but only the aristocracy that, behind the scenes, controls the government. Jonathan H. Adler, Professor at Case Western University School of Law, noted, regarding George W.
Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s disturbing record on racial issues would put the Voting Rights Act in further jeopardy if he were to be confirmed to the Supreme Court, argues Marjorie Cohn. By Marjorie Cohn Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s record on racial issues…Read more →
Fox News writer Ned Ryun weighed in on the confirmation hearings and their accompanying theatrics this way: The confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court will restore the Court to its proper role in the US government.
Here is how:
It is a fact, but also an utter contradiction in terms, that “liberals” are completely against “liberty” in the United States. While this is a contradiction in theory, in practice it is absolutely normative in the nation’s culture.
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has nothing but contempt for international law. But he has shown uncritical deference to executive power, particularly in the so-called war on terror cases, argues Marjorie Cohn. By Marjorie Cohn The two primary sources of…Read more →
The U.S. Supreme Court is riven by political division and the nomination process riddled by partisan battles, unlike Europe’s highest courts, argues David Orentlicher. By David Orentlicher United States President Donald Trump has nominated Brett Kavanaugh to replace retiring Supreme…Read more →
For those still deluded enough to believe they’re living the American dream—where the government represents the people, where the people are equal in the eyes of the law, where the courts are arbiters of justice, where the police are keepers of the peace, and where the law is applied equally as a means of protecting the rights of the people—it’s time to wake up.
We no longer have a representative government, a rule of law, or justice.
Liberty has fallen to legalism.
Freedom has fallen to fascism.
Justice has become jaded, jaundiced and just plain unjust.
