The Etymology of the Cooptation of ‘Freedom’ by the Tea Party
…Clause could audition as a Cirque du Soleil performer. So, for that matter, could the post-Civil War amendments and the laws that effectuate them. They serve a purpose, but mainly…
…Clause could audition as a Cirque du Soleil performer. So, for that matter, could the post-Civil War amendments and the laws that effectuate them. They serve a purpose, but mainly…
…cities. People are more comfortable with a group of weapon-toting people wandering into a restaurant to express their 2nd amendment right to bear arms than with having the poor…
…for electoral purposes, are in the same situation as the antebellum African slaves. After the Civil War Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment superseded the now-moot 3/5’s clause, providing: “Representatives…
…considering nullifying? Bottom line: our legislators at the federal level should not be passing those laws. We’re right…we’ve gone 200-plus years of federal legislators going against the Tenth Amendment’s states’…
…are, I’m not sure. But they may well be corporate persons, since they obviously have First Amendment free-speech rights. They probably exercise their religion, too, since I suspect that these…
…The wingers memorize these mantras, cult-like—“The enumerated powers!”; the Tenth Amendment!”; Flat Earth Federalist Paper No. 846!” James Madison! Ichabod Crane!—with no actual understanding of, or detailed background about, what…
…Guidelines. But the ground on which cert. was sought was one under the Sixth Amendment, and a ruling finding the judicial practice at issue unconstitutional would have applied to state…
…(and pushed entirely by Democrats such as Dick Durbin)—are ones ending the banking-industry practice of exorbitant overdraft fees for small, sometimes-momentary checking-account overdrafts, and the so-called “Durbin Amendment” that prohibits…
…highways, the sudden inability of the National Weather Service to warn of a hurricane’s path, a massive snowstorm, or tornadoes pale in comparison to a “personhood” constitutional amendment that would…
…Service to warn of a hurricane’s path, a massive snowstorm, or tornadoes pale in comparison to a “personhood” constitutional amendment that would have less chance of actual passage by Congress…