Tag: Second Amendment
Trump DOJ escalates attack on Colorado gun laws with lawsuits targeting...
The Justice Department has launched a sweeping legal challenge against two major Colorado gun-control laws, escalating a broader effort by the Trump administration to dismantle firearm restrictions enacted by Democratic-led states and cities in response to decades of mass shootings.
The Second Amendment was created to put down slave revolts
The founders’ true intent behind the right to bear arms wasn’t liberty—it was control, oppression, and the preservation of slavery.
Justice Thomas sparks outrage with defense of gun rights for domestic...
Clarence Thomas stands alone in dissent as the Supreme Court upholds a law prohibiting domestic abusers from possessing firearms, sparking outrage and renewed calls for judicial accountability.
First major Second Amendment case before the Supreme Court in over...
The ruling will underscore the significance of their presence on the court.
Why the Second Amendment protects a ‘well-regulated militia’ but not a...
The California case raises troubling questions about the meaning and proper role of “militias” under the Second Amendment.
Racist County Commissioner arrested for breaching US Capitol
"And I will embrace my Second Amendment, I will keep my right to bear arms, my vehicle is an extension of my home in regard to the constitution law, and I have a right to have those firearms in my car.”
Be black, be brave
Let’s return to that idea: we shall arm the militia, and no one else. The Militia shall be comprised of all races and sexes. No one – not even the police – shall have guns.
The social impact of the Second Amendment
The state should be permitted to disarm its citizens to the extent it judges necessary to protect its own strength to protect its society.
Twisting, distorting the meaning of the Second Amendment
Will the American people allow these un-American entities to twist and bend the meaning of the Second Amendment so that it outweighs the critical need to significantly reduce the incidence of mass shootings?
End the Dickey Amendment: Tell Congress to Allow Research on Gun...
Sign the petition now and tell Congress to take the first step
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US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none
Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.
Chris Hedges and Albert Raboteau on ‘American Prophets’ importance in an age of radical...
Watch the two thinkers talk about Raboteau’s book, which discusses the work of religious figures such as Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Judge dismisses the last January 6 case, writing that absolving the Oath Keepers is...
The Justice Department told the court a retrial would harass eight men whose sentences Trump had already commuted. Two Oath Keepers who pleaded guilty and cooperated keep their convictions.
Who’s enabling Putin’s enablers?
We need a progressive politics that shows solidarity with all victims of military violence — while resisting the militarism of our own government.
“The People’s Historian”: Dave Zirin’s New Book Explores “Remarkable” Life of Howard Zinn
We speak to Dave Zirin, author and sports editor at The Nation , about his new book, The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn , chronicling the life and activism of the legendary historian Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States .