Tag: The Constitution
Brainwashed nation part I: Assault and battery upon the American brain
An ongoing visitation on the issue of propaganda in the current political environment.
Ripping up constitutions
But Trump doesn’t care what’s in the U.S. constitution any more than he cares what trees make up his toilet paper.
House passes Laken Riley Act, critics warn it dismantles constitutional rights...
A political tragedy: GOP uses personal grief to justify sweeping anti-immigrant crackdown.
How the Constitution fails to protect the environment
The absence of clear and broad constitutional authority to protect the environment limits the scope of federal environmental law.
The Fourth Amendment is Not for Sale Act and the battle...
The FANFSA, passed with a 219-199 vote, garnered support from both sides of the aisle, with 96 Democrats and 123 Republicans backing the bill.
Confederate-style states’ rights tantrums rise again—and will fall again to enlightened...
Either federalism determines “self-evident” human rights, or the Constitutional republic model turns farce, with 50 different state law clusters.
The Constitution as free-for-all, a la carte buffet
If this be not the worst subversion,/ Where's real career-ending perversion?
‘Lawless and reckless’: Warren condemns Fifth Circuit attack on CFPB
"If it stands, it will go down in history as one of the most anti-consumer court rulings in history."
A Constitutional crisis of immense proportions has descended upon our nation’s...
There is no question, but that this modern day dictator wants to take full control of this government and control the direction of this country with no one to challenge him. We cannot allow that to happen.
Spring stirrings and misgivings
Of autocrats and uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa
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ICE at the gates: Rights groups warn Trump airport deployment risks civil liberties crisis
Civil liberties advocates, unions, and lawmakers raise alarm over use of immigration agents in airport security amid shutdown-driven staffing crisis.
California’s herbicide spill ignites growing movement to ban paraquat nationwide
The spill, which closed a major highway and sent at least ten people to seek medical attention for respiratory symptoms, became a catalyst for a renewed political battle over the chemical's future in California.
Why Donald Trump just can’t stop going to war
When imperial America offers help, it just might get you killed.
The Age of Arrogant Amateurism – as ‘know-it-all’ opportunists seize power to control, not...
To win big in this brave new world, forget tested skill-sets and the wisdom of experience: chutzpah and risk-taking, even gambling, are paramount, then the facile ability to learn on the job how to cling to power.
Traders placed massive bets minutes before Trump Iran post raising insider trading concerns
Unusual oil and stock trades worth hundreds of millions of dollars occurred minutes before the president’s social media announcement about Iran peace talks, prompting calls for investigations into possible insider knowledge.