United States Court System

John Whitehead We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. — Abraham Lincoln Those who gave us the Constitution and the Bill of Rights believed that the government exists at the behest of its citizens. It is there to protect, defend...

alancrosthwaite/iStock/Getty Images Plus The federal government — including the legislative, executive, and judicial branches — has for decades implemented and enforced unconstitutional and increasingly-socialist policies. These policies and programs have significantly increased the size of government, and are pulling our Republic away from the U.S. Constitution and its founding principles as enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. However, the situation...

AP Images Giorgia Meloni Italian local daily Il Giornale reported on August 31 that Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni would enforce the Cutro decree, with new rules to decrease the flow of illegal immigration, enable migrant returns, and prevent Italy from being the busiest port for migrants from all around the globe.  “I decided to fully implement the Cutro decree on...

Magryt/iStock/Getty Images Plus The Biden administration has proposed a regulation that would require employers to grant their employees time off to get abortions even if doing so violates an employer’s religious beliefs. The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), passed as part of last year’s omnibus spending bill, mandates that employers with more than 15 workers provide “reasonable accommodations” for an...

Pressing an election official to “find votes.” Is there anything worse? The charges against Donald Trump are mounting. And he continues to climb in the polls. He is successfully convincing a growing number of Republicans that the Justice Department is being weaponized to block his path. Trump’s poll numbers are climbing as well because, with his legal troubles, he is...

AP Images Lyndon B. Johnson August 28, 2023 marks the 75th anniversary of the 1948 runoff election for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate in Texas. The primary election saw former Texas Governor Coke Stevenson getting 71,460 more votes than the second-place finisher, Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson. Political primaries in Texas then, as now, required a majority vote. Because...

MCCAIG/iStock/Getty Images Plus “It is not to be expected, that criminals will destroy their own handiwork; that they will either reform or punish themselves; or, that men, who have brought our misfortunes upon us, will go about in good earnest to redress them, or even own that there are any such.” — Cato’s Letter No. 69 (March 10, 1722) “Government...

John Whitehead “Make no mistake about it…your DNA can be taken and entered into a national DNA database if you are ever arrested, rightly or wrongly, and for whatever reason… I doubt that the proud men who wrote the charter of our liberties would have been so eager to open their mouths for royal inspection.”—Justice Antonin Scalia dissenting in Maryland...

To stand up to Israel has a political cost few, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., are willing to pay. But if you do stand up, it singles you out as someone who puts principles before expediency. The long nightmare of oppression of Palestinians is not a tangential issue. It is a black and white issue of a settler-colonial state imposing a military...

This post appeared on the front page as a direct link to the original article with the above image and quotation. About this publication A specialist in American studies, Lalatendu Das has worked in various capacities for more than two decades with several institutions and organizations in India and abroad, including some leading US-based groups. He has taught courses in...

Sam LaRussa/Unsplash Three highly regarded climate scientists, now retired and thus beyond the reach of the “climate change consensus” that would otherwise work to discredit them, are calling a new rule from the EPA “disastrous for the country, for no scientifically justifiable reason.” In May, the EPA finalized its rule limiting CO2 emissions from coal-fired power plants that, if not...

AP Images In a Thursday interview with West Virginia radio host Hoppy Kercheval, Democrat Joe Manchin claimed that he is “seriously” considering leaving the party to become an Independent. For some time now Manchin has claimed he is dissatisfied with the direction of the party and, apparently, seems set to defect. Manchin has ruffled feathers with Democrats over high-profile disagreements...

Anderson Piza/iStock/Getty Images Plus The city of Beverly Hills, California, has ordered an Orthodox Jewish rabbi to stop holding small religious gatherings at his home, evidence of which it gathered via police stakeouts and drone surveillance, the rabbi’s attorneys allege. On June 12, Rabbi Levi Illulian received a “Notice of Violations” letter from the city ordering him to “terminate all...

Yes, the indictment of Donald Trump is important. However, he and his supporters worldwide have long since succeeded in undermining state institutions. It is the third indictment filed against former President Donald Trump — and the most significant. Not only because a conviction on conspiracy charges would come with a heavier sentence than conviction of concealing hush money payments, charges...

scottlitt/iStock/Getty Images Plus In its ruling to suspend enforcement of ATF’s pistol brace rule for 60 days, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday required the lower court to look more carefully at all the facts and then issue a decision on the matter. The appeals court strongly suggested that, based on the information it had,...

Democrats and Republicans have significantly converged when it comes to immigration policy. But they would never admit it. When federal Judge Jon Tigar first struck down a new asylum policy out of Washington, most Americans knew who their hero was and who their villain was in the affair. Then-President Donald Trump had ordered that applications for asylum could only be...

Once upon a time in America, there were election campaigns in which candidates faced off over their political visions and programs for social progress in employment, health, and education. At the current rate, the 2024 presidential election will consist of trench warfare fought in the courts. While Donald Trump is notified by federal prosecutors that he will face a third...

Eviction filings are rising in several American cities, according to recent data collected by the Princeton University Eviction Lab. Princeton’s Eviction Tracking System has been keeping track of eviction filings across the United States since 2000 when the lab started to publish its findings. The findings are based on (pdf) tens of millions of public records from state and county databases. After a lull during...

While Russians have an average life expectancy similar to that of those living in the poorest African nations, the United States has gun violence death rates that are on par with failed and violent nations such as Venezuela, Yemen, and parts of Brazil. Ironically, the U.S. even has more gun-related deaths than Palestine, Somalia, or Iraq. It’s clear that the...

Johnson & Johnson’s must pay $18.8 million to a California man who said he developed cancer from exposure to its baby powder, a jury decided on Tuesday, a setback for the company as it seeks to settle thousands of similar cases over its talc-based products in U.S. bankruptcy court. The jury ruled in favor of Emory Hernandez Valadez, who filed...