Conventional wisdom tells us federal courts will protect our rights better than state courts. This is why virtually everything is turned into a federal case. But two recent cases relating to cell phone search warrants reveal this isn't always the case.
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The supremacy clause is limited by three key words that always seem to get left out.
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Bernanke was Fed chairman when the housing bubble, created by his predecessor Alan Greenspan in the wake of the bursting of Greenspan’s tech bubble and the 9-11 attacks, exploded. When the housing market collapsed, Bernanke worked with Congress and the Bush administration to bail out big banks and Wall Street firms.
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Last week, the Detroit City Council narrowly approved an expansion of the city's controversial ShotSpotter surveillance technology. But instead of using COVID stimulus money as initially planned, the funding will come out of the police department's own budget.
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With more calls - yet again - to ban so-called “assault weapons,” it’s important to point out that even IF one could call these “weapons of war,” the founders wanted the people to be armed with the “terrible implements of the soldier.”
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Too many people today are loyal to individual politicians or parties. Even as a young man, Samuel Adams understood the danger of personality worship. And he warned against it.
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As the antifederalist write Brutus wrote, a national debt that can never be discharged is "a calamity."
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Thousands of executive branch employees stand to gain financially on actions of the agency they work at? Say it ain’t so! But it is. And we were warned this would happen too.
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And it would demonstrate that originalist judging is not (as some have charged) just a cover for a conservative agenda.
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So, not only are these regulatory bureaucrats eating out our substance with their tens of thousands of rules and regulations and taxation, they are also financially profiting from their regulatory corruption.
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