Impeachment: What Did the Founders Mean By “High Misdemeanors?”
It is clear officers can be impeached and removed for major crimes, but what is a “high . . . Misdemeanor?”
California Committee Passes Measure to Help End Unchecked Police Surveillance, Establish More Local Control
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (June 20, 2018) – Yesterday, a California Assembly committee passed a bill that would increase oversight and transparency of law enforcement surveillance technology. Passage of the bill would take the first step toward limiting the unchecked use of surveillance technologies that violate basic privacy rights and feed into a broader national surveillance state.…
Tenther Tuesday 37: Battling Big Brother
Michael Boldin and Michael Maharrey talk about how the feds have actually expanded the unconstitutional surveillance state since the Edward Snowden revelations, and how states are fighting back against Big Brother.
New Jersey Bills Would Legalize Marijuana; Foundation to Nullify Federal Prohibition
TRENTON, N.J. (Jun. 18, 2018) – Two bills filed in the New Jersey Senate would legalize marijuana, setting the foundation to nullify federal cannabis prohibition in effect in the state. Sen. Nicholas Scutari (D-Union) introduced Senate Bill 2702 (S2702) and Senate Bill 2703 (S2703) on Jun. 7. Both bills would permit adults 21 or older…
Federally Infringed: The Gun-Free School Zones Act
A popular myth in the national gun debate is that Republicans are rabid Second Amendment supporters, while gun grabbers are strictly confined to the Democrat Party. The unpleasant reality is that members of the Grand Old Party and even conservative “gun rights” organizations have supported unconstitutional federal legislation infringing on our right to keep and…
Andrew Napolitano: Government Branches Can’t “Exchange or Mix” War Powers
"This is a flagrant disregard for the Constitution’s separation of powers by “basically letting the president declare war on a person or group or country or government”
Federal acts are not always “supreme”
"It will not, I presume, have escaped observation, that it expressly confines this supremacy to laws made pursuant to the Constitution."
Now In Effect: Michigan Bans “Material Support or Resources” for Warrantless Federal Surveillance
LANSING, Mich. (June 17, 2018) – A new law banning “material support or resources” for warrantless federal surveillance programs went into effect in Michigan. This is an essential step every state needs to take at a time when the federal government seems unlikely to ever end unconstitutional spying on its own. Rep. Martin Howrylak (R-Troy) introduced…
Thomas Jefferson vs Jeff Sessions on Federal Enforcement
Attorney General Sessions has told us repeatedly that federal laws are to be enforced no matter what. And if you don’t like it, wait for congress to repeal, or the federal courts to overturn the law in question. But the principle author of the Declaration of Independence disagreed. In response to the Sedition Act of…
The Struggle for American Independence: The Boston Massacre
Tellingly, the event spurred patriots in the other colonies to sympathize with the plight of New Englanders.
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