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”
Protect and Serve Act: Another Bipartisan Attack on the Tenth Amendment from Congress
Yesterday, the imperial “House of Representatives” continued its attack on the 10th Amendment and the entire Constitutional structure by easily passing the “protect and serve act.” Overall, just 35 House members voted against the bill (H.R. 5698). Using a dangerously expansive view of the “interstate commerce clause,” they created a new federal crime. If passed,…
NE Primary Election 2018: Deb Fischer, What Have You Done For — or To — Us Lately?
Deb Fischer has been Nebraska’s U.S. Senator for six years now and is running for a second term. Actually, she's running in the primary seeking the right to run for that second term. She didn't draw a "bye" in the primary, unlike U.S. Representative Jeff Fortenberry. On the contrary, she's being primaried by a total […]
Facebook Hearing: Congress Can’t Manage Every Aspect of Society and it Shouldn’t Even Try
The Senate committee members’ grilling of Zuckerberg put on full display what seems intuitive: that there is no way a legislative body can have adequate knowledge to manage every element of a society of 325,000,000 people (let alone the entire world). These people are comparably ignorant of any particular issue or “policy area” that comes…
The latest budget shows that Republicans and Democrats are Equally Dangerous
Coming in at over 2200 pages, votes are already starting on a budget that no one in congress has actually read.
Another Example of Political Grandstanding: The Resolution Against Military Action in Yemen
While some people are saying this is a positive first step against this kind of unconstitutional war, I call it what it is, a cop-out.
How the 17th Amendment Ruined the Senate
With the Graham-Cassidy healthcare bill to repeal Obamacare flaming out, not even getting a vote, one might wonder whether it was a lousy bill or if something else were amiss. As the bill seemed like pretty decent legislation, its failure to get a vote may be due to what the U.S. Senate has become. Today’s…
Don’t Trust Congress to Eliminate Obamacare
Congress can't be trusted to do the right thing, so states should help push things in the Constitutional direction.
Americans Cannot and Should Not Trust Congress to Protect Their Gun Rights
We should not wait for Congress to act.
Can the House Elect a Non-Member Speaker?
At Liberty Law Blog, Diana Schaub (Loyola Maryland, Political Science) says no: Dysfunction Is No Excuse for Misreading the Constitution. From the core of the argument: There is an inescapable logic to the setting forth of the Constitution’s sections which should guide interpretation. In Article 1, Section 1, we learn that Congress is vested with specified…