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Our Free Speech Crisis
Post Date: 2019-07-10 08:25:25 by Ada
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The First Amendment to our Constitution was proposed by the 1788 Virginia ratification convention during its narrow 89 to 79 vote to ratify the Constitution. Virginia’s resolution held that the free exercise of religion, right to assembly and free speech could not be canceled, abridged or restrained. These Madisonian principles were eventually ratified by the states on March 1, 1792. Gettysburg College professor Allen C. Guelzo, in his article “Free Speech and Its Present Crisis,” appearing in the autumn 2018 edition of City Journal, explores the trials and tribulations associated with the First Amendment. The early attempts to suppress free speech were signed into law by ...
Camera-Shy Antifa Hits Washington D.C.
Post Date: 2019-07-09 09:31:43 by Ada
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There's a list of "rules" for media covering their antics, which we now know include destroying property and clubbing journalists. Washington’s Pennsylvania Avenue saw two competing protests near the White House on Saturday—a Proud Boys’ “Demand Free Speech” rally, and a left-wing counter-protest organized by #AllOutDC which promoted the immediate expulsion of all accused Nazis, Alt-Right, and White Supremacists from the nation’s capital. I slipped into the latter protest and took some close-up photos of black-drabbed Antifa activists gathered there to ostensibly lend a hand. After I posted a few photos online, I saw a copy of the notice that ...
The Myth of Independence Day
Post Date: 2019-07-04 13:21:13 by Ada
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The Declaration of Independence — released on July 4, 1776 — was Thomas Jefferson’s masterpiece. Jefferson himself wrote much about it in essays and letters during the 50 years that followed. Not the least of what he wrote offered his view that the Declaration and the values that it articulated were truly radical — meaning they reflected 180-degree changes at the very core of societal attitudes in America. The idea that farmers and merchants and lawyers could secede from a kingdom and fight and win a war against the king’s army was the end result of the multigenerational movement that was articulated in the Declaration and culminated in the American Revolution. ...
Neil Gorsuch Catches a Hail Mary for the Constitution
Post Date: 2019-06-29 13:02:28 by Ada
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His opinion in a little-noticed case could eventually roll back decades of executive overreach. Last week, the Supreme Court took a major step toward rolling back one of the most unconstitutional features of our federal government: the over-delegation of lawmaking power to the executive branch and administrative agencies. In Gundy v. United States, the Court took a relatively obscure case filed by a public defender—one with no support from amicus briefs or popular commentary—and revisited the nondelegation doctrine, a crucial but largely forgotten part of our Constitution. And while we can’t know for sure, this turn of events was likely due to the actions of Justice Neil ...
Recanting the Libertarian Case Against Gay Marriage
Post Date: 2019-06-28 18:18:05 by BTP Holdings
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Recanting the Libertarian Case Against Gay Marriage Same-sex relationships existing before political recognition doesn't justify keeping them illegal. By Justin Raimondo • July 2, 2015 Kobby Dagan / Shutterstock.com In April of 2011, The American Conservative published an article written by me entitled “The Libertarian Case Against Gay Marriage.” In addition, the magazine reported on a debate I had with gay marriage advocate Jonathan Rauch, sponsored by American University, in which I elaborated on the arguments made in my article. I want to take the opportunity to recant—or, rather, publicly rethink—my position. The essence of my argument against ...
Neither Justice Nor Mercy for James Fields—and It's His Lawyers' Fault
Post Date: 2019-06-27 08:47:56 by Ada
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I don’t believe James Alex Fields Jr., 22, got justice from the U.S. court system, and I certainly don’t expect he will get mercy. [Man convicted of killing Heather Heyer in Charlottesville attack asks judge for ‘mercy’ by Alan Suderman, Associated Press/WJLA, June 22nd 2019] And I further believe that, to a considerable extent, this is the fault of his court-appointed defense attorneys, Denise Lunsford and John Hill. Fields will be sentenced on Friday, June 28, for the (unconstitutional in my opinion) federal “hate crimes” to which he pleaded guilty, reportedly to avoid the death penalty—on top of his state conviction for the murder of Heather Heyer, ...
Supreme Court’s Conservative Justices Weigh Scrapping Another Precedent
Post Date: 2019-06-26 13:14:30 by Ada
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(Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority may be ready to overturn a longstanding precedent for the third time in recent weeks -- perhaps foreshadowing the vulnerability of its rulings on abortion rights.The justices will rule as early as Wednesday on a business-backed bid to overturn decades-old decisions that give federal agencies broad power to say what their regulations mean.The case is one of eight rulings due before the justices’ term ends this week. The court also plans to rule on gerrymandered voting maps and the Trump administration’s bid to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.Another precedent-toppling ruling would extend a pattern ...
Supreme Court Strikes Down Stiff Firearms Penalties
Post Date: 2019-06-25 06:21:47 by BTP Holdings
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Supreme Court Strikes Down Stiff Firearms Penalties (AFP/Getty Images) Monday, 24 June 2019 03:38 PM Conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch sided with the U.S. Supreme Court's four liberal members on Monday in striking down as unconstitutionally vague a law imposing stiff criminal sentences for people convicted of certain crimes involving firearms. In the 5-4 decision, the court ruled against President Donald Trump's administration in declaring that the federal law in question was written too vaguely and thus violated the U.S. Constitution's guarantee of due process. The court's four other conservative justices dissented, including Brett Kavanaugh, who like Gorsuch was ...
Justice Gorsuch Joins Liberals To Deal Victory For Criminal Defendants
Post Date: 2019-06-24 15:25:13 by Ada
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Justice Neil Gorsuch joined with the Supreme Court’s liberal wing to strike down a federal criminal law as unconstitutionally vague Monday. The law at issue involved additional penalties for offenders who use guns to commit “crimes of violence.” Monday’s decision is the second time that Gorsuch has delivered the fifth vote with the liberals to strike down a law on vagueness grounds. Justice Neil Gorsuch joined with the Supreme Court’s liberal bloc to deal victory for criminal defendants Monday, striking down a federal law that punishes gun crimes as unconstitutionally vague. The law at issue authorizes heightened penalties for individuals who use firearms to a ...
Republicans block ex-cons from voting in biggest swing state
Post Date: 2019-06-23 19:57:52 by BTP Holdings
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Republicans block ex-cons from voting in biggest swing state Michael Sasso, Bloomberg News on Jun 22, 2019 MIAMI -- Florida's reputation as America's tightest -- and wildest -- swing state should stay intact, as a battle over felons' voting rights seems destined for the courts. At the least, it's increasingly looking like Florida's 1.4 million disenfranchised ex-convicts won't be the potent voting bloc they might've been. Seven months ago, almost two-thirds of voters approved Amendment 4, which restores registration rights to many felons. Florida had been one of three states, along with Kentucky and Iowa, where those convicted of a felony were permanently ...
Silicon Valley Is Destroying American Democracy by Playing Political Favorites
Post Date: 2019-06-21 08:47:34 by Ada
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Perhaps it was expecting too much that the tech giants would check their political allegiances at the door to ensure fairness. Instead, they have let their political affinities disrupt the process every step of the way and this is leading the country down a blind alley. June 2019 may go down in the history books as the defining moment when the American IT giants – in cahoots with the limping ‘legacy’ media – removed their masks, as well as their gloves, revealing the real threat they have become to the institution of US democracy, fragile as it already is. The New York Times got the ball rolling when it ran a front-page story (‘The Making of a YouTube ...
Cleveland Is Paying $225,000 to a Man Who Burned the American Flag
Post Date: 2019-06-15 21:04:01 by BTP Holdings
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Cleveland Is Paying $225,000 to a Man Who Burned the American Flag Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs 7 hrs ago © John Minchillo via Associated Press A Cleveland police officer took Gregory L. Johnson into custody after Mr. Johnson set an American flag on fire outside the Republican National Convention in 2016. After Cleveland police officers arrested Gregory L. Johnson in 2016 as he burned an American flag outside the Republican National Convention, Mr. Johnson sued the city, saying the officers had violated his First Amendment rights. He should know. The Supreme Court had ruled decades before that flag burning was a protected form of speech. The case was Texas v. Johnson, and the ...
Trashing the Constitution Again
Post Date: 2019-06-13 11:21:56 by Ada
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While the eyes of the political and media classes were on President Donald Trump as he commemorated the 75th anniversary of D-Day in the United Kingdom and in France last week, and then as we all watched for progress in the tariff war Trump started with Mexico, the Department of Justice was quietly trying to persuade a federal judge in Chicago to abandon first principles with respect to citizenship and sentencing. The DOJ filed a motion asking a federal judge to strip the American citizenship of one Iyman Faris. Faris, who was born in Pakistan, has been a naturalized American citizen since 1994. In 2001, he pleaded guilty to conspiring to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge and was sentenced to ...
Biden 1974 Interview: “Politicians Can Take Away the First Amendment”
Post Date: 2019-06-11 09:15:04 by Ada
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Joe Biden thinks that he can do whatever he wants because he’s a politician. Breitbart: Former Vice President Joe Biden told a journalist in 1974 that “cruddy politicians” like himself could “take away” the First Amendment if they wanted. The current 2020 Democrat frontrunner made the comments to Washingtonian magazine while being interviewed for a profile published in June 1974. Biden, then only 31-years-old, came to regret the interview, as his penchant for gaffes and insensitive remarks—traits defining later portions of his career—heavily colored the piece. At the time, however, Biden appeared eager to discuss his life as the nation’s ...
The police demanded he unlock his cellphone. He didn't — and spent 44 days in jail.
Post Date: 2019-06-07 19:18:07 by BTP Holdings
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The police demanded he unlock his cellphone. He didn't — and spent 44 days in jail. Jon Schuppe 6 hrs ago © Max Guther Illustration of three police offers forcing a hand to enter a phone passcode. William Montanez is used to getting stopped by the police in Tampa, Florida, for small-time traffic and marijuana violations; it's happened more than a dozen times. When they pulled him over last June, he didn't try to hide his pot, telling officers, "Yeah, I smoke it, there's a joint in the center console, you gonna arrest me for that?" They did arrest him, not only for the marijuana but also for two small bottles they believed contained THC oil — a ...
YouTube Going Nuts Banning Everyone After Donald Kushner Vows to Never Defend First Amendment
Post Date: 2019-06-06 14:35:06 by Ada
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Donald Kushner has shown that he has no interest in protecting the First Amendment or any of the other Amendments (where the fuck are my bump stocks?), and so the censorship Jews are just going absolutely nuts. Despite the fact that these same kikes openly admit that they are causing violence with these policies. This shutdown just keeps getting more and more radical, to the point where it is hard to even process. RT: Minutes after announcing a new policy clamping down on “hateful” and “supremacist” videos, YouTube got to work banning, demonetizing, or otherwise hiding videos from conservatives, journalists, and even black metal musicians. The Google subsidiary ...
You’re Under Arrest: How the Police State Muzzles Our Right to Speak Truth to Power
Post Date: 2019-06-06 09:16:53 by Ada
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“History shows that governments sometimes seek to regulate our lives finely, acutely, thoroughly, and exhaustively. In our own time and place, criminal laws have grown so exuberantly and come to cover so much previously innocent conduct that almost anyone can be arrested for something. If the state could use these laws not for their intended purposes but to silence those who voice unpopular ideas, little would be left of our First Amendment liberties, and little would separate us from the tyrannies of the past or the malignant fiefdoms of our own age. The freedom to speak without risking arrest is ‘one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free ...
Facebook on trial for ‘censorship’ after deplatforming Polish nationalist pages
Post Date: 2019-06-06 08:46:07 by Ada
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President of the Polish League Against Defamation, has complained that Facebook suspended multiple accounts that posted information about a 2016 Independence Day march sponsored by nationalist groups, even though nothing about the event or the posts appeared to violate the site's rules. Via RT… A Polish historian has taken Facebook to court over the company’s increasingly heavy-handed censorship practices, accusing the social network of discrimination based on nationality, political views and religion. Maciej Swirski, president of the Polish League Against Defamation, has complained that Facebook suspended multiple accounts that posted information about a 2016 ...
RAM Guys Who Refused to Take Plea Deals Have Charges Dropped!
Post Date: 2019-06-04 09:24:10 by Ada
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The Rise Above Movement (RAM) was pulled up on completely fake charges, after an FBI agent copied and pasted antifa blog posts into a criminal filing. And it looked like they were all going to be railroaded into serious prison terms. They’re not. And this is fantastic news. But do not let this make you believe that justice exists in America. This is a fluke, or the grace of God, and a fuck-up on the part of the DOJ, who didn’t expect any of the RAM guys to call their bluff and refuse to take a deal. Courthouse News: A federal judge in Los Angeles dropped all charges against three men charged with inciting riots across California as part of a white nationalist group, ...
Iowa sued for blocking Medicaid from funding gender reassignment surgery
Post Date: 2019-06-03 10:28:06 by Dakmar
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The ACLU of Iowa has filed a lawsuit challenging a new state law that prohibits the use of Medicaid funding for gender reassignment surgery.Governor Kim Reynolds signed a bill on 3 May that included language amending the Iowa's Civil Rights Act so that the state is not required to pay for gender reassignment surgery.Medicaid and whose doctors say they need the surgery to treat gender dysphoria." data-reactid="8">On Friday, The ACLU sued Mr Reynolds, the state and the Iowa Department of Human Services on behalf of One Iowa, a group that advocates for transgender rights, and two transgender Iowans who qualify for Medicaid and whose doctors say they need the surgery to ...
Judge finds Navy SEAL's fair trial rights violated in war crimes case
Post Date: 2019-06-01 14:34:25 by BTP Holdings
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Judge finds Navy SEAL's fair trial rights violated in war crimes case By Marty Graham 11 hrs ago © Reuters/HANDOUT Handout photo of U.S. Navy SEAL Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - The military judge presiding over the court-martial of a U.S. Navy SEAL charged with war crimes said on Friday prosecutors who electronically tracked email communications of defense lawyers without a warrant violated the accused's right to a fair trial. The finding came near the end of a two-day hearing that wrapped up just 10 days before Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher is due to stand trial in a case that has drawn the attention of U.S. President Donald ...
Judge Suspended Without Pay For Anti-Trump Comments In Court, Social Media
Post Date: 2019-05-26 15:30:36 by BTP Holdings
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Judge Suspended Without Pay For Anti-Trump Comments In Court, Social Media 7:17 AM 05/26/2019 | Politics Kevin Daley | Supreme Court Reporter The Supreme Court of Utah upheld a six-month suspension without pay for a municipal judge who disparaged President Donald Trump on social media and during official judicial proceedings. Taylorsville Justice Court Judge Michael Kwan undermined public confidence in the courts by intervening in the political process, the state Supreme Court concluded. “Fulfillment of judicial duties does not come without personal sacrifice of some opportunities and privileges available to the public at large,” Utah Supreme Court Justice ...
Human Rights in China and America
Post Date: 2019-05-26 08:05:28 by Ada
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“Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself.” Confucius, Analects. We Greco-Christians seek personal liberation from worldly bondage and prioritize abstract rights like unfettered, irresponsible public speech, export these values as ‘human rights’ and use them to justify invading smaller countries. That does not impress the Chinese, says Randall Nadeau1, “Christian-based Western values like radical autonomy of the individual, the soul in a transcendent relationship to the world, the prioritizing of the individual over the family and the prioritizing of the individual over the state are alien to the Chinese. The West defines human rights as ...
A Parade of Imperial Presidencies
Post Date: 2019-05-25 08:12:48 by Ada
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Trump is just the latest in a long line of executives to stiff-arm the Constitution and ignore congressional powers. Watching the Trump administration stiff-arm constitutional checks and balances left and right, and stonewalling all congressional subpoena and other oversight requests connected to the Mueller probe, this might be a good time to remind Americans that the encroaching executive tyranny we feel has been building for some time, and that it is pretty much our fault. Although historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. popularized the concept of the “imperial presidency” during the presidency of Richard Nixon, the power of the executive had been expanding mightily since the Cold ...
Gorsuch breaks with conservative justices, delivering win to Native American hunter
Post Date: 2019-05-20 18:34:07 by BTP Holdings
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Gorsuch breaks with conservative justices, delivering win to Native American hunter Ronn Blitzer 4 hrs ago © Provided by Thomson Reuters, LLC U.S. Supreme Court Justices Kavanaugh, Gorsuch and Kagan attend Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony in Washington One of President Trump’s Supreme Court nominees sided Monday with the liberal wing of the Supreme Court for the second time in two weeks, as Justice Neil Gorsuch joined a narrow majority in support of a Native American man convicted for hunting in a national forest. The case, Herrera v. Wyoming, deals with a treaty from 1868 which allowed members of the tribe to hunt in “unoccupied lands” in the U.S. in exchange ...
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