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“Elected Official Edition”: Lindsey Graham Presents The Worst Response To...
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-The Worst) has some helpful suggestions for the Obama administration and, I guess, the thousands of FBI agents and police officers currently searching for Boston Marathon bomb...
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“Guns, But Not Trials, For Terror Suspects”: The Land Of Liberty According To...
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham is not pleased that the Obama administration decided to prosecute Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in civilian court, even though it would probably...
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“Cherry Picking The Constitution”: Conservative Constitutional Hypocrisy On...
The Second Amendment and the Fourth Amendment. They’re like kissing cousins, separated in the Constitution by a mere 32 words. And lately they’ve been all over the news. Now, I don’t know how you feel...
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“There Are No ‘Absolute’ Rights”: Limitations Are Both Possible And Necessary
Every time I write a column on guns, the howl arises that I am talking about a right that is enshrined in the Constitution, buddy, and I better watch myself. The howl then transmutes into an extended...
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“An Empty Ritual”: Republicans Ignore Science And The Supreme Court In New...
Republicans have once again rolled their old war horse out of the barn for another run at the Constitution. This time the anti-abortion crowd has decided the viability of a fetus outside the womb...
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“Public Ninth Amendment Fund?”: Ohio PAC, “We’re Buying George Zimmerman A...
The Buckeye Firearms Association, an Ohio-based political action committee, has issued a startling statement in the wake of the George Zimmerman trial: “We’re buying ZIMMERMAN a NEW GUN – We need your...
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“James Madison For Dummies”: An Obstructionist, Compromised Reputation Among...
The effort to defund Obamacare, culminating in Sen. Ted Cruz’s marathon speech on the Senate floor, has been symbolic in ways its sponsors did not intend. This, in the end, was the strategy: For...
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“There Are No Asterisks”: Those Who Wrap Themselves In The Constitution, Must...
Shortly after the 2010 midterms, as the newly elected House Republican majority was poised to start governing (I use the word loosely), the GOP officials had an idea for a symbolic gesture: they’d read...
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“Sympathy For The Devil Worshipers”: SCOTUS Struggles Not To Become De Facto...
It’s easy enough to be in favor of a “nonsectarian” prayer before a legislative session — some invocation of a higher power that theoretically doesn’t exclude anyone (besides atheists, that is) — but...
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“The Real Enemies Of Christmas”: Sham “War On Christmas” Overlooks Holiday’s...
Probably seeking more TV appearances and speaking gigs, Sarah Palin has decided to enter the overcrowded “War on Christmas” market sector with a new book. Like all the other screeds on the subject,...
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“Listening To The Founding Fathers”: Constitutionalism With An...
A political backlash has commenced within the Republican Party against tea party and libertarian groups that have limited interest in securing Republican victories and majorities. Elected leaders,...
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“Adegbile’s Denied Confirmation Is Affront To Our Principles”: A Handful Of...
Last week, the floor of the U.S. Senate was the scene of a bipartisan travesty, an affront to the principles of the Constitution, an assault on the notion of American exceptionalism. With the help of...
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“An Inconvenient Constitution”: Fighting Obama On Immigration Is Not Enough,...
The House Republican caucus wants to sue President Barack Obama. They say he isn’t living up to his constitutional obligations on a range of issues—and in particular, that he’s not faithfully executing...
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“Dignity Is A Constitutional Principle”: Institutionalized Humiliation And...
With gay marriage litigation moving forward at warp speed — federal judges have struck down five state bans on same-sex marriage since December — we may soon witness one of the worst shouting matches...
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“Reclaiming Democracy”: A Resounding Vote Against Koch Brothers Dollarocracy
Even as the US Supreme Court attempts to expand the scope and reach of the already dangerous dominance of our politics by billionaires and their willing servants, Americans are voting in overwhelming...
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“Jim DeMint, Constitutional Revisionist”: Deliberate Conflation Of The...
RightWingWatch’s Brian Tashman runs across an interview with Jim DeMint in which the Heritage Foundation president and avatar of “constitutional conservatism” utters gibberish about slavery, and...
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“An Authoritarian System”: If God & Founders Solved It All, Why Bother With...
There’s an interesting op-ed up at WaPo today from Michigan State political scientist Matt Grossman arguing that conservatives are only “obstructionists” insofar as “most policies under debate are...
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“When Serving In The Militia”: Justice Stevens, The Five Extra Words That Can...
Following the massacre of grammar-school children in Newtown, Conn., in December 2012, high-powered weapons have been used to kill innocent victims in more senseless public incidents. Those killings,...
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“No, Asshole, You’re Totally Wrong”: What Plantation Is Jim DeMint Living On?
I once had this idea for a play about God, a comedy, in which the audience would be introduced to a series of casuists and charlatans and braggarts and bloviators, and they’d be carrying on, lecturing...
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“Grading John Paul Stevens’ Work”: When Rewriting The Second Amendment, Be As...
As the gun nuts will surely point out, former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens doesn’t know how to distinguish automatic from semi-automatic firearms. I’ve never understood why this distinction...
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