U.S. Constitution

Obama's Modest Proposals Drive Rightbloggers Gun Crazy

Last week President Obama, inspired by December's Newtown shootings, announced 23 executive actions, and proposed some legislation, to address gun violence. The actions are rather mild ("Require criminal background checks for all gun sales," "Nominate an ATF Director," etc.) and the legislation prob ... More >>

After Gun-Control Talk Reportedly Banned on Fox News, Murdoch Turns to the Post

It appears that media mogul Rupert Murdoch may have some level of, dare I say, morality and compassion inside of him. A day after New York Magazine reported that higher-ups at Fox News directed producers and reporters to avoid engaging in gun-control talk, Murdoch's New York Post published an edit ... More >>

Concealed Weapons Not Protected By The Second Amendment: Court

Unlike some states (we're looking in your direction, Arizona), in New York it takes a little more than a trigger finger to get a permit to carry a concealed handgun -- under state law, a person needs to have "proper cause" to carry a concealed firearm."Proper cause" is defined as "a special need for ... More >>

DOMA Unconstitutional, Rules New York Appeals Court. But It's Not Dead -- Yet

The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York ruled today that parts of the Clinton-era Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) are unconstitutional because they discriminate against same-sex couples.But don't get your hopes up just yet -- the issue of DOMA's constitutionality will li ... More >>

Obama's NDAA Law Allowing Indefinite Military Detention of Citizens Ruled Unconstitutional

The Obama administration's efforts to enshrine sweeping 9/11-era rollbacks of civil liberties and constitutional rights as federal law hit a serious roadblock yesterday, as a federal judge struck down clauses of the National Defense Authorization Act as unconstitutional. The offending section of th ... More >>

The Next Mayor: An NYPD Still Outside the Law?

Legal Controversy Over New York's Park Artists Continues With Complications (UPDATE)

As the years-long legal battle over New York's park artists crawls closer toward a conclusion, their main representative has submitted yet another court filing accusing the city of treating them differently from performers, violating the U.S. Constitution, and misconstruing facts. In a request to i ... More >>

Rightbloggers: Obama's Immigration Order is Tyranny, and the White House Heckler's a Hero

Last week President Obama, tired of waiting for Congress to pass the DREAM Act, sort of enacted DREAM Lite himself, temporarily allowing young illegal immigrants who'd come here as kids off the deportation hook. Mainstream conservative reaction ranged from discomfiture -- because Republicans had be ... More >>

Is Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Supersized Soda Ban Unconstitutional?

Talk about throwing around the c-word! The Constitution, that is. (Don't give us that look! What word did you think we meant?) Anyway, opponents of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's supersized soda ban might argue in court that the proposed measure is unconstitutional, citing the commerce clause as proof ... More >>

The Obama Effect: From the NAACP to 50 Cent, Black Leaders Back Gay Marriage

It's fair to call it the Obama Effect: leaders in the black community, old and young, political and cultural, are coming out of the closet to back same-sex marriage. And they are a motley crew, from the legacy NAACP, to the rapper 50 Cent, who just a couple years ago suggested that if you're a man " ... More >>

BREAKING: Ninth Circuit Rules California's Prop 8 Unconstitutional

By a vote of two to one, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has just ruled that California's Proposition is unconstitutional. Simply put: even though more Californians voted for Prop 8 than not, that proposition was a violation of the constitution of the United States of America, according to the ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: January 18 through 24, 2011

Here's the Constitution Section House Republicans Won't Read, the Part About Slavery

"Several hours"​At this very moment, politicians are reading the United States Constitution on the floor of the House of Representatives. The exercise is some sort of symbolic act, led by the newly Republican majority, but also including Democrats, lest they be called terrorists. The reading i ... More >>

How Mexicans Are Like Pinatas

And why we like to hit them so much

FAIR-y Tales

Rightbloggers: TSA, Don't Touch Our Junk -- Profile Arabs Instead!

Since the Republicans -- with the help of those Revolutionary-War reenactors in the Tea Party -- scored big in the 2010 elections, they've been bringing up the U.S. Constitution a lot. Incoming House Speaker John Boehner pushes the GOP "Pledge to America" promise "to honor the Constitution as constr ... More >>

The TSA Battlefront: Privacy Vs. Security

"The good ol' days.."​What with the looming holiday season and the busiest travel days of the year, along with the TSA's most recent security measures, there's a significant debate brewing over who's right, who's wrong, and what, exactly, is going too far. Many have reported being patted down "ina ... More >>

Grinding Justice

Operation Streamline Costs Millions, Tramples the Constitution, Treats Migrants Like Cattle, and Doesn't Work

Judge to Military on 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell': Halt!

For all their dithering around "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" over the past two years, President Obama and Congress have been let off the hook. No need to finish off that survey to see how the troops feel about serving with the gays, because federal judge Virginia Phillips has halted all discharges under ... More >>

If Gay Marriage Passes, Won't the NY Masses Just Overturn It?

​Our e-mail box was flooded this morning with desperate pleas to call our state senator and demand that gay marriage come up for a vote during the special session of the New York state legislature called his week by Governor Paterson. But we wondered, just days after a legislative victory wa ... More >>

In the Dark

Putting God in His Place

New Jersey student-warrior for the Constitution gets a death threat

Letters

Third American Revolution

Chancellor Joel Klein's plan to turn students into active citizens for the Constitution

Her Right to Be Obnoxious

Hell hath no fury like a mother scorned

The Torture Judge

U.S. court rules our government can break international laws to keep us safe

Letters

The Senators and Mr. Vague

Verbatim: A sampler of meaningless statements by Samuel Alito

The Broken Constitution

More eyewitnesses to U.S. torture of detainees pierce the Bush administration's cover-up

Marriage of Two Minds

Gay nups may have become inevitable, but for now it's a world of pain

Bush Saddles Up for Terri Schiavo

Get me an activist judge! Prez rides hard for Christian right

Letters

Unpopular Vote

A compilation of electoral college crash courses

Kiss Your Rights Goodbye

From John Ashcroft's lips to God's ear

Separate Still Not Equal

If Gay Marriage Is the Question, Civil Unions Aren't the Answer

Letters

Supreme Court in Contempt

Rewriting the Constitution

The Man Who Stood Up to Bobby Kennedy

Alone on the Floor of the House

The Deceiving of Black Students

Are They Africans or Americans?

Letters

Lawless Arrests Under Giuliani

Howard Safir — I Am the Law!

Infamous Sodomy Law Struck Down

'What Was the State of Georgia Doing in Hardwick's Bedroom?'

Look Who's Talking

Keep Your Eye on Malik Shabazz

'Khallid Muhammad Makes the Jews Pee in Their Pants at Night'

Giuliani's Praetorian Guard

A 'Typical, Spiteful, Get-Back-at-Them Attitude'