Mar 20, 2024 – The process resulted in the further consolidation of power and closing in ranks by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. … Now even so-called “moderates” from within the establishment have been systematically marginalized, unable to offer any conceivable … It is a lesson that Iranians of all demographics, from all walks of life, are eager to teach.…

Feb 14, 2024 – Last week, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments on a ridiculous ruling from Colorado’s top court that deemed Trump … In a functioning Constitutional Republic, the power to remove elected officials should ultimately lie with the voters. … The Supreme Court's decision to fast-track this case speaks volumes about its significance in 2024 and beyond.…

Feb 14, 2024 – Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. … Alarming as it is, this story is far from isolated. … Supreme Court. Both concern this destructive nexus of government and corporate power.   In National Rifle Association v.…

Jan 5, 2024 – Meanwhile, the central government consolidated its power and worked with media companies to suppress dissent and even discussion of … be removed from their states’ primary ballots. … They have no shame in their unbridled efforts to accumulate power.…

Dec 13, 2023 – This is an egregious misuse of prosecutorial power by Smith, and it should be harshly rebuked by the Supreme Court. … Several conservative Supreme Court justices have a markedly dim view of Roberts. … , which is likely to offend Supreme Court justices.…

Dec 6, 2023 – The month before Justice Sandra Day O'Connor announced her retirement in 2005, she dissented from Supreme Court decisions in two cases … O'Connor's dissent began with a 1798 quote from Justice Samuel Chase, who cited "a law that takes property from A. and gives it to … While Kelo involved a constitutional limit on local power, Gonzales v.…

Aug 12, 2023 – Now there are visible signs of dissent, even with the ranks of the theocratic regime. … They know that a single spark could ignite a new revolution that could sweep them from power. … There is even growing evidence of defections from the IRGC and their thuggish Basij militia.…

Aug 31, 2023 – Within Tehran's inner sanctums of power and among its suppressive forces, an uneasy apprehension looms. … Within the regime's strategic calculus, the expanding MEK-affiliated Resistance Unitsemerge as foci of dissent. … Recognizing the power of these organized units, the regime strategically shifts to suppress them, employing tactics ranging from calculated…

Apr 11, 2021 – Then-supreme leader Khomeini declared in a fatwa (religious decree) that anyone associated with the principal opposition Mujahedin-e … He has reportedly overseen an escalating crackdown on dissent, aspects of which an earlier Amnesty report titled "Trampling Humanity … effort to consolidate power.…

Apr 21, 2021 – From such glaring displays of indefensible Supreme Court inaction, the following incontrovertible truths have been set out in plain … A place where unquestioned obedience is expected and dissent from any of the state’s propaganda narratives can expect to be silenced … After all, how is a nation supposed to lawfully remedy the corrupt silence of a politicized Supreme Court from which there are NO readily…

May 21, 2021 – This is where you can sense that the only dissent liberal media outlets seem to enjoy comes from the left of their so-called "mainstream … That's proof that the view is different from the cheap seats." … Their grand power grabs are failing, from voting laws to Supreme Court expansion.…

Jun 11, 2021 – But, this year, the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is desperate to consolidate power by ensuring his top candidate gets the presidency … When rival factions were purged from the presidential race this week, none of them mustered the courage to voice protest. … Six of its members are appointed by the Supreme Leader himself, while the other six are appointed by the Judiciary Chief, who is himself…

Jun 28, 2021 – Not to mention that the president is completely subservient to the Supreme Leader, who wields ultimate power in Iran. … On July 10, a different growing voice will be heard from Iran and Iranians. … Tens of thousands of Iranians from all over the world, joined by pro-democracy activists from across Iran are expected to take part…

Jun 23, 2021 – Supreme Court or federal law. … Now, seven years later judges still are not prohibited from doing precisely what those three highly respected Supreme Court justices … House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003.…

Apr 7, 2016 – Supreme Court has been throwing off sparks at every turn. … Wouldn't any abuse of this statute be checked by Congress' power to impeach a president or the people's power to defeat him at the … , and from the perspective that multiple responsibilities provide."…

May 12, 2016 – We will become a beacon of freedom when the blue states’ Supreme Court finds the whole Bill of Rights unconstitutional. 2. … We need to strike down laws that protect entrenched business interests by keeping others from competing. … So, the loss of the blue states from the United States would be less a loss than an opportunity.…

Jul 7, 2016 – Supreme Court, inaugurating a tenure marked by unwavering commitment to principled originalism.Justice Thomas’s life is an only-in-America … The current era of muscular federal power showcases that courts need not coddle federal power to protect Washington from the states … This was a reference to Justice John Harlan’s 1896 solo dissent in Plessy v.…

Jul 1, 2016 – You probably don't think so, particularly if you took part in the celebratory riot of good feeling in the wake of the Supreme Court's … -- have the unilateral power to put American citizens on a secret list barring them from exercising two constitutional rights: the … As Justice Clarence Thomas put it in his Hellerstedt dissent: "The Court employs a different approach to rights that it favors."…

Jan 11, 2015 – I had to check to see if somehow they were running a show from 2008. They weren’t; it was new. … Radical Islam operates on a mentality from 1,000 years ago. … One side believes in the largess of the state, the other the power of the individual.…

Feb 23, 2015 – Enforcers from the Left are scrambling to delegitimize Rudy Giuliani’s statement that he doesn’t believe Barack Obama loves America … He opposes the Constitution’s restraints on national and executive power. … He opposes its protections of people’s property, speech, and active dissent.…

Mar 11, 2015 – That 1857 ruling of the Supreme Court said it was legal to take slaves from slave states into free territories and the slaves would … Justice Curtis’ dissent in Dred Scott. … This is what the Supreme Court threatens in its latest entry into legislating from the bench.…

Feb 8, 2017 – Supreme Court nominee – this White House has tackled many issues in whirlwind fashion. … Sure, they have a right to protest and register their dissent. … from establishment Republicans.…

Apr 7, 2017 – McConnell endured endless carping from his colleagues across the aisle, kept GOP dissent to a minimum, and ignored Democrat-friendly … objections from the press. … They will certainly be back in power someday, but so will Republicans after that.  …

Apr 24, 2017 – In their quest for more and more power, Chavez and then Maduro made reliable access to basic necessities a virtual impossibility. … Maduro then had the Supreme Court dissolve the Congress after the Venezuelan people stocked the legislature with opposition members … This administration would rather starve its people than relinquish power.…

Apr 24, 2017 – Understand that if America is stupid enough to let liberals take power again, they will persecute and prosecute normal Americans like … us who dare to dissent. … Look, the left has told us what it wants – the power to force us to be silent and submit.…