Aug 6, 2023 – Abuse of Power In the past, major presidential abuses of power occurred primarily in time of war. … So is purporting to transfer student debt obligations from those who benefited from them to those who did not. … One was the debacle accompanying American withdrawal from Afghanistan.…

Jul 31, 2023 – checks, and independence from established legal precedent and ethical norms. … Meta in 2022 requested Khan’s recusal from the case. … “The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse,” James Madison said…

Apr 21, 2022 – Cities barred residents from going outside maskless, even when alone on an empty street. … Nonessential workers were prohibited from leaving their homes. Travelers were required to wear masks at all times. … It’s the same message from leftists, liberal media, and elected Democrats — your freedom is what they decide it is.…

May 17, 2022 – The larger point that Secretary Levine’s comments demonstrates is the attempted silencing of dissent. … If all dissent is crushed, it’s easy to confidently declare there is no disagreement. … Supreme Court has agreed to hear her case.…

Aug 10, 2015 – , and criticism of Hillary Herself (“This dissent is unpatriotic!”). … Most of the commanders of those bases, and most of their troops, hailed from the Free States. … Plus, this seems like kind of a patriarchal power structure here.…

Aug 20, 2015 – Political romance has brought us two Supreme Court justices who choose ideology over judicial humility. … bound for destruction -- doesn’t work by itself: Central governments stifle dissent. … Today, from fantasy football to Second Life, from gated communities to the Big Sort (so we don’t interact with persons unlike ourselves…

Sep 16, 2015 – From the first days that Barack Obama declared his candidacy, we were told how brilliant he was, how this Harvard trained lawyer, … Channeling Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro, Obama’s agenda would brook no dissent, respect no constitutional restraint or congressional … See his decision to refuse to enforce the Defense of Marriage Act; see also in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision recognizing…

Sep 11, 2015 – Why are those demonizing the Rowan County, Kentucky, clerk so indifferent to the Supreme Court's rank abuse of power that created the … Who died and made the Supreme Court god? Well, the Supreme Court made itself god in 1803, with the case of Marbury v. … From the beginning, people have debated the Supreme Court's propriety in establishing itself as the final arbiter of the Constitution…

Oct 14, 2015 – Once the Supreme Court has ruled, that’s it. Case closed. Right? Not necessarily. … Hodges” in reference to the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage decision. … Consider what Justice Alito said about the second point above in his dissent of Obergefell---that dissent will be punished: “I assume…

Sep 25, 2018 – It’s part of what distinguishes us from authoritarian societies, where dissent is forbidden,” Mrs. Clinton writes.   … Far from healing America’s racial divisions, the Obama administration made them much worse.    … Foundation, much of it coming from foreign sources that benefited from Mrs.…

Oct 6, 2018 – Collins faced enormous pressure from everyone on her vote on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh. … In a dissent in Seven-Sky v. … Many experts have said his dissent informed Justice Roberts’ opinion upholding the ACA at the Supreme Court.  …

Nov 12, 2018 – The only thing they care about is their own power, they absolutely intend to steal every election they can, and everything they say … Is our glorious press, those defenders of democracy that seek to keep it from dying in darkness and stuff, on the case? … They believe they should have power and that you should shut up and obey.…

Nov 28, 2017 – sincerely preclude them from endorsing same-sex marriage. … Supreme Court. While of little solace to the couple that was understandably angered by Mr. … as they should and must be and the ability to appropriately dissent based on one’s religious beliefs.  …

Jun 29, 2015 – point of having a separate provision for power plants was to treat power plants differently. … The Government concedes that if the Agency were to find that emissions from power plants do damage to human health, but that the technologies … Furthermore, the EPA’s carbon limits for power plants are expected to shut down more than half of the nation’s coal-fired power plants…

Jun 27, 2015 – powerful nation in the world threw in the towel today on the entire notion of what it means to live in a “land of liberty,” when its Supreme … today by Chief Justice John Roberts—a man so opposed to the cause of liberty that his career would make Benedict Arnold blush—the Supreme … But as the Supreme Court ruled today, none of that matters.…

Jul 7, 2015 – Supreme Court announced the previously unknown constitutional “right” to impose same-sex “marriage” on all 50 states, the American … from settled public policy on matters of race or sexuality, we need to take a more radical step. … Viewed that way, it’s not a stretch to have the government assert taxing power over ecclesiastical property.…

Jul 3, 2015 – We all seem to agree that to a great extent politics flows downstream from culture. … How quickly their true intentions emerged once they scored their Supreme Court victory. … They are determined to use the power of the state and economic coercion to neuter and punish dissenters.…

Jul 1, 2015 – Recently we have seen judicial activism on steroids at the Supreme Court. … of the nine lawyers on the Supreme Court.” … In short, what matters now is who’s got the power---in this case one man, Justice Anthony Kennedy.…

Jul 1, 2015 – Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v. … Supreme Court ruled that prayer in school is unconstitutional. … Justice Clarence Thomas zeroed in on the truth in his dissent on the court's opinion.…

Jul 1, 2015 – to regulate interstate commerce, which the Supreme Court had already stretched beyond recognition. … Roberts therefore fixed the statute by excising those three inconvenient words -- "established by the state" -- from Section 36B of … As Justice Antonin Scalia pointed out in a dissent joined by Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, fixing statutes is not the Supreme Court's…

Jun 30, 2015 – On Friday, the Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. … This decision and others like it are enabled primarily by an understanding which fails to take a limited view of the Court’s power … and disregards any serious consideration of federalism as informed by the Tenth Amendment and the intrinsic limitations on federal power…

Jul 15, 2015 – To celebrate the recent birthday of the 14th Amendment, let’s play a little end-of-term Supreme Court bingo. … You are now entering the Supreme Court spin zone. … To take a phrase from Justice Thomas, it’s “faux federalism” at its finest.…

Jul 15, 2015 – First, he accurately diagnosed the situation: “More and more Christians feel estranged from mainstream culture. … Avakian, they can’t even explain why this is different from serving up some cupcakes. … And it’s music to the ears of secular elites who want a power monopoly.…

Jul 10, 2015 – A Congresswoman from a left-wing Wisconsin district, she won her first statewide election in 2012, during the unexpected Obama GOTV … Because of negative press, perhaps particularly from US Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), the Democratic US Senators changed the text : … Nothing in this article shall be construed to grant Congress or the States the power to abridge the freedom of the press.'…

Jul 21, 2015 – It has been given a green light to impose the rule from Justice Anthony Kennedy's majority opinion in the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision … from 100 percent white to over 90 percent black within a single year. … In a 1971 Supreme Court case, Griggs v.…