This country was built on the radical idea that government exists to serve the people—not to control them, monitor them, manage them, or rule over them.
Tag: United States
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THE COMING CONSTITUTIONAL ICE AGE
Last fall during the opening of the United Nations in New York City, I recognized the face of a federal officer from his days working in law enforcement in New Jersey and mine as a trial judge.
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NEW START NUCLEAR TREATY BETWEEN U.S. AND RUSSIA EXPIRES
The last remaining nuclear treaty between the U.S. and Russia that put a cap on how many nuclear weapons each country could have in its arsenal expired last week, raising new concerns of an arms race.
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LOCKED DOWN. ROUNDED UP. WAREHOUSED. THE RISE OF AMERICA’S CONCENTRATION CAMPS
In 2021, amid a global pandemic, warnings that the federal government might repurpose warehouses into detention facilities on American soil were dismissed as speculative, alarmist, even conspiratorial.
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DOES THE U.S. STILL HAVE A CONSTITUTION?
Legal scholars have many lenses through which to examine the Constitution. Lawyers need to master about 150 Supreme Court decisions in order to have a sufficient understanding of the government.
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ISRAEL WANTS TO LOCK UP 10-YEAR ‘SECURITY’ DEAL WITH U.S., WHILE NETANYAHU PUSHES FOR SELF-SUFFICIENCY
Israel and the United States are working out a new 10-year security deal as Tel Aviv’s current “memorandum of understanding,” which provides Israel with $3.8 billion a year, nears its end in 2028.
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JUDGE, JURY, EXECUTIONER: WHEN THE GOVERNMENT DECIDES WHO LIVES OR DIES
What does it say about a political movement that demands absolute reverence for life in the womb yet shrugs when the government kills, cages, or brutalizes the living?
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AMERICAN GESTAPO / AMERICAN PSYCHO
Last week, a half-dozen masked and unidentifiable Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents killed a 37-year-old federal employee, a nurse, by spraying pepper spray into his eyes, pushing him to the ground, stealing his lawfully owned and carried handgun, and then shooting him nine times in the back.
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NULLIFY THE POLICE STATE: THE PEOPLE’S VETO TO REIN IN A LAWLESS GOVERNMENT
We are living through a period of open lawlessness at the highest levels of government.
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STOP INSIDER TRADING ACT CALLED ‘POLITICAL SCAM’
A bill intended to stop members of Congress from using their positions to play the stock market with the benefit of inside information was advanced inside the House last week, but was called a “political scam” by critics who say the legislation leaves a lot of wiggle room.