Senators Fail To Demand Answers From Kagan

ww Our previous post reveals the blatantly dishonest Commerce Clause precedent now used to abrogate the Constitution and embolden politicians like Speaker Nancy Pelosi to openly claim it grants to Congress unlimited power. We presented the two most important questions Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan must be forced to answer in her confirmation hearings: Does [...]

The Questions Elena Kagan Must Answer

Does the Constitution impose ANY limits on federal power to intervene, regulate or control The People’s personal lives or business activities?  If so, where in the Constitution does a Supreme Court Justice find those limits? These are the questions Senators on the Judiciary Committee should ask Elena Kagan as her Confirmation hearing continues today. Even [...]

Court Rules In Favor of Gun Ownership Rights

On Monday the Supreme Court published its second landmark Second Amendment, gun rights decision in modern times.  The news is good, both for individual rights and for the Constitution. Two years ago this week the Court debunked what had been, for nearly a century, the prevailing legal interpretation of the Second Amendment.  This interpretation, a [...]

Kagan Hearings Must Foucs on the Constitution

The tediously predictable hype for Elena Kagan, President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court, has begun. We’re told she’s compassionate, brilliant, and in the President’s words “one of the nation’s foremost legal minds.”  She “understands that Court rulings affect ordinary people.” But the media are silent on the most important question: Does she believe the [...]

Democrats’ Grim Choices in Post-Constitutional America

This week we have seen what post-Constitutional government looks like.  No-limit government means our liberty, rights, and prosperity are always subject to the whims of erratic political forces in Washington. Whether or not we the people will be subjugated by an authoritarian government take-over of health care, with it’s  resultant loss of liberty, impenetrable bureaucratic [...]

ObamaCare Vs. the Constitution (1)

A front page article in Friday’s Wall Street Journal reminds us, perhaps unintentionally, that The President and Congress, with the exception of fewer than a dozen members, have decided the Constitution is obsolete, and irrelevant.  The article, titled “Moderate Senators Hold Key to High-Stakes Legislation,” says: …the balance of power in determining the course of [...]