In 63 B.C., Julius Caesar delivered a speech to the Roman Senate in which he conveyed a crucial point, one highly relevant to many of our current cont...
Robin Koerner | Posted 04.18.2012
Left and Right and Right and Left / Have left America bereft / Of liberty, its founding light. / Christians, Liberals speak of peace / Until they hold the nation's leash, / And send its youth to fight.
Aubree Eliza Weaver | Posted 04.11.2012
How are First Amendment rights different for people serving our country? Now, hear me out when I say that I'm rather torn on this issue.
Peter J. Woolley | Posted 04.05.2012
Only small segments of the public pay substantial, sustained attention even to high-profile cases like this one, never mind the particulars of the full reach of the interstate commerce clause, or whether requiring health insurance is akin to mandating consumption of broccoli.
Ben Clements | Posted 04.14.2012
In short, the elimination of corporate constitutional rights will not change the results in cases in which the constitutional rights of natural persons -- individually or in groups or associations -- are infringed.
The Huffington Post | Andy Campbell | Posted 03.27.2012
A New Mexico man held in solitary confinement at a county prison for two years without a trial has won a $22 million suit for violations of his consti...
Jim Garrison | Posted 02.27.2012
In the fine print of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, passed just before the holidays, it turns out that in addition to being now legally ...
Bethany St. James | Posted 02.18.2012
Drug testing isn't unconstitutional, but what should be unconstitutional is blowing tax dollars on assisting individuals who knowingly break the law -- criminals.
Kate Hanni | Posted 11.18.2011
Since 9/11, ignorance and misguided paranoia have combined to inspire senseless hate crimes all over America against people who wish only the same peace and safety all Americans desire.
Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 11.17.2011
Today is Constitution Day. It is a day to reflect, at least for a moment, on the American Constitution and how it has helped to shape our nation over more than two centuries.
AP | MICHAEL BIESECKER | Posted 11.06.2011
RALEIGH, N.C. — Lawyers for John Edwards asked a federal judge on Tuesday to throw out criminal charges against the former Democratic presidenti...
Kate Hanni | Posted 09.17.2011
After an extended period of inappropriate, knee-jerk response, dealing with real security threats by providing security theater, the TSA is slowly responding to public outcry.
Time Magazine | Richard Stengel | Posted 08.23.2011
Americans have debated the Constitution since the day it was signed, but seldom have so many disagreed so fiercely about so much. Would it be unconsti...
Jesse Levine | Posted 07.19.2011
Two New York State legislators have proposed a simple, effective legislative fix to New York City's 15-year marijuana arrest craze that would strike from the law the misdemeanor for marijuana possession of less than an ounce.
Scott Morgan | Posted 07.18.2011
This week's Supreme Court decision in Kentucky v. King has civil-libertarians and marijuana policy reformers in an uproar, and rightly so, but it's not exactly the death of the 4th Amendment
Adam Winkler | Posted 07.16.2011
Implicit in Prop. 8 supporters' effort to recuse Judge Walker is the notion that, unlike a gay judge who might benefit from marriage, a heterosexual judge would be impartial. The ironies abound.
Joanne Bamberger | Posted 07.06.2011
The Supreme Court of the United States just told a sexually assaulted high school girl to shut up and go home. They didn't say it in those words exac...
Scott Edwards | Posted 05.25.2011
Senator Norman's misguided bill is yet another attempt to keep a tight, dark lid on the many, many wrongs being committed today by the factory farming industry.
Bob McNamara | Posted 05.25.2011
In an effort to update and upgrade our national anthem, Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten has penned his own replacement, with music set to th...
Sarah Rose | Posted 05.25.2011
On a new TV show, Joel Derfner and I find ourselves in the middle of the jealousy plot: He likes boys, so do I. He gets married, I do not. Boy, this role is a bummer, no? Well, no.
Leslie Gabel-Brett | Posted 05.25.2011
When ordinary folks, whether LGBT or not, stop by a bar to meet people and have a drink, they should not be afraid that their town or city police force will send officers to terrorize and insult them.
Judith E. Schaeffer | Posted 05.25.2011
With marriage equality hanging in the balance for same-sex couples, Monday will give us all a chance to witness history in the making.
Kate Hanni | Posted 05.25.2011
What do you know about the TSA's two new security measures? Our recent survey showed us that many people haven't given this issue much thought.
Huff TV | Posted 05.25.2011
HuffPost Senior Political Editor Howard Fineman visited "Countdown" on Thursday to talk about the Constitution, Christine O'Donnell and how she reflec...
Rabah Ghezali | Posted 05.25.2011
It is nonsensical to suppose that an individual's free and deliberate choice to veil their person violates their own human dignity.
Salon | Glenn Greenwald | Posted 05.08.2012