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Insurrectionism Goes "Mainstream"

Josh Horwitz | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Second Amendment, Gun Violence, National Rifle Association, Shootings, Insurrectionism, Insurrection, Richard Poplawski Pittsburgh, Gun Control, U.S. Constitution, Oklahoma City-Oklahoma, Pittsburgh-Pennsylvania, Politics News

Far from protecting liberty, insurrectionism deprives American citizens of their freedom.

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Beyond Clawback: Using the Tax Code More Expansively to Address AIG Bonuses

Paul Abrams | Posted 04.17.2009 | Business

The much-reviled US tax code contains within it thousands of treatments and exclusions that enable subclasses of people to enjoy deductions, credits or even exclusions from paying taxes.

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My Must-See Moment at Every Inaugural

Joe Cutbirth | Posted 02.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Exit, George Bush, White House, Nixon Impeachment, Joe Cutbirth, Obama Inauguration, Inaugural Moment, 2008 Presidential Inauguration, Obama, U.S. Constitution, Obama Inauguration Committee, Marine One, Nixon Resignation, Cutbirth, George Bush Presidency, Barbara Jordan Speech, Nixon Exit, Uphold the Constitution., Watergate, Barbara Jordan, Obama's Inauguration, Barack Obama Inauguration, Inauguration, Politics News

This moment sets in motion a process that allows ultimate authority to shift from one man to another without a shot being fired, a person being imprisoned or a life being lost.

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It's Time for the Senate to Hold Its Nose and Seat Burris

Mitchell Bard | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Article 3, Roland Burris Senate, Bobby Rush, Patrick Fitzgerald, Bart Simpson, Rod Blagojevich, Al Franken, George W. Bush, Roland Burris, Harry Reid, U.S. Constitution, Burris Race, Barack Obama, Blagojevich Corruption, Politics News

What is the worst case scenario? Burris runs for re-election in 2010 and loses? If a Democrat loses a U.S. Senate race in Illinois, Roland Burris will be the least of the Democrats' problems.

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The Rev. Rick Warren Controversy: A "Blessing" in Disguise?"

Gary Cohan | Posted 01.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, Proposition 8, Obama Inauguration, Obama Gay Rights, U.S. Constitution, Gay Activism, William White, Homosexuality, Gay Rights, Rick Warren, Obama Navy Secretary, Homophobia, Hate Speech, California Gay Marriage Ban, Obama Cabinet Picks, Gay Marriage, US Navy, Civil Rights, Rick Warren Invocation, No on Prop 8, Obama Inauguration Day, Evangelicals, Yes on Prop 8, Religious Right, Gay Civil Rights, Obama Warren, Politics News

I have expressed my outrage at Rick Warren's elevation to the national stage. Yet, if the gay community has the courage to take a deep breath, there's another way of viewing this situation.

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It's Not Over Til It's Over

Al Meyerhoff | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: U.S. Constitution, California Prop 8, California, Constitution, Prop 8, Civil Rights, Politics News

By passing Prop 8, the California electorate may well now have violated parallel guarantees contained in the United States Constitution. We have been here before.

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There Is No "Unless You're Gay" Clause in the Constitution, Prop 8 Supporters

Jamie Frevele | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Us Constitution, Proposition 8, California Gay Marriage Ban, California Gay Marriage, Gay Marriage Rights, Aclu, Politics News

Moral objections aside, the passage of Proposition 8 in California plus all the other states with same-sex marriage bans are all in direct conflict with the United States Constitution.

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A Bright New Day - But What Now, President Obama?

Andy Worthington | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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Millions of Americans have proved that they are hungry for change and have elected a president whose very identity bridges a divide in American society.

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Premature Emancipation? A Pragmatist's View of the Gay Marriage Struggle

Gary Cohan | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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Civil rights are not won in the war zone of national elections or State referenda but, rather, in a series of small but important evolutionary steps.

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Fifty Years later, the Oldest Survivor of Death Row USA Casts Ballot for Obama

Joan Cheever | Posted 12.03.2008 | Home

Read More: Moreese Bickham, Ex Felons Voting Rights, Csi, Voting Rights, U.S. Constitution, Obama Presidency, First African American President, African American President, Democratic Primary, Death Row, Mississippi, 24th Amendment, On the Ground 2008, Poll Tax, Louisiana Death Row, Home News

Moreese Bickham spent 13, 695 days behind bars; 37 years and six months in the Louisiana State Penitentiary. He stayed 14 years and 10 months on Loui...

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What the Framers Knew and Alan Greenspan Didn't

Eric Lane and Michael Oreskes | Posted 11.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Us Constitution, George Washington, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Founding Fathers, John Quincy Adams, Housing Crisis, Greenspan, Alan Greenspan, Constitutional Convention, Constitution, Politics News

The Framers did not ask people to rise above self-interest but instead expected them to pursue it. Pitting interest against interest, as Madison put it, is a way of ensuring liberty.

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The Constitution as a Regulatory System: Inaugurating a New President

Sanford Levinson | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, History, Change, Us Constitution, Bailout, Economic Crisis, Deregulation, Election 2008, Politics News

It would be wonderful if our current willingness to raise basic questions about our broken regulatory system extended to questioning the very heart of that system, the Constitution.

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Game. Set. Match. Obama.

Shannyn Moore | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics

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McCain's outright mockery of the health and life of the mother as being a legitimate reason for termination was deplorable. How dare he!?

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Protecting Your Right to Vote

Anthony D. Romero | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Us Constitution, Voter Disenfranchisement, 2008 Election, Voter Registration, Michigan, Politics News

The right to vote is protected by more constitutional amendments than any other right we have, yet if 2004 is any indicator, we can expect many more voter suppression tactics this Election Day.

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Start Cramming Now - Let's Test Everybody for Citizenship

Daniel Cubias | Posted 11.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Latinos, Hispanic, John McCain, Constitutional Amendments, Constitutional Law, U.S. Constitution, 2008 Presidential Race, Citizenship, Politics News

The citizenship test asks people things like, "Why do some states have more representatives in Congress?" I find it difficult to believe that this is a harmful thing for citizens to know.

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Who is Barack Obama? Atticus Finch.

Erik Lundegaard | Posted 10.17.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: John McCain Lies, John McCain, To Kill a Mockingbird, Mccain Lies, 2008 Presidential Campaign, Atticus Finch, U.S. Constitution, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Rule of Law, Habeas Corpus, Entertainment News

So who does Barack remind me of? He's a civil rights lawyer who taught Constitutional law and is bringing up two girls the right way. When bullies gather, he stands up for what's right, he stands up for the rule of law, he stands up.

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Court Confirms President's Dictatorial Powers in Case of US "Enemy Combatant" Ali al-Marri

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: US Supreme Court, Us Constitution, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Enemy Combatants, Judge Diana Gribbon Motz, Ali Al-Marri, Terrorism, Jose Padilla, Taliban, Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge William B. Traxler, Yaser Hamdi, Al Qaeda, Politics News

Not content with endorsing the president's dictatorial right to imprison "enemy combatants", the judges ruled that the President did not even have to allege that an "enemy combatant" had ever raised arms against US forces.

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Obama: Bush's Laws Will Be Scrutinized For Constitutionality If I Become President

Reuters | Deborah Charles | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bush's Laws Overturned, Bush, Justice Department, Obama Bush's Laws, Obama, Bush's Laws, U.S. Constitution, Politics News

Maybe it's his background teaching constitutional law. If elected president, Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama said one of the first things...

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