Constitutional News & Commentary

Just a guess: Navy public affairs officer Robin Patterson, who was in charge of responding to this Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, probably didn't mean to send his her strategy memo about to how to dodge various aspects of the query for photos, memos, and emails to the reporter who filed the request. Read More...

From the point of view of a defender of liberty, ObamaCare is the most magnificent welfare state program of our generation. Read More...

Chicago, IL—The State of Illinois like lots of jurisdictions in America want to over-regulate our rights to keep and bear arms. Additionally they want to make us pay or face arrest and imprisonment for not submitting to their unlawful extortion demands. Read More...

In room-size metal boxes ­secure against electromagnetic leaks, the National Security Agency is racing to build a computer that could break nearly every kind of encryption used to protect banking, medical, business and government records around the world. Read More...

National Security Adviser Susan Rice dismissed any possibility that former NSA contractor Edward Snowden would be granted amnesty, saying he doesn’t “deserve” it.  Read More...

A United States federal judge has accused President Barack Obama’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) of being complicit in helping Mexican drug cartels and felons inside America smuggle illegal aliens into the country. Read More...

PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — The Westchester County village of Pleasantville has placed a police officer on administrative leave, after he was allegedly caught making a racist rant — reportedly about President Barack Obama — on Facebook. Read More...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) received at least 7,868 complaints of DHS “employee criminal misconduct” in the first half of fiscal year 2013 alone. Read More...

Constitutional Rights Political Action Committee, a D.C.-based group that focuses on individual rights such as those embodied in the Second Amendment and ending the Department of Homeland Security, enthusiastically endorsed U.S. Rep. Steve Stockman against Sen. John Cornyn in the 2014 Republican primary in Texas. Read More...

When I was in high school, I joined the ROTC initially because I was attracted to the uniforms. I figured they would provide an opportunity to escape the constant berating by fellow students owing to my outdated clothing. I was fascinated with the guns and became an excellent marksman, winning several marksmanship awards. Read More...

One of the biggest political changes that 2011 brought — in large part due to the tea parties and their effect on the 2010 election — is the centrality of the Constitution to our public discourse. Lawmakers and citizens no longer consider simply whether a given bill or policy proposal is a good idea but whether it is constitutional. “Where does the government get the power to do that?” is often critics’ rallying cry. Read More...

According to court documents, police entered Lugo's home on Sept. 2, 2012, as her family was celebrating Labor Day. Police stopped and questioned her son Edwin Avellanet as he was outside throwing out garbage and asked for identification, the lawsuit says. When he refused to show any, officers allegedly grabbed his right arm and Avellanet broke free and ran into the building... When inside, police allegedly struck Avellanet two or three times with a hard object, struck their friend in the face and threw a woman into the dresser with the bird cage on it, court documents say. Read More...

One of Washington’s most reliably conservative lawmakers is breaking the news that he will challenge a mainstay of the Republican establishment – all because the incumbent GOP senator “undermined Sen. Ted Cruz’s fight to stop Obamacare.” Read More...

PHOENIX — "Guns Save Lives." Those words, set against the backdrop of a red heart, are the headline of a controversial bus-stop advertisement at the center of a three-year legal battle between city officials and civil-liberties advocates. Read More...

A former Delaware County public defender has filed a civil rights suit against the county in federal court, claiming he was wrongly terminated from his position for failing to encourage defendants to take plea bargains.  Read More...

Nobody is coming for your guns, they said. Nobody is taking away your rights, they said. This is all about public safety, they said. Nearly a year ago, the New York legislature passed the toughest gun control law in the country known as the S.A.F.E. Act. It was rushed through in the middle of the night and as soon as it landed on Governor Cuomo's desk, he signed it without asking questions. Read More...

BELLEVUE, WA --(Ammoland.com)- The Second Amendment Foundation is launching a nationwide television advertising effort, calling attention to “Guns Save Lives Day” on Dec. 15 2013, in conjunction with Bill of Rights Day.  Read More...

Today is the day in 1933 when the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, with 36 states (a three-fourths majority of the 48 states existing then) approving it. With that move, the 18th Amendment was repealed, ending 13 years of Prohibition and granting each state the primary authority to enact and enforce alcohol laws. Read More...

Under Obama’s administration, there’s been a serious downsizing of our military. I’ve got my own thoughts on that, but I’ll save them for another time. Reality is, we’ve got a large number of people getting out of the military with a ton of combat and military experience; men and women being thrown back into civilian life. There have been several incidents already involving these vets and their rights being taken away from them.  Read More...

“Indeed, many laws regulating knives cannot even survive rational basis scrutiny. As we have previously observed, knives are among the arms that Americans have a right to bear, and their lower lethality relative to handguns means that there is not even a rational basis for laws that regulate carrying knives more restrictively than carrying handguns,” they write.  Read More...