Video: Rob Natelson: “The courts have gone AWOL during the pandemic”
Rob Natelson, Senior Fellow of Constitutional Jurisprudence at The Independence Institute, talks with Jon Caldara about the courts’ failure to enforce their own constitutional rights precedents against government overreaching during the pandemic: View on YouTube
The courts go AWOL on the virus vax
Those rights liberals favor are placed in, as the Supreme Court expresses it, a “preferred position.” The rights favored by everyone else can be more readily trampled.
Understanding the Constitution: Why most federal land holdings are unconstitutional and why you should care
Here’s the most important underlying cause of the fires: federal land ownership.
Tenant eviction moratoria are more than unconstitutional; they’re insurrectionary
These orders, federal and state, and not merely unconstitutional. They are fundamentally anti-constitutional. They are at war with a fundamental reason the Constitution was adopted.
Understanding the Constitution: the force of the Preamble
The term “the people” was not, as sometimes claimed, limited to wealthy white males.
Understanding the Constitution: the style of the preamble
Gouverneur Morris had been educated in Greek and Latin poetry, but in composing the preamble he wisely adopted meter appropriate to English. He heightened the effect with alliteration and near rhymes.
Twitter v. Trump, Part 3: Trump’s best ‘free speech’ claim against Twitter
If the plaintiffs actually do uncover systematic efforts by the Biden administration and other Democratic officeholders to suppress freedom of speech and freedom of the press, this will be the most egregious abuse-of-power scandal in recent times.
Trump v. Twitter, Part 2: Can a private company violate the First Amendment?
So, the theory goes, if Congress invited Twitter to exercise political censorship, then Congress violated the First Amendment. But this theory also has weaknesses . . . .
Trump v. Twitter, Part 1: How social media censors abuse federal law
Social media’s power to censor must be exercised only to empower parents in protecting their children. . . . . It’s not a license for a company’s civic ignoramuses to impose their political prejudices on the rest of us.
How the media misrepresent our liberal-leaning Supreme Court
The cases show that the Roberts court is committed to the case precedents through which the liberal 20th century justices re-wrote the Constitution.
The liberal Supreme Court: A review of the recent term
The court doesn’t have a “conservative majority.” In constitutional cases at least, it leans toward the liberal side.
Defending the Constitution: Secrets behind those ‘obscure’ provisions
Here are questions and answers addressing five of the Constitution’s less famous provisions.
