Understanding the Constitution: Can the 25th amendment be used to remove Biden?
The 25th amendment is seriously ambiguous. It creates uncertainties that discourage using its procedure.
Chief Justice John Marshall: The feds have no power over your health care!
Our greatest chief justice was clear: Health regulations are for the states alone.
Bicycle damage to mountain parks a government failure
A sharp increase in Colorado mountain biking, caused partly by population rise but primarily by new bike technology, caused cyclists to flood the mountain parks. Administrators have failed to respond effectively
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: How the document was composed
In drafting the U.S. Constitution, the framers composed a document unique for its balance and beauty.
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 . . . .
