GOP applauds Trump plan to use military for deportations, some expect legal fights
Trump may declare a national emergency to deport illegals.  He has also discussed using the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to speedily remove criminal aliens. The military cannot traditionally conduct law enforcement operations without congressional authorization, though the National Guard is not subject to that restriction.  Read more.

PA Supreme Court Rules for RNC, Declares Undated Mail-in Ballots May Not Be Counted
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled before the 2024 General Election that mail-in ballots that don't have proper dates or signatures would not be included in the official results, yet Democrats proceeded counting the ballots in a Senate race recount despite the ruling.  Read more here.

President Trump Announces His GenZ Pick For Press Secretary
27-year-old Karoline Leavitt will serve as Trump’s Press Secretary in his second term, the youngest person in American history to hold that position.  She recently served as National Press Secretary in the Trump campaign, ran for Congress in 2022 in New Hampshire’s 1st Congressional District, and served as assistant Press Secretary in the first Trump administration.  Read the story.

Trump Taps Brendan Carr for FCC Chairman
President-elect Donald Trump has picked Brendan Carr, the senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission, as the new chairman of the agency tasked with regulating broadcasting, telecommunications, and broadband.  Trump calls Carr a “warrior of free speech,” and says he is “against the regulatory Lawfare that has stifled Americans’ Freedoms, and held back our Economy…”  Read more here.

Who Has the Right to Impose Taxes on Us?
Control and restrictions on the government are the entire reason for the Constitution. This profound document was created to protect the individual from our own government.  According to the Constitution, only those who must stand for election are allowed to assess fines, regulation, laws, and taxes against their fellow citizens.  Read the article.

Eco-Activists May Have Inadvertently Gutted One of Their Favorite Regulatory Systems
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled in Marin Audubon Society v. Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) that the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) does not have the legal authority to issue National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) rules.  The decision represents a major step toward placing rulemaking authority back in Congress’ hands.  Read more here.

Supreme Court to hear oral arguments on a law protecting minors
A Tennessee law banning health-care providers from performing gender-affirming surgeries on minors or prescribing hormones or puberty blockers to minors would have taken effect in July of 2023, but The American Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld filed a suit, saying the law violated the 14th Amendment.  The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Dec. 4 in the case.  Read the article here. 

Wealthy Washington D.C. suburb’s no-exception LGBTQ curriculum faces headwinds at Supreme Court
Major religious groups, half the states, and top legal scholars of religious liberty unite against Maryland's Montgomery County Public Schools, which refuses to notify parents when "Pride storybooks" are taught or let young kids opt out.  Read more here. 

Supreme Court takes up Clean Air Act and sentencing cases
The justices added four new cases, involving the venue for challenges to the Environmental Protection Agency’s actions under the Clean Air Act and federal sentencing law, to its docket for the 2024-25 term. The justices also declined to take up a challenge to the structure of the Consumer Product Safety Commission and a challenge to the decision by a Long Island town to take private property to build a public park.  Read more here.

Top five threats to election integrity ahead of the presidential election
While there are dozens of ongoing election integrity issues, a newly released report from a watchdog group lists the top 50 election threats that the U.S. is facing with less than three weeks until the presidential election.  Read the list here. 

Supreme Court rebuffs attempt to defend tougher Biden asylum rules
The Supreme Court shot down GOP-led states’ attempt to defend President Biden’s tougher rules governing asylum seekers, leaving the administration free to negotiate a weaker compromise with immigrant rights advocates.  Read the article. 

What are Time, Place, and Manner Restrictions?
The First Amendment protects free expression, but there are some limits to that protection, including regulations based on “time, place and manner.”  This three-pronged set allows regulation of expression based on those criteria but only if the government does so for reasons unrelated to the content of the speech, has a proven public interest as a goal, and the regulations are no more than the minimum required to support that public interest.  Read more here.

Tim Walz Insults the Constitution and Why It Matters
 
Tim Walz Brags About Passing Laws That Restrict Speech
Governor Tim Walz’ new law prohibits employers from discussing religious or political matters at required meetings, including meetings on elections, regulations, and whether employees should join a union.  It also squelches and coerces teachers’ free speech rights.  He also bragged about the impact of the new law, saying that employers will either have to toe the line or be sent to jail.  Read more here.
 
 
Our Constitution Isn’t Dangerous, But Our Ignorance Of It Is
If ‘we the people’ are unable to defend the Constitution, then the Constitution is unable to defend us.  Read the article here.
 
The Constitution and Its Enemies
Karl Popper wrote the book, The Open Society and Its Enemies, during the Second World War in an attempt to explain — and refute — the totalitarian ideologies that had delivered Europe into the hands of murderous dictators like Stalin and Hitler.  Read the article.
 
‘Car Insurance’ for Cancel Culture: Here’s What to Do If You Get Smeared Like Nick Sandmann
Todd McMurtry was a lawyer, but he had never practiced defamation law before legacy media outlets demonized 16-year-old Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann for the crime of “smirking” while wearing a Make America Great Again hat. Now, McMurtry has published a book about defamation law—a book he recommends as a kind of “car insurance” for cancel culture.  Read more here.
 
Illegal aliens could swing the 2024 election
Either Congress must pass the SAVE Act, or states must protect the integrity of their elections — especially the seven swing states that could shift the outcome of 2024 by a hair’s breadth.  Progressives whose policies allowed illegal immigration on a massive illegal scale say illegals are already voting and there’s nothing they “can” do about it.  This position shows no respect for our electoral system or the rule of law.  Read the article here.  
 
Affirmative Action Doesn’t Work, and MIT Knows It
Racial preferences increase the number of black and Hispanic students at America’s top colleges and universities, but this policy does nothing to alleviate the real disparities that shape outcomes.  If university officials genuinely want to help underprivileged students of all racial and ethnic backgrounds get on a path to greater success as they claim, then they should refocus their efforts on reducing disparities in elementary and secondary education.  Read more here.

Free Speech On Social Media – The Complete Guide
The First Amendment protects speech from government censorship. But what about free speech on social media? Social media platforms are private companies and are not bound by the First Amendment. In fact, they have their own First Amendment rights. This means they can moderate the content people post on their websites without violating those users’ First Amendment rights. It also means that the government cannot tell social media sites how to moderate content. Many state laws to regulate how social media companies can moderate content have failed on First Amendment grounds.  Read more here.

• Important Exception - Social media platforms can become First Amendment space if they act as agents of the government and censor information as the government directs.  This is called the ‘state actor’ doctrine.  Unfortunately, the Supreme Court turned away a challenge this year on technical grounds from two state attorneys’ general and other plaintiffs who demonstrated that 80 federal government agencies coordinated with Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story, the disturbing truth about COVID vaccines, and other truthful information the American people were entitled to have.  It is a clear and continuing case of social media platforms who have become ‘state actors’ to do the government’s censorship dirty work the government knows it could not do itself under the First Amendment. 
  

A Free Speech Firestorm – Liberty Nation Radio
Can the First Amendment weather the tide of censorship?  A recent edition of Liberty Nation Radio examined the threats to free speech in the U.S. and abroad.  Listen here.

Venezuela Just Proved Why Gun Rights Matter
As Thomas Jefferson once wrote: “[W]hat country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms…” If Venezuela has taught us anything, it is that the people’s right to bear arms will save our Republic, not destroy it. Let’s take heed of this warning, and remind the naïve among us who are flirting with socialist ideas that you can’t vote your way out of a dictatorship.  Read more here.

Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Injunctions Blocking Biden’s Pro-transgender Title IX Rewrite
The new “Biden Rule,” released in April, added gender identity to Title IX, thus allowing female-identifying men into women’s bathrooms and requiring others to address them with their preferred pronouns — alongside other provisions unrelated to transgender issues.  The SCOTUS ruled unanimously in favor of the injunctions in 10 states blocking the new rule.  Read more here.

U.S. Appeals Court Rules Geofence Warrants Are Unconstitutional
A federal appeals court has ruled that geofence warrants are unconstitutional, a decision that will limit the use of the controversial search warrants across several U.S. states.  It found that geofence warrants are “categorically prohibited by the Fourth Amendment,” which protects against unwarranted searches and seizures.  Read more here. 

Judges, Not Bureaucrats, Interpret the Law
The separation of powers works only if the branches actually stay in their own lanes. The Supreme Court’s June 28th decision ending Chevron deference in Loper Bright v. Raimondo was a big step toward making that happen.  Read more here.

“Another Federal Court Rules Against Teen’s ‘Only 2 Genders’ T-Shirt”
After a disappointing loss in federal trial court and a denial of his request for an injunction, Liam Morrison, now 13, appealed his free speech case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit—only to lose again.  Both courts made the same determination—that Liam’s speech, while not necessarily disruptive, interfered with the “rights of others.”  Read more here.
 
“Supreme Court’s Murthy v. Missouri Ruling: A Blow to Free Speech Protections”
"Last week, in Murthy v. Missouri, the U.S. Supreme Court hammered home the distressing conclusion that, under the court’s doctrines, the First Amendment is, for all practical purposes, unenforceable against large-scale government censorship. The decision is a strong contender to be the worst speech decision in the court’s history."  Read more here.
 
“Invoking The 25th Amendment Is Constitutional - And Is Democrats’ Best Hope”
“The Democrats’ public struggle session over what to do with the problem of Joe Biden must end. They know, we know, and, most terrifyingly, America’s enemies know that our commander-in-chief is mentally incompetent. As such, the answer is clear, and the Constitution provides it: Joe Biden must be removed from office and the vice president sworn in as president.”  Read more here.
 
“American No Longer Has A ‘Common Cause.’  Our Forefathers Would Be Ashamed.”
"We’ve ceded too much power to the government because generation after generation slowly let their foot off the pedal and became willingly complacent via distractions. It’s why we ended up with an administrative state that lets unelected bureaucrats write their own laws."  Read more here.
 
“Yes, America Is Exceptional.  Happy 4th of July!”
“One (of the things that makes us exceptional) is the Constitution, the greatest document ever to govern a free people. Drawn up by a body of highly educated, widely experienced, and exceptional men, our Constitution—including the subsequent first 10 amendments, the Bill of Rights—has been an enduring guide in changing times. It was designed for a moral and religious people, yes, but also for humans, flawed and vain and avaricious and fickle.”  Read more here.
 
“Missouri sues New York over reprehensible ‘lawfare’ against Trump: Poisonous to American democracy’”
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s lawsuit alleges New York’s "illicit prosecution, gag order, and sentencing" of Trump has undermined his ability to campaign for president, sabotaging Missourians’ ability to hear from him and cast a fully informed vote for a presidential candidate mere months before the election.  Read more here.

“California city censors police and fire chaplains, ordering not to pray in Jesus’ name”
Carlsbad, California has reportedly forbidden its volunteer police and fire chaplains to invoke the name of Jesus while praying with members of public agencies, calling it ‘a form of harassment’ and ‘creating a hostile work environment.’  Read more here.

“Get Ready for the New Digital Censorship Regime”

• Biden White House colluded with Big Tech platforms to censor speech about COVID-19, 2020 presidential election and are attempting to impose a new digital censorship regime ahead of this fall’s elections
• House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government has exposed these past abuses
• In violation of election laws, initiatives such as the State Department-backed Global Disinformation Index and news-rating company NewsGuard partner with Big Tech to deprive so-called fake news sites of ad dollars and user engagement - their ratings are deeply biased.
• Policymakers must take action, and fast, if they want to prevent a replay of 2020.

Read more here.
 
“The Next POTUS Should Reclaim The Constitutional Spending Power Congress Stole”
Under the Impoundment Control Act (ICA) — as interpreted by many in Congress and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) — if the president intentionally tries to spend less money than Congress appropriates to get the job done, he is breaking the law.  Example: The Democrat-controlled House impeached President Donald Trump, in part, because he paused the spending of about $200 million in funds for Ukraine for 60 days to conduct a policy review over national security concerns.  Read more here. 

“Dem Lawfare Campaign Takes Aim At Conservative Media Before Election”
The Democrats’ unprecedented lawfare campaign is extending beyond former President Donald Trump to target conservative media ahead of the November election.  Later this month, the Supreme Court will rule on the permissibility of the federal government’s scope of authority to implement a censorship regime in the landmark lawsuit Murthy v. Missouri.  Read more here.

“This Week In Lawfare Land: Was Jack Smith’s Appointment Unconstitutional?”
Read here about the latest information you need to know about each prosecution Democrats are waging against the Republican presidential candidate and how Attorney General Merrick Garland’s appointment of Special Counsel Jack Smith potentially violates the U.S. Constitution’s Appointments Clause.

“Houston Astros Fan Wearing ‘Free Trump’ Shirt Faces Security Screening”
Teneea Tate said she was only allowed to enter Minute Maid Park after she covered up the shirt.  Tate said the ticket taker pulled her aside and directed her into an “extensive metal detector scan for no apparent reason.” “They quickly phoned another person telling them about my shirt and the seats I was in (to keep an eye on me),” she said.  “They threatened to kick me out if I didn’t change or cover up my shirt.”  “We are being silenced and our rights are being taken from us,” Tate wrote on Facebook. “Wake up America! It’s happening everywhere.”  Read the story here.

“100 Syrians, 50 Iranians Cross Biden’s Open Border in October, Says Source”
“The source says, absent any significant intelligence indicting [sic - indicating] a Special Interest migrant may pose a known threat to the United States, they are generally released into the U.S. to pursue asylum claims.”  Read the article.

• Our southern border remains open and vulnerable and the federal government is enabling the illegal crossing of people from all over the world, including by our adversaries.  Illegal dangerous drugs are being trafficked through that open border by criminal gangs.  Many of these illegal crossers have been apprehended or arrested for crimes committed once they are inside the U.S.  Some have been deported just to boomerang back again over the porous border.  Without border security, we are a nation in peril.   
• Article IV, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution guarantees protection to all states from invasion:
  • Article IV, Section 4: "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.”
    
    

“Illegal border crossers surpass 10 million since Biden took office”
“More than 10 million people have been reported illegally entering the United States since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, the largest number in American history.”  Read more here.

• If this isn’t an invasion, what is it?

“Federal Judge Orders Biden Administration To Stop Cutting Razor Wire In Texas”
Border agents not only have been cutting the concertina wire at the border but are attaching the wire to rope and pulling it out with their trucks.  Thousands more illegals poured through the border as a result of those actions.  Read more here.

“David Harsanyi: ‘Canceling’ People Who Celebrate the Wanton Murder of Women and Children Is Also Free Expression”
“’Canceling’ people who disagree with you over ordinary political issues is bad for civil society.... [but] Exercising your First Amendment right to free speech and free association to shun and call out people who spread odious ideas in public life is a moral imperative.”  Read the article.

“Supreme Court to Hear NRA Free Speech Case”
“The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether an official violated the First Amendment when she encouraged companies to stop doing business with the National Rifle Association.”  Read the article.

“America’s Crisis of Faith: Poll Reveals More Americans Are Rejecting the Constitution and Embracing Violence”
“We are now in an existential struggle to preserve the values that founded the most successful constitutional system in the history of the world.”  Read more here.

“Independent News Publisher Sues US Gov, NewsGuard Over Alleged First Amendment Violations”
“Consortium for Independent Journalism filed the lawsuit against NewsGuard Technologies, Inc. and the U.S. government in the Southern District of New York, accusing the organization of defaming Consortium News and conspiring with the government to violate the First Amendment.”  Read the article.

“Millennials Are Starting to Shift to the Right” 
“Liberalism is not what it used to be before the 2000s. Being liberal in today's society does not mean walking around barefoot, selling flowers along the highway, and burning your bra.”  “According to data from Nate Cohn with the New York Times, millennials are shifting towards the Republican Party.”  Read the article.

“Victor Davis Hanson: This is a full-fledged cultural revolution against traditional America” 
“Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson takes a deep dive into the Left's war on American values on 'Hannity.'”  Watch the video here.

“Michigan county declares itself a sanctuary for ‘constitutional rights’”  
“A county in western Michigan has declared itself to be a "constitutional county" in an attempt to shield its residents from government overreach at the state and federal level.”  Read article here.

“Hillsdale history professor Paul Moreno in his new book How the Court Became Supreme: The Origins of American Juristocracy. He provides readers with a comprehensive history of the concept of judicial review, beginning in England in the 17th century and through to the latest developments in the US Supreme Court. Moreno’s conclusion is that judicial review was a good idea but has gone terribly awry.”  Read more here.  

“Law schools hate the Constitution because it limits them and empowers you. That is why “constitutional law” often involves finding ways to get around the Constitution. It was otherwise designed to maintain a wall between your private life and government. Law schools profit by breaching that wall in any way they can, even (or especially) if it means designing rules or legislation that break it.  Read more here.