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July  2023  Round-up

6/29/2023

 
“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.

“The Supreme Court’s Complicity in Our Loss of Freedom”

2/28/2023

 
“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.  

"You are the Constitution"

2/28/2023

 
“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.

“What Republicans must do to restore good government”

2/28/2023

 
“As patriots, we may feel that the situation is hopeless.  To avoid catastrophe, we need to work to share the news of the excesses of the current administration and support all efforts of the Republicans in the House of Representatives to bring the corruption, unfairness, and dishonesty of the Executive Branch to light.”  Read more here. 

Gun Control in Biden’s Sights

1/21/2021

 
Pushback: Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor Conjures Up Fantasy First Amendment
http://www.liberato.us/pushback-network.html
  • Backgrounder: Why Do We Have Free Speech? (video)

2A: Biden to sign ‘big, bold’ executive orders on gun control - prohibiting AR-15s and limiting the size of magazines contemplated

Impeachment: Alan Dershowitz - impeaching President Trump after departure from office is clearly unconstitutional
  • Dershowitz also says the House violated the Constitution six different ways during its impeachment process - free speech, lowered impeachment standards, bill of attainder, due process, etc.

1A Religious Liberty: It’s going to get really bad in the Land of the Free before it gets better - Virginia Churches Could Face $100,000 Fine if They Don’t Hire Non-Christian Employees

RFRA: Catholic entities not bound by Obamacare transgender mandate, federal court in North Dakota rules
  • Federal court in Massachusetts upholds Trump administration rules exempting employers with religious objections from Obamacare contraceptives mandate

RFRA: Supreme Court unanimous in allowing FBI agents to be sued personally for money damages for putting three Muslims on the no-fly list after they refused to act as informants

2A: BATF withdraws costly pistol brace guidance

2A: Smith & Wesson sues to quash subpoena regarding advertising practices; subpoena part of New Jersey’s anti-gun agenda
 
Electoral College: National Popular Vote compact would turn America into the Hunger Games - rural citizens and small states would be turned into serfs to feed their masters in distant large cities

263 Muslim public officials and candidates were asked whether they support the U.S. Constitution and the results are disturbing

All’s Not Quiet on the LGBT Front (Constitution news round-up)

12/9/2020

 
1A: Biden’s HHS pick Xavier Becerra is on record saying religious institutions don’t have the same religious freedom as individuals
  • Look for a Biden administration to ramp up the war against churches and religious schools to force compliance with state religion, i.e., LGBT orthodoxy

14A:  Supreme Court turns away challenge to school transgender bathroom policy and plea of parents to respect the privacy rights of other students. #TheWorldHasGoneMad

2A: Amy Coney Barrett's elevation to the Supreme Court produces a rush of litigation to lock in gun rights

1A: lawyer gets preliminary injunction against Bar anti-bias rule; likely to succeed on claims the rule is vague and overbroad and constitutes viewpoint discrimination (E.D. of Pennsylvania)

1A: Virginia county declares itself a ‘First Amendment Sanctuary’ and says it won’t comply with the Governor’s COVID restrictions

Free Expression: Muslim apostate illustrator describes the struggle to get a Danish Quran for young readers published
 
5A:  A quick word from our ‘Great Reset’ masters: “You’ll own nothing, and you’ll be happy.”

8A: Ohio bill would bar life without parole for aggravated juvenile killers; sponsor of the bill mistakenly thinks Supreme Court has ruled such sentences unconstitutional

13A: Dems propose constitutional amendment to end prison labor because mass incarceration is so perpetuating involuntary servitude. Sure.

Shame on us! Young people don’t love their country as much or are as patriotic as older people.  Shame on us for teaching young people wrong-headed mush like wokeness and critical race theory.


Prepare to Defend Our Second Amendment If Biden Gets In (Constitution news round-up)

12/2/2020

 
2A: Biden pick for White House deputy chief of staff is a fan of ‘mandatory buybacks’ for certain rifles - "Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47."
  • You want ALL my freedom, so I’m not willing to give you ANY of it

Emergency Powers: law prof proposes Boston seize private property (empty hotels) to solve COVID homeless problem. (Why not just rent them? Where is your authoritarian impulse coming from?)

1A Religion: Supreme Court temporarily blocks New York’s enforcement of attendance limit for religious services in COVID hotspots, saying it likely violates the First Amendment

1A: 11th Circuit splits circuits, strikes down Florida’s ban on gay conversion therapy

Free Expression: NYC Islamic group wants anyone who insults Muhammad dead

Discrimination: British pro-life nursing student gets apology and settlement from the University of Nottingham which had threatened to expel her

Electoral College can frustrate the popular vote, but that’s a feature, not a bug; it empowers states in our federal system
 
Nice reminder that Congress can override statutory rulings from the Supreme Court simply by changing the statute
 
Mayflower Compact is a reminder of the importance and religious derivation of the Rule of Law

Shame! NFL Quarterbacks Kneel During Anthem to Show Their Disgust for America on Thanksgiving Day
  • Taking a knee is not intended to make America better; it is a deliberately constructed Hegelian dialectic unleashed to destroy America.  Once you see it is a weapon of war, you no longer have to engage the combatants in discussion; you have to defeat them.  Here’s my contribution to doing just that:  Sir, you dishonor the memory of the forgotten black patriots who fought and died for the American colonies and America in all our wars.

Prepare to Defend Our First Amendment If Biden Gets In (Constitution news round-up)

11/18/2020

 
Biden hiring anti-free speech zealots who call for censorship of the Internet and speech controls.   Townhall  NewsBusters

Federal appeals court upholds Harvard’s affirmative action admissions policies that discriminate against Asians in a case likely headed to the Supreme Court (1st Circuit).  Daily Signal

Justice Alito defends religious liberty, gun rights in speech.  Washington Free Beacon

1A: Federal judge in New York grants temporary order against ordinance requiring people to ‘be nice’ during town council meetings as unconstitutionally vague.  Volokh Conspiracy
 
Free Expression: YouTube took down a video that told the truth about the Quran containing hateful verses.  Jihad Watch
 
1A Religion: federal judge in North Carolina refuses to block irreverent book from 9th grade classroom; parents can’t show harm or that the school has established a religion.  News & Record
 
14A: San Francisco regulations favoring recent over long-time taxi medallion owners do not violate equal protection; rational for city to want to help new owners deal with ride-sharing competition.  9th Circuit
 
Copyright: No copyright protection for memoirs because they purport to be factual and facts are fair game.  Eleventh Circuit
 
Shame! on the wacko WaPo for calling for the abolition of the Electoral College.  OK, while we’re at it, let’s abolish your First Amendment rights to a free press!  Daily Signal

Out of the Mouths of Babes: “The Constitution Sucks”

11/11/2020

 
My grassroots Champions of the Constitution network - now in 13 states - recently pushed back against a tweet from the Gravel Institute which asked:
  • “What if – hear us out – the Constitution sucks, and is wrong about everything, and shouldn't be the basis for running a society in the 21st century?”

The Gravel Institute was formed with funds left over from former Senator Mike Gravel’s recent run for U.S. president.  The Institute is a kind of anti-Prager U, making short videos to fight the political Right.

The Institute advocates for direct democracy through national referendums, even though direct democracy has a history of descending into mob rule that tramples over the individual and takes away individual rights.  The Institute also supports defunding the police and destroying capitalism through socialism (i.e., “democratizing ownership”) and wealth redistribution. 

Before you take the Gravel Institute’s notions too seriously, you should know it’s being run by college kids.  The chairman is a math student at Columbia University.  The finance director is another student at Columbia who is 20 years old.   The operations director apparently is the most august of the bunch, having earned a political science degree from American University in 2018.  The pages for the latter two are deleted from the Institute’s website now, but the Google entries document these facts (see below).  We know the chairman is a college student because he said as much. 

So these are the youngsters who, in addition to destroying the police and free enterprise, want to destroy the Constitution because, in their words, it “sucks”.   They want to break the social contract and destroy America.  They don’t want America; they want something else.  And I’m supposed to listen to college kids with zero real-life experience and throw out the oldest written Constitution in the world that has stood the test of time?  When did freedom become a bad idea?  It didn’t, unless you think it’s a good idea to live in tyranny.  When did a tradition of individual rights that can’t be negated by direct democracy become a bad idea?  It didn’t, unless you think it’s a good idea to trample over the individual and not allow people to speak their minds.  When did separation of powers and limited government become a bad idea?  They didn’t, unless you think turning everything over to a tiny socialist elite who are only in it for wealth and power for themselves is a good idea.  Unconstrained total government?  That didn’t work out so well in the 20th century, did it.  Apparently, the august peers of the Gravel Institute who were barely out of diapers when the 20th century ended missed a few things in their college education.  Maybe they should watch a few more Prager U videos to get up to speed with the rest of us.   

Nothing against 20-year-olds, but I don’t want them deciding what kind of country we’re going to have, at least not until they’ve studied every constitution in history like the Founders did.

But here’s the point for right-minded folks:  The Gravel Institute’s tweet has over 38,000 ‘likes’ as of this writing.  That’s 38,000 people who hate the Constitution and all it stands for.  If the political Right wants freedom, free enterprise, limited government, and individual rights to endure, it has to do a much better job of propagating and defending its ideas. 

(comments from Champions of the Constitution members at the website)

Colorado Votes Against Self-Interest, Signs Up to be Ruled by New York City and Los Angeles (Constitution news round-up)

11/11/2020

 
Colorado joins National Popular Vote Compact to do away with the Electoral College; Compact now has 196 out of 270 electoral votes needed
https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/11/05/colorado-joins-states-pledging-to-surrender-electoral-votes-to-winner-of-popular-vote/

1A: Nicholls College backs down from claiming College Republicans broke state law -  by writing ‘MAGA’ in chalk on sidewalk - after receiving warning from Louisiana Attorney General
https://thenewamerican.com/college-republicans-claim-victory-after-persecution-by-left/
 
1A: Criminal conviction reversed because it may have been based on protected speech ‘I love ISIS’ and ‘Black/Indian lives don’t matter’ and not just on threats to "shoot up the building" (Michigan Court of Appeals)
https://reason.com/volokh/2020/11/05/i-%e2%9d%a4-isis-bin-laden-confederate-flag-black-indian-lives-dont-matter/
 
1A: computer code can be protected speech and state law compelling what it must say can violate the First Amendment (federal judge, Arizona)
https://reason.com/volokh/2020/11/05/the-first-amendment-and-mandated-creation-of-computer-code/
 
1A Free Press: Radical Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel goes after journalist who reported on how poll workers were trained to commit voter fraud (how to lie, fend off Trump supporters, call 911 on challengers, and use COVID as an excuse to deny challengers access)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/11/huge-exclusive-michigan-ag-dana-nessel-sends-cease-desist-order-journalist-demanding-erase-detroitleaks-video-showing-voter-fraud-training-face-criminal-prosecution/
 
1A: Mississippi public school gets sued for barring third-grader from wearing ‘Jesus Loves Me’ COVID mask
https://freebeacon.com/campus/public-school-faces-lawsuit-over-ban-on-religious-masks/
 
1A: federal judge greenlights suit against public schools that banned t-shirts indirectly supporting gun rights
https://reason.com/volokh/2020/11/09/lawsuit-over-schools-restriction-on-pro-gun-shirts-can-go-forward/

2A: gun control advocates spend big but fail to block Montana referendum barring localities from restricting gun rights
https://freebeacon.com/2020-election/pro-gun-montana-ballot-referendum-passes-despite-millions-spent-by-gun-control-activists/
 
2A: Michigan Supreme Court to hear challenge to University of Michigan’s ban on gun possession on campus
https://reason.com/volokh/2020/11/09/michigan-s-ct-will-decide-whether-the-second-amendment-applies-at-public-universities/
 
4A: digital anal exam, two scope exams, X-ray, and enema was a perfectly fine way to execute a search warrant for hidden drugs (6th Circuit)
https://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/20a0351p-06.pdf
 
5A Eminent Domain: it sure looks like a taking, but it was done by an HOA under state law.  No state action, no taking (9th Circuit)
https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2020/11/05/18-17320.pdf

“First, Sixth Amendments Require Allowing TV Coverage of Derek Chauvin Trial” - that’s what a “public trial” in the COVID era requires
https://reason.com/volokh/2020/11/06/first-sixth-amendments-require-allowing-tv-coverage-of-derek-chauvin-trial/

6A: if you flee to Brazil to avoid capture, you can’t very well argue 11-year delay violates your speedy trial rights (2nd Circuit)
https://ij.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Second-Circuit-B.pdf

Shame! on New York Times journalist and 1619 Project writer Nikole Hannah-Jones for saying she doesn’t understand her father’s patriotism or why he flew the American flag outside her childhood home. This country’s been very good to you, you ingrate!  I deeply resent your 1619 Project attempting to turn the rest of us into second-class citizens.
https://thevirginiastar.com/2020/11/09/1619-project-writer-nikole-hannah-jones-says-american-flag-outside-childhood-home-embarrassed-her/

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