Recent polling tells the grim story of the underlying fear many Americans express about our government. For the first time since September 11, 2001, Americans are more fearful their government will abuse constitutional liberties than fail to keep its citizens safe.

Even in the wake of the April 15 Boston Marathon bombings, in which a pair of radical Islamic jihadist brothers are accused of planting explosives that took the lives of 3 and wounded over 200 — two distinct polls indicate Ameri...

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Conservatives should welcome the Supreme Court’s inquiry in “standing” issues.

The U.S. Constitution makes clear that:

“The judicial power of the United States shall extend to all Cases…arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and…-to Controversies to which the United States shall be a party…” – Article III, Section 2.

This “cases and controversies” clause makes clear that courts do not exist to serve as ph...

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Only by emasculating the Equal Protection Clause, again, could the United States Supreme Court strike down the will of Golden State people to maintain traditional marriage.

Oral arguments were heard today in the case of Hollingsworth v. Perry by the nine justices of the nation’s highest court, with the fate of same-sex marriage and the constitutional rule of law hanging in the balance. Twice in the past 14 years, majorities of California voters have voted to reject allowing two persons ...

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Alan Singer is a social studies educator at Hofstra University in Long Island, New York and the editor of Social Science Docket (a joint publication of the New York and New Jersey Councils for Social Studies).  Apparently he has done his homework on the 2ndAmendment in research for an article in the Huff Post titled, “Does the U.S. Constitution Prevent Gun Control?”  The answer to this question is a resounding “Yes” if asked of the gun nuts and their head fanatic Wayne LaPierre...

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Then on the 23rd the busy-ness in Tucson became less upbeat as the Occupy Tucson movement geared up to stand up to the court's decision to intensifiy of the nightly citations they received: 

What it means now is - if a person who has more than two tickets for violating the city code which prohibits sleeping in the park after 10:30 p.m. - goes back to the park after 10:30, they face the more severe crime "interfering with judicial process."

From what I can tell there are around...

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