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  • 138 Democrat Congressmen Sign Letter Against Amendment Allowing Certain Veterans to Own Firearms

    03/18/2024 2:57:31 PM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 8 replies
    The Gateway Pundit ^ | March 18, 2024 | Brian Lupo
    Democrat lawmakers in the House signed a joint letter suggesting infringements on certain veterans’ Second Amendment Rights because of a “mentally incompetent” diagnosis from Veterans Affairs (VA) rating agencies. The current regulation regarding VA pensions, 38 CFR 3.353, defines “mentally incompetent” as “A…person is one who because of injury or disease lacks the mental capacity to contract or to manage his or her own affairs, including disbursement of funds without limitation.” The “official determination” of mental incompetency is made by the VA rating agencies, who have “sole authority” in making such a determination. According to the regulation, the determination is...
  • South Carolina Becomes 29th State with Constitutional Carry

    03/12/2024 4:58:49 AM PDT · by marktwain · 12 replies
    AmmoLand ^ | March 7, 2024 | Dean Weingarten
    The South Carolina legislature has approved the Constitutional Carry bill, H*3594, as recommended by the Conference Committee. The House approved the Conference report on March 5, 2024, with a vote of 86 to 33. The Senate approved the Conference report on March 6, 2024. The bill is expected to be sent to Governor McMasters in a few days. The bill is close to what was passed by the Senate, according to the Greenville News:Ultimately, the Senate version of the bill emerged mostly intact including the addition of enhanced penalties for repeat weapons offense violators. The committee also settled on places...
  • Presidential Power to Secure the Border

    03/11/2024 5:58:15 AM PDT · by zeestephen · 2 replies
    Center For Immigration Studies ^ | 07 March 2024 | Andrew R. Arthur
    Key to understanding the president's authority to secure the border is appreciating where the immigration authority is placed under our nation's constitutional order...[Immigration wonk alert!]...[This is a 61 page (321 footnotes and citations) essay about the legal and practical history of immigration into the USA since the 1950s]
  • Louisiana Joins Constitutional Carry Club in 2024

    03/11/2024 5:18:09 AM PDT · by marktwain · 15 replies
    AmmoLand ^ | March 7, 2024 | Dean Weingarten
    On March 5, 2024, Governor Landry of Louisiana signed Bill SB 1, Constitutional Carry into law, now known as Act No. 1. The new law will go into effect on July 4, 2024. Constitutional Carry is one of eleven interrelated crime bills designed to reduce crime in Louisiana. All eleven bills were passed in the special session on crime called for by Governor Landry SB 2 was another of the crime reform bills SB 2 limits the liability of a person who justifiably uses a handgun in self-defense. It provides immunity from civil liability for damages for injury, death, or...
  • Alaska Court Rules Police Must Obtain Warrant to Surveil Houses Using Zoom Lenses, Aircraft

    03/10/2024 3:24:28 AM PDT · by CFW · 19 replies
    The Epoch Times ^ | 3/9/24 | Aldgra Fredly
    The Alaska Supreme Court ruled on Friday that law enforcement officers in Alaska are not permitted to conduct aerial surveillance of a person’s yard using a zoom lens without first obtaining a warrant. In its ruling, the court said that it disagrees with the state’s claim that such surveillance was constitutional “because small airplane travel is so common in Alaska, and because any passenger might peer into your yard and snap a picture of you, law enforcement officials may do the same.” “The Alaska Constitution protects the right to be free of unreasonable searches,” the court stated in a 34-page...
  • Colorado sheriff's office settles for $1.5M in tasing lawsuit: "If the sheriff won't hold you accountable, we will"

    03/09/2024 6:43:49 AM PST · by CFW · 59 replies
    CBS news ^ | 3/4/24 | By Austen Erblat
    A sheriff's office in southern Colorado has settled a lawsuit with a 71-year-old man who deputies allegedly tased 35 times in 2022 for $1.5 million. Kenneth Espinoza, of Trinidad, was in his truck when Las Animas County sheriff's deputies pulled over his son. Espinoza was asked to pull his vehicle behind the deputies' cars but was almost immediately detained and eventually tased while handcuffed in the back of a patrol car a number of times. Two of those deputies were fired in September 2023. One of the attorneys representing Espinoza said when the deputies were fired that this was "the...
  • Secret clauses in the Constitution!

    03/07/2024 11:33:06 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 20 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 7 Mar, 2024 | Robert Arvay
    You probably did not know that the Constitution contains a “Good and Plenty” clause. Well, according to the late Representative John Conyers (D-Mich.), it is one of several clauses in the document that permits the federal government to force you to buy health insurance. It is one of those “secret” clauses that were written into the Constitution in invisible ink, and which only woke leftists can see. There are good and plenty of such clauses. Recently, Stu Burguiere (producer of, and participant in, The Glenn Beck Program), during a Megyn Kelly podcast, laughingly pointed to another such hitherto unknown clause,...
  • Activists now facing felony charges in red powder attack on US Constitution

    03/01/2024 12:57:40 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 46 replies
    The Hill ^ | 03/01/2024 | LAUREN IRWIN
    Two activists accused of throwing a red powder on the U.S. Constitution display case at the National Archives last month are now facing felony charges, the Justice Department (DOJ) announced Friday. Donald Zepeda, 35, of Maryland, and Jackson Green, 27, of Utah, were charged with felony destruction of government property for dumping the fine red powder all over the display case in an indictment that was unsealed in District Count on Thursday, per the DOJ. Conservationists worked to clean up the building’s rotunda after the protestors dumped the powder as part of a stunt intended to draw attention to climate...
  • Federal Judge Rules 'Final Major Achievement' of Pelosi's Speakership Was Unconstitutional

    02/29/2024 12:09:27 AM PST · by where's_the_Outrage? · 18 replies
    The Western Journal ^ | Feb 28, 2024 | Jack Davis
    Afederal judge on Tuesday ruled that the Nancy Pelosi-led House of Representatives acted unconstitutionally in December 2022 when it passed a $1.7 trillion federal budget. U.S. District Court Judge James Wesley Hendrix ruled that Pelosi, then speaker of the House, violated the Constitution by allowing members to vote without actually being at the Capitol for the Dec. 23 session at which the budget was adopted, according to Reuters. At the time of the budget’s passing, CNBC referred to the action as “the final major achievement” of Pelosi’s term as speaker of the House. The budget passed 225-201. At the time...
  • The 8th Amendment comes out in favor of Trump in the New York Real Estate Case

    02/27/2024 7:13:23 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 26 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 02/27/2024 | Daniel R. Street
    On February 16, 2024, a judge in New York State imposed fines totaling just over $360 million on former president Donald J. Trump, The Trump Organization, and several related Trump companies and trusts in the civil case brought by the New York attorney general. President Trump’s sons Donald Trump, Jr. and Eric Trump were fined just over $4 million each. The court imposed additional sanctions, including injunctions against former president Trump; Donald Trump, Jr.; and Eric Trump from serving as officers or directors in New York corporations for specified numbers of years, among other sanctions.The media reporting on the court’s...
  • Oaths of Office: Legally Binding or Not?

    02/26/2024 5:23:41 PM PST · by Fester Chugabrew · 78 replies
    Self | February 26, 2024 | Self
    "I, [public sevant or common citizen] do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter." This is the text for the oath of office that any citizen of the United States must take before holding public office. It is also assumed...
  • Delaware court rules permanent absentee, early voting laws violate state constitution

    02/26/2024 9:21:13 AM PST · by CFW · 15 replies
    Just the News ^ | 2/26/24 | By Natalia Mittelstadt
    A Delaware court has ruled that state laws on early and permanent-absentee voting violate the state constitution. The state's Superior Court ruled Friday that a 2019 law passed by the state legislature, which allows 10 days of early voting, violates the state constitution that the General Election is to be held on one day. The court also found that the state's Permanent Absentee Voting Statute violates state law by allowing voters to be placed on a permanent absentee voting list where ballots would automatically be sent to them for each election. The voting votes were challenged in court by the...
  • Supreme Court to Weigh Constitutionality of Laws Regulating Social Media Giants

    02/26/2024 6:40:54 AM PST · by CFW · 25 replies
    The Epoch Times ^ | 2/26/24 | Sam Dorman
    The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments on Feb. 26 in two big social media cases that could have wide-reaching implications for how companies like Facebook can moderate or censor content. Two cases—Moody v. Netchoice and Netchoice v. Paxton—are coming before the court in disputes over Texas’ and Florida’s social media laws. The states’ attempts to rein in big tech laid out many parameters for how companies could remove content they found objectionable. Netchoice, an organization representing multiple social media companies, has sued alleging that both laws violate the companies’ First Amendment rights. The group has likened their activities to...
  • New York Judge Just Says 'No' to Pee Tests for Concealed Carry Applicants

    02/22/2024 5:04:29 PM PST · by CFW · 13 replies
    Bearing Arms ^ | 2/22/24 | Cam Edwards
    Even though New York's discretionary "may issue" laws were ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 2022's Bruen decision, some licensing authorities in the state are still using some awfully subjective criteria to determine whether or not an applicant will receive a concealed carry permit. In Nassau County, for instance, applicants must submit a list of all former and current social media accounts used within the past 3 years, so police can pore over the content for evidence of "good moral character", along with a notarized statement attesting to any minors that live full or part-time with the applicant as...
  • Prosecution of Far-Right But Not Antifa for Same Riots ‘Constitutionally Impermissible’: Judge

    02/22/2024 5:02:13 AM PST · by CFW · 68 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 2/22/24 | Caden Pearson
    A federal judge on Wednesday found that the “selective prosecution” of far-right groups without charging their far-left counterparts for the same acts is “constitutionally impermissible.” U.S. District Court Judge Cormac Carney of southern California therefore dismissed charges against two men from the “white nationalist” Rise Above Movement (RAM) who violently clashed with members of the far-left group Antifa at three southern California pro-Trump events in 2017. In his 35-page order, the judge stressed the importance of equal protection under the law. He said that although the two men may have been involved in violent acts, prosecutors were wrong to exclusively...
  • Supreme Court Opinions [2/21/24]

    02/21/2024 7:10:14 AM PST · by CFW · 7 replies
    Scotusblog ^ | 2/21/24 | staff
    SCOTUS issued opinions at 10:00 this morning on the following cases: We have two opinions, apparently. The first is from Justice Jackson, in McElrath v. Georgia. It is unanimous. McElrath v. Georgia, No. 22-721 [Arg: 11.28.2023] Issue(s): Whether the double jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits a second prosecution for a crime of which a defendant was previously acquitted. The court holds that the jury's verdict that McElrath was not guilty of "malice murder" by reason of insanity constituted an acquittal for double jeopardy purposes despite any inconsistency with the jury's other verdicts. The state court's decision is reversed...
  • George Washington: The Indispensable Man

    02/19/2024 12:49:12 PM PST · by Retain Mike · 13 replies
    George Washington: The Indispensable Man | 1969 | James Thomas Flexner
    “The commander in chief expressed ‘disapprobation of such disorderly proceedings’ (ad hoc mass meeting of officers) as the illegally called meeting. He summoned a meeting of his own for the following Saturday, March 15, 1783. This was probably the most important single gathering ever held in the United States. Supposing, as seemed only too possible, Washington should fail to prevent military intervention in civil government?
  • South Carolina House Returns Constitutional Carry Bill to Senate

    02/19/2024 6:58:15 AM PST · by marktwain · 6 replies
    AmmoLand ^ | February 16, 2024 | Dean Weingarten
    On February 13, 2024, the South Carolina House rejected changes to the Constitutional Carry bill, which was passed in the South Carolina Senate in January. The House re-passed the bill as it was previously overwhelmingly passed by the House in 2022. The vote for H 3594 was 85 to 26, with 8 house members not voting and four house members on excused absences. The House Majority leader, Davey Hiott explained the action. From X: “While I respect the intentions and efforts of the Senate, the House Republican Caucus remains united in our decision to non-concur with the senate’s changes. We...
  • Death Throes of the Deep State

    02/16/2024 1:30:58 PM PST · by reasonisfaith · 72 replies
    Rumble ^ | 02/16/24 | SG
    "We are going to see the deep state bureaucracy fully fleshed out in rare form. We are going to see every fold on Jabba the Hutt. We are going to see individuals like Brennan and Clapper and the Obama Administration and Newland and others brought out into the light. We are going to see the full nature of the military intelligence community’s manipulation of the military forces of the United States of America at the command and control level, in league with different US bureaucratic agencies and different committees within the US Congress, to subvert the Constitutional Republic of the...
  • US Constitution encasement vandalized with red powder at National Archives

    02/15/2024 11:13:54 AM PST · by DallasBiff · 55 replies
    CNN ^ | 2/14/24 | Angela Fritz
    CNN — The National Archives in Washington, DC, closed early on Wednesday after two people dumped red powder on the display that protects the US Constitution, Archives officials said in a news release. “The Constitution was unaffected in its encasement. No damage was done to the document itself,” the Archives said in a statement. The individuals were immediately detained by security at the time of the incident, around 2:30 p.m., and officials are investigating, the Archives said