https://freerepublic.com/tag/militiaact/ en-us Wed, 16 Dec 2020 17:38:47 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3916060/posts Please bear with me as I struggle once again to order my thoughts in a chaotic situation. First, let's get right to the meat of the matter with the following excerpts from an illustrative essay posted at Substack on 18 November 2020 by one Alexander Macris: https://macris.substack.com/p/trump-at-the-rubicon/[excerpted text begins] Trump at the Rubicon — How the Insurrection Act and Militia Act Empower Trump to Cast the Die[... snip ...] Like Caesar, Trump now must fight for victory or lose everything. Come January 2021, will Donald Trump decide to cast the die and cross the Rubicon? He might. The same people... The Donald (WIN) https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3916060/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2020 17:38:47 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2879662/posts Harvard Law School was embarrassed recently when one of its graduates, the putative President of the United States, demonstrated that he was unaware that the supreme Court has constitutional authority to declare an act of Congress unconstitutional.[1] And after reading a recent paper by Harvard law professor Einer Elhauge, one wonders whether the academic standards (or is it the moral standards?) of that once great school have collapsed. Professor Elhauge says in “If Health Insurance Mandates Are Unconstitutional, Why Did the Founding Fathers Back Them?” (The New Republic, April 13, 2012), that Congress may force us to buy health insurance... http://publiushuldah.wordpress.com/ https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2879662/posts#comment Fri, 4 May 2012 00:49:52 GMT