Free Republic

Last week the Supreme Court of the United States voted that President Obama exceeded his authority when he granted exemptions from the immigration laws passed by Congress. But the Supreme Court also exceeded its own authority by granting the University of Texas an exemption from the Constitution's requirement of "equal protection of the laws," by voting that racial preferences for student admissions were legal. Supreme Court decisions in affirmative action cases are the longest running fraud since the 1896 decision upholding racial segregation laws in the Jim Crow South, on grounds that "separate but equal" facilities were consistent with the...

New Congress should guarantee faith leaders freedom of speech In 2007 a new Congress has an opportunity to erase a law that has paralyzed faith leaders for over 50 years. In 1954 while the U.S. Supreme Court was using the historic "Brown v Board of Education" guaranteeing Blacks their basic U.S. Constitutional rights, then-Congressman Lyndon Baines Johnson, the future President of the United States, was initiating a law that would strip hundreds of thousands of religious leaders and their brothers and sisters in faith of the U.S. Constitutional Right to Freedom of Speech and thereby sentence them to self-imposed silence...