From Chief Justice John Roberts’s majority opinion in the Supreme Court’s April 2 decision in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission eliminating caps on the total amount of money that individuals can donate in a single election season: There is no right more basic in our democracy than the right to participate in electing our political leaders. Citizens can exercise that right... Read more
Archive for the ‘US Constitution’ Category
Obama’s Political Surveillance
January 23 | Posted by mrossol | NSA, US ConstitutionHe proposes to change antiterror programs that he admits are necessary and haven’t been abused. ===== President Obama finally joined the surveillance debate on Friday with a conflicted address, and perhaps it would have been better had he stayed out. His new antiterror proposals will do little to secure American privacy but they might make the country less safe. Rhetorically Mr. Obama tried... Read more
The Snowden Ultimatum
January 23 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, US ConstitutionI trust the NSA before most “protectors of privacy rights”, too. ==== Every week, Typhoon Obama changes course to upend some new corner of the private or public sector. The ObamaCare botch is well along to costing Democrats control of Congress. This week Mr. Obama offhandedly told the New Yorker that smoking marijuana is hardly different than having a Miller Lite, a random... Read more
A Legal Poison Pill for ObamaCare
January 14 | Posted by mrossol | Obama, ObamaCare, US Constitution“Legal scholars have questioned whether the Constitution permits President Obama to categorically suspend valid laws based on political or administrative convenience.” … Maybe Congress is dysfunctional because any political capital they spend on legislation may come to naught if the President [Obama] can select which laws he will or will not enforce. ========= By Brian Callanan The Obama administration is in... Read more
Obama’s Magnitsky Walkback
January 6 | Posted by mrossol | ObamaCare, US ConstitutionI’ve asked before: Is Obama “faithfully executing” the laws of the United States or isn’t he? =========== A year ago President Obama signed the Magnitsky Act, an historic human-rights bill aimed at Russian abuses. [As far as I understand, this is the law of the land.] The Administration has now marked the anniversary by flouting the law and reneging on its promise... Read more
The IRS Attack on Political Speech
August 8 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Party Politics, The Left, US ConstitutionProbably one of the most important pieces I have include in this blog. ======= By BRADLEY A. SMITH The Internal Revenue Service’s scandalous targeting of tea party and conservative groups refuses to die, as one by one the administration’s explanations prove untrue. We were told that the White House, like the rest of the country, learned about the program on May 10 through a planted... Read more
