I wouldn’t call our Founding Fathers perfect, but man did they leave us one of the greatest documents penned in the English language. Their brilliance provided America not only with the Bill of Rights, but with the Electoral College.
Grumbles about the Electoral College have existed for a long time, but after...
After the 2016 election, desperate leftists tried to harass members of the Electoral College into not voting to confirm Trump as president. It was, as...
Young Americans for Freedom requires members to believe in the U.S. Constitution. Syracuse University thinks that might be too exclusionary.
Campus Reform reports:
Syracuse U: U.S. Constitution is ‘exclusionary’ to some students
Syracuse University denied an application for Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) to become a Registered Student Organization (RSO), stating, as one of...
Andrew McCabe’s new revelations about high level meetings to discuss removing Trump have been described as an attempted coup. Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz says if the 25th Amendment was on the table, then it absolutely was an attempted coup.
This is a fantastic idea and should be implemented nationwide.
Campus Reform reports:
Purdue pres advocates novel concept: Grads should know the Constitution
An Indiana university’s president is suggesting that his faculty come up with a civic literacy test to implement as a graduation requirement.
Purdue University president and former Republican Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels...
In a long-awaited and predictable decision, Judge Jesse M. Furman in the Southern District of New York ruled Tuesday that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross violated federal administrative law when he decided to reinstate a citizenship question on the 2020 Census. Judge Furman, who was appointed by President Obama, barred the Census Bureau...
The Supreme Court announced Friday that it would, once again, consider whether partisan gerrymandering can be so extreme that it violates the Constitution.
The move comes after a term in which the justices had looked poised to impose some limits on partisan influence in redistricting, but ultimately seemed unable to agree on a workable...
As the first week of the new Congressional session began, the new Democrat majority in the House of Representatives immediately got to work. As reported by Daily Wire, Representative Steve Cohen (D-TN) introduced a bill on Thursday to Congress to effectively eliminate the Electoral College.
Last night, the Fourth Circuit stayed Maryland and Washington, D.C.’s Emoluments Clause lawsuit against President Trump in its entirety, while scheduling oral argument in the case to begin on March 19, 2019.
This means that the litigation will be completely paused until the court reaches a decision on the President’s petition, which...
It took two years and a lawsuit to get this done, but better late than never.
The Washington Times reports:
College settles free speech lawsuit, will allow students to hand out U.S. Constitutions
Students at Pierce College will be able to pass out copies of the U.S. Constitution without conditions after two years of...
Vox‘s Matthew Yglesias believes that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should run for president.
Hey, why not? What could possibly go wrong?
Oh, and if she’s not old enough—and, at 29, she’s not—then it’s time to “fix” the Constitution.
Reed O’Connor, a federal judge in the Northern District of Texas, just killed Obamacare.
If the ruling holds up on appeal, Obamacare is dead. As a doorknob. Not just the mandate or some other particular provisions.
He killed the WHOLE THING.
Axios reports this morning that Trump is considering signing an Executive Order ending birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants:
President Trump plans to sign an executive order that would remove the right to citizenship...
Several times a year, this becomes an issue on various college campuses. Why?
The College Fix reports:
Lawsuit against college for blocking distribution of U.S. Constitution moves forward
A student at Pierce College in California who claims...
Michael Anton has caused a furor by suggesting that birthright citizenship is not required by the US Constitution, as Fuzzy Slippers has previously discussed on this blog. Anton is quoted as having said this on Tucker Carlson’s show:
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Michael Anton, a lecturer and research fellow at Hillsdale College and a former national security official in the Trump administration. Anton also was the pseudonymous author of The Flight 93 Election article that cause a stir prior to the 2016 election.
Earlier this month, Anton penned an op-ed...
Distributing copies of the United States Constitution on American college campuses should not be an issue, yet somehow it often is.
The Washington Examiner reports:
Code Red: Students required to submit copy of Constitution before passing it out on campus
Kean University, a public institution in Union, N.J., holds a red speech code rating,...
