Fined for Profit: How Government Turned Punishment Into a Profit Center
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"I owe over $4 million in fines for somebody else's crime!" says a California woman.
Where is it written in the Constitution, in what article or section is it contained, that you may take children from their parents, & parents from their children, & compel them to fight the battles of any war, in which the folly or the wickedness of
Police officers often violate constitutional rights without facing personal civil liability. A Louisiana traffic stop case signals that protection may be narrowing.
"United States AI companies must be free to innovate without cumbersome regulation." - President Donald Trump, Executive Order 14365
"The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment." --Justice Hugo Black, New York Times Co. v. United States (1971)
"By the principles of the American revolution, arbitrary power may, and ought to, be resisted."
"What if the rights and principles guaranteed in the Constitution have been so distorted in the past 200 years as to be unrecognizable by the Founders? What if the government was the reason we don't have a Constitution anymore? What if freedom'
After the 9/11 attacks, US officials used the "emergency" to wield and exercise extraordinary totalitarian-like powers.
The advance of socialism and rejection of the United States Constitution have been continuing themes in America over several decades irrespective of which party has majorities in the US House of Representatives and Senate.
"The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of the people."--Justice William O. Douglas
The recent suppression of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's torture-tainted confessions at Guantanamo Bay is far more than a victory for a defendant. It is a victory for the Constitution.
"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government, owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people."--Theodore Roosevelt
A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that the registration and approval requirements for suppressors, short-barreled rifles, and short-barreled shotguns in the National Firearms Act (NFA) are unconstitutional.
Joseph McCarthy was right about everything. Communist movements have been playing the long game from inside western nations, exploiting the liberal freedoms westerners enjoy as a backdoor to sabotage free market choice and constitutional checks and
The Articles of Confederation are often remembered as a failure. But their limits on taxing and commercial power offered greater protection for economic freedom than the Constitution that replaced them.
This is how a republic is dismantled--not necessarily through one dramatic declaration of dictatorship, but through a succession of constitutional violations that go unanswered long enough to become the new normal.
...young people who are not taught that prosperity comes from free markets, private property, and sound money will be more likely to believe the socialist delusion that the key to prosperity is surrendering our liberty to politicians.
The US Constitution is perhaps the most significant historical and governmental document in a millennia. It established the modern conception of the western Republic, along with true representative government designed to answer to the people rather t
Should the Federal Constitution be ratified, there would be 'no checks, no real balances,' thundered Patrick Henry. Instead, the country would live under a 'powerful and mighty empire.'
SCOTUS stops short of complete sanction.
What exactly are Americans celebrating this Fourth of July?
"The people are the only legitimate fountain of power."--James Madison
America's political leaders in both parties routinely ignore the U.S. Constitution. And, tragically, a majority of the American electorate have themselves allowed their elected representatives to run roughshod over the Constitution with impunity.
Some of the recent legal challenges to the use of surveillance by the Department of Homeland Security upon Americans have resulted in the revelation of truly terrifying behavior by the government, in direct defiance of the Fourth Amendment to the Con
This week, President Donald Trump announced that he plans to give away tax dollars without congressional or judicial authorization to his friends and allies whom he believes were mistreated by the Biden administration. Can he legally do that?
The political system is designed to perpetuate itself, and it will protect the interests of political and bureaucratic elites, big business, and the military-industrial complex because these are the centers of political power in American society.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit upheld a jury's verdict that ordered the City and County of Denver to pay 12 George Floyd protesters $14 million for "unconstitutional" use of force during 2020 rallies.
Rediscovering the protections of the Confrontation Clause.
A federal appeals court on April 10 declared a nearly 158-year-old ban on home distilling to be unconstitutional, ruling that the ban was an unnecessary and improper means for Congress to exercise its power to tax.
Per the prayer of John Adams, I can say without hesitation that America has not had an Honest and Wise man in the White House for the entirety of the current century. And while I presumed that no future president could ever be worse than Joe Biden, D