Showing posts with label Constitution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Constitution. Show all posts

Saturday, January 3, 2015

Police use Doppler radar to determine if someone is in a house...

Technology is eroding our constitutional rights.
 DENVER - Police usage of Doppler radar to detect whether someone is in a house could raise "grave Fourth Amendment questions," the 10th Circuit ruled Tuesday.
     The case stems from the hunt by police for Kansas parolee Steven Denson. After Denson had stopped checking in with his probation officer while on release from a sentence for armed robbery, police used a utility bill to track him down and search his home.
     Though Denson pleaded guilty to illegal possession of firearms, he preserved his right to appeal claims that the entry and search of his home were unlawful.
     The 10th Circuit sided with the government but it acknowledged that the government's use of a Doppler radar device to detect whether someone was in the house was problematic.
     Writing for the three-judge panel, Judge Neil Gorsuch noted that the cases forces the court confront, though not resolve fully, "how the Fourth Amendment interacts with the government's use of radar technology to peer inside a suspect's home."

Thursday, August 7, 2014

Second thoughts? Obama admits he is bound by the Constitution...

This exchange come in the first minute of the video. Obama admits he is bound by the Constitution,but I doubt he really means it.

ABC to Obama--What Bothers You More: Being Imperialist or a Do-Nothing President?

Friday, June 27, 2014

12 unanimous SCOTUS decisions Obama lost...


Of course Obama doesn't care. He knows he is likely violating the Constitution. After all, he isn't a complete idiot and he did teach constitutional law in Chicago. The problem is he doesn't care. He will do what he wants because he can get away with it until SCOTUS rules against him and that usually takes years.

Via RedState:
The cases are:
  1. United States v. Jones
  1. Sackett v. EPA
  1. Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church & School v. EEOC
  1. Gabelli v. SEC
  1. Arkansas Fish & Games v. United States
  1. PPK Corp. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
  1. Horne v. USDA
  1. Sekhar v. United States
  1. Burrage v. United States
  1. Bond v. United States
  1. United States v. Wurie/Riley v. California
  1. NLRB v. Noel Canning

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee: US Has Been 'Operating' Under Constitution for 400 Years

The Yale degree in political science must have been an affirmative action thing or something...



I'll bet Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee has no idea how many zeros there are in a billion either...

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Obama's EO raising minimum wage on federal contracts is unconstitutional...

But will anyone do anything about it? GOP leaders in Congress are mostly spineless and the Supreme Court is led by constitutional traitor John Roberts. 

Via NRO:
The president issued an executive order last week purporting to raise the minimum wage for employees of federal contractors to $10.10 an hour. The order is unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court made clear in Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer that “the President’s power, if any, to issue the [executive] order must stem either from an act of Congress or from the Constitution itself.” Furthermore, “when the president takes measures incompatible with the expressed or implied will of Congress, his power is at its lowest ebb, for then he can rely only upon his own constitutional powers minus any constitutional powers of Congress over the matter.”
Nothing in the Constitution grants the president authority to set or raise the minimum wage independently of an act of Congress. Furthermore, although the president generally has authority to improve the efficient discharge of federal contracts, the president’s minimum-wage order is incompatible with the expressed and implied will of Congress.
Congress has made its will regarding the minimum wage for federal contractors abundantly clear in four separate statutes: The Service Contract Act, the Davis Bacon Act, the Walsh-Healey Act, and the Fair Labor Standards Act...
Keep on reading…

Thursday, June 28, 2012

How Chief Justice Roberts Has Shredded The Constitution...


Chief Justice Roberts has ruled the mandate is unconstitutional under the Commerce Clause, but can stand anyway because it is really a tax. Many will consider this argument a technicality. In some ways it is. Imagine a SCOTUS opinion making it illegal to sell a dozen eggs, but legal to sell twelve. That is of course ridiculous and we would be lucky if this was just one stupid and misguided SCOTUS ruling. It isn't. Roberts' opinion fundamentally changes the Constitution. Actually, it shreds it. What Chief Justice Roberts is actually saying is the government can not force you to buy insurance, but they can tax you if you don't. 
•       “The individual mandate cannot be upheld as an exercise of Congress’s power under the Commerce Clause. That Clause authorizes Congress to regulate interstate commerce, not to order individuals to engage in it.”
•       But “it is reasonable to construe what Congress has done as increasing taxes on those who have a certain amount of income, but (who) choose to go without health insurance. Such legislation is within Congress’s power to tax.”
Think about that for a  minute. The government can now tax you at will for not engaging in an activity. They can tax you for not buying a Chevy Volt or other electric vehicle. It just gets worse from there. The Constitution won't allow the government to mandate a religion, but they can decide Islam is in the national interest and tax you if you don't join. This practice was called jizya or jizya and was a feature of early Islam. Chief Justice Roberts and the four liberal members of the Supreme Court have just legalized jizya.

Obamacare Mandate Stands: We are now subjects of the federal government

Chief Justice Roberts joins the 4 liberal members of the court and rules the Obamacare mandate to purchase insurance can stay, but is is really a tax, not a penalty. The rest of the law was upheld with some minor objections to the state medicaid provision. We are no longer citizens of this once great country. We are now it's subjects. If the federal government can force you to buy a private product, they can do anything. Our Constitution is now a worthless historical artifact in a museum. We have been betrayed by the Supreme Court. Is treason too strong a word?

Via FOX News:
The Supreme Court has upheld the centerpiece of President Obama's health care overhaul, in effect allowing the law to survive. 
In a 5-4 decision unveiled Thursday, the court ruled as constitutional the so-called individual mandate requiring most Americans to obtain health insurance starting in 2014.
The ruling is a victory for the president, ensuring for now that his signature domestic policy achievement remains intact. 
It also ensures that the law will play a prominent role in the general election campaign, as Republican candidate Mitt Romney vows to repeal the law if elected.
Chief Justice John Roberts, who was appointed during a Republican administration, joined the four left-leaning justices on the bench in making the decision. 

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Demo Nancy Pelosi wants to shred the First Amendment


After the shredding of the First Amendment, Pelosi would undoubtedly move on to the Second Amendment.
(CNSNews.com) — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Thursday endorsed a movement announced by other congressional Democrats on Wednesday to ratify an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would allow Congress to regulate political speech when it is engaged in by corporations as opposed to individuals.
The First Amendment says in part: “Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press. . .”
The constitutional amendment the Democrats seek would reverse the Supreme Court’s 2009 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. In that decision the court said that the First Amendment protects a right of free speech for corporations as well as for individuals, and that corporations (including those that produce newspapers, films and books) have a right to speak about politicians and their records just as individuals do.
Keep on reading…

Friday, March 23, 2012

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi: Obamacare is "iron-clad constitutionally”


My guess is SCOTUS is getting ready to fire an armor-piercing round at Pelosi's "iron-clad" Obamacare. They will likely strike down the mandate, but leave the rest of the law as a mess for Congress to clean up.
(Healthwatch) — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Thursday said Democrats are confident their healthcare law will survive its day before the Supreme Court.
The California Democrat said the law is legally “ironclad” and supporters are “in pretty good shape” just days ahead of the high court’s three-day examination of the law.
“We knew that what we were doing when we passed this bill was iron-clad constitutionally,” Pelosi said during an event in the Capitol staged by Democrats to celebrate the two-year anniversary of the law. “What happens in the courts is another matter, but we believe that we’re in pretty good shape.
“I have faith in the courts and I have faith in the bill,” she added.

Saturday, October 8, 2011

Director of the Office Of Cultural Diversity Asks Group Passing Out Copies of Constitution, "Is This A White Supremacist Group?" (video)

 First they are confronted by a Black Panther who makes an implied threat toward them and informs them he doesn't believe in the Constitution. Then, the Director of Cultural Diversity shows up and tells the Black Panther to knock it off asks them if they are a White Supremest group.


CampusReform.org has more.

Sunday, July 3, 2011

If Individual Mandate is Constitutional, Can Congress Require Obese People to Sign Up for Weight Watchers?

George Will asked this question on ABC's "This Week".
"Does Congress have the constitutional power to require obese people to sign up for Weight Watchers? If not, why not?"
If you think Obamacare is Constitutional, I would presume you believe the answer is yes.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Demo Rep. Jerrold Nadler Ridicules Reading of Constitution

The U. S. Constitution and Bill of Rights
Demo Rep. Jerrold Nadler ridiculed Republicans reading of the Constitution to start the 2011 House session. He called it "total nonsense" and "propaganda."

(WaPo)- "They are reading it like a sacred text," said Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), the outgoing chairman of the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution, civil rights and civil liberties, who has studied and memorized the Constitution with talmudic intensity.

Nadler called the "ritualistic reading" on the floor "total nonsense" and "propaganda" intended to claim the document for Republicans.

Friday, December 31, 2010

WaPo's Ezra Klein: Constitution ‘Has No Binding Power on Anything’ (video)

WaPo's Ezra Klein is only saying what liberals have believed for a long time. The Constitution is an archaic document that has "No Binding Power on Anything." In other words, the Constitution should mean what liberal judges interpret it to mean.