Category Archives: Constitution

This article was first published by TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, April 12, 2021:

The Supreme Court got it right on Friday, April 9, when it ruled that California’s COVID shutdown rules violated both the First and the 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

But it was by the narrowest of margins: 5-4, with Chief Justice John Roberts once again siding with the liberals on the court.

This is the fifth time the high court has been forced to overrule similar decisions from the Ninth Circuit on California’s COVID-19 restrictions on religious exercise. Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, and Amy Coney Barrett made up the majority, while Justices Roberts, Breyer, Kagan, and Sotomayor supported California over the complaints brought by Santa Clara pastor Jeremy Wong and others.

Liberal Justice Elena Kagan wrote the dissent, claiming that California was fully justified in impinging and infringing upon people’s First- and 14th Amendment-guaranteed rights because the state was relying on “experts’ scientific findings” to justify those infringements.

In his book One Vote Away, published last September, Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) made the point that Americans are just one vote away from not only losing precious rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights but losing the Republic altogether. He used numerous close calls to illustrate and prove his point: just one vote on the Supreme Court preserves the right to speak freely, to keep and bear arms, and to exercise freedom of religion.

As we noted on Saturday, regarding Biden’s executive order establishing the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court will explore much more than just the need to expand (read: pack) the Supreme Court:

This article was published by TheNewAmerican.com on Friday, February 26, 2021:

In his ruling Thursday against the CDC’s unconstitutional overreach, U.S. District Court Judge J. Campbell (“Cam”) Barker declared, “Although the COVID-19 pandemic persists, so does the Constitution.”

At issue was whether a federal agency — in this case the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC — had the power to prevent landlords from evicting tenants during the pandemic. Or, in the words of Barker, “whether the federal government has [the] authority to order property owners not to evict specified tenants.”

Barker continued:

This article was published at TheNewAmerican.com on Wednesday, February 17, 2021:  

One of the key responsibilities of the President of the United States is spelled out in Article II of the U.S. Constitution, which states that the president “shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers.”

Vice President Kamala Harris is filling that role nicely. On Tuesday, the White House published a summary transcript of a phone call Harris made to President Emmanuel Macron of France:

This article was first published by TheNewAmerican.com on Monday, February 1, 2021: 

In the barely two weeks since 10 Republicans in the House turned coat and voted to impeach President Trump, many are feeling the heat. Some are likely to disappear unheralded, appearing merely as a footnote in political history.

Michigan Representative Fred Upton, who voted to impeach, was unanimously censured at his county’s Republican convention on January 21. The members said that Upton “ignored the voice of the voters in Allegan County.”

On Saturday, all 50 members of the South Carolina GOP’s state executive committee voted to censure Representative Tom Rice over his impeachment vote. He already faces a slate of challengers for his seat in the 2022 midterm elections.

Said Drew McKissick, the chairman of the committee:

This article appeared online at TheNewAmerican.com on Thursday, January 28, 1012:  

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey minced no words in his letter of warning sent to the president on Wednesday: “If you sign unconstitutional laws passed by Congress, it will be our responsibility and duty to challenge those laws in court.”

Attorneys General from Arkansas, Indiana, Mississippi, Montana, and Texas signed the six-page letter. It said, “One week ago … you swore to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States … [but you] cannot cut constitutional corners or shirk statutory strictures without inevitably doing more harm to our country than good.”

It added: