Can’t remember which site I found the first link on to a site mentioning this.
NEW OBAMA EXECUTIVE ORDER ANGERS US CONSTITUTIONALISTS
this past week, President Barack Obama signed an Executive Order thereby creating a Council of Governors to create a working relationship between the Federal Government and State Governments to protect the United States against all […]

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Balkinization
But there are, of course, other possibilities. Perhaps the President would summon up the emotional energy to denounce the decision and to suggest that there is no reason that the country must be in thrall to a group of five “willful men” (since I assume that Ginsburg and Sotomayor will be in dissent against any […]

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Yet another donkey sucker has no use for the Constitution:
Grayson Wants Critic Jailed for Claiming to be His Constituent
Florida Rep. Alan Grayson wants to see one of his critics go directly to jail — all over her use of the word “my.”…
In a four-page letter sent to Holder, Grayson accuses Langley of lying to federal […]

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Chicago Boyz » Blog Archive » How Obama is Bringing Martial Law to America
Now, Obama wants to bring martial law into a civil court room in Manhattan. In order to let a civil conviction of KSM stand, the higher courts will have to overturn almost all the current constitutional protections of the accused.
They will have […]

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The Volokh Conspiracy » Blog Archive » Is the Pay Czar Unconstitutional?
Short answer: yes.

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Via Instapundit. Is concern about child porn distorting normal criminal procedure rules?
The issue in this case is whether it is probable that someone who pays approximately $80 for a subscription to a web site is likely to use that subscription. Because we hold that it is probable, we REVERSE the district court and REMAND this […]

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The Volokh Conspiracy » Blog Archive » Want to do it the easy way, or the hard way?
Dave Kopel explains “incorporation,” the central issue of the next big SCOTUS Second Amendment case, for neophytes and/or the knowledegable observer.

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The Volokh Conspiracy » Blog Archive » “Pittsburgh-Area College Allows Student to Advocate for Concealed Carry on Campus, Abandons Repressive Policy”:
The real shame is that these universities have to be more or less bludgeoned into permitting the exercise of rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.

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The Volokh Conspiracy » Blog Archive » Police May Not Even Temporarily Detain a Person Simply Because He’s Openly Carrying a Handgun…if such open carrying in that place is generally not a crime.
I suspect we’ll actually have to put a few arresting officers in jail before this notion sinks in, though.

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Justices take on potentially landmark gun rights cases - CNN.com
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Setting the stage for a dramatic battle over gun rights, the Supreme Court on Wednesday accepted an appeal challenging the ability of state and local governments to enforce strict limits on handguns and other weapons.
The liberal media is going nuts, claiming to be […]

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The Volokh Conspiracy » Blog Archive » Supreme Court Agrees To Decide Whether the Second Amendment Applies to the States
Keep your trigger fingers crossed. If the SCOTUS doesn’t incorporate, then Heller is meaningless, and eventually the gun-grabbers will regulate private firearm possession out of existence.
If it does incorporate the Second, then a lot will […]

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Alphecca » Venezuela to try Bullet Control
. . . This envisages what Mendoza called a “specific prohibition under which any person cannot buy more than 50 bullets a year.” Mendoza, a middle-ranking member of Chávez’s governing United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), said the proposal represented “a form of reducing the parameters when it comes […]

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Pajamas Media » Give Us Back Our Bullets
It’s high time for these shameless politicians to put their agendas on the back burner and put the rights of the American people first for a change. Whether this means revoking the various bans and limitless application hurdles that keep law-abiding citizens from acquiring the firearms they need […]

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Porphyrogenitus: You Say You’ll Change the Constitution
In which the recently returned Porphyrogenitus discusses the Den Beste Amendments, and what they mean for the American Zombie Constitution.

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The Window Manager: America’s Götterdämmerung
I don’t so see other countries catching up so much as the U.S. committing cultural suicide.
The Founders and Framers were fresh off defeating the most powerful nation the world had ever seen. When they wrote our rulebook and called it the Constitution, they didn’t fear enemies beyond our shores […]

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Law Students Flunk Academic Freedom 101 - Wendy Kaminer
From the comments:
As a society, we are currently finding it quite difficult to establish what “acceptable free speech” actually is. Kudos to all who contributed.
The fact that somebody can seriously believe that a free society needs to or should establish what is “acceptable free speech” indicates that […]

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On July 4, our wanna-be emperor invoked the spirit of the American people in overcoming today’s challenges.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People […]

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Court says strip search of Ariz. teenager illegal
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a school’s strip search of an Arizona teenage girl accused of having prescription-strength ibuprofen was illegal.
In an 8-1 ruling, the justices said school officials violated the law with their search of Savana Redding in the rural eastern Arizona town of […]

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Instapundit » Blog Archive » SO DOES THIS INCITEMENT CHARGE pass the Brandenburg test? I don’t think it does….
I don’t like this guy, and I don’t like what he advocates for. However, arresting him for speech makes a travesty of the constitutional guarantee of that right. Yeah, I think freedom of speech should […]

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The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times : 7th Circuit Ruling Agrees With Sotomayor on Second Amendment
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit today ruled that the Second Amendment right to bear arms cannot be held to restrict state gun control laws until the Supreme Court rules that the right applies to the […]

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Update on Recovery Act Lobbying Rules: New Limits on Special Interest Influence
First, we will expand the restriction on oral communications to cover all persons, not just federally registered lobbyists. … We concluded this was necessary under the unique circumstances of the stimulus program. … To that end, comments (unless initiated by an agency official) must […]

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NAACP Branch Readies for Confederate Flag Fight - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News - FOXNews.com
Members of the Miami-Dade branch of the NAACP want the Confederate flag banned from the Homestead-Miami Motor Speedway, and they will meet Thursday to decide whether to boycott a NASCAR race slated there for November.
Figures. […]

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Video Surveillance on the Fly: Here’s Looking at You!
The text below the Dept. of Homeland Security logo at the top of the urinal reads:
Automatic infrared flush sensors also provide video monitoring for security purposes.

That ought to do wonders for bashful bladder syndrome.
Possibly a hoax. But, like all good hoaxes, it is unfortunately plausible.

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Thomas Sowell : “Empathy” Versus Law: Part III - Townhall.com
Nor is this President Obama’s only attempt to remake American society. Barack Obama’s vision of America is one in which a President of the United States can fire the head of General Motors, tell banks how to bank, control the medical system and take charge of […]

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Instapundit » Blog Archive » MASS-MURDER PREVENTED: College Student Shoots, Kills Home Invader: A group of college students s…
If more home invaders had this experience, there would be fewer home invasions. Clayton Cramer comments: “If you have any doubt as to whether keeping colleges gun-free zones makes sense, I think this answers the question. This […]

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