This casting aside of the foundational principles of the Constitution is the other critical buttressing element in achieving democratic backsliding.
Senate Republicans are being asked to condemn Trump’s attack on the Constitution and they are refusing.
The Richmond, Virginia-based Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that President Donald Trump violated the Constitution’s emoluments clauses. The president’s attorneys had tried to preserve the president’s immunity from the lawsuit filed by Democratic attorneys general in Maryland and the District of Columbia, who successfully argued that the president’s ownership of the Trump International…
President Donald Trump has complained that the United States Constitution is too hard for him to read because it is like a foreign language.
Speaking before the Ohio Women’s Republican Club in Wheeling, West Virginia in February of 1950, Wisconsin Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy waved a piece of paper before his audience’s eyes, insisting he had a list of over 200 communists working in the state department. He had, of course, no such list. His anti-communist crusade is now…
After last Thursday’s House vote to advance the inquiry into the impeachment of President Donald Trump, Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) labeled the proceeding a “soviet style impeachment process†and effectively accused democrats of hijacking the 2020 election, usurping the people’s democratic rights because of their sour grapes over the 2016 presidential election results. “Clearly,†he…
In short, the danger in Trump’s language is that, for the surprisingly impressionable national audience, he degrades our democratic processes and safeguards against tyranny by recasting the fundamentals of democracy as instead the coarse and brutish misdeeds of a dictatorial power grab.
Trump went on a tirade against the Constitution where he declared America his property and demanded the power to throw immigrants out of the US.
“It’s in the U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 8, to promote the progress of science and useful arts.”
“Texas Senate has no problem with taxpayer-funded discrimination against virtually anyone who doesn’t meet a public official’s personal [religious] standards.”
By following evangelical preachers’ edict to legalize discrimination against school-age children, Trump unleashed his theocrats and set a dangerous precedent.
The ACLU continues to be on the front lines in the battle to resist the new administration.
“When federal judges rule, government officials – up to and including the president – are supposed to obey or risk being held in contempt of court.â€
Three Muslim nations Trump exempted from his ban on Muslims have Americans’ blood on their hands but he profits by protecting the terrorists.
Trump’s order includes the flagrantly unconstitutional detention of perfectly legal immigrants whose only crime is their national origin and religion.
The evangelical fundamentalists, all 13.2 percent of them, are appealing to vice president-elect Pence by petition and demanding that he, as head of domestic policy, inform president-elect Trump that it is crucial to immediately issue an executive order in”definitely banning†the teaching of evolution as science.
Trump routinely made vague proposals to limit basic elements of press and internet freedom. His intent and disregard for the constitutional free press principle are clear.
The Defense Authorization bill should be about making our country safe; not about codifying evangelical Republican hatred and intolerance.
“If Hillary Clinton becomes president, I am going to do everything I can to make sure four years from now, we still got an opening on the Supreme Court.â€
“There is also probable cause to believe that many, if not all, of the statements were made to obstruct any inquiry into their further wrongdoing or negligence.â€
“If God-given natural rights come in conflict with government, court, or human-granted rights, God-given natural rights always prevail.”
This amendment authorizes taxpayer-funded discrimination; no taxpayer should be discriminated against because he or she is the ‘wrong’ religion.”
“The fervency with which someone follows their religious faith, a biblical faith, is nearly always a direct indicator of how well they will follow the Constitution.”
Religious Republicans passed unconstitutional legislation denying a wide swathe of the population their constitutional rights.
Brownback’s new ploy would make it possible for the Republican legislature to impeach any judge who goes against Republican dogma
Some may argue that evangelicals lack any humanity, because if they did they would not be driven by inhumanity toward anything not Christian
Kentucky taxpayers are being “compelled” to spend at least $18 million to build and support the Answers in Genesis Noah’s Ark theme park
Over the past 7 years, Republicans have shown interest in eliminating parts of the Constitution that prevent them from ruling like dictators
Sheriff Ward told Ammon Bundy he’d provide the armed criminals with adequate protection and safe escort out of state without risk of arrest
Scalia may have surpassed charlatans like David Barton in an attempt to “establish Christianity” as the nation’s state religion
If these evangelicals in the Republican ranks had even the slightest clue how fortunate they are to live in a secular society they might rein in the perpetual sniping that their religious rights are being abridged by a secular government.
Republicans not only have no intent in fulfilling their oath of office, they may have no idea what they are swearing to support and defend.
It may come as a shock to Kim Davis that in America there is no higher authority than the Constitution, no matter that she believes
The poor performance of deliberately underfunded public schools allows legislators to siphon off funds to religious institutions in the name of education.
Americans should take time today to reflect on just how far the nation has drifted from the Founders’ “we the people” sentiment.
Today, more so than at any time in the nation’s history, evangelical Republicans are on a crusade to base the nation’s laws on the Christian religion to discriminate against Americans who do not fall into the mold of a religious Republican.
Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, Roy Moore, has made headlines lately by elevating the bible over the Constitution in what seems to be a widely held opinion in Alabama. Because the bible says gays are an abomination to god, it drove Moore to order other state judges to ignore federal court rulings allowing courts to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
Every one of the Koch Republicans, and their oily Democratic cohorts, who voted to approve a State Department construction permit for TransCanada to build the KeystoneXL pipeline across America’s international border with Canada are guilty of violating the Constitution’s long-standing Separation of Powers.
Republicans in state after state spent the past year hastily passing legislation abolishing other Americans’ 14th Amendment rights
Ohio Governor John Kasich made that “religious extremist duty” mandatory in Ohio. Kasich issued a statement through a spokesman informing Ohio schools that if they fail to align with Christian organizations, they will lose funding.
Now, every Republican and related conservative is under the illusion that providing for the general welfare means providing for the fossil fuel industry, corporations, the wealthy, Christian clergy, and financial sector’s general welfare, but that is not what the Founding Fathers or the first four American presidents believed; neither does President Barack Obama.
Koch and Vatican surrogate Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia delivered a judicial sermon at Colorado Christian University and informed 400 faithful Christians that the separation of church and state “doesn’t mean the government cannot favor religion over non-religion.”
The inspiration for Hobby Lobby, and 71 other “religious” corporations, to sue for a religious exemption of the contraception mandate is not about abortion, but about controlling women and inflicting consequences for not adhering to their Puritanical belief that women in their employ, can not, and will not, have sexual relations without paying a heavy price.
The Kansas House of Representatives has overwhelmingly passed a piece of legislation crafted to legalize anti-gay segregation under the guise of “religious liberty”
The Supreme Court is likely not done facilitating theocratic tyranny or disabusing the people from their 1st and 14th Amendment rights if right wing extremists have their way.
What MSNBC accomplished by not supporting Bashir’s 1st Amendment right was to muzzle and pre-censor the rest of the network’s on-air talent. They also positioned themselves as just another conservative media outlet.
Republicans persistently claimed they, and only they, adhere to the constitution regardless they routinely disregard or misrepresent the document to fit their extremist vision under Republican rule.
Republicans are on a tear to disable the federal government’s ability to serve the people much like Republican-controlled states like Michigan and Florida.
There are those who say the mood of the nation toward gays and women’s rights are changing for the better, yet the far right is forging ahead to restrict their rights.
Not only has God decided Mormonism is not a cult, but that former heretic Mitt Romney is his last true hope: vote Mitt or burn in hell!
The Supreme Court cannot compel the president to eliminate or rewrite Obamacare. Doing so would violate the Constitution.
The conservative justices want to kill the ACA. If they do, it will mark the beginning of the end for anything meaningful to emerge as long as Republicans have a majority in any branch of government.
Rick Santorum attended an event in Louisiana where renowned hate-monger Dennis Terry unleashed a vitriolic hate-fest aimed at gays, Muslims, Liberals, and Buddhists.
There are Americans who dearly want to repeat the Civil War experience and in Georgia, Republican legislators took the first step towards reviving the North/South conflict.
The reality is that the new rule requiring constitutional endorsement for legislation is a symbolic means to appease the tea party movement who voted for Republicans in the midterm election. Maybe for intellectually challenged legislators like Michelle Bachmann, the rule will satisfy her wish to take the country back to the 18th century. But she is stupid if she misses the point that the Constitution is not a clear document, but a guide for governance across the ages, and she certainly short changes the Founders by expecting the Constitution to address specific issues in the 21st century.
Now some Republicans are proposing a constitutional amendment that would permit the states to ignore the Constitution by voting to overturn any act of Congress.
The Army’s Comprehensive Soldier Fitness Program makes an unconstitutional requirement of spiritual fitness for American soldiers as well as physical fitness.
Jeff Sessions denounced ACLU DNA on the Senate floor, and with it, the very idea of the civil liberties the ACLU defends, and which our constitution guarantees.
GOP opposition to big federal government and support of states’ rights is a reaction to loss of control and does not extend to their socially conservative agenda
One of the main themes from conservatives is to follow the Constitution strictly, and in fact, every civil servant and politician takes an oath to preserve and protect the Constitution of the United States…so help them God. However, with God’s help or not, there are several Senators and Congressmen in the Republican Party who refuse to preserve and protect the Constitution; instead, they want to dismantle it to restrict the right to vote for the majority of Americans.
At battle’s end, Phillip looked upon the dead of the Sacred Band and said, “Perish any man who suspects that these men either did or suffered anything unseemly.â€
Republican lawmakers, pundits, and Tea Party patriots all claim a desire to return to the Founding Father’s view of America and a strict constitutional interpretation of governance in America. The problem is that the Founders had a very different idea of America than these new constitutionalists, and they would reject the philosophy that the rich and industrialists should have the power to control the government.
In a recent issue of The Atlantic, Garrett Epps an article titled “All Patriots ‘Know’ that Moses Wrote the Constitution.” This is just one of many myths that the far right has constructed about our constitution, and the religious origins of our governmental system.
How did American politics come to be about taking rights away from people when the founding of our country was centered on the giving of rights? And how is it that the group that rants the most about lost rights turns out to be the one most in favor of denying them to anyone else?
Liberty stands for human rights and freedoms. It was appreciation of America’s embrace of liberty that brought Lady Liberty to these shores. If we won’t defend her now, we might as well send her back, because we will have proven ourselves unworthy of her.
Conservative columnist Michael Medved believes that God is on the side of the Republicans, but misses the point that whose side God might be on went out with the Enlightenment and its values upon which the US is established, namely liberty and individual human rights, and not the Bible.
While endlessly professing their undying love for all things constitutional, the document, the Founding Fathers, strict constructionist judges, conservatives also hate the Constitution and are willing to throw it out in favor of a document founded on bigotry and religious intolerance.
