The Tea Party Constitution and the Debt Ceiling
Last year, we released a report on the myriad ways that the Tea Party movement – supposedly obsessed with the Constitution – twists the United States’ founding documents beyond recognition.This month,...
View ArticleRepublicans Continue to Block Consensus Nominees
The U.S. Constitution establishes a federal court system that empowers ordinary individuals to hold accountable even the most powerful people and corporations. But when people's access to courts is...
View ArticleToo Many Rulings are Supremely Courteous to Corporations
This op-ed was originally published at OtherWords.orgAmericans realize that our rights and liberties depend on having a system of justice that we can trust. We know we should be able to show up in...
View ArticleTaking it Back to 1987, Mitt Romney Teams Up with Judge Bork
Mitt Romney yesterday announced the members of his campaign’s legal advisory team, which will be led by none other than Robert Bork.This is interesting because Judge Bork’s views of the law and...
View ArticleThe Slow Pace of Diversity in the Courts
NPR reports today on President Obama’s unprecedented efforts to bring diversity to the federal bench:The White House says almost half of the 97 candidates who have won confirmation during Obama's...
View Article‘What You Talkin’ Bout, Willard?’
If you watched TV in the 1980s, you surely remember this:The TV show Diff’rent Strokes– which featured the iconic tagline “What you talkin’ bout, Willis”? – was produced by PFAW’s founder Norman...
View ArticleResurrecting Lochner
Right-wing columnist George Will has a column this morning filled with deception and misdirection on the Supreme Court's infamous Lochner decision. Lochner was the decision in which arch-conservative...
View Article4th Circuit Upholds Rule of Law in Healthcare Case
In a badly-needed boost to the rule of law and the nation's much-abused new health reform, a three-judge panel on the Fourth Circuit today rejected two attacks on "Obamacare." In one case, Virginia v....
View ArticleFlashback: Reagan and Bush on the Humanity of Undocumented Immigrants
Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman made a surprisingly refreshing statement in Wednesday's GOP presidential debate, when, answering a question about immigration reform, he said, “I hope that all of us as...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Puts Anti-Equality Amendment on the Ballot
North Carolina’s Senate today passed a measure to put an anti-marriage equality constitutional amendment on next year’s ballot. North Carolina is currently the only Southeast state that hasn’t amended...
View ArticleSaving the Constitution From the Tea Party
What if our federal government didn’t have the power to provide for emergency disaster relief? To prevent children from being put to work at an early age…without even the protection of a minimum wage?...
View ArticleThe Commerce Clause and American Progress
In the Tea Party, it’s all the rage these days to declare everything unconstitutional – Social Security, Medicare, unemployment insurance, disaster relief, federal civil rights laws, health care...
View ArticleAmerica as a Christian Nation Panel Highlights
On November 8, 2011, People For the American Way Foundation hosted a forum at the National Press Club entitled America as a ‘Christian Nation’ – A conversation with experts on religion, history, law...
View ArticleRick Perry: Don’t Use the Constitution to Interpret the Constitution
Researchers at People For’s Right Wing Watch were watching Mike Huckabee’s presidential candidate forum on Saturday, and picked out this interesting exchange:First, Perry presents his plan to impose...
View ArticleSen. Mike Lee Taken to Task (Again)
By the time the Senate went home for its month-long holiday in before Christmas, Republicans had made it clear they would continue to obstruct the nominations process so as to cripple both the Consumer...
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