By granting so-called “fast-track authority” to the White House, Congress opts itself out of the process of shaping trade agreements. The framers of the Constitution were wise to include Congress in the process of framing and approving trade agreements made by presidents. That authority to provide advice and consent should, the wisest legislators have always argued, be zealously guarded. Unfortunately,... 

The startling thing about Judge William Pauley III’s opinion is that it reads like an NSA press release or a Tom Clancy script. It begins: “The September 11th terrorist attacks revealed, in the starkest terms, just how dangerous and interconnected the world is. While Americans depended on technology for the conveniences of modernity, al-Qaeda plotted in a seventh-century milieu to use that technology... 

In another blow to the Constitution, the Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a case by Amazon and Overstock.com challenging a law that requires online retailers to collect sales tax in states where they have no physical presence. The Supreme Court refusal to hear the case will allow state governments to tax online retailers and turn online retailers into de facto tax collection agencies. The... 

The Obama administration on Friday once again disrespected the Constitution by signing an executive order that circumvents Congress and the American people. The latest move defiantly ignores a decision by Congress in 2009 to not establish a cap-and-trade system that would have supposedly discouraged greenhouse-gas emissions. The Waxman-Markey bill passed the House but was defeated in the Senate.... 

Infowars has confirmed the identity and authenticity of the source of the video below as a member of the U.S. Army military police in Arizona. The video, shot in September 2013, shows an army commander briefing the MPs on their new command structure under the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Homeland Security for domestic operations with the National Guard. The MP began recording... 

The U.S. Constitution leaves too many areas open to interpretation; a New Constituion of 2,300 pages (+ 200 redacted secret pages) is the solution. The Obama Administration has proposed replacing the current U.S. Constitution (4,543 words, including the signatures with a 2,300-page “new Constitution” that in the words of an administration spokesperson, “clears up the gray areas in the current... 

Whistleblowers Jesselyn Radack, Thomas Andrews Drake, Ray McGovern and Coleen Rowley (L to R) and presenter Kevin Owen (C) in RT’s studio in Moscow Edward Snowden’s revelations of NSA surveillance programs prove that the US has abandoned the rule of law, betraying its own constitution, whistleblower Thomas Andrews Drake, told RT. A group of US whistleblowers and activists has present Snowden with... 

The Department of Justice told a federal court this week that the NSA’s spying “cannot be challenged in a court of law”. (This is especially dramatic given that numerous federal judges and legal scholars – including a former FISA judge – say that the FISA spying “court” is nothing but a kangaroo court.) Also this week, the Department of Justice told a federal court that the courts cannot... 

Outspoken Republican Senator Rand Paul has strongly criticized Washington’s “overeagerness to be involved in every civil war on the planet.” “There is no greater priority for the federal government than the defense of the Constitution and the nation,” Paul said during a speech at the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention on Monday. “Yet, sometimes I think our defense is weakened... 

The Washington Post has attempted to write-off Kentucky Senator Rand Paul as a fringe kook for opposing the United Nations’ Small Arms Treaty. Ezra Klein, who spends a lot of time over at MSNBC with Rachel Maddow and has also appeared with Bill Maher — who has called the Second Amendment “bullshit” — bases his claim on research conducted by Snopes.com, the website specializing in debunking... 

A global campaign to confiscate firearms is setting its sights on law-abiding gun owners in the United States, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) warned in a statement over the weekend. Paul, a long-time Second Amendment supporter and strong opponent of gun control legislation, addressed subscribers of the National Association on Gun Rights’ email list on Saturday to demand they speak up about an alleged... 

Family members of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting listen to Sen. Christopher Murphy as he reads names of the victims, Capitol Hill, Washington DC, April 11, 2013. The US Senate has voted to begin debating a new gun control bill, the first major push for gun regulations in nearly two decades, amid fierce opposition from a powerful gun rights lobby. On Thursday, the Senate voted... 

On Saturday, retired United States Army Captain Terry M. Hestilow publicly voiced grave concerns over the Department of Homeland Security’s absurd acquisitions, posting a letter he sent to Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) on Facebook labeling the Obama administration’s recent appropriation of weapons a “bold threat of war” against citizens of the United States of America. It is with gravest concern... 

The Obama Administration is headed to court today to argue that warrantless GPS tracking is just fine. The administration will present its arguments before a federal appeals court today, despite the U.S. Supreme Court last year ruling that a warrant was needed to attach a GPS device to a suspected criminal’s vehicle. According to Wired, which first reported on the story, the government believes... 

US President Barack Obama (L) and Attorney General Eric Holder US President Barack Obama has the constitutional authority to order the use of “lethal force” against American citizens within the United States, Attorney General Eric Holder says. “It would be necessary and appropriate under the Constitution and applicable laws of the United States for the president to authorize the military to use...