Phillip Smith, Drug War Chronicle. February 3, 2012.
Provoked by federal raids and Republican attempts to eradicate medical pot, activists are rolling out a campaign for a constitutional amendment to legalize pot in Big Sky County.
Phillip S. Smith, Drug War Chronicle. January 9, 2012.
The court will consider the case of Joelis Jardines, who was arrested after a Florida police officer's drug dog sniffed his front door and alerted to the odor of marijuana.
Claiming states' rights, entrapment, and constitutional violations, NORML attorneys file suit in four CA districts to challenge the federal assault on legal weed.
That idea that judges should interpret the Constitution by discovering the original intent or meaning of the text ignores the history of this country's founding.
Judson Phillips runs one of the largest Tea Party social networks, and thinks too many young and poor people are voting. So he'd like to change the Constitution.
We should be under no illusion about the new flood of know-nothingism that is about to inundate the United States in the guise of a return to "first principles."
Valeria Fernandez, New America Media. October 26, 2010.
The proposal would change the Citizenship Clause in the 14th Amendment, which was ratified after the Civil War and was designed in part to allow black people to be US citizens.
There's a right-wing movement afoot to repeal the 17th Amendment, which established direct election of U.S. senators by popular vote. Here's why its intentions are misplaced.
David Swanson, After Downing Street. June 16, 2010.
Obama has gone further than Bush in claiming the powers to spy without warrant, imprison without charge, torture, assassinate, occupy and operate in unprecedented secrecy.
Passing a law to add an emergency "public safety" exception to Miranda warnings would further erode our core civil liberties for the sake of cheap political point-scoring.
Lieberman's latest assault on constitutional rights: a proposal to circumvent due process for U.S. citizens by conveniently stripping their citizenship.
Marjorie Cohn, Jurist Legal News and Research. April 28, 2010.
According to one study, Arizona would lose $26.4 billion in economic activity and approximately 140,324 jobs if all undocumented people were removed from the state.
While we know relatively little about the frontrunner in the nomination race, she is a darling of conservatives, aligns with Sen. Lindsey Graham, and loves executive power.
