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RE: THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS
On June 26, 2008, the United States Supreme Court answered the prayers of many Americans, perhaps even a majority, who wanted increased Constitutional protection against gun control legislation. On that day, the Court solemnly declared, for the first time in American history, that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibited legislation that interfered… Continue reading
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RE: THE PRESIDENT’S IMMUNITY
On January 6, 2021, hundreds if not thousands of protestors violently invaded the United States Capitol building in violation of the law, in an effort to prevent Congress from counting Electoral Votes cast in 2020 Presidential Election, and from certifying the winner of that election. Since then, substantial evidence has emerged indicating that then-President Donald… Continue reading
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TRUMP’S ILLEGAL TARIFFS, PART 3
During the last six months of 1971, President Richard Nixon imposed roughly a ten percent surcharge, subject to an absolute maximum tax, all payable to the federal government, upon most goods imported into the United States from foreign countries. In 1975, the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals upheld the legality of that… Continue reading
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RE: TRUMP’S TARIFFS
In the arguments before the United States Supreme Court last Wednesday, counsel for President Trump defended the tariffs the President imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (the IEEPA) on the ground that statute did authorize the Presidential imposition of tariffs whenever a ‘‘national emergency’’ is declared by the President himself. (Citing 50 U.S.C.… Continue reading
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RE: TRUMP’S ILLEGAL TARIFFS
President Trump has now filed a brief with the United States Supreme Court, in which he basically argues that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (the “IEEPA”), 50 United States Code at Sections 1701 et. seq., fully authorizes him to declare that an “emergency” exists with origins in a foreign country, and then to impose… Continue reading
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RE: ICE Raids
In conducting raids against “illegal” immigrants, the federal government has admitted that its policy is to authorize the arrest, without a warrant, of “immigrants” reasonably suspected of being “illegal immigrants,” based upon 1) their “apparent ethnicity”, 2) the language they speak, 3)the accent they speak it with, and 4) their presence in a location commonly… Continue reading
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RE: Trump’s Tariffs
Early into his second term, President Trump invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (“the IEEPA”), 50 United States Code Sections 1701 et.seq., to impose taxes on goods imported into the United States from other countries, i.e., tariffs. Last Friday, August 29, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, declared those… Continue reading
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RE: BANS OF SEX-CHANGE MEDICAL TREATMENT
Supreme Court decision of June 18, 2025: The United States Constitution prohibits a State, like Tennessee, from taking any action to “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” U.S. Const., Amendment XIV, Section 1. In United States v. Skrmetti (US SupCt Slip Opinion of June 18, 2025), the United… Continue reading
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RE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
June 5, 2025 The federal Constitution provides that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion . . . .” U.S. Const., Amendment I. It also provides that “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the . . . immunities of citizens of the United States . . .… Continue reading
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RE: THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS
The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Those words of law, according to the United States Supreme Court, entitle every American citizen of age to… Continue reading
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