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The White House should be extremely cautious in studying every single word in Congress’s spending bill, because even a single phrase could negate every authority President Donald Trump currently has under federal law to build and fund the border wall, even canceling his authority to declare a national border emergency.

Gov. Kristi Noem (R) signed Senate Bill 47 on Thursday to eliminate South Dakota’s requirement that residents possess a concealed carry permit in order to carry a handgun concealed.

A Chinese government official said Wednesday that Taiwan is circling an “abyss of danger” by discussing independence because Beijing will not “sit by and let it loose.”

The Judicial Crisis Network (JCN) launched a $1.5 million ad buy on Friday calling on Senate Democrats to stop bullying President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees over their religious faith. Federal judges will be a top issue over the next two years for the 2020 election.

Now there is nothing stopping Trump from giving the State of the Union address elsewhere — like, say, an arena in a swing state.

Historian and broadcaster Andrew Roberts has urged the prime minister to call on the Queen to suspend the parliamentary session until Brexit takes effect of March 29th, to deny Remain plotters the opportunity to derail it.

Former Congressman and potential 2020 Democratic nominee Beto O’Rourke questioned the “principles” of the U.S. Constitution on Wednesday, arguing that its usefulness is the “question of the moment.”

President Donald Trump gave a long-overdue lesson to the White House press corps about the Constitution’s limits on executive power — limits the media largely ignored under President Barack Obama, because they agreed with his policies and wished to see him succeed politically.

Desperate to bring the Tyranny of the Majority to our representative democracy, on the first day Democrats assumed control of the House of Representatives, Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) submitted a bill to kill the electoral college.

The New York Times reported: “Asked if she considers herself Mr. Trump’s equal, [Nancy Pelosi] replied, ‘The Constitution does.'”

President Donald Trump has had as much impact on the third branch of government in two years as most presidents have in two full terms, and the new Senate opens the door for the second half of his first term to be even more significant than the first half.

Pierce College has been forced to abandon its “free speech zone” policy after losing a lawsuit that was sparked after a student was told he couldn’t hand out copies of the Constitution on campus.

Former FBI Director James Comey surrendered his attempts to block a subpoena to testify under oath before the U.S. House, shortly after it became likely that a federal judge was going to humiliate him by rejecting his “brazen demand,” because Supreme Court precedent makes clear that federal courts lack the authority to block such a subpoena from Congress.

Chief Justice John Roberts and the media have been elected by no one and yet hey keep telling President Trump to shut up.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said at a conference in Washington, DC, last week that he is beginning to see a “right-left” coalition movement of those who want to restrain or end wars that are being waged by the U.S. but unauthorized by Congress.

Attorneys working as public defenders in Peoria County, Illinois, argue that requiring a permit in order to carry a gun for self-defense outside the home is unconstitutional.

President Donald Trump will win the lawsuit that CNN filed against him on Tuesday after the White House revoked Jim Acosta’s press pass, both because the Constitution does not allow a federal court to issue this kind of order to the White House and because the First Amendment does not protect what Acosta did.

This could be a major test for the new conservative majority on the court. Will they tear down this 93-year-old war memorial?

It is hard to see how arguments that President Trump cannot appoint Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general, because even temporary top positions must be Senate-confirmed, could be correct. Otherwise the Constitution could deprive the nation of a functioning government every time a new party wins the presidency while the opposition party holds the Senate.

“They say we’re divisive, but we’re not divisive, we’re defending an America that has strayed from its founding,” he said. “Nothing to do with race, nothing to do with gender … it has to do with culture, it has to do with protecting the Constitution. Pure and simple.”

WASHINGTON, DC – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) welcomed President Donald Trump’s raising the issue of birthright citizenship, and announced that he supports Congress’s exploring the issue of how birthright citizenship relates to the children of illegal aliens.

President Donald Trump vowed Wednesday to continue fighting to end “so-called birthright citizenship.”

President of the Senate Conservatives Fund and the former Attorney General of Virginia Ken Cuccinelli says the United States Constitution uniquely gives states the authority to stop the “invasion” of a migrant caravan headed to the U.S.-Mexico border. 

Conservative groups hailed Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court as a “victory” for American liberty and called it a “major step” in restoring constitutional rights in the U.S.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) delivered a dramatic, passionate, yet methodical defense of Judge Brett Kavanaugh on the Senate floor on Friday afternoon, as she explained her reasons she would vote to confirm his Supreme Court appointment Saturday.

Sen. Chuck Grassley’s (R-IA) opening exchange with Judge Brett Kavanaugh on Wednesday covered judicial independence, wartime powers, the importance of precedent, and federalism.

During day two of the Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) tried to redefine “common use” as it applies to firearms. Feinstein addressed Kavanaugh, saying, “You specifically argued that the DC ‘assault weapons’ ban was unconstitutional, and I

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) said during the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Supreme Court nomination hearing on Tuesday that if the country were to return to “an era of civility,” we would return to the “foundational, structural principles within our Constitution.”

Republicans have greeted the rise of “democratic socialist” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as if she is a sign of redemption for the GOP. They could be wrong.

Shaun King declared Frederick Douglass a “prophet” — but he was a prophet of redemption, not despair. And it was precisely because he believed in the Fourth of July that he believed in America’s future.

With news of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement, pro-gun voters took a deep breath and understood a more secure Second Amendment could lie ahead.

Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), the self-styled “conscience” of the conservative movement, trashed President Donald Trump in a speech to graduates at the Harvard Law School commencement on Wednesday.

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed a motion with a federal court in Sacramento on Friday, asking the judge to dismiss a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit challenging three of the state’s so-called “sanctuary” laws.

President Donald Trump took the podium at the NRA Leadership Forum amid massive applause, thanked NRA leadership and the “American patriots of the NRA,” then launched into a speech re-affirming that our natural rights originate in God.

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) announced on Friday that he will vote against CIA Director Mike Pompeo’s nomination to become secretary of state because of Pompeo’s beliefs on marriage and sexuality — beliefs consistent with Pompeo’s Christian faith. Conservative leaders are now denouncing Booker’s vote as a violation of the Constitution’s Religious Test Clause.

Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-IN) clapped along at a March for Our Lives gun-control event in Indianapolis on Saturday, an unusual move for a vulnerable red-state senator, one that his 2018 Republican opponents were quick to criticize as indicating Donnelly’s lack of support for Second Amendment rights.