Andrew P. Napolitano has questions about the violations of the U.S. Constitution and established jurisprudence and the conduct of Congress and the Trump administration.
The power of the purse is the surest way Congress can stop the Iran war, or any war. If Congress funds war, Congress authorizes it. If Congress cuts off funds, a war will end.
While affirming that the right to present a defense is “paramount,” the judge in New York refused to dismiss the case against the president and first lady of Venezuela — for now, writes Marjorie Cohn.
Donald Trump has broken every diplomatic rule in the book in his disastrous unprovoked war of aggression against Iran. Now he’s trying to suck in Europe and Australia. Watch the replay.
In a liberal democracy, the government can only morally do what the governed have affirmatively authorized it to do, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. This is not the case with Trump’s war on Iran.
The government is threatening to change the FCC’s equal-time rule and even put broadcast giants out of business because they may paint the war in Iran in an unflattering light, writes Andrew P. Napolitano.
One noncommissioned officer told the Military Religious Freedom Foundation that he was directed to tell his troops that Trump was “anointed by Jesus” and that war with Iran was “all part of God’s divine plan” to bring about Armageddon.
The price for Donald Trump’s nihilism abroad is a government at home that fails to protect the rights of persons and respects no laws, writes Judge Andrew Napolitano.
Even if war breaks out before he and Thomas Massie can bring a vote in the House next week, Ro Khanna says it’s important to get lawmakers on the record so voters can see where they stand.
Chilling is as unconstitutional as silencing, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. And when the feds conscript private entities to do for them indirectly what the U.S. Constitution prohibits them from doing directly, that’s chilling.