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Political Speech Under Threat: The Government Is Using Deportation to Silence Dissent
BOSTON, Mass. — The government cannot use arrests, detention and the threat of deportation to frighten people into silence for…
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Constitutional Q&A: The Right to Display First Amendment Messages on Private Property
The First Amendment protects more than spoken or written words. Signs, flags, crosses, banners, artwork, holiday displays and other symbols…
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The Posse Comitatus Presidency: Trump’s Standing Army on American Streets
“I told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military. National Guard, but our…
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Who Decides What You Can Display On Your Own Property?
PORT ST JOE, Fla. — The Rutherford Institute is urging the City of Port St. Joe, Fla., to work with…
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America Reaps What Trump Sows: The Price Of Policing The Globe
“In a sense, blowback is simply another way of saying that a nation reaps what it sows.” — Chalmers Johnson…
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Rutherford Institute Urges Localities Not To Penalize Compassion by Placing Roadblocks Before Churches Ministering to the Homeless
LOUISA, Va. — For centuries, churches have cared for “the least of these” by feeding the hungry, clothing the poor and…
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A Head for an Eye: The Government’s War on the American People
“The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate…
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As Trump Erodes Oversight, Police Shooting Case Warns: Lawful Gun Possession Could Become Grounds for Deadly Force
WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the Trump administration weakens the few remaining mechanisms for independently investigating government misconduct, a police-shooting case…
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Getting Away with Murder: Under Trump, the Buck Stops Nowhere
“If you kill Americans, if you threaten Americans anywhere on Earth, we will hunt you down without apology and without…
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While the Political Circus Distracts Us, Flock Builds the Digital Police State
“You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and,…
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U.S. News
Victory for the First Amendment: Florida Supreme Court Rejects Attempt to Police Political Speech & Punish Campaign Speech
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — In a unanimous decision reaffirming that political speech receives the highest protection under the First Amendment, the…
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Dissent Is Not Disloyalty: The Right and Duty to Criticize the Government
“Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those…
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The Unfinished Revolution: When Rights Become Privileges
“What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the…
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U.S. News
Supreme Court Recognizes Fourth Amendment Privacy Rights in Geofence Surveillance Case, Warns of Government’s Virtual Panopticon
WASHINGTON, DC — In a major Fourth Amendment ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court has held that police conduct a “search”…
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Empire at 250: Can the Principles of 1776 Survive the American Police State?
“The people are the only legitimate fountain of power.”—James Madison This is a year of strange anniversaries. Two hundred and…
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POWER & THE CONSTITUTION: The Jury Box Is Shrinking—and So Are Your Constitutional Protections (Minor v. Florida)
POWER AND THE CONSTITUTION: June 2026 The Jury Box Is Shrinking—and So Are Your Constitutional Protections: Minor v. Florida Most Americans…
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