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Jackboots Policing: No-Knock Raids Rip a Hole in the Fourth Amendment
“We’re all potential victims.”—Peter Christ, retired police officer It’s the middle of the night. Your neighborhood is in darkness. Your…
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‘We the People’ Are the New, Permanent Underclass in America
“We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be…
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A Vicious Cycle in Blue: Police Violence Kills Three People a Day
“If you don’t want to get shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton or thrown to the ground, just do…
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The Right to Political Expression Under Fire: Protesters Fined $3000 Under Florida City’s Ban on ‘Indecent’ Political Speech
CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. — The Rutherford Institute is challenging a Florida city’s ordinance which resulted in two protesters being fined…
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Humilitainment: How to Control the Citizenry Through Reality TV Distractions
“Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours…. When a population becomes distracted by…
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Constitution and Law
The Right to Be Let Alone in the Face of the Government’s Power Grabs
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Coinciding with the second anniversary of the COVID-19 outbreak, The Rutherford Institute has issued an in-depth, follow-up…
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Commentary
The Future Is Here: Dystopian Movies Fit for a Dystopian World
“The Internet is watching us now. If they want to. They can see what sites you visit. In the future,…
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Death Row Inmate Asks for Firing Squad, Calls on Supreme Court to Allow for Alternative Method of Execution Under Eighth Amendment
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a death row inmate’s request for an alternative, less…
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Digital Tyranny: Beware of the Government’s Push for a Digital Currency
“The greatest tyrannies are always perpetrated in the name of the noblest causes.”—Thomas Paine The government wants your money. It…
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The Rise of Global Fascism and the End of the World as We Know It
“This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.” — “The Hollow Men,” T.S. Eliot…
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Where Does Free Speech End & Government Censorship Begin on the Football Field? School Bans Coach From Silently Praying After Games
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Do football coaches have a First Amendment right to kneel and offer up a personal, silent prayer…
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The State of Our Nation: Things Are Getting Worse, Not Better
“Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted…
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Supreme Court Sees Nothing Wrong with Prolonged, Warrantless Spying of One’s Home by Police Using Hidden Cameras
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to stop police from using hidden cameras to secretly and warrantlessly…
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Perpetual Tyranny: Endless Wars Are the Enemy of Freedom
“Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops…
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Virginia Public School To Use Precrime Thought-Police Program To Deter Off-Campus, Social Media Hate Speech By Students
FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. — A Virginia public school system has announced its plan to adopt what has been likened to…
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Commentary
Judges Cannot Create Exceptions to the Constitution: Supreme Court Upholds Sixth Amendment Right of Defendants to Cross-Examine Witnesses
WASHINGTON D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the Sixth Amendment right of criminal defendants to confront and cross-examine…
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