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U.S. News
Court Ruling Strips Apartment Dwellers of Fourth Amendment Rights – Leaves Hallways Open to Warrantless Police Surveillance & Arrests
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Pushing back against a lower court ruling that leaves apartment dwellers vulnerable to warrantless surveillance and arrests, The Rutherford…
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The Dangers of Going Back to School After a Year of COVID-19 Lockdowns
“Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools…
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The Right to Bodily Integrity: Nobody Wins and We All Lose in the COVID-19 Showdown
“We’ve reached the point where state actors can penetrate rectums and vaginas, where judges can order forced catheterizations, and where…
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Civil Liberties Attorney John Whitehead Issues Guidance on How To Request a Religious Exemption for COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates in the Workplace
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Responding to concerns from employees in both the public and private sector about workplace requirements regarding COVID-19…
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Supreme Court Watch: Can the Government Require That Citizens Prove the Need for Self-Protection in Order To Carry a Gun Outside the Home?
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Can the government require that citizens prove they need self-protection in order to carry a gun outside…
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Commentary
T Is for Tyranny: How Freedom Dies from A to Z
“Plays, farces, spectacles, gladiators, strange beasts, medals, pictures, and other such opiates, these were for ancient peoples the bait toward slavery,…
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A New State of Segregation: Vaccine Cards Are Just the Beginning
“The things we were worried would happen are happening.”—Angus Johnston, professor at the City University of New York Imagine it:…
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SCOTUS Asked to Overturn Ruling That Trouble Understanding Police Orders Constitutes Resistance & Justifies Use of Excessive Force
WASHINGTON, D.C. —The Rutherford Institute has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling that justifies the…
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Authoritarians Drunk on Power: It Is Time to Recalibrate the Government
“The executive power in our government is not the only, perhaps not even the principal, object of my solicitude. The…
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The State of Our Nation: Still Divided, Enslaved & Locked Down
“A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do…
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Free Speech Victory: Supreme Court Limits School Attempts To Regulate Off-Campus Speech & Usurp Parents’ Rights To Discipline Children
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a victory for parents’ rights and students’ free speech rights, the U.S. Supreme Court has restricted…
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The Second Amendment’s Right to Bear Arms: What It Means
“A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep…
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Fourth Amendment Victory: Appeals Court Strikes Down Baltimore’s Use of City-Wide, Daytime Aerial Surveillance to Spy On and Track Citizens
RICHMOND, Va. — In a victory for efforts to curtail the government’s spying powers, a federal appeals court has found…
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