The mad rush to impoverish us, roll back civilization to the horse-and-buggy era and grant government-created fortunes to Hugo Chavez, Al Gore and a few other self-anointed global warming elites has run into yet another snag: The Constitution.
This just-in Associated Press news flash (you’d think [...]
I'm in Jerusalem, teaching a two-week course at the Hebrew University Law School - in English, I hasten to add. It's an introduction to the US Constitutional system: the Israeli students are bright, interested, and very good in English. (Would that I were as good in Hebrew...)
One of my hosts, [...]
An hour or so ago, OC Weekly’s Matt Coker reported about our trustees and their pious and unconstitutional ways: College Board Sued Over Prayers Weighs Prayer Policy Tonight:A reader alerted me to a strange piece on David Frum’s site in which Jeb Golilnkin said that the GOP will thank conservative lawyer Ted Olson for, together with liberal attorney David Boies, appealing “the constitutionality of California’s ban on gay marriage“:
If they were to succeed in showing the [...]
Alameda County Supervisors Nate Miley and Scott Haggerty are partnering with the Bay Area Council, Repair California and the Alameda County Citizens for Seniors and Persons with Disabilities to convene the county’s third Constitutional Convention Town Hall from 6 to 9 p.m. this Monday, Dec. 7 [...]
Amends constitution to hold candidates for public office, government officials and employees, and members of the media criminally liable for intentionally making a false statement of "material fact" about legislative acts, elections for public office, or' [...]
This just in from the Secretary of State Debra Bowen’s office – a new proposed ballot measure cleared to start gathering petition signatures:
CRIMINALIZES FALSE STATEMENTS ABOUT LEGISLATIVE ACTS, ELECTIONS, OR GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. Amends constitution to hold candidates for public office, government officials and employees, and members [...]
The Central American country’s long national nightmare should now be over.
First, the leftist President Manuel Zelaya tried to rig a referendum in defiance of his nation’s constitution to hold onto power. Then, when the nation’s judiciary removed him from office, world leaders, including our own President, refused to recognize this [...]
I've been in Paris teaching a mini-course at the Sorbonne on US constitutional law. (In English, I hasten to add.) In class once or twice I've alluded wryly to the fact that France, like all European Union nations, no longer really governs itself. The students smile ruefully each time. They [...]
Abel Maldonado leaps to the 2nd highest State Constitutional Office
Sorry for the rip-and-read here, but it is what it is.
From Dan Smith at The Sacramento Bee:
Gov. Arnold [...]
The census required by the U.S. Constitution comes next year and we need to count every resident in our region so that we get our fair share of state and federal funds. Otherwise, our taxes are subsidizing other regions that do a better job of counting their residents. Most government [...]
