Tuesday, June 30, 2015

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Since the Supreme Court is clearly just a political institution these days, I doubt this case will fly.

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Just as the supporters of Obamacare – the IRS, the vast legions of regulatory agency administrators, the health-care industry and politici...

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Check out the discussion 'Supreme Court made Obamacare unconstitutional, case alleges'
Since the Supreme Court is clearly just a political institution these days, I doubt this case will fly.

Discussion posted by Asst Natl Dir Melony B. DeFord:

Just as the supporters of Obamacare – the IRS, the vast legions of regulatory agency administrators, the health-care industry and politici...

Discussion link:
Supreme Court made Obamacare unconstitutional, case alleges

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Monday, June 29, 2015

Let’s Fight Back Against Federal Abuse

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Independence Day is just this Saturday, and I think this is an important time to reflect on the significance of our country's founding. Our Founders gave us many incredible gifts: a free nation, representative government, and a secure future for posterity, free from tyranny.
 
Yet just this past week, our Supreme Court demonstrated is complete and utter disregard for our Constitution and the Founders' intent for a separation of powers. In King v. Burwell, the Court effectively said, "We don't care what the Congress' pure language was regarding Obamacare. If we think it should be something different than that, then we're going to change it." 
 
My freedom is only half of what it was when I was a young man; there won't be any freedom left for our posterity if we allow the Supreme Court to continue doing what it did this last week.
 
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Sunday, June 28, 2015

FW Newsletter: The Court Only Delayed ObamaCare's Collapse

     
 
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The Court Only Delayed ObamaCare's Collapse
- by Adam Brandon via U.S. News & World Report

With the Supreme Court deciding in favor of the Obama administration on the question of whether federal health insurance subsidies are legal, the rule of law – and the English language – took a real beating. As President Barack Obama takes a victory lap, he needs to realize that this is not the end of the fight.

It is true that the court's decision renders the federal Obamacare subsidies legal. But that does not mean an end to the conversation about health care in America, and it certainly does not make Obamacare a permanent institution. The simple reason for this is that there is no way the president's health care law can survive in the long run. It is structurally unsound, and the court's ruling will merely delay its inevitable collapse. Read more here...

King v. Burwell: Words Have No Meaning if Inconvenient
- by Michael Greibrok

Some words apparently have no meaning, even when written in plain English, according to a majority of Supreme Court justices. Today the Court reached its long awaited decision in King v. Burwell. The Court ruled 6-3 for Burwell, holding that the federal subsidies can continue to flow to states that have not established an exchange.

Chief Justice Roberts once again wrote the opinion defending ObamaCare, and was joined by Justices Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan. Justice Scalia wrote a dissenting opinion that was joined by Justices Thomas and Alito. Read more here...

Privacy: Hotels get it now too
- by Erin Aitcheson

The Fourth Amendment finds victory today in the Supreme Court case ruling of City of Los Angeles v. Patel. In a narrow 5-4 decision, the Court upheld a foundational principle of our constitution: Warrantless searches and seizures are unconstitutional.

The Fourth Amendment protects “[t]he right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures… and no Warrants shall issue but upon probable cause.” In the Patel case, a group of hotel operators in the LA area challenged an ordinance of the City of Los Angeles that required hotel and motel operators to keep records of specified information regarding guests and allow warrantless onsite inspections of such records by the Los Angeles Police Department. At the trial court level, the ordinance was found to be constitutional with no implications against the Fourth Amendment. It was not until a re-hearing at the appellate level of the Ninth Circuit that the ordinance was declared unconstitutional resulting in today’s affirmation of that decision. Read more here...

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Education Spending isn't working: Let's try something else 
- by Logan Albright via Watchdog

In early June, the U.S. Census Bureau issued a report on the state of public education finances in the United States. Among the reports many interesting charts and graphs is the tracking of per-student spending in elementary and secondary schools from 1992 to present. In all but one year, spending has increased, topping out at $10,705 per student. With a trend like that, most reasonable people would expect to see dramatic results reflected in student performance. Otherwise, what are we paying for?

Unfortunately, this is far from the case. While we continue to increase funding for schools, the chorus of voices decrying the deplorable state of public education in this country has only grown louder. Fear of falling behind in international assessments is driving politicians and pundits to ignore the actual evidence that throwing money at a problem rarely does much to solve it. Read more here...

FreedomWorks Statement on King v. Burwell Ruling

On the 6-3 ruling by the Supreme Court to save the federal ObamaCare subsidies, FreedomWorks CEO Adam Brandon commented:

"The Supreme Court ruling on King v. Burwell is a disappointment, but it's not the end of our fight. The state exchanges are running multi-billion dollar deficits and are unsustainable. Premiums and deductibles keep rising to the point where people can't afford the insurance they're forced to buy. This decision doesn't save ObamaCare, only delays its inevitable collapse."

"Our grassroots activists, and the majority of the American people, did not want ObamaCare to begin with. Since the Supreme Court refuses to stand up for freedom, it is even more important than ever that we work to enact patient-centered health care reform." Read more here...

Kelo v. New London: How the Supreme Court Gutted Constitutional Protections for Private Property

- by Jason Pye

Ten years ago today, the United States Supreme Court fundamentally changed the meaning and purpose of the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment, which allows for the use of eminent domain for “public use,” such as a road. But in a 5 to 4 decision, the Court ruled that eminent domain could be used to take property from a private citizen for purposes other than a public use.

At issue in Kelo v. City of New London was the city’s use of eminent domain to seize property for economic development. New London, a small Connecticut city located next to the Thames River, hoped to bring a Pfizer research center to the city and, with assistance from the state, offered the pharmaceutical giant a very generous tax abatement package worth some $78 million. Pfizer opened the $300 million facility in 2001. Read more here...

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A Net Neutrality Rent Seeking Begins 
- by Logan Albright

When the FCC announced that it would regulate the internet under Title II of the Telecommunications Act, we predicted a number of undesirable outcomes. One of these concerns was the ability of firms to petition the regulatory agency for special favors, and file complaints against competitors without having to actually demonstrate harm. Such an environment encourages harassment suits and rent seeking behaviors by companies who direct resources into influencing government rather than towards innovation and competition.

It turns out, it hasn’t taken long for us to see exactly this sort of behavior emerging. In the first complaint to be filed in the post-Title II world, a company called Commercial Network Services is demanding that the FCC use rate regulation to allow it to transmit video content for free, arguing that Time Warner Cable is charging it unjust rates for video streaming services. Read more here...

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Saturday, June 27, 2015

Check out "Ted Cruz: Constitutional Remedies to a Lawless Supreme Court" on Tea Party Command Center

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Ted Cruz is right....Congress is the key. Is it so loaded with 'humanists' now that they will avoid taking up the challenge?

Discussion posted by National Director, Dee:

This week, we have twice seen Supreme Court justices violating their judicial oaths. Yesterday, the justices rewrote Obamacare, yet again,...

Discussion link:
Ted Cruz: Constitutional Remedies to a Lawless Supreme Court

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Ted Cruz is right....Congress is the key. Is it so loaded with 'humanists' now that they will avoid taking up the challenge?

Discussion posted by National Director, Dee:

This week, we have twice seen Supreme Court justices violating their judicial oaths. Yesterday, the justices rewrote Obamacare, yet again,...

Discussion link:
Ted Cruz: Constitutional Remedies to a Lawless Supreme Court

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Woman Demands $1 Million or She Will Have an Abortion



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Friday, June 26, 2015

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Top Stories

• Britsol Palin Announces She’s Pregnant, Liberal Haters Call on Her to Have an Abortion
• Woman Demands Pro-Life People Raise $1 Million or She Will Have an Abortion

• Court Rules Obama Admin Can Make Christian University Obey HHS Abortion Mandate
• Democrat Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz Tries to Make Churches Fund Abortions. She Fails

More Pro-Life News

• Pro-Lifers Protest Sofia Vegara for Wanting to Kill Her Frozen Unborn Children
• Satan Worshipers Sue to Stop Pro-Life Law Informing Women About Their Unborn Baby
• Parents Abandoned Surrogate Twin Baby Boy Because They Couldn’t Afford Both Babies
• Baby With Down Syndrome, Found Abandoned in a Trash Bag, is a Joy to This Adoptive Family

• Country Singer Randy Rogers Will Try Again to Have Baby After Daughter Dies Six Days After Birth
• What’s So Funny About Abortion? New Book Calls Killing Babies in Abortions “Hilarious”
• Woman Falls to the Floor Hyperventilating and Dies After Having a Legal Abortion

• Euthanasia Doctors are Killing Mentally Ill Patients, Sometimes Without Their Consent
• Catholic Bishop Rails Against Assisted Suicide, Calls It a “Failure of Moral Imagination”
• Abortionist Who Sold Abortion Pills to Women Who Weren’t Pregnant Faces Trial
• Ohio Abortion Clinic Has 30 Days to Obey the Law or Face Closure
• California Judge: Nursing Homes Can’t Make Medical Decisions for Patients, Like Denying Treatment

• Amnesty International Supports the Death Penalty for Unborn Children in Ireland




Britsol Palin Announces She’s Pregnant, Liberal Haters Call on Her to Have an Abortion
Bristol Palin, the daughter of pro-life former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, has announced she’s pregnant with her second baby. No sooner did the pro-life advocate make the announcement than pro-abortion haters called on her to have an abortion.

Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/06/26/britsol-palin-announces-shes-pregnant-liberal-haters-call-on-her-to-have-an-abortion/

Woman Demands Pro-Life People Raise $1 Million or She Will Have an Abortion
A 26-year-old woman who wants to remain anonymous has shared online that she is seven-weeks-pregnant and plans to have an abortion on July 10th. However, if pro-lifers can raise one million dollars in 72-hours she says she will not have the abortion and place the baby for adoption.

Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/06/26/woman-demands-pro-life-people-raise-1-million-or-she-will-have-an-abortion/




Court Rules Obama Admin Can Make Christian University Obey HHS Abortion Mandate
Earlier this week, religious employers suffered another loss at the hands of the coercive Obamacare Health and Human Services mandate. A U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit panel ruled against East Texas Baptist University and a group of other non-profit religious employers in their challenge to the Obamacare requirement.

Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/06/26/court-rules-obama-admin-can-make-christian-university-must-obey-hhs-abortion-mandate/

Democrat Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz Tries to Make Churches Fund Abortions. She Fails
Earlier this week, the head of the Democratic party attempted to force Americans,including churches, to pay for abortions. On Wednesday, the House Appropriations Committee considered the bill making appropriations for Labor, Health and Human Services and Education.

Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/06/26/democrat-chair-debbie-wasserman-schultz-tries-to-make-churches-fund-abortions-she-fails/

 



Pro-Lifers Protest Sofia Vegara for Wanting to Kill Her Frozen Unborn Children
A group of pro-life advocates protested actress Sofia Vergara, after she defended wanting to kill her unborn children following a breakup with her fiance. As LifeNews previously reported, Nick Loeb has filed a lawsuit against Modern Family actress, Sofia Vergara, in an attempt to stop her from destroying a pair of frozen embryos they created while they were engaged.

Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/06/26/pro-lifers-protest-sofia-vegara-for-wanting-to-kill-her-frozen-unborn-children/

Satan Worshipers Sue to Stop Pro-Life Law Informing Women About Their Unborn Baby
In Missouri, a group of Satan worshipers are suing Governor Jay Nixon and his Attorney General, Chris Koster for the state’s law that requires a 72-hour waiting period prior to an abortion. On June 23rd, a woman known only as “Mary Doe” filed the suit in federal court on behalf of The Satanic Temple.

Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/06/26/satan-worshipers-sue-to-stop-pro-life-law-informing-women-about-their-unborn-baby/


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Parents Abandoned Surrogate Twin Baby Boy Because They Couldn’t Afford Both Babies
In Australia, a senior judge is requesting that child welfare authorities and police investigate the surrogacy case of a baby boy who was abandoned by his parents in India.

Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/06/26/parents-abandoned-surrogate-twin-baby-boy-because-they-couldnt-afford-both-babies/


Baby With Down Syndrome, Found Abandoned in a Trash Bag, is a Joy to This Adoptive Family
A new national report from the Associated Press indicates that abortions have dropped 12 percent nationwide and are down in almost every state in the country as more women are choosing life for their babies.

Click to Read at LifeNews.com:
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/06/26/baby-with-down-syndrome-found-abandoned-in-a-trash-bag-is-a-joy-to-this-adoptive-family/

Country Singer Randy Rogers Will Try Again to Have Baby After Daughter Dies Six Days After Birth
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/06/26/country-singer-randy-rogers-will-try-again-to-have-baby-after-daughter-dies-six-days-after-birth/

What’s So Funny About Abortion? New Book Calls Killing Babies in Abortions “Hilarious”
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/06/26/whats-so-funny-about-abortion-new-book-calls-killing-babies-in-abortions-hilarious/

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Woman Falls to the Floor Hyperventilating and Dies After Having a Legal Abortion
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/06/26/woman-falls-to-the-floor-hyperventilating-and-dies-after-having-a-legal-abortion/

Euthanasia Doctors are Killing Mentally Ill Patients, Sometimes Without Their Consent
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/06/26/euthanasia-doctors-are-killing-mentally-ill-patients-sometimes-without-their-consent/


Catholic Bishop Rails Against Assisted Suicide, Calls It a “Failure of Moral Imagination”
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/06/26/catholic-bishop-rails-against-assisted-suicide-calls-it-a-failure-of-moral-imagination/

Abortionist Who Sold Abortion Pills to Women Who Weren’t Pregnant Faces Trial
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/06/26/abortionist-who-sold-abortion-pills-to-women-who-werent-pregnant-faces-trial/

Ohio Abortion Clinic Has 30 Days to Obey the Law or Face Closure
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/06/26/ohio-abortion-clinic-has-30-days-to-obey-the-law-or-face-closure/


California Judge: Nursing Homes Can’t Make Medical Decisions for Patients, Like Denying Treatment
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/06/26/california-judge-nursing-homes-cant-make-medical-decisions-for-patients-like-denying-treatment/

Amnesty International Supports the Death Penalty for Unborn Children in Ireland
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/06/26/amnesty-international-supports-the-death-penalty-for-unborn-children-in-ireland/



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Friday, June 26, 2015

Ted Cruz on Constitutional Remedies to a Lawless Supreme Court

Dear Robert,

I just wanted to make sure you saw the op-ed by Ted Cruz in National Review Online today responding to the U.S. Supreme Court's decisions on Obamacare and marriage. You can read it below or here: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/420409/ted-cruz-supreme-court-constitutional-amendment

I hope you'll take a moment to read it and share it with your friends.

For liberty,

Mark Campbell
National Political Director
Cruz for President

Constitutional Remedies to a Lawless Supreme Court
National Review Online
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz

This week, we have twice seen Supreme Court Justices violating their judicial oaths. Yesterday, the Justices re-wrote Obamacare, yet again, in order to force this failed law on the American people. Today, the Court doubled down with a 5-4 opinion that undermines not just the definition of marriage, but the very foundations of our representative form of government.

Both decisions were judicial activism, plain and simple. Both were lawless.

As Justice Scalia put it regarding Obamacare, “Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is ‘established by the State.’ . . . We should start calling this law SCOTUSCare.” And as he observed regarding marriage, “Today’s decree says that . . . the Ruler of 320 million Americans coast-to-coast is a majority of the nine lawyers on the Supreme Court.”

Sadly, the political reaction from the leaders of my party is all too predictable. They will pretend to be incensed, and then plan to do absolutely nothing.

That is unacceptable. On the substantive front, I have already introduced a constitutional amendment to preserve the authority of elected state legislatures to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman, and also legislation stripping the federal courts of jurisdiction over legal assaults on marriage. And the 2016 election has now been transformed into a referendum on Obamacare; in 2017, I believe, a Republican president will sign legislation finally repealing that disastrous law.

But there is a broader problem: The Court’s brazen action undermines its very legitimacy. As Justice Scalia powerfully explained,

“Hubris is sometimes defined as o’erweening pride; and pride, we know, goeth before the fall. . . . With each decision of ours that takes from the People a question properly left to them—with each decision that is unabashedly based not on law, but on the ‘reasoned judgment’ of a bare majority of this Court—we move one step closer to being reminded of our impotence.”

This must stop. Liberty is in the balance.

Not only are the Court’s opinions untethered from reason and logic, they are also alien to our constitutional system of limited and divided government. By redefining the meaning of common words, and redesigning the most basic human institutions, this Court has crossed from the realm of activism into the arena of oligarchy.

This week’s opinions are but the latest in a long line of judicial assaults on our Constitution and the common-sense values that have made America great. During the past fifty years, the Court has condemned millions of innocent unborn children to death, banished God from our schools and public squares, extended constitutional protections to prisoners of war on foreign soil, authorized the confiscation of property from one private owner to transfer it to another, and now required all Americans to purchase a specific product, and to accept the redefinition of an institution ordained by God and long predating the formation of the Court.

Enough is enough.

Over the last several decades, many attempts have been made to compel the Court to abide by the Constitution. But, as Justice Alito put it, “[t]oday’s decision shows that decades of attempts to restrain this Court’s abuse of its authority have failed.”

In the case of marriage, a majority of states passed laws or state constitutional amendments to affirm the definition of marriage as between one man and one woman. At the federal level, the Congress and President Clinton enacted the Defense of Marriage Act. When it comes to marriage, the Court has clearly demonstrated an unwillingness to remain constrained by the Constitution.

Similarly, the Court has now twice engaged in Constitutional contortionism in order to preserve Obamacare. If the Court is unwilling to abide by the specific language of our laws as written, and if it is unhindered by the clear intent of the people’s elected representatives, our Constitutional options for reasserting our authority over our government are limited.

The Framers of our Constitution, despite their foresight and wisdom, did not anticipate judicial tyranny on this scale. The Constitution explicitly provides that Justices “shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour,” and this is a standard they are not remotely meeting. The Framers thought Congress’ “power of instituting impeachments,” as Alexander Hamilton argued in the Federalist Papers, would be an “important constitutional check” on the judicial branch and would provide “a complete security” against the Justices’ “deliberate usurpations of the authority of the legislature.”

But the Framers underestimated the Justices’ craving for legislative power, and they overestimated the Congress’ backbone to curb it. It was clear even before the end of the founding era that the threat of impeachment was, in Thomas Jefferson's words, "not even a scarecrow" to the Justices. Today, the remedy of impeachment – the only one provided under our Constitution to cure judicial tyranny -- is still no remedy at all. A Senate that cannot muster 51 votes to block an Attorney General nominee openly committed to continue an unprecedented course of executive branch lawlessness can hardly be expected to muster the 67 votes needed to impeach an Anthony Kennedy.

The time has come, therefore, to recognize that the problem lies not with the lawless rulings of individual lawless Justices, but with the lawlessness of the Court itself. The decisions that have deformed our constitutional order and have debased our culture are but symptoms of the disease of liberal judicial activism that has infected our judiciary. A remedy is needed that will restore health to the sick man in our constitutional system.

Rendering the Justices directly accountable to the people would provide such a remedy. Twenty states have now adopted some form of judicial retention elections, and the experience of these States demonstrates that giving the people the regular, periodic power to pass judgment on the judgments of their judges strikes a proper balance between judicial independence and judicial accountability. It also restores respect for the rule of law to courts that have systematically imposed their personal moral values in the guise of constitutional rulings. The courts in these states have not been politicized by this check on their power, nor have judges been removed indiscriminately or wholesale. Americans are a patient, forgiving people. We do not pass judgment rashly.

Yet we are a people who believe, in the words of our Declaration of Independence that “when a long train of abuses and usurpations . . . evinces a design to reduce [the people] under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government and to provide new guards for their future security.” In California, the people said enough is enough in 1986, and removed from office three activist justices who had repeatedly contorted the state constitution to effectively outlaw capital punishment, no matter how savage the crime. The people of Nebraska likewise removed a justice who had twice disfigured that state’s constitution to overturn the people’s decision to subject state legislators to term limits. And in 2010, the voters of Iowa removed three justices who had, like the Supreme Court in Obergefell, invented a constitutional right to same-sex marriage.

Judicial retention elections have worked in states across America; they will work for America. In order to provide the people themselves with a constitutional remedy to the problem of judicial activism and the means for throwing off judicial tyrants, I am proposing an amendment to the United States Constitution that would subject the Justices of the Supreme Court to periodic judicial retention elections. Every Justice, beginning with the second national election after his or her appointment, will answer to the American people and the states in a retention election every eight years. Those justices deemed unfit for retention by both a majority of the American people as a whole and by majorities of the electorates in at least half of the 50 states will be removed from office and disqualified from future service on the Court.

As a constitutional conservative, I do not make this proposal lightly. I began my career as a law clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist—one of our Nation’s greatest chief justices—and I have spent over a decade litigating before the Supreme Court. I revere that institution, and have no doubt that Rehnquist would be heartbroken at what has befallen our highest court.

But, sadly, the Court’s hubris and thirst for power have reached unprecedented levels. And that calls for meaningful action, lest Congress be guilty of acquiescing to this assault on the rule of law.

And if Congress will not act, passing the constitutional amendments needed to correct this lawlessness, then the movement from the People for an Article V Convention of the States—to propose the amendments directly—will grow stronger and stronger.

As we prepare to celebrate next week the 239th anniversary of the birth of our country, our Constitution finds itself under sustained attack from an arrogant judicial elite. Yet the words of Daniel Webster ring as true today as they did over 150 years ago: “Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.” We must hold fast to the miracle that is our Constitution and our Republic; we must not submit our constitutional freedoms, and the promise of our nation, to judicial tyranny.

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