Liberty Dollar Founder Convicted in Federal Court

Bernard von NotHaus found guilty of counterfeiting, accused of domestic terrorism by U.S. Attorney STATESMAN SENTINEL March 21, 2011 The founder and monetary architect of the popular alternative currency Liberty Dollar was found guilty of four federal charges last Friday. The jury deliberated for less than two hours to reach a verdict after an eight [...]

Elena Kagan Sails Through Senate Judiciary Hearings

Gun Owners of America The Senate Judiciary Committee voted to send the nomination of Elena Kagan to the full Senate floor today. The 13-6 vote was not a surprise.  Democrats outnumber Republicans 12-7 on the committee, and their ranks include the anti-gun extreme wing of their party, such as Charles Schumer, Dianne Feinstein and Dick [...]

Tom Woods Defends Constitutionality of Nullification on Freedom Watch

STATESMAN SENTINEL July 15, 2010 Tom Woods appeared on Fox Business Channel’s Freedom Watch with Judge Andrew Napolitano on Independence Day weekend to debate Georgetown University law professor Randy Barnett on the principle of nullification, which Woods makes the case for in his new book Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century. [...]

Supreme Court Nominee Kagan Is No Friend Of The Constitution

Gun Owners of America On Thursday, Gun Owners of America had the important opportunity to testify concerning the Second Amendment views of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan.  William J. Olson, counsel of record on amicus briefs for GOA in both the Heller and McDonald Supreme Court cases, testified at the hearing that Kagan has demonstrated [...]

Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Gun Rights But Asserts More Federal Power

By Stephen Otto STATESMAN SENTINEL June 28, 2010 The Supreme Court has ruled against the city of Chicago and in favor of Otis McDonald in a 5 – 4 decision.  McDonald had challenged the constitutionality of Chicago’s recent handgun ban. The ruling was based on the argument that the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution [...]

Elena Kagan: Government Has Right to Tell Employers Who to Hire and Fire

Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com Elena Kagan, as long suspected, is shaping up to be the best friend an autocratic state would have on the Supreme Court. She is a strident advocate of coercive — and thus violent — power of the state over the individual. Documents trickling out of the Clinton Library are beginning to add [...]

Why Judges Can’t Free Torture Victims from Guantánamo

By Andy Worthington Last December, I wrote about the case of Saeed Hatim, a Yemeni in Guantánamo whose habeas corpus petition had been granted by Judge Ricardo Urbina. At the time, Judge Urbina’s unclassified opinion had not been made publicly available, so all I had to go on were Hatim’s own statements at Guantánamo. In [...]

Guantanamo and Habeas Corpus

By Andy Worthington Exposing torture, misconceptions and government incompetence In an attempt to raise awareness of the importance of the rulings being made in US courts on the habeas corpus petitions of the prisoners held at Guantánamo (as authorized by a significant Supreme Court ruling in June 2008), I’m devoting most of my work this [...]

U.S. Court strikes down patents on human genes

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger (NaturalNews) As NaturalNews readers already know, corporations and universities right now claim intellectual property ownership over roughly twenty percent of your genetic code. This absurdity has occurred due to bizarre operations of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office which has handed corporations intellectual property monopolies over everything ranging from [...]

Who Needs Trials?

By Jacob Hornberger The Washington Post has just published an op-ed that pretty much sums up where we’ve arrived as a country, post-9/11, thanks to both conservatives and liberals. The op-ed is entitled “KSM’s Dispensable Trial” and is co-authored by Jack Goldsmith, who served as an assistant attorney general in the Bush administration, and Benjamin [...]

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