Constitution

Victory For Blago and Burris is Imminent

Jeff Norman | Posted 01.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: House Majority Leader, Illinois Politics, Senate, Chermerinsky, Illinois Supreme Court, Rod Blagojevich, Roland Burris, Harry Reid, Illinois, Constitutional Law, Senate Confirmation, Democrats, Constitution, Politics News
Jeff Norman

Reid expressed willingness to negotiate. But when he and Burris meet, it is Burris who will be in the stronger position, Reid who must yield lest his illicitness become too apparent to the public.

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Please Dems, Obey the Law

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 01.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Kenneth C. Davis, 111th Congress, Roland Burris, Obama Senate Seat, Amendment XXVII, Constitution, Karel, Charles Karel Bouley, Politics News
Charles Karel Bouley

The recent upset and political theatre over the appointment and seating of the Junior Senator Rolland Burris (D-Ill) made me cringe. As I sat and watc...

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Friday Talking Points [59] -- New Year's Resolutions (For Democrats)

Chris Weigant | Posted 01.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Left, Lefty, Senator, Transition Team, Al Franken, New Years, Illinois Legislature, New Year's Resolutions, Blagojevich, Pelosi, Transition, Senate Seat, Clinton, House Democrats, Midotw, Nancy Pelosi, Senate Democrats, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Legislature, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Bloggy Left, Reid, Illinois, Blogosphere, Bill Clinton, House, Franken, Democrat, Democrats, 2008 Election, Blogger, Constitution, Mddotw, Hillary, Cabinet, Chris Weigant, Obama Transition, Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, Senate, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Happy New Year 2009! Because I've always felt it is more amusing to make new year's resolutions that others should follow, today's Friday Talking Poin...

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Cheney's Out of Angles and Biden's Full of Them

Jacob Heilbrunn | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Fox News, Vice President, Joe Biden, Constitution, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Jacob Heilbrunn

It was refreshing to see Joe Biden refuse to take the diplomatic route about Dick Cheney's preposterous statements on -- where else? -- Fox News Sunday.

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Dick Cheney: Unplugged and Unglued

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Vice President, Dictatorship, Constitution, Bush, Cheney, Imperial Presidency, Politics News
Jeff Schweitzer

During a Fox News segment, Cheney calmly claimed that the president is not bound by law during times of war. Allow that thought to sink in for a moment before continuing your day.

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I Voted (Twice) for Obama, and Apparently I Lost

Joe Cutbirth | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: 14th Amendment, Harvey Milk Hope Speech, Proposition 8, Joe Cutbirth, Lesbian, President Obama, Lawrence King, Matthew Shepard, Obama, Gay, Civil Liberterian, Harvey Milk, Barack Obama, Marriage Equality, Lesbian and Gay, Gay Families, Briggs Initiative, Constitution, Hope, Mayor of Castro Street, Rick Warren, Homophobia, Obama Inauguration, Obama Transition, James Byrd Jr., Rick Warren Obama Invocation, Christian, David Duke, Politics News
Joe Cutbirth

Warren's selection is a thumb in the eye of every lesbian and gay citizen, and an insult to kind and decent Americans who believed that Obama's presidency was the beginning of a new era.

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Constitutional Coup Averted In Illinois

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Vice President, Supreme Court, Law, Impeachment, Greg Harris, Cabinet, Twenty-Fifth Amendment, Military Law, Legal, I'm in Charge Here, President, Governor, Reagan, Blagojevich, Acting President, Amendment XXV, Succession, Constitution, Illinois, Impeach, Attorney General, Lieutenant Governor, Depose, Acting Governor, Chris Weigant, Rod Blagojevich, Al Haig, Coup, Unfit for Command, Lisa Madigan, Haig, Madigan, Politics News
Chris Weigant

The Illinois Supreme Court has just rejected what was in essence a coup attempt by the state Attorney General, which would have installed the Lt. Governor in Blagojevich's place.

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Constitutional Relativism and Proposition 8

Noah Manne | Posted 12.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Women's Suffrage, Constitutional Amendment, Gay Rights, Proposition 8, Constitutional Amendment to Ban Gay Marriage, Equal Rights, Equal Protection, California Gay Marriage Ban, Constitution, Civil Rights, Gay Marriage, Poltical Activism, Civil Rights Movement, Separation of Church and State, Freedom of Religion, Politics News
Noah Manne

Let's start with this premise: Equal treatment under the law. That is what the U.S. Constitution guarantees, and that is what we, as Americans, agre...

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Friday Talking Points [57] -- End Of Prohibition 75th Anniversary Edition

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Weapons Inspectors, Marie Antoinette, Pardon, Autoworkers, Feinstein, Marijuana, Al Franken, Barney Frank, Medical Marijuana, Legacy, Difi, Prohibition, Jerrold Nadler, Bush Legacy, Northern Ireland, Midnight Regulations, Bailout, Norm Coleman, Midotw, Treasury, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Ireland, Health Care, Reid, Detroit, Cash Room, 2700 Year Old, Army Field Manual, Democrat, Congress, 21st Amendment, Right Wing, Visitors Center, Minnesota, Lie, Democrats, Santa, Barack Obama, Brian Williams, The Troubles, Liquor, Michael Medved, Constitution, Mddotw, Harry Reid, Recount, Hillary Clinton, Utah, Post-Partisan Depression, Capitol, Secretary of State, Senate, Grandstanding, Amendment, Gop, Senator, Obama, Democratic, Dianne Feinstein, Iraq, Anniversary, Drink, Bush, Republican, Paulson, Clinton, Charlie Gibson, Schedule I, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Schedule II, Wmd, House, Frank, Franken, Post-Partisan, 2008 Election, Tourists, Talk Radio, Chris Weigant, Smell, Prohibition Repeal, Stink, Torture, Medved, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Brian Williams, NBC's talking head extraordinaire, is probably a decent guy, a guy with whom you could sit down and have a beer. [More on the alcohol...

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Drinking to the Progressive Constitution

Doug Kendall | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, 21st Amendment, Constitution, Beer, Prohibition, Politics News
Doug Kendall

Today marks the 75th anniversary of the ratification of the 21st Amendment, or the repeal of Prohibition. Tonight, throughout the land, patriots shal...

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Method to Thomas Madness on Obama Birth Certificate

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 12.05.2008 | Home

Read More: Citizenship, Birth Certificate Controversy, Clarence Thomas, Barack Obama, Lawsuits, Supreme Court, Presidential Election, Constitution, Home News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The harebrained lawsuit demanding disclosure whether President elect Barack Obama is a U.S. citizen or not was laughed out of New Jersey courts in...

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Political Parties Are Not "Checks" Or "Balances"

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: 60-Vote, Pardon, House, Impeachment, Filibuster-Proof Majority, Executive, Legislative, Democrat, Filibuster, Chambliss, Majority, Democrats, 2008 Election, President, Election, Checks and Balances, Politics, Constitution, Senator, George Washington, Political Party, Chris Weigant, Party, Branch, Georgia, Balance of Power, Runoff, Jim Martin, Saxby Chambliss, Separation of Powers, Senate, Filibuster-Proof, Politics News
Chris Weigant

I'm not worried about whether checks and balances will disappear if Republicans don't have more than 40 seats in the Senate. True checks and balances are more fundamental than party affiliation.

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Behind the Screwy Obama Birth Certificate Controversy

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama Enemies, Constitution, Barack Obama, Presidency, Hawaii Officials, Us Citizenship, Obama Borth Certificate, Campaign Issues, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

At first glance it defied credulity that the... Chicago Tribune would do something as screwball as giving any credence to the issue of whether... Obama is really a U.S. citizen or not.

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What Kind of Revolutionary Will You Be?

John W. Whitehead | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Change, National Debt, Constitution, Martin Luther King, Barack Obama Change, Obama Change, Politics News
John W. Whitehead

if there is to be any change, it is going to be brought about by us, "we the people," not the politicians. No president, no congressman and no judge can do what you can.

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It's Not Over Til It's Over

Al Meyerhoff | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: U.S. Constitution, California Prop 8, California, Constitution, Prop 8, Civil Rights, Politics News
Al Meyerhoff

By passing Prop 8, the California electorate may well now have violated parallel guarantees contained in the United States Constitution. We have been here before.

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Obama Should Take a Hard Look at Bush's Terrorism Executive Orders

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Military, Geneva Convention, Cia, Bush, Barack Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Supreme Court, Executive Orders, Constitution, Iraq, Terrorism War, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

A start and end point should be the 31 Bush executive orders that deal with Iraq and the terrorism war.

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Friday Talking Points [55] -- "Bretton Woods II"? Not Quite.

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Loan, Russ Feingold, Mormon, Proposition 8, Economy, World Bank, New Years, Redistribution of Wealth, Imf, Iraq, Obama, Plan B, President-Elect, Sarah Palin, Putin, Bush, Lieberman, Automakers, Paulson, Rnc, Economic Summit, Senator, Sarkozy, Bailout, Sofa, Bretton Woods II, Midotw, New Hampshire, Tax Cuts, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Taxpayer Money, Treasury, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Status of Forces, Mount Washington Hotel, Reid, Detroit, Taxes, Palin Clothes, Oath, Bretton Woods, Socialism, Speakeasy, Feingold, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Constitution, Mddotw, Chris Weigant, Rahm Emanuel, Palin, Georgia, Harry Reid, President-Elect Obama, Secretary, Politics News
Chris Weigant

I have to begin here today by stomping all over a cutesy term the media has come up with for the upcoming economic "summit" George W. Bush is holding ...

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Anonymity Of "Obama Is A Muslim" Emails Constitutionally-Protected?

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Jaynes v Virginia, Mudslinging, First Amendment, Free Speech, Email, Spam, Constitutionally Protected, Obama, Anonymously, Jeremy Jaynes, Federalist Papers, Obama Is a Muslim, Barack Obama, Precedent, Virginia, Constitution, Anonymity, Chris Weigant, Constitutionality, Anonymous, Barack, Political Free Speech, Constitutional Question, Technology, Jaynes Virginia, Publius, Jaynes, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Emails saying absolutely anything about a candidate could not only be sent anonymously, but whoever sends them would actually be allowed to break any sort of anti-spam laws to do so.

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Obama and the Constitution: Our Nation's Unfinished Business

Doug Kendall | Posted 11.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, 14th Amendment, Second Founding, New Birth of Freedom, Judges, Reconstruction, Obama Inauguration, Federalist Society, Constitution, Barack Obama, Politics News
Doug Kendall

Obama must secure "a new birth of freedom" for the 21st century, push the Supreme Court to enforce the text and history of the Reconstruction Amendments, and nominate Justices who will do the same.

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Professor Obama

Marcia DeSanctis | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, President Obama, Obama Wins, Obama Election Day, HuffPost Election Analysis, Election Day 2008, Election Day, Democracy, Joe Biden, Election Results, 2008 Election, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Election, Presidential Results, HuffPost Election Reaction, Election Reaction, Professor Obama, Obama Presidency, Constitution, Iraq, Election Analysis, Presidential Election, Obama President, Politics News
Marcia DeSanctis

Rather than preach, build or spread democracy, we proved that our system works. By winning, Obama did more to teach the Iraqis about democracy than four years of nation building has done.

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What a Relief -- America Survives

Cenk Uygur | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: The American Dream, America, Barack Obama, The American Idea, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Neo-Cons, Constitution, Habeas Corpus, Obama Election Day, HuffPost Election Analysis, Election Day 2008, Election Day, President Obama, Election Results, 2008 Election, Election, Election Liveblogs, HuffPost Election Liveblogs, HuffPost Election Reaction, Election Reaction, Obama Presidency, Barack Obama President, Obama President, Presidential Election, Election Analysis, Politics News
Cenk Uygur

We docked the ship on shore. We're back to normal now. We have re-established the fundamental building blocks of Western civilization -- we have our foundation underneath us.

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What Did You Do During the Great Election?

RJ Eskow | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Poetry as Election Predictor, Constitution, 2008 Election, Greek Mythology, Barack Obama, Politics News
RJ Eskow

the very survival of the species may depend on whether we make the right decisions in the next decade. Dramatic? Hell yes, it's dramatic.

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I Have Reached Obama Overload

Pam Atherton | Posted 11.03.2008 | Home

Read More: Vice President, Guy Ritchie, President, John McCain, Constitution, Ringtones, Mccain, Huffington Post, Barack Obama, Tim Robbins, Sarah Palin, Election Results, Hanging Chads Florida, Historic Election, Election 2008, November 4, Campaign 2008, Home News
Pam Atherton

You know your family has crossed the line into Obama Overload when you start talking to your children about history and they don't walk out of the room.

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"Waiting to Exhale" Tuesday's Heroic Election between Obama and McCain

Michelle Kraus | Posted 11.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Recession Fears, US Economy, Senator Barack Obama, Senator John McCain, Constitution, President George W. Bush, Economy, 2008 Presidential Race, Politics News
Michelle Kraus

On the eve of this groundbreaking election so many of us are still holding our breath and "waiting to exhale." It's been a drama filled many month rac...

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The November Surprise

Paula Gordon | Posted 11.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Chaos, Constitution, Judicial Coup D'éTat, Republicans, Electoral College, Voting Problems, Election, Oaths, Voting, Fundamentalists, Politics News
Paula Gordon

Pardon my paranoia, BUT ... There is little doubt that the Republican Party has for years included voter suppression as part of its ongoing strategy. ...

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