A friendly Reminder

by Paul Engel What is the purpose of qualified immunity? Do government actors deserve special treatment under the law? What happens when courts place their opinions above the supreme law of the land? Governments protecting their own with a mock trial is nothing new. When our Founding Fathers published the Declaration of Independence, they listed 27 specific grievances against the king, including: For protecting [the military], by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders

By Paul Engel Gaslighting is the process of repeating a lie long enough and forcefully enough for people to believe it is the truth. We’ve been told that Congress set the size of the House of Representatives at 435 members. But is that legal? What would the House of Representatives look like if we actually followed the Constitution? When you hear a lie so often you think it’s the truth, we say you’ve been “gaslighted”. That is just as true for government as any other part of

by Paul Engel Most Americans believe they have a right to privacy. Many Americans also want governments to protect them from “bad actors”. So what happens when our right to privacy collides with our desire for government to protect us? A recent Supreme Court case out of California involves the question of how far government can go to protect us. Specifically, is it necessary for governments to collect data about citizens in order to find criminals? As William Pitt (the Younge

By attorney Michael Peroutka  What is the recourse for a patriotic citizenry when those who are entrusted with upholding the law conspire together to use the law to break the law? The answer for our Founders – and for us – is the Doctrine of Interposition.  The Declaration of Independence is a document of interposition. Under that doctrine, the local magistrate is duty bound to defend against the oppression of the tyrant by interposing on behalf of the people he represents. T

It appears that the confusion and mental disorder called transgenderism is contagious. Recent court cases have been placing the arbitrary opinions of a few of the facts and law of the land. What happens when people are given special rights, simply because they are confused about who they are? A recent case out of the Court of Appeals of the State of California brings up some interesting questions. First, does someone have the legal right to tell you how to refer to them? Seco

Have the recent actions of the government of the State of Florida been protecting liberty, or installing their own form of tyranny? Can governments be allowed to protect some rights by infringing on others? Can the American people put aside their political partisanship long enough to see their rights are in jeopardy? Many people have pointed to Florida as an example of a state protecting the rights and liberty of its citizens. They point to the state’s responses to COVID and

Ronald Reagan warned us that unless we fight for liberty, we would one day have to explain it to our children. Today, we have to explain to the younger generations what is was like when freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of press, even to be secure from unreasonable searches and seizures were cherished in America. So will the American people fight for their liberty, or will we sit by and watch it be destroyed? . . . freedom is never more than one generation away

Only days after presiding over the worst military disaster in American history, Joe Biden told us that his “patience is running thin” with those who have not agreed to be lab rats in the most massive human experiment in the history of mankind. Chastising those who have not yet taken the jab, he asked, “What more do you need to see?” In just seven months, Biden has decimated the American economy, destroyed the livelihoods of millions of Americans, opened our borders to our ene

What makes September 17th a day the American people should celebrate every year? Is the Constitution of the United States relevant anymore? Today, we should not only remember the Constitution, it’s purpose as well. On September 17, 1787, the members of the Continental Congress signed the Constitution for the United States of America and sent it to the states for ratification. If I were to review the “State of the Constitution” in 2021, I would have to say it is not good, not

Texas SB8 is not the violation of a “constitutionally protected right established by Roe v. Wade” that you’ve been told. Texas SB8 is a unique law, apparently crafted specifically tailored to comply with the Roe v. Wade opinion. The Supreme Court did not “overturn Roe”, they simply refused to issue an injunction against the law because, by their own precedent, they couldn’t. The recent Texas law SB8 has been described as an attack on the right to abortion. The case challengin

The disorganized departure of American troops from Afghanistan was difficult to watch and even more difficult for patriotic Americans to contemplate.  On the one hand, Joe Biden is congratulating himself for an “extraordinary success,” despite the fact that his policies resulted in the death of 13 American soldiers, the abandonment of Americans behind enemy lines, and the loss of 85 billion dollars in military equipment. On the other hand, conservative pundits are denouncing

Are you familiar with the Due Process Clauses of the Constitution? Do you know what terms like liberty, property, and Due Process mean? Why are Due Process protections so important to your personal liberty. I’ve been talking a lot recently about the Due Process Clauses in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. Why? Because they seem to be lost in the noise created by the current legal climate. I thought it would be a good time to dive deeper into these two clauses, both so we c