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According to The Washington Post, the president could impose tariffs under different laws. And Trump indicated just that in his press conference. Read more here:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/02/20/tariffs-prices-consumers-supreme-court/
At a White House press conference minutes ago. The president implied he was set to defy the Supreme Court order stopping his tariffs. Stay tuned in for more.
‘Way back in the day – nearly 250 years ago now – many Americans refused to support the new constitution unless a bill of rights was attached. This was a smart strategy since the colonies had been subjected to numerous injustices at the hands of the British. One horror was the right of the British authorities to enter homes virtually at will. These and other outrages motivated the colonist to rebel.
Now, as Hampton Law makes clear, a new ruling by the supreme Court has muddied the waters, weakening the protections against unreasonable search and seizure. The video below is informative, though scary.
I am an originalist — not the kind who is a self-proclaimed savant claiming to be able to divine the mind of people centuries ago. Instead, I am an originalist interested in perpetuating the message of that great document, the Declaration of Independence, soon to be celebrating it’s 250th anniversary, as well as that of the constitution.
Of course, no document can be perfect. In the case of the constitution, the founders realized this and wisely allowed for amendments. Surely amendments could be useful now.
In any event, most definitely we do not need the resurrection of a protective, isolationist stance which threatens to transmogrify the country from a democracy into a banana republic. As Martin Luther King Junior, said, “Let freedom ring! Let freedom ring!”
Citizens decry death of community worker by ICE
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Citizens in several cities took to the streets last evening to protest the shooting of yen community worker and mother in Minneapolis yesterday, according to NBC news. More details coming here later. See the NBC news video below for more.
