The Democratic Party of Hawaii now stands against protecting the constitutional rights of American citizens. Hawaii’s top Democrats have voted in support of removing one of the first freedoms established after the Revolutionary War – freedom from arbitrary imprisonment.

Just before Thanksgiving in the House of Representatives, Rep. Ted Deutsch of Florida introduced H.J.Res. 90, and a few days later Bernie Sanders followed suit with a Senate counterpart, S.J.Res. 33. The two bills, which contain identical text, are a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The amendment reads: Section 1. The rights protected by [...]

The Udall Amendment would have removed the legislation’s unconstitutional power of imprisonment without criminal charge. This afternoon, that amendment failed to pass. It was rejected by a coalition of Republicans and Democrats who have become comfortable with the existence of totalitarian government powers. The vote wasn’t even close: 37 for Udall’s protection of American freedom, 61 opposed to the Udall amendment, and 2 senators who didn’t show up to vote.

They’ve given speeches about football games. They’ve talked about renaming post offices. They’ve gobbled on about Thanksgiving. They’ve done nothing, however, to protect the American people from the recent surge in police brutality.

Where was Ron Paul, the supposed defender of liberty, during this vote? He didn’t even come to Congress for it. He was too busy, out on the campaign trail, promoting himself as a champion of the Constitution, to be bothered to actually show up to defend the Constitution.

The truth is that there is increasing distrust in the idea of God in the United States, and increasing disagreement on religious issues. If Congress passes any resolution on the subject, it should be to reaffirm that the government should simply stay out of religious affairs, and neither promote nor oppose any religious beliefs. The U.S. House of Representatives couldn’t help itself yesterday, though, and so it voted overwhelmingly to pass H. Con. Res. 13.

Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand refused to take a stand for Americans’ constitutional rights this year, but they’re working hard to defend the integrity of pancake syrup. Seriously, they think that distinguishing between Aunt Jemima and maple syrup is more important than protecting the privacy of American citizens.

A roll call of the names of 47 senators who voted to protect accused terrorists from being put on trial for their crimes is presented in this article.

In the past two weeks, two Senators have joined a team of legislators looking to quash free speech. Just any old bill to ban the burning of the American flag would be promptly struck down as unconstitutional if passed because the First Amendment to the United States Constitution declares that freedom of speech shall not [...]

Gary Glenn proposes the idea that the United States is a Christian nation, with the government providing only a limited sort of religious freedom – that which protects Christianity in particular. He also expresses the idea that American rights don’t come from the Constitution at all, but rather from the deity that he worships.