The legislation, would, if passed, begin the process of the ratification of a constitutional amendment to require all federal political campaigns to be funded solely from public sources. Even candidates’ own money could not be used for campaigns. Independent expenditures, under this proposed constitutional amendment, would be prohibited.

According to Article I Section 8 of United States Constitution, the Congress and only the Congress is given the authority to declare war. No other person or body in government — not the Supreme Court, not the President — is the authority to do so anywhere in the Constitution. The first war in Iraq, the [...]

Dennis Kucinich has yet to make any floor speech even mentioning, much less praising, the occupation protests. Can Kaptur use her support for the occupation protests to convince voters that she will be a better representative of liberal values than Kucinich?

Thanks for American Electric Power and and FirstEnergy, the State of Ohio has more coal-fired generating capacity than any other state in the nation. Ohio’s electric sector also has the ignominious honor of ranking FIRST in the amount of toxic air pollution it emitted in 2009, emitting more than 44.5 million pounds of harmful chemicals, which accounted for 65% of the state’s pollution and 12% of toxic pollution from all U.S. power plants.

Barack Obama is being sued by a group of U.S. Representatives, including four members of his own political party, in order to force him to stop the illegal U.S. entry into war in Libya.

NATO has proposed that the American-led fighting continue for at least three months, and is now proposing the introduction of soldiers on the ground in Libya. So, after the vote on H. Con. Res. 51 yesterday, Kucinich made the following pledge…

Dennis Kucinich notes that, after two months, Barack Obama still has not obtained legally-required authorization for American involvement in the civil war in Libya.

Yesterday, Republican Tom Rooney added his voice to the growing protest of Barack Obama’s unconstitutional rush to war in Libya.

More Republicans are joining the conservative antiwar protest begun by Amash. Yesterday, Congressman Tom McClintock sent a letter to President Obama directly accusing Obama of violating the law in his initiation of war without congressional authorization.

Dennis Kucinich has begun crafting legislation to bring the Executive Branch back into accordance with the Constitution, in the form of a budgetary amendment that cuts off all funding to President Obama’s new war.