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.
Justin Amash has joined Democrats in rejecting Barack Obama’s unilateral, unconstitutional entry into the civil war in Libya without the legally required congressional approval.
Barack Obama doesn’t have the constitutional authority to make the decision to go to war against Libya. The Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war. Congress, not Obama, must decide.
A sharp division within the Democratic Party on matters of war and peace was revealed in the vote, with 85 Democrats voting for peace, and 99 Democrats voting against peace.
From John Conyers to Ron Paul, the co-sponsors of a resolution to require the end of the U.S. involvement in the Afghanistan War can be found in a list here.
Dennis Kucinich was asking liberals and conservatives to come together around bedrock American values – the values of the Bill of Rights.
Dennis Kucinich has introduced Department of Peace legislation again. He has 13 cosponsors for the legislation so far.
Sensible new legislation would not create any big government system of nationally uniform preschool education. Rather, it would simply establish support for state governments in their efforts to provide year-round school that’s universally available, but not mandatory, for three, four and five year-olds.
The Tea Party movement says it is all about defending the Constitution of the United States. But the Tea Party Express twitter feed has nothing posted about the Patriot Act reauthorization that’s going on quietly but quickly in Congress starting today. If you have an account and can log into the Tea Party Nation website’s [...]
Is the war now supposed to be a tool for the improvement of the lives of the people of Afghanistan? This week, Representative Dennis Kucinich called into question this justification for continued fighting by the U.S. military in Afghanistan.
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