It isn’t just historically inaccurate to create a public display claiming that World War II was a religious crusade. It’s also unconstitutional. The First Amendment to the Constitution states that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” H.R. 2070 is in violation of this part of the Bill of Rights.

Atheists are Americans. Buddhists are Americans. Hindus are Americans. Humanists are Americans. Under H. Con. Res. 13, unfortunately, they are second class Americans.

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.

H.R. 1981 would require the linkage of all our online activities to our names and other personal information. This, in turn, would enable government intelligence agents to search through its massive databases of online activities, collected under the FISA Amendments Act, by citizen name, address or telephone number.

Yesterday’s markup was an opportunity for reform of the abusive law, with amendments that could have brought the Patriot Act closer to compliance with the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment guarantee of protection from unreasonable search and seizure. Yet, every single reform that was offer was rejected by the House Judiciary Committee.

Representative Jerry Nadler spoke against Patriot Act renewal today. It has been recently revealed that, over a seven-year period, there were tens of thousands of purposeful violations by the FBI of Americans’ rights in the execution of the Patriot Act.

Congressman Jerrold Nadler has called for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate George W. Bush. Bush has now admitted that he personally ordered the U.S. government to torture prisoners.

Representative Jerrold Nadler, Chairman of the Constitution Subcommittee in the House of Representatives, took to the floor of the House of Representatives yesterday to explain why he would not comply with requests to vote for reauthorization of the Patriot Act without reform: Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to this motion to concur in the [...]

Jerrold Nadler, chair of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties in the House Judiciary Committee, has announced that his subcommittee will hold hearings into the illegal FBI spy abuses.

Overnight, news emerged that for years, the FBI grabbed Americans’ private telephone records without any search warrants, and justifying the seizures of these records by claiming that there were emergency terrorist threats that in fact never existed. Thousands of times, the FBI completely invented stories of terrorist plots to attack the United States so that [...]