ACLU

  • Penalizing the Commerce Clause

    ByP.A. Madison
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    Note: I cannot believe I neglected finishing this post until now (9/13/07). A California woman whose doctor says marijuana is the only medicine keeping her alive can face federal prosecution on drug charges, a federal appeals court ruled. The ruling Wednesday was the latest legal defeat for Angel Raich, a mother of two from Oakland suffering from scoliosis, a brain tumor, chronic nausea and other ailments who sued the federal government pre-emptively to avoid being arrested for using the drug. On her…

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    Supreme Ignorance: ACLU’s Empty Establishment Claims

    ByP.A. Madison
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    The American Civil Liberties Union again is suing under the twisted rational the Fourteenth Amendment somehow disables local government from displaying anything remotely religious in nature. The latest victim targeted by the ACLU is the rural Florida county of Dixie, which has a Ten Commandments monument at the steps of its courthouse. The lawsuit says the monument violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments because it is not part of a historical display and because the uniquely Christian message of the Ten Commandments…