Federal Appeals Court: Obama Labor Board Recess Appointments Unconstitutional

Right to Work Foundation attorneys argued purported recess appointments were invalid because Senate was not in recess

Washington, DC – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday struck down President Barack Obama’s controversial purported “recess appointments” to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys filed an amicus curiae brief jointly with the Landmark Legal Foundation in the case, Noel Canning v. NLRB.

The Equator Principles and Sustainable Poverty

By Tom DeWeese

 

“Planet Earth.” Credit: Wikimedia

“The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States. We can’t let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization we have in the US. We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are.” Michael Oppenheimer (Environmental Defense Fund)

The reminders are put in front of us every day. Poverty in the world. How horrible. Starving children. Unimaginable hardships. Hopelessness. “SOMEONE MUST DO SOMETHING!”

Of course, the answer for the world leadership is to throw money at the problem, either

All Politics Should Be Local

Hughey Newsome, Project 21

By Hughey Newsome, Project 21

It is ironic that the city Barack Obama used to demonstrate his capabilities as a leader is now nearly out of cash.

During the 2012 campaign, the President and his liberal supporters touted the auto bailout as having saved Detroit. The carmakers may still be alive, but the Motor City itself is in big trouble!

According to a December 3 Wall Street Journal commentary, for example, the city is near

Mourning the Loss of Lives, More Determined to Win

Mathew Staver (Photo credit: Gage Skidmore)

Washington, DC – Tuesday marked four decades of violence against preborn children. Since January 22, 1973, America has aborted about 54 million preborn children. By contrast, we have lost under 1 million people in all the wars in American history combined, from the Revolution to the Civil War to Afghanistan

Abortion hits minority communities the hardest. While African-Americans make up

Conservatives Raise the Threat Level, According to West Point

Mathew D. Staver, Liberty Counsel

Washington, DC – “While the threat of Islamic terrorism is playing out in various parts of the world, the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point is studying America’s ‘violent’ conservatives, including anti-federalists and fundamentalists,” said Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel.

The love of God and country and the desire to “to restore or preserve values and practices that are part of the idealized historical heritage” are marks of terrorists, according to the 147-page study entitled Challengers from the Sidelines: Understanding America’s Violent Far-Right. The author of the so-called study is Dr. Arie Perliger

Judicial Watch Special Report: “The Benghazi Attack of September 11, 2012: Analysis and Further Questions”

Judicial Watch Analysis on Eve of Hillary Clinton Hill Testimony Finds Continued State Department Duplicity, Questions Department Commitment to Protect Security of Overseas Diplomats

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Photo: Harald Dettenborn

Washington, DC – Judicial Watch on Tuesday released “The Benghazi Attack of September 11, 2012: Analysis and Further Questions from a Diplomatic Security Service Regional Security Officer and Special Agent,” a Special Report closely examining the Obama administration’s actions before, during, and after the assault, as well as the State Department’s commitment to protect overseas diplomats.

The new report contains in-depth analysis, conducted exclusively for Judicial Watch by former State Department Security Special Agent Raymond Fournier, examines the critical time period leading up to the Benghazi attack, when repeated requests for increased

Court of Appeals Sets Argument Date On Obamacare Case Following Supreme Court Directive

Richmond, VA – The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia on Friday set briefing and oral argument dates in the Obamacare case of Liberty University v. Geithner. Liberty Counsel represents Liberty University and two private individuals in this case. On November 26, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court directed the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear the case. Liberty Counsel’s brief is due February 27, and oral argument will occur the week of May 14-17. The Court directed briefing on the following issues:

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  Lewis F. Powell, Jr. U.S. Courthouse in Richmond, Virginia. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

  Whether, in light of Nat’l Fed’n of Indep. Bus. v. Sebelius, 132 S. Ct. 2566 (2012), the Anti-Injunction Act, 26 U.S.C. § 7421(a), bars this challenge to the Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate, 26 U.S.C. § 4980H;

• Whether, in light of NFIB, the employer mandate exceeds Congress’ powers under the Commerce, Necessary and Proper, and Taxing and Spending Clauses; and

Federal Court Upholds Wisconsin Governor’s Public-Sector Unionism Reforms

Workers asked court to uphold reform measure protecting most Badger State public workers from forced unionism

WI Governor Scott Walker. Photo: Megan McCormick

Chicago, IL – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Friday upheld all of Governor Scott Walker’s public-sector unionism reform measures, also known as “Act 10.”

With free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation and the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, three Wisconsin public

A Change in Culture Doesn’t Mean Changing the Constitution

Christopher R. Arps

By Christopher R. Arps

It’s obvious that President Obama wants to curtail our Second Amendment freedoms. It’s now completely believable that Americans’ constitutional right to own and use firearms might even be diminished with the stroke of Obama’s autopen signature.

American democracy is called a “grand experiment.” It is not called this out of some romanticized

Civil Rights Leader Blasts Obama for Infringing on Second Amendment Rights

Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

LOS ANGELES — Barely a month after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn, President Barack Obama used children as a backdrop to make sweeping gun proposals and violate the privacy of law-abiding Americans. Obama’s executive orders included a federal background check system requiring states to share the private medical records of their residents with the feds and gives doctors the “authority” to inquire and report patients with guns if they show signs of certain mental illnesses under Obamacare (Affordable Care Act). BOND Action Founder and President, Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson issued the following statement regarding the president’s