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Biden Promises To Reverse Due Process Protections For Those Accused Of Campus Sexual Assault

Mary Margaret Olohan  Former Vice President Joe Biden vowed Wednesday to reverse Secretary of Education Betsey DeVos’s Title IX protections for those accused of sexual assault on college campuses. Biden, who faces sexual assault allegations by his former Senate staffer Tara Reade, said in a Wednesday statement that he will reverse DeVos’s rule that seeks…

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Rand Paul Disagrees With Trump on Torture: “It Doesn’t Work”

LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By: Elias J. Atienza Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul drew a sharp distinction between him and President Donald Trump on the issue of torture, which the president says he believes “absolutely works.” “I’m alarmed by anybody that wants to go back to torture,” Paul told CNN. “The people in the Senate…

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Top 10 Liberties Lost Since 9/11

A Single Moment Changed Our Freedoms Forever by Brett L “Those who would give up Essential Liberty, to purchase a little Temporary safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” This thought by Ben Franklin has never held more truth. After the tragic events of 9/11, we lost more than lives. We lost our essential liberties, in…

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Federal Court Upholds Gun Ban for Medical Marijuana Patients

by Joe Klare “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” – 2nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution Yeah, about that. Yesterday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rocked the medical cannabis community by upholding…

REMEMBER: Syed Farook Was Not Able to Legally Buy a Gun

How quickly the public seems to forget things — especially things which don’t fit into their personal biases or narratives for events in the news. Liberals and some misinformed right wingers are now demanding that gun control measures be implemented to prevent potential terrorists from getting guns. If only some magical law could prevent bad…

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These Are the Elected Officials Who Have Most Vocally Defended the Bill of Rights Post-Orlando

With ever growing political pressure to forsake due process in order to do something, some elected officials are standing tall in Congress. Despite the mass hysteria on the left and right following the tragedy in Florida, several members of Congress have remained level-headed and fought to protect the Second, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments. House Speaker…

Lawsuit Accuses Obama Of Destroying Due Process On U.S. Campuses

By Blake Neff The country’s biggest advocate for civil liberties on U.S. campuses has filed a lawsuit that could blow up a key plank in the Obama administration’s campaign against college sexual assaults. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is backing a lawsuit by John Doe, an anonymous former University of Virginia (UVA) law student…

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US Senator Says “Due Process Is Killing Us” — Are We In a Dystopic Novel? (VIDEO)

Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) went on Morning Joe earlier today to discuss increased gun regulations in response to the Orlando shooting. In addition to calling for mandatory background checks, Manchin also came out in favor of prohibiting people on the terrorist watch list or no-fly list from purchasing guns. He stated “Can’t we say that…

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Rand Paul: Proposed Gun Control Measures Would Not Have Prevented Orlando

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) said yesterday that gun control measures wouldn’t have stopped the Orlando mass shooting. Proposed gun control measures would strip people on the FBI’s terrorist watch list of their 2nd Amendment rights; However, Paul said those measures wouldn’t have stopped Omar Mateen from killing fifty people. “It wouldn’t have stopped the Orlando killer…