Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy has made headlines and become the left’s champion of the day after giving a nearly 15-hour filibuster on the senate floor and securing a vote on two gun control measures. Libertarians and conservatives will remember when Kentucky Senator Rand Paul gave a rousing 13-hour filibuster in defense of due process rights….
2016 just keeps getting weirder. After Donald Trump caved on gun rights and indicated support for restricting ownership base on the federal government’s various terror watch lists, the NRA has also seemingly given in on the right to due process. That alone is enough to make the situation bizarre, but the fact that the American Civil…
By Casey Harper A New York Times editorial advocates for a new law allowing a secret court to take away citizens’ right to own a gun at the discretion of the federal government. Citing the Orlando terror attack that left 50 dead including the shooter and 53 wounded at a gay nightclub, the piece advocates for a…
By Casey Harper A new civil asset forfeiture reform bill arrived Thursday in the House, and it could change the game on police seizures. A bipartisan group of Congressmen are calling for the passage of the “Deterring Undue Enforcement by Protecting Rights of Citizens from Excessive Searches and Seizures (DUE PROCESS) Act”. Civil asset forfeiture…