Read more US Constitution stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/11758/us-constitution.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 12:42:25 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73522/obama-can-should-lock-congress-in-until-health-vote.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagGrumpy old man Jack Cafferty is getting tired of Congress dragging out health reform, and wants President Obama to get lawmakers motivated. Using his constitutional powers, Obama should deliver this ultimatum: I’m ordering the Congress to remain in session until both houses vote on a final version of health-care reform....http://www.newser.com/story/73522/obama-can-should-lock-congress-in-until-health-vote.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 06 Nov 2009 18:24:15 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72465/game-plays-out-2011-obama-coup.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFor the burgeoning ranks of political paranoids, a scenario in which President Obama dissolves the Constitution, bans guns and drags the US into a union with Mexico and Canada seems not all that far-fetched. Now, thanks to some Ron Paul supporters, you can prepare for 2011 (yep, that soon!)...http://www.newser.com/story/72465/game-plays-out-2011-obama-coup.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 24 Oct 2009 5:47:49 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71255/glenn-becks-mormonism-is-the-apocalyptic-kind.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMost of the media has been understandably wary of tying Glenn Beck’s Mormonism to his jeremiad against President Obama and the enemies of freedom, Adam Reilly writes. And yet, Beck is a clear inheritor of a particular strain of mid-century Mormon political ideology that espoused virulent anti-communism and the divine...http://www.newser.com/story/71255/glenn-becks-mormonism-is-the-apocalyptic-kind.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 08 Oct 2009 14:29:19 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70658/supreme-court-will-hear-challenge-to-local-gun-laws.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Supreme Court will take up a case that could radically alter legal precedent regarding gun ownership and Second Amendment rights. The case is an appeal brought by Chicago-area gun owners who challenged the city’s ban on handguns. The high court overturned such a ban last year in Washington, DC,...http://www.newser.com/story/70658/supreme-court-will-hear-challenge-to-local-gun-laws.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 30 Sep 2009 11:40:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70485/health-foes-fight-mandatory-insurance-at-state-level.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagEfforts are afoot in more than a dozen states to outlaw mandatory health insurance, a preemptive strike against federal health reform that, though mainly symbolic and constitutionally dubious, could provoke a court battle that would be costly and delay any plan passed by Congress. “I just don’t want the government...http://www.newser.com/story/70485/health-foes-fight-mandatory-insurance-at-state-level.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 28 Sep 2009 19:56:10 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69495/supreme-court-likely-to-uphold-alabama-sex-toy-ban.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAn Alabama statute criminalizing the sale of sex toys will probably be upheld as constitutional if it is challenged in the Supreme Court, Eugene Volokh writes at the Volokh Conspiracy. The statute—which was upheld by the state's Supreme Court Friday and bans the distribution of "any device designed or...http://www.newser.com/story/69495/supreme-court-likely-to-uphold-alabama-sex-toy-ban.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 16 Sep 2009 6:58:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68674/court-ashcroft-on-hook-in-post-911-detention-case.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFormer Bush attorney general John Ashcroft can be held personally responsible in a lawsuit brought by a US citizen who was detained on suspicion of being a material witness to terrorism but was never charged with a crime, an appellate court ruled today. Abdullah al-Kidd alleged the detention, begun in...http://www.newser.com/story/68674/court-ashcroft-on-hook-in-post-911-detention-case.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 04 Sep 2009 19:36:47 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64658/sneak-attack-on-electoral-college-gains-ground.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagOpponents of the Electoral College are making progress on an end run around the institution with the goal of setting up a system that would decide the presidential election solely on the popular vote, Tara Ross writes for the Weekly Standard . “Formally eliminating the Electoral College through a constitutional amendment...http://www.newser.com/story/64658/sneak-attack-on-electoral-college-gains-ground.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 17 Jul 2009 13:42:43 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63088/blame-founding-fathers-for-paralysis-on-climate-change.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBarack Obama's narrow victory last week, when the House passed the climate change bill by just 7 votes, raises the question of why it's so tough to get change enacted even when the president is popular and his party has majorities in both houses of Congress. The problem Democrats face...http://www.newser.com/story/63088/blame-founding-fathers-for-paralysis-on-climate-change.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 29 Jun 2009 10:27:00 CDT