David Applegate
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ConstitutionGovernment
Pelosi Unhinged: Time for Another Chill Pill?
by David Applegate January 12, 2021Let’s be honest: What happened at the U. S Capitol on Wednesday, January 6 was shocking and deplorable, but hardly surprising.
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ConstitutionGovernmentPolitics
Dr. Jill and Dr. Phil: Will Someone Take a Chill Pill?
by David Applegate January 5, 2021Public policy in a democratic republic should be resolved by informed representatives of an educated public, acting within constitutional limits, not by executive branch heads or appointees
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Like the camel that gets its nose under the tent, once the federal government butts into people’s business it’s very hard to get it out. But in a per curiam decision in Zubik v. Burwell on May 16, 2016, the Supreme Court may have indicated that even in the age of the nanny state, even Supreme Court Justices can abide only so much.
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FeaturedLegal Affairs
The Progressive War on Free Speech – Part Three
by David Applegate April 20, 2016“The Revolution devours its children,” wrote French royalist Jacques Mallet du Pan in 1793, but in the case of the American left, the children are now devouring their masters, both literally and figuratively. For the progressive war on free speech is nowhere more evident than on campus, where it has taken on sinister aspects completely apart from Title IX, about which we wrote in Part Two of this series.
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It’s generally taken as a given that the American left is in favor of individual freedoms, but when it comes to the First Amendment that seems hardly any longer to be the case. A few examples should suffice. Let’s start with one: what can only be described as the Left’s irrational obsession with attempting to overturn the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United, which by now has become a virtual plank in the official Democratic Presidential Platform.
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FeaturedLegal AffairsPolitics
Hillary Clinton’s Crocodile Tears for the Constitution
by David Applegate January 8, 2016Hasn’t the nation had enough of one-branch government run by a sometime lawyer and former law professor?