Mar 4, 2008 | CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND LEGISLATIVE LAW, ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, UNITED NATIONS, DIPLOMACY & INTERNATIONAL LAW
By Alan Nathan © 2008 Washington Times On matters of war, illegal immigration and eminent domain, it’s apparent that reporter, pundit and politico have an ongoing rivalry over who can most effectively misquote, mischaracterize and misrepresent the U.S....
Dec 19, 2007 | CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND LEGISLATIVE LAW
By Alan Nathan © 2007 Washington Times When are Supreme Court justices interpreting the Constitution, and when are they simply amending it? The judicial-restraint crowd prefers a more denotative analysis relying on the actual words employed by the framers. Those...
Aug 14, 2007 | CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND LEGISLATIVE LAW
By Alan Nathan © 2007 Washington Times Often the most difficult things to see are those hidden in plain sight. Though rarely reported, the violation of checks and balances attributed to the executive branch by the Democrat-led Congress is actually getting perpetrated...
Jul 11, 2007 | CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND LEGISLATIVE LAW, UNITED NATIONS, DIPLOMACY & INTERNATIONAL LAW, WAR ON TERROR AND WAR IN IRAQ
By Alan Nathan © 2007 FrontPageMag You cannot execute a battle as you might an indictment nor prosecute a war as you might a trial. The Framers of the Constitution knew this when they wrote in Article I, Section 9 that Congress had the right to suspend habeas corpus,...
Jul 10, 2007 | CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND LEGISLATIVE LAW, ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
By Alan Nathan © 2007 Washington Times Is it time to build the wall? The cause behind the Senate’s failed immigration reform bill was an Achilles’ heel that its advocates ignored but opponents instinctively understood — you can’t hold a right hostage...
Apr 19, 2007 | CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND LEGISLATIVE LAW, UNITED NATIONS, DIPLOMACY & INTERNATIONAL LAW
By Alan Nathan © 2007 Washington Times Whether it’s about unlawful aliens, property rights or reconciling our jurisprudence with international law, inferior vestiges of government power have circumvented an authority not vested in them by our Constitution and...