Month: September 2026
States Must Report Illegal Immigrants to Feds or Risk Losing Federal Welfare Funding: DOJ
A new Office of Legal Counsel opinion reversed a 1998 interpretation of a welfare-reform law that narrowed states’ requirement to report illegal immigrants.
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The American aristocracy: When public servants become our rulers
The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – When Senator Lindsey Graham died, the governor of South Carolina made what I think was an emotional decision by placing his sister Darline in the office until an election could be held. In the recent primary for that office, the Republicans of South Carolina did not choose the experienced candidate. There have been plenty of examples of both political parties choosing…
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Does the First Amendment Give You the Right to Disrupt a Church Service?
The First Amendment protects both freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, but those rights do not give activists carte blanche to invade a church and take over the service. Or so I thought. Now, however, a group of activists who did just that have filed a motion to dismiss federal civil rights charges, arguing…
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California Legislature Passes Amendment Keeping Operating System Age Signals
Browsers are out of the handoff, but app stores and developers still get a live read on user age categories.
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ID Verification Breach Exposes Millions of Sensitive Identity Documents
The push to make people show ID to access the internet assumes those documents will stay secure. A database of 153 million license scans shows how reckless that assumption is.
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House Judiciary Committee Holds Hearing on Birthright Citizenship
The House Judiciary Committee holds a hearing titled “‘Subject to the Jurisdiction Thereof’: Birthright Citizenship and the Fourteenth Amendment, Part II” at 2 p.m. ET on Sept. 2.
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Dallas Police to Shut Down Hundreds of Flock Cameras
Dallas police officials said 321 Flock cameras that were supported via grant funding will no longer be eligible.
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‘Aloha Spirit’ Strikes Again: Hawaii Court Continues To Deny Gun Rights For Gen Z
‘Hawaii seems to really like its unconstitutional gun control’
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