AUSTIN – Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today took legal action to protect Texans’ Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.

WASHINGTON----The American Center for Law and Justice – focusing on constitutional law – today filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court of the United States asking the high court to overturn a lower court ruling and rely on the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, rather than the Due Process Clause, to protect the individual guarantees contained in the Bill of Rights ...

Today's Matier et Ross is chock-full of fun. First, the duo tell us that Jerry Brown is in hot water for trying to uphold the U.S. constitution's second amendment. (See, earlier this year, Brown asked a Chicago court to overturned a gun ban, saying that if the court doesn't act, "'California citizens could be deprived of the constitutional right to possess handguns in their homes.'" Hence the ...

Is marriage legal in Texas?   According to Houston lawyer and Democratic Texas attorney general candidate Barbara Radnofsky, it is not. In 2005, an overwhelming majority of the Texas Legislature approved an amendment to the Texas Constitution. The am...

Sunday Vanguard gathered that the move to stall the amendment of the 1999 Constitution has its roots in the pursuit of a perpetual state of discord between the two chambers of the national assembly.

Lacy Phipps, a self-proclaimed proponent of the first amendment, was arrested by Duplin County Sheriff’s deputies late last month for second degree trespassing and injury to personal property.

The question before the U.S. Supreme Court, as asked by Alan Gottlieb's Second Amendment Foundation of Bellevue in a challenge to Chicago's gun ban, is whether the right to keep and bear ar... Continue reading "Second Amendment Brief Filed by Bellevue Gun Nuts"

What is being called the Second Amendment Sales Tax Holiday will take place Nov. 27-28 to coincide with the unofficial beginning of the Christmas shopping season. The first sale in 2008 was so popular the General Assembly authorized another for 2009.

Reactions to Chancellor Claudia Bonnyman's ruling that Tennessee's new law allowing people with handgun permits to be armed in bars and restaurants that serve alcohol is unconstitutionally vague:-- Bill Emendorfer, owner of Baker Peters Jazz Club: "As a hunter, a gun owner and a strong supporter of the Second Amendment , I still did not agree with a right to bear arms in a place that serves ...

Kampala — Parliament met on Wednesday, November 18 at 2:00pm to continue debating the Land Amendment Bill. The Speaker, Edward Ssekandi, chaired the session. Below are the proceedings.