WASHINGTON, DC — In a unanimous opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the federal government can be held accountable for a botched FBI SWAT raid that targeted the wrong home and terrorized an innocent family. The…

“You think we’re arresting people now? You wait till we get the funding to do what we got to do.”—Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar America is rapidly becoming a nation of prisons. Having figured out how to parlay presidential…

BOSTON, Ma. — Today it’s Harvard and the University of Virginia—tomorrow, it could be any institution that dares to dissent. If the government can dictate what is taught in a private university’s classroom, it won’t stop there—it will seek to…

WASHINGTON, DC — In a win for parental and religious rights, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled 6-3 that the government violates the First Amendment and “burdens the religious exercise of parents when it requires them to submit their children…

“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to…

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”—President Dwight D. Eisenhower (April…

NEWARK, NJ — Warning that the Trump administration’s actions likely pose a serious threat to constitutional rights, a federal judge has temporarily blocked the government from deporting a legal U.S. resident under a little-used statute that allows the…

Reporter: “What’s the bar for sending in the Marines?” Trump: “The bar is what I think it is.“ In Trump’s America, the bar for martial law is no longer constitutional—it’s personal. Indeed, if ever we needed proof that…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two more federal judges have struck down President Trump’s executive orders that targeted law firms perceived as political opponents. The rulings, in favor of Jenner & Block and WilmerHale, block enforcement of executive orders aimed at punishing legal…

“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission.” — Ayn Rand Call it what it is:…

“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror…

WASHINGTON, DC — In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a legal doctrine that helped shield police from accountability for recklessly escalating confrontations and then using deadly force. The Supreme Court’s ruling in Barnes v. Felix makes clear that…

“Donald Trump ran on a platform of relentless, thoroughgoing rejection of the Constitution itself, and its underlying principle of democratic self-government and individual rights. True, he never endorsed quartering of troops in private homes in time of peace, but…

BURLINGTON, Vt. — In the wake of a string of court challenges over its arrests, detentions and deportations of university students engaged in political protests, the Trump Administration is threatening to suspend the writ of habeas corpus, a…

In this interview with Collapse Life, civil liberties attorney John Whitehead reminds us just how we are sleepwalking our way to autocracy – on a road paved with 42 active national emergencies, unchecked executive power, and a $500 billion AI…

The case of Perkins Coie LLP v. U.S. Department of Justice warns of the grave consequences that follow when the Executive Branch retaliates against legal advocates for challenging government authority. At stake are foundational principles of the Constitution, including the…

At a time when non-citizens are being targeted and deported for engaging in lawful, nonviolent political speech protected under the First Amendment, The Rutherford Institute is warning that American citizens who criticize the government that they could be next…