Category: Law Enforcement Issues

In 2004 Department of Justice Opines Second Amendment Secures Individual Right to Bear Arms — What’s Changed?

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As promised, attached is a memorandum of law penned by the Department of Justice in 2004 for the U.S. Attorney General.  It is a thorough, well-researched, and well-written article that comes to the inescapable, correct conclusion about this issue.  What has changed since 2004 as it relates to the constitutional right? WHETHER THE SECOND AMENDMENT [...]

“Constitutionally Protected Rights are Guarded with Particular Vigor Precisely when Public Opinion Turns Against Them”

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The title of this post is a quote from an article in the Wall Street Journal written by David Rivkin and Andrew Grossman.  I attach the article below. The quote significantly captures the reason the Bill of Rights is soundly insulated from the passing whims of political and social crises, and the resulting fervor with [...]

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Unconstitutionally Usurps Constitutional Sheriffs’ Arrest Powers

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I am attaching an article describing the ill-conceived decision of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to reduce the powers of the Constitutional Sheriffs in that State with respect to powers of arrest to nothing more than that of the ordinary citizen. The opinion unconstitutionally usurps the elective franchise of the citizens to vote for who they [...]

First Principles: Each State Is Responsible to Its Own Citizens for Protection and Public Safety

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I have written in the past about unconstitutional usurpation of Constitutional Sheriffs’ arrest powers.  I have also mentioned that whimsical and hastily made decisions that attempt to eradicate by sweeping measures time-honored common-law rules and principles are a threat to the respective states’ sovereignty. As I have also mentioned, if the citizenry of a state [...]