by Rob Natelson | May 13, 2022 | Court Cases, Current Events
Note: In this Supreme Court case, issued April 21, 2022, II’s Rob Natelson received his 21st citation from the justices—this time from Justice Clarence Thomas. In this essay, which first appeared in the May 1, 2022 Epoch Times, he discusses the importance the case...
by Rob Natelson | Apr 25, 2022 | Constitution, Founding Principles
Some schools are teaching children that the formation of the American Union, and specifically the Constitution, were influenced heavily by the pre-existing federation of the Iroquois Indians. There are many websites making the same claim. As someone with native...
by Rob Natelson | Apr 12, 2022 | Court Cases
The federal Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) is a classic instance of congressional overreach: It imposes sweeping child adoption rules on the states and has caused extreme hardship for Native children and the non-Native families who have opened their hearts and homes...
by Rob Natelson | Apr 6, 2022 | Elections Clause, Electoral College
A bipartisan group in Congress is dedicating time to reforming the Electoral Count Act. The Electoral Count Act is the statute purporting to govern how Congress counts electoral votes for president and vice president (pdf). Like many other “bipartisan” activities,...
by Rob Natelson | Mar 23, 2022 | Court Cases, History, Judiciary
This is the last installment in a series on the nadir, or low point, of the U.S. Supreme Court. This was the period from 1937 to 1944, when the court stopped protecting the Constitution’s limits on the federal government. Our Constitution has never fully recovered....
