Straight From The Hart

 Constitution and Clarence Thomas Etc Is the United States Constitution still relevant as we move toward the halfway mark of the second decade of the 21st century? This issue was addressed In a hearing before the Judiciary Committee last week entitled “Enforcing the President’s Constitutional Duty to Faithfully Execute the Laws” which focused on President Obama’s increasing tendency in recent weeks to bypass Congress in order to get his political agenda passed. During that hearing, my favorite liberal, Jonathan Turley, Professor of Law at George Washington University, who undoubtedly has one of the best legal minds of our time, decried the expansion of executive power which he says is happening so fast that America is at a “constitutional tipping point”. He said he was very alarmed by the implications of that aggregation of power, and further testified that “What also alarms me is that the two other branches appear not just simply passive, but inert in the face of this concentratio...

  Vandals knocked over and damaged at least 100 headstones at Mount Carmel Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia on February 27. The Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in St. Louis suffered major damage when more than 200 headstones were toppled and damaged by vandals also in February. After numerous headstones were desecrated at the Waad Hakolel Cemetery in Rochester, the Jewish Federation of Greater Rochester New York stated on its Facebook post, “In the past month alone, there have been more than 180 anti-Semitic incidents nationwide. We are deeply disturbed by rising acts of anti-Semitism across the country, including bomb threats made to Jewish community centers, Jewish day schools, and synagogues.” As of February 28 this year more than 100 threats have been called in to 77 Jewish Community Centers, eight Jewish schools and several advocacy offices like the Anti-Defamation League, around the country. In his address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday of last week, President Trump ...