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Douglass Mackey, who went by the alias Ricky Vaughn on social media, was convicted by a federal jury on Friday for a “scheme to deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote,” according to a statement from the Justice Department.
Published: Tuesday, April 18th, 2023 @ 4:54 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The very reason for government is, as the Founders made clear in the Declaration of Independence, to defend and protect (“secure”) everyone’s God-given rights.
Published: Saturday, January 15th, 2022 @ 12:54 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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freedom and liberty are bad words to fascist Fauci
Published: Tuesday, November 16th, 2021 @ 9:11 am
By: John Steed
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Robinson views governing through a limited government lens, with a heavy dose of individual rights and liberty. Those views are informed by his strong Christian faith.
Published: Monday, October 25th, 2021 @ 1:09 pm
By: Holly Audette
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The bill will allow individuals with concealed carry privileges in their home state to exercise those rights in any other state with concealed carry laws
Published: Wednesday, May 12th, 2021 @ 10:12 am
By: Thom Tillis
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For years, we have listened to and read about persons and groups of persons who claim that their right to vote has been disenfranchised.
Published: Monday, December 28th, 2020 @ 7:35 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The RIGHT TO VOTE is an INDIVIDUAL RIGHT and NOT the Right of a Political Party
Published: Wednesday, May 27th, 2020 @ 11:27 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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She’s a smart and decisive defender of individual rights and economic freedom.
Published: Thursday, February 27th, 2020 @ 8:18 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) co-sponsored the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, legislation that will allow individuals with concealed carry privileges in their home state to exercise those rights in any other state with concealed carry laws
Published: Saturday, January 19th, 2019 @ 1:58 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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U.S. Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) co-sponsored the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, legislation that will allow individuals with concealed carry privileges in their home state to exercise those rights in any other state with concealed carry laws, while abiding by that state's laws.
Published: Wednesday, January 16th, 2019 @ 1:56 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The issue in Zadeh v. Robinson is a doctrine called “qualified immunity.” The U.S. Supreme Court developed the doctrine in response to a federal statute—42 U.S.C. § 1983—that gives citizens the right to sue individual law enforcement officers for violations of their constitutional rights
Published: Wednesday, September 12th, 2018 @ 2:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Frederick Douglass: Passionate Defender of Freedom and Individual Rights
Published: Saturday, February 10th, 2018 @ 12:40 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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He may be a flawed individual, but he is the RIGHT kind of individual for government. He is an unashamed, unapologetic, and undetered interposer against federal tyranny.
Published: Saturday, January 27th, 2018 @ 3:29 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education - a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization backing free-speech and due-process rights on college campuses
Published: Thursday, August 31st, 2017 @ 6:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Students are roaming college campuses once again, but many of them are missing out on the robust back-and-forth debate of controversial issues that has characterized higher education for centuries
Published: Friday, December 9th, 2016 @ 9:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Hyper-aggressive federal officials have taken the vague language in Title IX of the 1972 Education Act Amendments and treated it as if it gave them plenary authority to control anything on a college campus having in any way to do with sexual misbehavior
Published: Saturday, August 27th, 2016 @ 9:32 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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When the framers met in Philadelphia in the blazing summer of 1787, fierce debate ensued.
Published: Tuesday, August 23rd, 2016 @ 9:05 pm
By: Ryan Case
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Every year, my organization, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), issues its annual Spotlight on Speech Codes report in which we rate the speech codes of more than 400 of the largest and most prestigious colleges and universities in America using a red, yellow, and green light s
Published: Wednesday, January 6th, 2016 @ 2:27 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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When Columbia University's Multicultural Affairs Advisory Board complained a few weeks ago that "many texts in the Western canon [contain] triggering and offensive material that marginalizes student identities," I thought of China, whose education minister vowed to ban...
Published: Thursday, May 28th, 2015 @ 10:16 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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At last week's First Amendment Day celebration at UNC-Chapel Hill, Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), presented some alarming findings
Published: Saturday, October 4th, 2014 @ 10:44 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Reforms in education, regulation, and the state tax code all generated bigger headlines. But the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is publicizing another accomplishment from the 2013 session of the N.C. General Assembly. Robert Shibley, senior vice president of FIRE, discussed the...
Published: Sunday, January 19th, 2014 @ 1:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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This year, a plan for a "gender-neutral" housing complex at UNC-Chapel Hill drew lots of attention, first from the state legislature, and then from the university system's governing body, the UNC Board of Governors. The plan was intended to permit gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, or transgendered...
Published: Wednesday, August 21st, 2013 @ 7:43 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Though the U.S. Supreme Court has recognized the right of individual citizens to possess firearms under the Second Amendment, the N.C. Court of Appeals says this right does not cover concealed weapons. North Carolina is not the only state to reach this conclusion.
Published: Thursday, December 6th, 2012 @ 8:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Obamacare has the potential to transform this country into one that dangerously curbs our fundamental freedoms, socializes wealth, status, and risk, and puts us at the mercy and the discretion of a government that is more interested in social engineering than the individual rights.
Published: Monday, February 13th, 2012 @ 12:12 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) continues to threaten state sovereignty and individual rights.
Published: Wednesday, February 8th, 2012 @ 11:20 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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