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Archives: Constitution
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![Top 5 Ways Obama is Behind Leaks, Protests against Trump](http://web.archive.org./web/20170321165239im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/02/top-5-ways-obama-is-behind-leaks-187x137.jpg)
Top 5 Ways Obama is Behind Leaks, Protests against Trump
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Trump did an interview with "Fox and Friends" for this morning in which he alleged that former president Barack Obama is behind the…![Is Trump a bigger danger to the US or Europe?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170321165239im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/02/is-trump-a-bigger-danger-to-the-187x137.jpg)
Is Trump a bigger danger to the US or Europe?
By Joschka Fischer | (Project Syndicate) | - - BERLIN – Little more than a month after US President Donald Trump’s inauguration, it has become clear that nothing good will come of…![Will Trump use the Next ISIL attack to sweep away our Liberties?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170321165239im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/02/will-trump-use-the-next-isil-att-187x137.jpg)
Will Trump use the Next ISIL attack to sweep away our Liberties?
By Allison Beth Hodgkins | (Informed Comment) | - - You have to hand to the civil society groups pushing back on the Trump administration’s recent executive orders banning the entry of…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170321165239im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/laprotest-1-187x137.gif)
Protesters Face Increasing Criminalization in Trump Era
TeleSur | - - Changes aim to hit protestors with criminal records and beefed up fines and impunity for police who accidentally kill them. Donald Trump was officially sworn in Friday as…![Trump does Poor imitation of Tin-Pot Dictator at “Press Conference”](http://web.archive.org./web/20170321165239im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/trump-does-poor-imitation-of-tin-187x137.jpg)
Trump does Poor imitation of Tin-Pot Dictator at “Press Conference”
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - In his first news conference in months, president-elect Donald J. Trump engaged in a series of petulant tirades. For anyone like myself, who…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170321165239im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/gordonnuremberg-180x137.jpg)
A Living Wage & a Right to Live: Resisting a government of Generals and Billionaires
By Rebecca Gordon | (Tomdispatch.com) | - - Many of the folks I know are getting ready to play serious defense in 2017, and they’re not wrong. Before we take up our…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170321165239im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/berbers-378x230-1-187x137.png)
Reflections by a Middle Easterner on the Electoral College as a Remnant of Elite Tribalism
By Hsain Ilahiane | (Informed Comment) | - - The Founding Fathers wrote the electoral college in the United States Constitution. In late summer 2004, I became a naturalized United States citizen…![Bruited Trump pick for Nat’l Intel shreds 4th Amendment, wants Total Surveillance](http://web.archive.org./web/20170321165239im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/bruited-trump-pick-for-natl-inte-187x137.jpg)
Bruited Trump pick for Nat’l Intel shreds 4th Amendment, wants Total Surveillance
TeleSur | - - On Thursday multiple mainstream media outlets reported that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has picked former Republican Senator Dan Coats, an outspoken advocate of illegal domestic surveillance programs, to…![Top 5 Reasons Senate Dems should block all Trump Supreme Court Nominees, Forever](http://web.archive.org./web/20170321165239im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/12/top-5-reasons-senate-dems-should-187x137.jpg)
Top 5 Reasons Senate Dems should block all Trump Supreme Court Nominees, Forever
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - We don't need a Trump-nominated supreme Court justice. We desperately don't need such a person. And there is no reason to have one.…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170321165239im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/12/United_States_Capitol_-_west_front-1-187x137.jpg)
Can Trump be checked and balanced?
By Ulrike G. Theuerkauf | ( OpenDemocracy.net) | - - The US Presidential system has been much heralded as a prime example of horizontal accountability, but there is no guarantee how Donald…![Will Trump Bring in a New Era of Surveillance and Torture?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170321165239im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/11/will-trump-bring-in-a-new-era-of-187x137.jpg)
Will Trump Bring in a New Era of Surveillance and Torture?
TeleSur | - - Trump's picks for important security positions look intent on rolling back civil liberties. While there are many questions about what U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will change once he…![US: Trump’s Justice, CIA Picks Threaten Rights](http://web.archive.org./web/20170321165239im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/11/us-trumps-justice-cia-picks-thre-187x137.jpg)
US: Trump’s Justice, CIA Picks Threaten Rights
Human Rights Watch | - - (Washington) – President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions as United States attorney general reinforces fears that Trump’s administration will threaten human rights protections,…![Have Americans joined Egyptians in losing right to Protest & to Privacy?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170321165239im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/11/have-americans-joined-egyptians-187x137.jpg)
Have Americans joined Egyptians in losing right to Protest & to Privacy?
By Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah | (Inter Press Service) | - - LONDON (IPS) - Many US citizens may instinctively believe they still live in the land of the free, but a new global…![Federal Judge Puts End to “Insane” Voter Suppression in N. Carolina](http://web.archive.org./web/20170321165239im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/11/federal-judge-puts-end-to-insane-187x137.jpg)
Federal Judge Puts End to “Insane” Voter Suppression in N. Carolina
By Jon Queally, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org ) | - - 'Injunction will help make sure not a single voters’ voice is unlawfully taken away,' says Rev. William Barber II of…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170321165239im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/10/greenbergroguehc-180x137.jpg)
Dear Americans: Want Security? Try the Bill of Rights
By Karen J. Greenberg | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - One vivid image of the historical relationship between government power and individual liberties in America has long been the swing of the…![Nixonian Donald Trump threatens writers who dare Criticize him](http://web.archive.org./web/20170321165239im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/10/nixonian-donald-trump-threatens-187x137.jpg)
Nixonian Donald Trump threatens writers who dare Criticize him
By Richard Tofel | ProPublica | - - In 1733, New York printer John Peter Zenger began publishing the eighth newspaper in the American colonies, and the first willing to venture criticism…![Making Case for Pardon, Snowden Says Leaks Were ‘Necessary, Vital Things’](http://web.archive.org./web/20170321165239im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/09/making-case-for-pardon-snowden-s-187x137.jpg)
Making Case for Pardon, Snowden Says Leaks Were ‘Necessary, Vital Things’
by Deirdre Fulton, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | - - 'I think when people look at the calculations of benefit, it is clear that in the wake of 2013 the laws of…![Can Americans get back their Democracy from the Oligarchy?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170321165239im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/07/can-americans-get-back-their-dem-187x137.jpg)
Can Americans get back their Democracy from the Oligarchy?
By John Scales Avery | (Inter Press Service) | - - COPENHAGEN, (IPS) - As many observers around the world have pointed out, the United States is no longer a true democracy.…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170321165239im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/07/REL-LIBS540-187x137.jpg)