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Senator Coburn threatened with censure for delivering babies?for free
Daniel McConchie reports on the Americans United for Life Blog: “The US Senate ethics committee has threatened Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn, a practicing obstetrician, with censure for delivering babies for free at the Muskogee Regional Medical Center in Muskogee, Oklahoma...

The Second Amendment in the Tenth Circuit: Three Decades of (Mostly) Harmless Error:
Every year the Denver University Law Review publishes a Tenth Circuit Survey. In the forthcoming issue, the lead article is my examination of the Tenth Circuit's record on the Second...

Tenth Amendment: More State-Specific Sites, Commentary and Media Coverage
From the top: Pennsylvania State Rep. Sam Rohrer does an excellent job of explaining some of the reasoning behind why several States are pushing for Tenth Amendment resolutions...

Success! Senate to post expenditure reports
The Senate is going to follow the House in posting their office expenditure reports online for the public to view...

Sex Offender Registration (SORNA) And The Tenth Amendment
Doug Berman points to an interesting opinion from the Supreme Court of Missouri. It raises some complicated standing issues under the Tenth Amendment and begs the question of whether a state itself has an interest in enforcing state constitutional provisions...

Senator Releases Report on AWOL Federal Employees
News release: "U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) released a report today detailing the rapid growth in the annual number...

Parody is a Protected Form of Speech
Targets of criticism seek to shut down Internet sites that poke fun

It is my understanding that the 6th Amendment requires, that if you can't afford a lawyer in a criminal case, the Court must provide a lawyer in your defense at no charge to you. However, in a civil case no such protecti
That is not entirely true, even in the case of criminal cases. The court will pr...