With his model legislation, Pearce appears to be deliberately setting up a showdown between state and federal power in an area where the Constitution has decisively taken away power from the states. The Constitution vests the federal government with sole authority to resolve questions of naturalization, and the conditions of citizenship have been fixed in our federal charter since Reconstruction.

The U.S. Supreme Court is more business-friendly today than it was 25 years ago, according to a study conducted by a group that advocates for environmental safeguards and civil rights.

The study by the Constitutionality Accountability Center in Washington takes issue with comments by Justice Stephen Breyer in a Bloomberg News interview earlier this month. Breyer said business groups aren’t doing any better than they have historically.

A federal judge in Florida on Thursday rejected a motion by the government to dismiss some counts of a multistate challenge to the sweeping health care reform signed into law by President Barack Obama earlier this year.

The ruling by Senior U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson means the lawsuit filed by attorneys general from Florida and 19 other states can proceed on questions of whether the health care law is constitutional in requiring citizens to obtain health care coverage or face financial penalties, as well as forcing states to expand Medicaid.

The president of a liberal advocacy group has a solution to President Obama’s stalled judicial nominations: recess appointments.

In an article in Slate magazine, Doug Kendall criticizes Senate Republicans for the holdup, saying they have “managed to invent controversy even about nominees who were expected to sail through.”

"It's a funeral for God's sake!" said Albert Snyder, Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder's Father.

The procession had to be re-routed and the SWAT team was called in when Reverend Fred Phelps brought his "Thank God For Dead Soldiers" protest to Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder's funeral in 2006.

"They turned it into a circus, a three-ring circus," said Snyder.

Snyder said it sent him into a deep depression.

"These people are terrorists. They terrorize innocent families," said Snyder.