According to Congressman Tony Gonzalez, 662,000 people with criminal records in their home country have been released into our streets. The information came in a report from ICE Deputy Director Patrick Lechleitner. These are only the ones we know about. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have opened the borders to monsters, and Harris should withdraw […] The post Biden-Harris Treason: 662K Criminals Released Into the USA appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Far Left Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) sponsored legislation to destroy the Third Co-Equal Branch of government because they don’t like recent decisions. The bill would stack the Court, adding six Justices. The Court would undergo audits, putting them under the authority of Congress. They would no longer be a co-equal branch of government, but another […] The post Sen. Wyden’s Bill to Destroy the Supreme Court appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

A Troubling Story in Idaho Boise State University administrators must pay a coffee shop owner $4 million after a jury unanimously ruled the school officials violated the woman’s First Amendment rights in a conflict over her public support of law enforcement. Sarah owns Big City Coffee and was asked to open a coffee shop on […] The post A Troubling Story in Boise State & a Woman Who Fought appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

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It’s hard to reconcile Vice President Kamala Harris’ friendly overtures to gun owners with the footage that recently emerged of a 2007 press conference in which the then-district attorney of San Francisco said cops could conduct random home inspections to enforce compliance with the city’s new “safe storage” laws. Yes, really. She told reporters: We’re going to require responsible behaviors among everybody in the community, and just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn’t mean that we’re not going to walk into that home and check to see if you’re being responsible and safe in the way you conduct your affairs. On the one hand, it’s not particularly surprising to hear Harris voice her support for a policy that, even as gun control “wish lists” go, is pretty extreme. This press conference occurred, after all, just one year before she signed onto an amicus brief in District of Columbia v. Heller that defended Washington, D.C.‘s complete ban on handgun possession and argued against any constitutional right to own guns in the first place. She may now begrudgingly pay lip service to the Second Amendment and tout her status as a gun owner, but it’s no secret that she remains perfectly willing to trample on Americans’ right to keep and bear arms. It’s still nonetheless shocking that, as San Francisco’s chief prosecutor, she so brazenly and vindictively threatened to violate gun owners’ other constitutional rights, as well. Harris isn’t some amateur on criminal law who can claim ignorance. She knows (or at least should know) that the Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures. As a general rule, the government can’t search a person (or his or her property) without a warrant or absent probable cause that a crime has been committed. Government officials certainly can’t just waltz into private homes whenever they please, going on fishing expeditions through our closets and attics, looking for evidence of wrongdoing. She should also know that there’s no “Second Amendment loophole” to the Fourth Amendment. There’s no asterisk with fine print excluding gun owners from the rest of the Bill of Rights. The government can’t force us to pick and choose between our rights, nor can it condition the exercise of one right on the waiver of another. Americans have the right to keep and bear arms, and we have the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. We also have the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures while keeping and bearing arms. Harris’ comments should rightly terrify Americans. You don’t have to be a gun owner or even like guns to see how dangerous this theory of governance is to a free society, and how dramatically it undermines constitutional norms. If Harris is willing to unilaterally waive gun owners’ Fourth Amendment rights, it’s not unreasonable to ask what other rights she’d be willing to unilaterally waive, and for whom. Can the government require all who peaceably assemble to forfeit any right against excessive bail? Can it quarter soldiers in the homes of people who petition for redress of their grievances? May it prohibit the free exercise of religion, but just for those who insist on their right to trial by an impartial jury? The correct answer, of course, is a resounding “no.” That’s not how our constitutional rights work—not for gun owners, and not for anyone else. Not even if Harris threatens otherwise. COPYRIGHT 2024 TRIBUNE CONTENT AGENCY The post On the Second Amendment, Harris Shoots Herself in Foot—Again appeared first on The Daily Signal.