June 2020 – Phil Cline

Fear and Qualified Immunity

June 28, 2020 by philcline in Bill of Rights / Blog / Cline on the Constitution / Judiciary

Cline on the Constitution – Qualified Immunity and The Paralysis of Fear We are afraid. Americans, once a proud, robust, hearty people, sometimes stubborn, often stern, cower in fear. College professors are afraid to speak the truth; College Administrators are intimidated by students. It is rare the author, with the fortitude to call a man a […]

Self-Defense

June 13, 2020 by philcline in Bill of Rights / Blog / Cline on the Constitution / Criminal Justice

Cline on the Constitution – “Defunding” the Police and the Right to Self-Defense. Efforts to “defund” and dismantle police departments are not about reform, nor are they not about punishing individual police officers for wrongs, real or imagined. They are about weakening the social fabric of the nation, giving license to law breakers and ignoring […]

Cline on the Constitution

June 3, 2020 by philcline in Bill of Rights / Blog / Cline on the Constitution / Federalism / Second Amendment

Who has the Power? Talk about your ironic twists of fate. We may soon see one national emergency clarify whether another national emergency is real. That’s important. In the name of public health, governors and mayors have claimed extraordinary powers over citizens and abrogated Constitutional rights due to the threat of the Covid virus. Our schools have been […]

Month: June 2020

Fear and Qualified Immunity

Self-Defense

Cline on the Constitution