Constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead addresses the long-term ramifications of empowering the government to wage war on individuals whose political ideas and expression challenge the government’s power, reveal the government’s corruption, expose the government’s lies, and encourage the citizenry to push back against the government’s many injustices.

Constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead speaks about the right to be let alone by the government.

Constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead speaks on what it means for churches and other religious institutions to speak truth to power. 

Constitutional attorney John Whitehead breaks down the actual anatomy of the police state at the Ron Paul Institute's 2022 Washington Conference.

Constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead talks to Judge Andrew Napolitano about the rise in mass shootings

Constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead addresses the various aspects of the government's war on the American people.

Constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead explores the madness, mayhem, delusion and tyranny that characterized 2020 and what we can expect of 2021. 

Attorney John Whitehead lays out a laundry list of worrisome programs and public grievances that aren’t disappearing anytime soon. On the docket: Government mass surveillance, militarized police departments, and a perpetual feud between corporate America and climate change activism.

John Whitehead appears on Bill Martinez Live to discuss the dnagers of fascism, totalitarianism and militarism converging.

Fifty-one years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unequivocally that public school students are protected by the First Amendment. As indelible and clear as the Tinker decision is in the pantheon of individual rights, school officials still seem to ignore or circumvent it — especially, it seems, during the current global pandemic.

Google has been voluntarily giving users’ private information (real names, street addresses, credit card numbers, Gmail and recovery email addresses, YouTube channel addresses and the time and IP addresses of recent logins) to law enforcement agencies.  Rick Sanchez and constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute, discuss why we should all be concerned and why we so desperately need an electronic Bill of Rights. 

The assault on our civil liberties is in overdrive. Habeas corpus is thrown out the window and the government is asking to be able to indefinitely detain Americans without charge or trial. Constitutional law attorney John Whitehead, President of the Rutherford Institute, joins Liberty Report to discuss these threats...and to let us know what we can do about them!

Author and civil rights attorney John Whitehead of The Rutherford Institute joins Rick Sanchez to discuss the enduring effects of the PATRIOT Act and erosion of civil liberties in the US. He also explains "Operation Vigilant Eagle," a surveillance program to keep tabs on US veterans and track what they say online.

John Whitehead appears on The Big Picture to weigh in on the looming Patriot Act renewal 18 years after it was enacted. 

A Lynchburg attorney with Charlottesville-based nonprofit The Rutherford Institute now is representing a Central Virginia Training Center resident whose father claims the state is seeking to undermine her First Amendment right to freely practice her religion. The Rutherford Institute, which gives legal aid in matters of constitutional rights, issued a statement Friday saying that Virginia is trying to “strip Alisha’s parents of their right to be consulted in her care.”

If you’re driving through Virginia, you don’t dare think about catching a few winks in your car if you get tired. That’s the warning from the civil rights experts at the Rutherford Institute, who say a new Roanoke County ordinance allows police to do warrantless searches and seizures on vehicles and their drivers. If they’re taking a nap.

“The major due process concern with ERPOs (red flag gun laws) is that they allow a person to be deprived of property (a gun) and liberty (their Second Amendment right) before they are granted an opportunity to be heard,” John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute, told WhoWhatWhy. 

Rick Sanchez breaks down the Pentagon putting your tax dollars to work: Lobster, crab, alcohol, golf carts, tubas and trombones – the list goes on! Then constitutional attorney and president of the Rutherford Institute (www.rutherford.org) John Whitehead joins to weigh in on the colossal waste of tax money that the US “defense” budget represents and which puts the country ever deeper in debt.

Citing a “pat-down” by Transportation Security Administration officials that effectively was an assault on a 13-year-old girl that left her in tears, officials with the Rutherford Institute have written the TSA asking officials to change their procedures. “No American should be subjected to a virtual strip search or excessive groping of the body, or have their underage children touched intimately by strangers as a matter of course in boarding an airplane when there is no suspicion of wrongdoing,” said constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute. “In both word and deed, the TSA operates as if members of the public and their children have no rights and no defense against the agency and its employees even if an agent assaults them, wrongfully detains them, or fabricates criminal charges against them. However, parents do not forfeit their rights when they travel by air with their children.”

A Virginia-based nonprofit that provides legal services in defense of civil liberties named the city of Muskogee and five current or former police officers in a federal lawsuit alleging excessive force and deprivation of rights. Lawyers for The Rutherford Institute filed the complaint on behalf of Jeriel Edwards, whom they allege was subjected to "excessive force and brutality" despite his compliance with police. Lawyers representing Edwards allege police threw their client to the ground, used a Taser and chokehold to subdue him, rendering him unconscious to the point of requiring hospitalization.