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March 03, 2024

On ‘Financial Rebellion,’ viewers hear from constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead on the purpose of, and monetary penalties associated with, refusal to participate in the Census Bureau's intrusive and expansive American Community Survey.

February 25, 2024

How are the following things related: the constitution, litigation, pop culture, surveillance and public-private partnerships? In this law-focused episode of ‘Good Morning CHD,’ John W. Whitehead connects the dots between these relevant topics and explain how they have, are and could impact viewers’ lives. 

February 16, 2024

Forty years past the time that George Orwell envisioned the stomping boot of Big Brother, the police state is about to pass off the baton to the surveillance state. One America News interviews John W. Whitehead on the rise of the Security Industrial Complex (2-15-24).

June 10, 2023

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.

March 17, 2023

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

November 27, 2022

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

October 02, 2022

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

May 30, 2022

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

May 20, 2022

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

January 29, 2021

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

November 29, 2020

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.

August 21, 2020

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

August 20, 2020

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.

August 20, 2020

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. 

March 29, 2020

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!

March 01, 2020

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.

March 01, 2020

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

May 27, 2019

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.”

April 07, 2019

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.

March 30, 2019

“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. 

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