Legal

For decades America’s legal system has applied radically different standards to ordinary Americans and left-leaning politicians, bureaucrats, and social issues. Now, we are witnessing an open campaign of lawfare against enemies of the establishment.

The Center for Renewing America is fighting to change the legal paradigms transforming this country. We are working within the legal system to challenge the woke and weaponized federal bureaucracy and hold progressive elected officials and bureaucrats accountable under the rule of law.

Free Exercise Under Pressure: Civil-Rights Law and the Protection of Worship

January 30, 2026 | by Benjamin Osborne

Where demonstrators move beyond protected expression and into unlawful entry, physical obstruction, threats, or intimidation within a house of worship, both traditional state-law doctrines and federal civil-rights statutes provide a coherent and complementary basis for accountability.

CRA Files an Amicus Brief to the Supreme Court of the United States supporting President Trump’s Argument to End Birthright Citizenship for the Children of Illegal Immigrants

January 23, 2026 | by Ken Cuccinelli, Benjamin Osborne

Drawing on common-law principles, Reconstruction-era legislative history, and Supreme Court precedent, the brief argues that the Clause reflects a jurisdictional standard tied to political authority and national sovereignty.

Primer: Impeaching Judge James E. Boasberg for Judicial Abuse

January 9, 2026 | by Benjamin Osborne

The rule of law cannot stand if federal judges are allowed to unilaterally dictate national policy and wage war on American voters and citizens under the belief that a lifetime appointment grants them immunity from the consequences.

Primer: Time to Give the Blue Slip the Pink Slip

December 11, 2025 | by Eric Teetsel

The blue slip tradition for nominations is a vestige of a bygone era in which informal courtesies served a useful political purpose and were thought to be harmless ornaments on the constitutional tree.

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Primer: Fixing the Weaponized Redistricting Process

November 24, 2025 | by Benjamin Osborne

The legal and constitutional foundations are in place to implement citizen-only redistricting and to exclude illegal aliens and noncitizen immigrants from redistricting.

On the President’s Lawful Authority to Deploy the National Guard to American Cities

October 3, 2025 | by Benjamin Osborne

When mayors across the country failed to enforce their own laws—including to protect federal officials—the president stepped in, and our communities are now safer because of it.

Primer: The Unconstitutionality of For-Cause Removal Protections for Statistical Agency Heads

August 18, 2025 | by Benjamin Osborne

Under Article II and binding precedent, the President must retain the authority to remove the heads of executive agencies at will, and Congress cannot limit his power to remove such officials.

Primer: Accountability for the Government’s Accountability Office

August 13, 2025 | by Benjamin Osborne

The Constitution does not tolerate hybrid officers cloaked in legislative legitimacy yet wielding executive power. The Government Accountability Office—an entity squarely within Congress, led by a comptroller general removable only by Congress—cannot constitutionally interpret laws, direct executive behavior, or initiate litigation against the executive branch.