LawAnalysis
Obama Administration Loses Key Obamacare Case
A federal district court in Washington, D.C., ruled Thursday in favor of the U.S. House of Representatives’ challenge to the Obama administration’s implementation of part… Read More
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Judiciary Chairman: Obama Received More Confirmations Than Bush at This Point in His Presidency
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, is pushing back against the idea that the judicial nomination process is broken after being criticized for not holding a hearing… Read More
LawCommentary
Stoned Drivers Are Killing More and More Innocent Victims
Blake Gaston, 23, killed while riding his motorcycle in Seattle. He played the piano, guitar, drums, wrote music, and developed websites. Elizabeth Kemble, 46, was killed by… Read More
LawAnalysis
A Career Litigation Track Is Necessary for Army and Air Force JAGS
This week, the armed services committees in the senate and house consider an amendment requiring the Army and Air Force JAG Corps to establish career… Read More
LawCommentary
Army and Air Force JAG Corps Need a History Lesson (and Career Litigators)
The Army and Air Force are engaged in an all-out legislative battle to preserve the status quo and kill a Senate and House amendment requiring… Read More
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Why Donors to Nonprofits Need to Be Protected From the IRS
Congressional calls for the impeachment of IRS Commissioner John Koskinen are once again making headlines. In an interview with The Daily Signal, Cleta Mitchell, an… Read More
LawCommentary
Liberal Activists Worked With AGs to Target Conservatives
In Ray Bradbury’s classic dystopian novel, “Fahrenheit 451,” a future society criminalizes the possession of books and burns them in order to suppress any dissenting… Read More
LawCommentary
Oops: It Turns Out a Drone Didn’t Hit a Plane Over London, After All
Last month, British Airways reported that a jet on final approach into London’s Heathrow Airport hit a small unmanned aircraft system, commonly known as a drone. Regulation-happy… Read More
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Army and Air Force JAG Corps Need Career Litigators Now
The Army and Air Force vehemently oppose developing career prosecutors and criminal defense attorneys in their respective Judge Advocate General’s Corps, a position that confounds… Read More
LawCommentary
The Rise of the Executive-Administrative State
In Jan. 2012, an interviewer from the Univision Spanish-language TV network asked President Barack Obama why he was continuing to deport illegal immigrants from Mexico… Read More
LawNews
Sheriff’s Department Seized $53K From Christian Band Raised for Orphanage, School
A Texas man and his Burmese Christian band, who had $53,000 seized by law enforcement in Muskogee, Okla., in February will get their money back, the… Read More
LawCommentary
Private Parties Are Held Accountable for Their Actions: It’s Time Government Officials Are Too
The federal government refused to hold its own officials accountable after the Environmental Protection Agency dumped millions of gallons of toxic water into the Animas… Read More
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Republican Leaders Throw Weight Behind Prison Reform
The Republican National Committee today adopted a resolution in support of reforming the nation’s criminal justice laws, in a significant sign of bipartisan consensus to… Read More
LawAnalysis
Nebraska Abolishes Civil Forfeiture
Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts, a Republican, has signed a major state forfeiture bill into law. Like New Mexico before it, the Cornhusker State now requires… Read More
LawCommentary
The Highlights of the Supreme Court Oral Argument on Obama’s Executive Amnesty
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in a case brought by Texas and 25 other states challenging the Obama administration’s attempt to give legal… Read More
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Judge Ignores Federal Law and Allows Sandy Hook Gun Case to Proceed
There is no doubt that what happened at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 12, 2012, was a horrible event and a terrible tragedy for… Read More
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Obama Administration Admits It Could Have Respected Nuns’ Rights After All
It may have taken five years, numerous regulatory updates, hundreds of legal battles, and two trips to the Supreme Court, but the government has finally… Read More
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Obama Administration Doubles Down on Forcing Religious Groups to Accept Abortion Drug ‘Accommodation’
Two weeks ago the Supreme Court asked both sides in the Little Sisters’ case to file supplemental briefs. The Little Sisters’ case challenged Obamacare’s requirement… Read More
LawCommentary
Senate Bill Would Impose 10 Years in Federal Prison for Local Crime
Say you rush into a busy airport and are late for a flight that you cannot miss. Maybe your bag has a hole in it,… Read More
LawCommentary
Alaskan Hunter Triumphs Over Federal Agency in Supreme Court, for Now
For more than 15 years, John Sturgeon used a hovercraft to reach moose-hunting grounds in Alaska without any incident or objection. Then, one day in 2007,… Read More
LawNews
Video of Chuck Grassley’s Town Hall Tells Different Story From ‘Misportrayal’ in Media
The mainstream media coverage said Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, faced intense opposition back home for his stance of no hearings and no votes for a… Read More
LawCommentary
The Left’s Climate Inquisition’s New Target
In a truly outrageous abuse of his authority and a misuse of the law, the attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands, Claude E. Walker,… Read More
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Former Top Obama Official Says Operation Choke Point Had ‘Collateral’ Consequences
One of President Barack Obama’s former top Justice Department officials behind Operation Choke Point said Thursday the program had “unintended but collateral consequences” on banks and… Read More
LawCommentary
Grand Jury Indicts Sheriff for Wrongly Taking $10,000 From Traffic Stop
A multi-county grand jury has indicted Oklahoma Sheriff Bob Colbert and Captain Jeffrey Gragg on three felony counts of bribery and extortion and recommended that… Read More
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Supreme Court Got It Wrong: Noncitizens Shouldn’t Be Counted
In a loss for voters, the Supreme Court has ruled unanimously against two residents of Texas who had argued that the Texas legislature diluted their… Read More
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Surprising Number of Americans Affected by Police Taking Their Property
New polling data is shedding light on the widespread impact of pervasive property seizures under civil asset forfeiture laws. In both Utah and Florida, a… Read More
LawNews
Reinforced by Grassroots, Senate Republicans Hold Line on Supreme Court Nomination
Conservatives who are normally at odds with Senate leadership are turning out to be important allies in their ongoing campaign to block President Barack Obama’s… Read More
LawNews
Meet Some of the 61 Prisoners Whose Sentences Were Just Shortened by Obama
In his most recent round of clemency, President Barack Obama has reduced the sentences of 61 federal prisoners, allowing most to be freed within months…. Read More
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After 15 Years in Prison, One Drug Offender’s Search for Meaning
Freedom is pizza, and swimming, but it can also be frustrating, confusing, and not so limitless. “Freedom for me was a little disconcerting because it’s… Read More
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In Voicemail, Bank Says It No Longer Lends to Firearms Dealers
The stories of two businessmen who recently were denied banking services because they sell firearms suggest a secretive government program called Operation Choke Point still… Read More
