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An End to Colleges’ Racial Discrimination in Admissions?
The U.S. Supreme Court has an opportunity to finally get rid of racial discrimination in college admissions. The court agreed this week to review, for… Read More
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Judge Orders Government to Return $167,000 Seized From Motorhome Driver Visiting His Girlfriend
A federal judge in Nevada has ordered the government to return $167,000 that was seized from a man driving his motorhome on a highway two years… Read More
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What Do We Do Now?
Conservatives are reeling after two outrageous decisions last week by the Supreme Court. In one case they reinterpreted Obamacare so that “established by the state”… Read More
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Students Will No Longer Face Jail Time for Missing School in Texas
Everything is bigger in Texas, and that includes the number of children charged with Class C misdemeanors for skipping school. Texas was one of only… Read More
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How to Preserve Religious Freedom After Supreme Court’s Activist Decision on Marriage
The Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision on Friday redefining marriage across all 50 states will likely have many serious, even unintended, consequences for the rule of… Read More
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A New Challenge to the Constitutionality of Capital Punishment
Today, by a 5-4 vote, the court in Glossip v. Gross upheld a lower court’s ruling that a particular combination of drugs may be used… Read More
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Supreme Court Decides ‘Legislature’ Doesn’t Really Mean ‘Legislature’
Today, in Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, the four liberal justices joined by Justice Anthony Kennedy (again) refused to follow the Constitution… Read More
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21 Pictures From This Week at the Supreme Court
The past week was filled with anticipation, joy, disappointment, long hours of waiting in the merciless Washington, D.C., heat, and endless streams of analysis and commentary—all because… Read More
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Is Kennedy Still the Swing Vote on the Supreme Court?
For many of the highest-profile U.S. Supreme Court cases, it all comes down to one man. Though only 20 percent of cases each term are… Read More
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Obama’s Conservative Defense of Obamacare
Yesterday was a great day for conservative rhetoric in America. After the Supreme Court upheld a key provision of Obamacare by rewriting the law (again),… Read More
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IRS Employees Erased 422 Backup Tapes Containing 24,000 of Lois Lerner’s Emails
Investigators at the Internal Revenue Service are looking to agency employees as the reason thousands of emails from former IRS official Lois Lerner were lost,… Read More
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How the Supreme Court Housing Decision Will Hurt, Not Help, Poor Americans
The news about the Supreme Court’s abysmal decision in King v. Burwell, in which the majority assumed the job of Congress and rewrote an unambiguous provision… Read More
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In King v. Burwell Decision, Supreme Court Justices Acted as Lawmakers, Not Judges
It’s a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day for conservatives who pinned their hopes of blocking Obamacare on the Supreme Court. Today’s decision allowing… Read More
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Top 9 Quotes From Justice Scalia’s Scathing Dissent in King v. Burwell
Justice Antonin Scalia is known for his sharp wit and even sharper pen. He pulled no punches in his dissent from the Supreme Court’s decision… Read More
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Why Does America Love Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Loathe Clarence Thomas?
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the most popular Supreme Court justice, while Clarence Thomas is the least liked, according to a new poll. A June Public… Read More
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Dreams Demolished: 10 Years After the Government Took Their Homes, All That’s Left Is an Empty Field
NEW LONDON, Conn.—All Susette Kelo wanted was to live with a view of the water. In 1997, Kelo achieved her dream with the purchase of… Read More
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Supreme Court Decision Makes It Harder for Government to Take Personal Property From Americans
Can the government force raisin farmers to hand over large portions of their crop without paying any compensation? On Monday, eight members of the Supreme… Read More
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The Two Key Mistakes the Supreme Court Made When Deciding Kelo
June 23 marks the 10th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s highly controversial decision, Kelo v. City of New London. The Fifth Amendment Public Use Clause… Read More
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Obama’s Attempt to Influence Supreme Court on Obamacare Case Breaks Precedent
Last week, President Obama made several comments about the Supreme Court’s pending decision in King v. Burwell, the Obamacare tax subsidies case, chiding the court… Read More
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What Can Be Done to Help End Civil Asset Forfeiture Abuse
Civil forfeiture abuse threatens the integrity of our criminal justice system and ought to concern all Americans. Strong advocates for reform come from both sides… Read More
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Supreme Court Rules Government Can’t Pick and Choose What Speech Is Free
In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court struck down a town’s sign ordinance as an unconstitutional, content-based regulation of speech. This ruling for free speech… Read More
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Law Enforcement Seizes $11,000 From 24-Year-Old at Airport Without Charging Him With a Crime
It was Feb. 17, 2014, and Charles Clarke, 24, just wanted to get home. After spending several weeks with family in Cincinnati, Ohio, Clarke arrived… Read More
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How Did Police Seizing Citizens’ Property Ever Become Legal? Here’s the History of Federal Forfeiture
Civil asset forfeiture is a tool that allows law enforcement officials to seize property that they assert has been involved in certain criminal activity. Forfeiture… Read More
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Cartoon: A Police Officer Seizes $2K From Citizen
>>> Want to learn more? Read “Arresting Your Property: How Civil Asset Forfeiture Turns Police Into Profiteers“ This cartoon was based on an real-life incident… Read More
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Arresting Your Property: Heritage Releases New Booklet
This week, The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies is proud to announce the release of Arresting Your Property: How… Read More
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9 Times the Government Stole Americans’ Cash, Cars
Today, The Heritage Foundation releases “Arresting Your Property: How Civil Asset Forfeiture Turns Police Into Profiteers.” This booklet highlights the important problem of civil asset… Read More
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How Philadelphia Law Enforcement Makes Millions By Seizing Cash and Property From Residents
For Philadelphia law enforcement, a tool known as civil asset forfeiture has proven to be a boon to the city’s coffers, according to a new… Read More
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Cartoon: Obama and the Supreme Court
This week, President Obama said of an Obamacare case set to be decided this month, “This should be an easy case. Frankly, it probably shouldn’t… Read More
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This Is the Moment for Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform
When Joseph Rivers set out for Los Angeles with $16,000 in his pocket to kick-start his career in the music industry, the last thing he… Read More
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7 Supreme Court Cases to Watch for This June
In the next three weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court will be wrapping up its 2014-2015 term. By the end of this month, the Court will… Read More
