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Texas Mother Arrested Because Her Children Sat ‘30 Feet’ Away From Her in a Food Court
A Texas mother has been charged with abandoning her children after they were found sitting about 30 feet away from her in a food court,… Read More
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Two Business Owners Fight the IRS to Get Their Seized Money Back
On the last day of Ramadan, which ended Friday, Khalid (Ken) Quran was headed to work. The owner of a convenience store in Greenville, N.C.,… Read More
LawCommentary
Government Persecution of Wisconsin Conservatives Finally Comes to an End
In a lengthy decision issued on July 16, the Wisconsin Supreme Court has finally put an end to the secret, unconstitutional, “John Doe” investigation of… Read More
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Group Waging War on Meter Maids Tests Free Speech Limits
Forgetful residents of the New Hampshire city of Keene have found an ally with a group of activists who call themselves Free Keene. These self-styled… Read More
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Justice Department: No Proof Gun Dealers, Pawn Shops Purposely Targeted in Operation Choke Point
An internal review of the Justice Department’s controversial initiative known as Operation Choke Point found no evidence that agency attorneys intentionally used the program to… Read More
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‘A Matter of Life or Death’: Senators, Obama Unite on Push for Criminal Justice Reform
United States senators from both sides of the aisle sat together during an intimate panel Tuesday to discuss the growing bipartisan momentum to overhaul the… Read More
LawCommentary
Don’t Think Voter Fraud Happens? Here Are 5 Cases From 2015 That Will Make You Think Again
Despite being only six months into 2015, there have already been a slew of sometimes bizarre stories about voter fraud across the country. They show… Read More
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New Documents Implicate Justice Department in IRS Conservative-Targeting Scandal
Obama’s Department of Justice may have been involved in the IRS scheme to target conservative non-profit organizations, according to newly-released documents obtained by Judicial Watch… Read More
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Police Officer Pockets $6,000 From People Who Had Their Cars Taken Through Forfeiture
A Tennessee police officer was indicted by a grand jury on charges of theft after he pocketed $6,000 from property owners who had their cars… Read More
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Obama Grants Clemency to 46 Nonviolent Prisoners in Push for Criminal Justice Reform
President Obama today commuted the sentences of 46 prisoners forced behind bars for nonviolent drug crimes, marking the latest move in a bipartisan push to… Read More
LawCommentary
Judge Cancels ‘Redskins’ Trademark Registration for Being Offensive. Does That Violate First Amendment?
Last week, a federal district court in Alexandria, Va., upheld the U.S. Patent and Trademark Trial and Appeal Board’s cancellation of six trademark registrations held… Read More
LawCommentary
The Supreme Court’s One Good Decision
To say that conservatives haven’t had much to cheer about at the Supreme Court lately is an understatement. Much has been said—and rightly so—denouncing the judicial acrobatics… Read More
LawCommentary
Cartoon: Sanctuary Cities vs. Non-Sanctuary Cities
The Heritage Foundation’s Hans von Spakovsky wrote about sanctuary cities and Kate Steinle’s murder this week: After admitting to shooting and killing 32-year-old Kate Steinle,… Read More
LawCommentary
How Sanctuary Policies Have Directly Led to Thousands of Crimes Against Americans
There has been a fiery debate over the past few weeks about illegal aliens and crime, which has intensified with the murder of Kate Steinle… Read More
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IRS Returns $107,000 It Took From North Carolina Convenience Store Owner
More than a month after dismissing a case involving a Fairmont, N.C., convenience store owner, the federal government returned the more than $100,000 it took… Read More
LawCommentary
3 Reasons Stopping Police From Wrongly Seizing Americans’ Assets Will Be Tough
“There are two kinds of people,” Robert Frommer of the Institute for Justice says: “those that don’t know about civil asset forfeiture and those that… Read More
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How San Francisco Aided and Abetted the Murder of Kate Steinle
After admitting to shooting and killing 32-year-old Kate Steinle, Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, an illegal alien, was asked why he had come to San Francisco. He… Read More
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Chief Justice Roberts Receives Low Approval Ratings From Republicans, Conservatives
In the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling, conservatives aren’t John Roberts’ biggest groupies. Half of Republicans and 55 percent of self-identified conservatives disapprove of… Read More
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How Michigan Lawmakers Want to Make It Harder for Law Enforcement to Take Your Stuff
Last year, two Michigan self-described “soccer moms” were the victims of raids conducted by local law enforcement officials, who took telephones, televisions and cash from… Read More
LawCommentary
Welcome to John Roberts’ America, Where Words Mean Nothing
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s lament last week that “words no longer have meaning” got me to thinking. I don’t claim to know Chief Justice… Read More
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Thanks to This Supreme Court Decision, The Government Could Seize Your Living Room
Take a look around your living room. There’s a risk that it could become part of a food court in a mall or an assembly… Read More
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How ‘Robert Bork’s America’ Gave Us Justice Kennedy’s America
It would go down in history as Sen. Edward Kennedy’s “Robert Bork’s America” speech. Judge Bork, a brilliant constitutional scholar, had been nominated by President… Read More
LawCommentary
How the Government Got Away With Taking This Innocent Man’s Life Savings
Vu Do, an entrepreneurial, law-abiding New Yorker, has just become the latest member of a sad club: The victims of civil asset forfeiture, the law… Read More
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What People Are Saying About the EPA and Army Corps’s New Water Rule
Within hours of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Army Corps of Engineers’s publication of their final rule on federally regulated waters, more than half… Read More
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Influential Legal Group Wants to Change the Law to Accommodate the Thin-Skinned
As law professor Ronald D. Rotunda is reporting in The Wall Street Journal, the American Law Institute (ALI) is up to no good. The ALI… Read More
LawCommentary
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
LawCommentary
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
LawCommentary
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
