LawCommentary
Today marked an important moment as President Donald Trump made much-needed changes to sweeping land use designations made under previous administrations. The Trump administration listened… Read More
LawCommentary
President Donald Trump took a big step on Monday to begin correcting abuses of the Antiquities Act. The president acted on his April 26 executive… Read More
LawNews
Former President Barack Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency used a social media platform to secretly promote the agency’s policies in violation of federal law, according to… Read More
LawCommentary
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been a political hot potato since the day it was created as part of the legislative response to the… Read More
Commentary
If it were true, it would be good news. Unfortunately, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s claim that the lesser long-nosed bat has “recovered” so… Read More
EconomyCommentary
January marked the start of the first serious effort at federal deregulation in decades. Yet the massive pile of Dodd-Frank rules has remained largely untouched—until… Read More
LawNews
Lawmakers are reopening an investigation into decisions made by the Justice Department in 2016, including those relating to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s handling… Read More
EnergyNews
U.S. presidents, Barack Obama in particular, have abused a 111-year-old law to grab millions of acres of private land for the government, and that has… Read More
EnergyCommentary
Leave it to the federal government to make a costly mistake, obscure it for decades at taxpayer expense, and then try to claim it was… Read More
EnergyCommentary
The ongoing controversy about the federal government’s role in managing land may soon come to a head. Earlier this month, in accord with a presidential… Read More
LawCommentary
Various media sources have reported that federal District Court Judge Reggie Walton has ordered the IRS to finally respond to various legal requests for information… Read More
LawCommentary
This week, a federal judge will determine whether to levy a multimillion-dollar fine against John Duarte, as requested by the Department of Justice. Duarte’s wrongdoing?… Read More
LawNews
Five high-ranking House Republicans have asked formally that the Trump administration end Operation Choke Point, an Obama administration program that critics say unfairly targets politically… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
On Thursday, Republicans in both the House and Senate took a major step toward nullifying the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s harmful arbitration rule. In the… Read More
LawCommentary
On July 10, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced a new rule to ban financial service providers, such as banks or credit card companies, from… Read More
LawCommentary
During the Christmas season last year, the Obama administration ignored the majority of Utahans by designating a vast tract of land in southern Utah as… Read More
LawCommentary
The federal government currently wields a tremendous amount of power over the citizens of the United States, far more than the Founders intended. One manifestation… Read More
LawCommentary
It might seem strange to see a headline stating that the U.S. attorney general has stopped the Justice Department from robbing the public, but that… Read More
LawNews
The federal government no longer will make settlement agreements with any person or organization not directly involved in a legal dispute, Attorney General Jeff Sessions… Read More
PoliticsNews
Over the past eight decades, Congress has gradually relinquished its lawmaking role and left it to the administrative state, said a conservative senator at a… Read More
SecurityNews
Veteran investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson said Thursday it’s possible President Donald Trump is right about government surveillance. “I don’t think it’s outside the realm of… Read More
PoliticsNews
President Donald Trump received some unlikely support this week when Dennis Kucinich, a former congressman and two-time Democrat presidential candidate, said that he had been… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
In his first public remarks since the election, White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon recently told a packed house at the Conservative Political Action Conference… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Last month, the Senate voted to use the Congressional Review Act to undo an Obama-era regulation issued by the Interior Department. In response, the director… Read More
LawNews
In his first speech to a joint session of Congress, President Donald Trump spoke eloquently Tuesday night about the need to “break the cycle” of… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
As a new Congress begins, Republicans have made it clear that regulatory reform is a priority that puts the interest of all Americans first, especially… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
When I questioned Interior Secretary Sally Jewell at her confirmation hearing, she promised me President Barack Obama would not designate a national monument unless there… Read More
LawNews
Short-term lenders say the Obama administration is attempting a last-ditch effort to use Operation Choke Point to crack down on their industries, causing an “urgent”… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Under the U.S. Constitution, Congress, not the president, creates the laws. Article I of the Constitution grants enumerated legislative powers to Congress. The Constitution assigns… Read More
LawCommentary
Exxon Mobil Corp. is fighting back against New York’s Democrat attorney general who is demanding decades’ worth of documents about the company’s position on global… Read More
