INTERVIEW: Heritage’s Robert Alt on Overcriminalization
Robert Alt is director of the Rule of Law Programs and senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. He… Read More
LawNews
Batter Up: What’s on Deck for the Supreme Court’s October 2012 Term
While other events may compete for our attention this fall (baseball playoffs, football, national election campaigns), next Monday, October 1, marks the beginning of a… Read More
Time to Restore America’s Rule of Law
In his recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, Professor David Skeel of the University of Pennsylvania Law School pointed out: No one doubts that the coming… Read More
Just What We Need: A Bureaucracy for Professional Boxing
A recent poll of American voters found that their top concern is the fair and accurate ranking of professional boxers. Not really, of course, but… Read More
Obama’s Gutting of Welfare Reform Is Illegal
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has a General Counsel and legal staff to ensure that the agency’s actions are lawful. Did they… Read More
Health CareNews
LIVE CHAT: The Obamacare Decision with Heritage & Docs4PatientCare
The Supreme Court made their decision this morning but the fight over Obamacare does not end today. The Heritage Foundation will continue to fight for… Read More
Occupy Wall Street: Finding Common Ground Might Be Possible
This is the last of our four-part series on Occupy Wall Street, transcribed from a recent Heritage Foundation event on the movement. In part four,… Read More
President Obama: An Advocate for a Restrained Judiciary?
Yesterday in a joint press conference with the Canadian prime minister and Mexican president, President Obama expressed his confidence that the Supreme Court will uphold… Read More
Google Makes a Pitch for Free Market
Google is growing up. That was the message company representatives shared at Heritage this week on the Silicon Valley behemoth’s 13th birthday. (Click here to… Read More
House Set to Rebuke NLRB for Meddling in Boeing’s Expansion Plan
The House of Representatives is poised to pass legislation today that prohibits the National Labor Relations Board from interfering in the business decisions of U.S…. Read More
Enhancing Public Safety By Giving Criminals a Pass
Just imagine if a President announced that his administration would not be prosecuting anyone for violating the following federal crimes currently on the books: (1)… Read More
Will President Obama Abide by Court’s Decision and Suspend Obamacare?
This week, Judge Roger Vinson of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida became the second federal judge to strike down… Read More
More of the Same: Millennium Development Review Summit Focuses on Increasing Aid and “Empowering” Women
Heads of state and global leaders gathered at the U.N. this week to bemoan a lack of progress on meeting many of the targets for… Read More
A New Chapter Dawns for Honduras
A seemingly uneventful transition of power will take place today in the small Central American country of Honduras as Interim president, Roberto Micheletti, hands over… Read More
Morning Bell: Martin Luther King Jr. Held These Truths. Do You?
On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. stood at the Lincoln Memorial and admonished America to return to its First Principles. In his I… Read More
On Einstein, Swine Flu, and Corruption
It’s said that Albert Einstein once defined insanity as repeating a given course of action and expecting different results. With the return of a large… Read More
Rule of Law: Good for Retirees or Only Terrorists?
Today President Obama stood on the world stage and demanded that suspected terrorists be treated under the “rule of law.” In fact, he used the… Read More
Obama Lawyers: D.C. Vote Bill Unconstitutional
Chalk up a big loss for constitutional rule of law, thanks to an Obama Administration sleight-of-hand reported on the front page of today’s Washington Post…. Read More
The Open-Ended Nature of “Honest Services” Fraud
(Commentary by Heritage’s Brian Walsh) The Supreme Court yesterday decided not to consider an important case, Sorich v. U.S., on the meaning and scope of… Read More
Latest Bailout Draft Makes Constitutional Questions Worse
After Secretary Paulson released his first bailout draft, we enumerated some threshold constitutional issues that the proposed legislation failed to pass. The latest House bailout… Read More
