LawCommentary
DOJ Wants to Hide the Names of Illegal Aliens Granted Amnesty
The Justice Department is resisting a judge’s order to provide ethics training for its lawyers and is objecting to turning over to the court the… Read More
LawCommentary
Ticketing Children for Selling Lemonade Highlights Overcriminalization Problem
Some Louisianan children recently opened a lemonade stand and were ticketed for operating a business without an occupational license or paying taxes on their earnings…. Read More
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Senators to AG: Stop Targeting Opponents of Obama’s Energy Policies
On Thursday, five U.S. senators sent a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch demanding that she stop using Justice Department “law enforcement resources to stifle… Read More
LawNews
First, the IRS Took $68K From Connecticut Bakers. Now, It’s Investigating Them.
For nearly 100 years, Vocatura’s Bakery has been a New England staple. The family business was started in Westerly, Rhode Island, in 1919 and moved… Read More
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Maryland Farmer Who Had $41K Seized by IRS Continues to Fight for Money
Maryland farmer Calvin Taylor has lived his life always trying to do the right thing. Taylor and his wife Debora operate C.W. Taylor Farms in… Read More
LawCommentary
Why New Mexico Resorted to Suing EPA for Gold King Mine Spill
A back-hoe operator accidentally struck an oil pipeline in Alaska in 1994, and 1,000 to 5,000 gallons of oil spilled into the Skagway River. The… Read More
LawNews
Exclusive: Lawmakers Move to Make It Harder for IRS to Seize Money From Innocent People
On the heels of the House Judiciary Committee’s legislation reforming federal civil forfeiture laws, House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam, R-Ill., and… Read More
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‘An Abuse of Power:’ IRS to Face Lawmakers After Thousands Seized From Small Business Owners
For more than four years, Maryland dairy farmer Randy Sowers has been fighting the federal government, asking it to right what many say was a… Read More
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Virgin Islands AG Withdraws Climate Change Subpoena Against Think Tank
The U.S. Virgin Islands attorney general has revoked his subpoena of the free market think tank Competitive Enterprise Institute as part of an investigation into… Read More
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Lawmakers Introduce Bill Making It Harder for Police to Take Innocent Americans’ Property
For the last few years, opponents of civil forfeiture have been calling on Congress to make it more difficult for law enforcement to take property,… Read More
LawAnalysis
House Proposes Landmark Forfeiture Reform Bill
Thanks to the work of a bipartisan team of lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives, federal civil asset forfeiture reform is a significant step… Read More
LawNews
Senate Confirms Obama Judicial Nominee Opposed by Maryland Police Unions
The Senate confirmed Paula Xinis for a federal judgeship in Maryland by a vote of 53-34, over the protests of major state police unions and… Read More
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Is It Time for Criminal Justice Reform? 2 Law Enforcement Groups Are at Odds
While the unusual coalition of President Barack Obama and conservative groups hold out hope for the chance at what they call the most meaningful reform… Read More
LawCommentary
Little Sisters of the Poor Win Big in Obamacare Case
The Supreme Court issued its long-awaited ruling on Monday in the consolidated challenge to Obamacare’s requirement that nonprofit employers collaborate in the provision of employee… Read More
LawNews
The Deadly Crossing on the US-Mexico Border
Today on “Full Measure,” we have a report on “The Missing”—the hundreds of illegal immigrants who cross the border, never to be seen alive again…. Read More
LawNews
Lawyer With Firm That Won Freddie Gray Settlement Is Next Obama Judge Up for Senate’s OK
President Barack Obama has not been able to move his Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, through the Senate but Republicans continue to advance the president’s… Read More
LawCommentary
Washington Insiders Gut Military JAG Litigation Track
No wonder so many Americans on the left and right are disgusted and fed up with career Washington bureaucrats and insiders. Common sense ideas which… Read More
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
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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
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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
LawAnalysis
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
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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
