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HUD has rewritten the definition of “fair housing.” Howard Husock National Review 7/30/2015 Here’s a question for Hillary Clinton: Should a U.S. attorney threaten a county with more than $1 million in fines if it refuses to pressure local officials to approve a housing development? The issue is not at all hypothetical. It’s front and […] August 1st, 2015 | Tags: “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing”, 1968 Fair Housing Act, affordable housing, diversity, Federalism, Julian Castro, mandates, suburbs, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project Inc., Westchester County | Category: Barack Obama, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Department of Justice, federal funding, federal regulations, New York, Progressives, SCOTUS, Socialism, Texas | Comments are closed
Newsmax 23 Jul 2015 US Secretary of State John Kerry faced accusations Thursday that he had been “fleeced” and “bamboozled” by Tehran as he defended the Iran nuclear deal publicly for the first time on Capitol Hill. Kerry appeared before the Senator Foreign Relations Committee to defend the hard-fought agreement, which he called a “good […] July 23rd, 2015 | Tags: Ernest Moniz, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Medellín v. Texas, Rep. Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State John Kerry, Sen. Bob Corker, Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Tom Cotton, Susan Rice | Category: Barack Obama, Congress, Iran, National Security, nuclear weapons, Politics, SCOTUS, States, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Bridget Johnson PJ Tatler PJ Media 6/29/2015 …Writing for the majority in a conservative-liberal split, Justice Antonin Scalia said the EPA “strayed well beyond the bounds of reasonable interpretation in concluding that cost is not a factor relevant to the appropriateness of regulating power plants.” “EPA’s decision to regulate power plants under §7412 allowed the […] June 29th, 2015 | Tags: "climate change", Justice Antonin Scalia, Justice Elena Kagan, Sen. David Vitter, Sen. James Inhofe | Category: Congress, Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, Science/Research/Technology, SCOTUS | Comments are closed
Alex Pfeiffer The Daily Caller 6/26/2015 …Thomas’ dissent focused on the idea of negative rights, “As one later commentator observed, ‘[L]iberty in the eighteenth century was thought of much more in relation to ‘negative liberty’; that is, freedom from, not freedom to, freedom from a number of social and political evils, including arbitrary government power,’” […] June 28th, 2015 | Tags: "disparate impact claims", 1968 Fair Housing Act, due process, gay marriage, human dignity, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Justice Clarence Thomas, same sex marriage, slavery | Category: Civil rights, Racism, SCOTUS, States, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Richard Wolf USA Today 6/22/2015 WASHINGTON — Score one for the little guy. The Supreme Court sided with a renegade raisin farmer Monday in his battle against a federal program designed to keep excess raisins off the market. A majority of justices ruled that the Agriculture Department program, which seizes excess raisins from producers in […] June 28th, 2015 | Tags: Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Marvin Horne, Michael McConnell, raisins | Category: 5th Amendment, Agriculture and Food Production, California, Department of Agriculture, Property rights, SCOTUS, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Lydia Wheeler and Ben Kamisar The Hill 6/26/2015 The Supreme Court in an historic 5-4 ruling on Friday said there is a right to same-sex marriage in all 50 states, delivering a monumental win for gay and lesbian couples across the country. Justice Anthony Kennedy, often the swing vote on the court, sided with its […] June 26th, 2015 | Tags: Chief Justice John Roberts, culture, gay marriage, homosexuals, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Justice Antonin Scalia, Obergefell v. Hodges, religious liberty, same sex marriage, Star Parker, The Radiance Foundation | Category: 14th Amendment, religion, SCOTUS, States, US Constitution | Comments are closed
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