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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
Stephen Dinan The Washington Times 4/2/2015 A federal judge ordered the IRS this week to turn over the list of 298 groups it targeted for intrusive scrutiny as the agency defends against a potential class-action lawsuit by tea party groups who claim their constitutional rights were violated. The IRS had argued it shouldn’t have to […] April 2nd, 2015 | Tags: John Koskinen, Judge Susan J. Dlott, Lois Lerner, True the Vote Inc. | Category: 1st Amendment, 5th Amendment, corruption, IRS, Tea Parties | Comments are closed
Ann Althouse 2/12/2015 Notably, O’Connor applied strict scrutiny: In the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2008 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, which did not endorse any specific level of scrutiny for future Second Amendment cases, gun rights advocates have been urging the lower courts to practice strict scrutiny whenever appropriate… …At its core, […] February 12th, 2015 | Tags: Attorney General Eric Holder, B. Todd Jones, due process clauses, Fredric Russell Mance, gun control, Gun Control Act of 1968, Judge Reed O'Connor, Mance v. Holder, President Lyndon B. Johnson | Category: 2nd Amendment, 5th Amendment, Department of Justice | Comments are closed
Michael Bastasch The Daily Caller 12/5/2014 The Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rule to cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants is unconstitutional because it violates the Tenth Amendment and the Fifth Amendment, according to a noted liberal Harvard law professor. “In short, coal has been a bedrock component of our economy and energy policy for […] December 6th, 2014 | Tags: bureaucracy, Clean Power Plan, coal, Laurence Tribe, Peabody Energy, Takings Clause | Category: 10th Amendment, 5th Amendment, Energy, Environmental Protection Agency | Comments are closed
Media focus builds pressure to limit seizures by feds CJ Ciaramella The Washington Free Beacon 10/29/2014 Several U.S. senators are considering reforms to federal civil asset forfeiture laws—which allow the government to seize citizens’ property even if they are not convicted or charged with a crime—following several high-profile investigations by news outlets. On Sunday, the […] October 30th, 2014 | Tags: Carol Hinders, civil asset forfeiture laws, due process, FAIR Act, Sen. Chuck Grassley, Sen. Rand Paul | Category: 5th Amendment, Congress, IRS, journalism, Property rights | Comments are closed
New Emails Show Lois Lerner Called Some Conservatives ‘A**holes’ Pete Kasperowicz The Blaze 7/30/2014 New emails uncovered by the House Ways and Means Committee indicate that former IRS employee Lois Lerner has a strong dislike of some conservatives, and at one point called them “assholes” in an email exchange. The committee released an email Lerner […] July 30th, 2014 | Tags: "Organizing for Action", Attorney General Eric Holder, conservative talk radio, Crossroads GPS, due process, emails, Rep. Bob Goodlatte, Rep. Dave Camp, scandal | Category: 5th Amendment, Congress, corruption, Department of Justice, IRS, Politics, Taxes, Tea Parties | Comments are closed
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