The Chappaqua Case: The Feds Muscle In on Local Zoning Laws

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: , , , , , , , , , | 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

‘The Government Cannot Bestow Dignity’

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: , , , , , , , , | Category: Civil rights, Racism, SCOTUS, States, US Constitution | Comments are closed

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