Joe Robertson just wanted to protect his property in the Montana woods from the increasing risk of devastating fires. But when Joe built small fire protection ponds and narrow ditch near his land, the federal government criminally prosecuted and convicted him. The EPA said the ditch was a federally protected commercial waterway under the Clean Wate ...
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Washington, D.C.; April 29, 2019: A study released today shows that the vast majority of Department of Health and Human Services regulations issued over a recent 17-year period are unconstitutional. The first-of-its-kind study reviewed 2,952 rules issued by HHS and found that 71% of final rules from 2001 through 2017 were issued by low-level offici ...
Maplewood, Minnesota; April 22, 2019: The Minnesota State High School League has agreed to permanently rescind its discriminatory rule that kept Dmitri Moua and Zach Greenwald sidelined during high school dance competitions. The League's move comes in the wake of a preliminary injunction recently issued by a federal appellate court against the enfo ...
Washington, D.C.; April 15, 2019: Today the U.S. Supreme Court granted the late Joe Robertson's petition to review his Clean Water Act convictions and immediately vacated the Ninth Circuit's judgment in the case. The Court also agreed that Joe's widow, Carrie Robertson, may represent his estate in the case. Finally, the Supreme Court directed the ...
This article was originally published by The Hill on May 20, 2019. The world watched in horror as a deranged killer live-streamed himself murdering Muslims attending two mosques in New Zealand. In the wake of the shooting, many have called for tighter restrictions on "extremist" speech by government. The leaders of New Zealand and France have dra ...
This article was originally published by New York Daily News on May 17, 2019. Sixty-five years ago today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. The court held that segregation in schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and ordered school districts to ...
This article was originally published by The Hill on May 15, 2019. While politicians, pundits and college professors heap praise upon the supposed benefits of socialism, the reality is unfortunately all too clear for Venezuelans. Years of economic mismanagement and political instability that led to mass shortages of food, medicine and other neces ...
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