“Hostage-takers never settle for half a loaf. There is only one valid response to these efforts to bully impartiality out of America’s courtrooms: To give them no corner. To pay them no heed. We need jurists, young and old, whose only response to these blustering threats is to redouble their commitment to follow the law wherever it may lead, with no fear or favor.”
Category: Justice
“Unions refuse to inform state employees that they have a First Amendment right not to pay union dues. And unions refuse to stop collecting dues despite unequivocal employee demands. The result is that tens of thousands of state employees across the country are having dues deducted to subsidize union speech without any evidence that they waived their First Amendment rights . . . .”
In a House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing, Rep. Chip Roy (TX-21) pressed Attorney General Merrick Garland on his recent directive to mobilize the FBI against concerned parents at school board meetings, as well as the details of a rape case in Loudon County, Virginia that was used to justify the directive. https://twitter.com/RepChipRoy/status/1451261042881929226?s=20 Some key quotes … Continue reading Chip Roy grills AG Garland about turning FBI on parents, Loudon County sexual assault allegations
Law enforcement uses civil forfeiture to shake down innocent people and minor offenders rather than fight serious crime. Only about 1 in 4 of Philadelphia respondents was found or pleaded guilty to wrongdoing, but 69% saw their property forfeited forever.
A mob of leftists assaulted a federal building and attacked law enforcement. The White House praised them while siccing federal agents on parents who ask questions at school board meeting.
This ordinance allows the government to enter the most intimate confines of tenants’ homes—including bedrooms, bathrooms, kitchens and closets—in search of housing code violations, even when tenants object.
The legislation is endorsed by FreedomWorks, Heritage Action, the Due Process Institute, Families Against Mandatory Minimums, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and the R Street Institute.
Union-created ‘escape periods’ are a deliberate attack on the First Amendment right of public employees to stop funding government union bosses’ speech which was recognized in the Supreme Court’s Janus decision.
“There is no statutory authority for the Sheriff of Allegheny County or any other Pennsylvania sheriff to revoke an LTCF for inadvertently taking your firearm through airport security.”
Following a January 2021 order from then-President Trump to declassify records related to the “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation, the Justice Department has made no apparent progress toward transparency and has rebuffed numerous inquiries from members of Congress on the matter. Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ranking Member of the Permanent Subcommittee on … Continue reading Biden DOJ covering up documents on debunked FBI ‘Russian collusion’ case