Abstract: The heart of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, popularly known as “Obamacare,” is an unprecedented mandate that individuals purchase health insurance. The briefs of the parties challenging Obamacare and their supporting amici…
Abstract: President Barack Obama has stated that he made his “recess” appointments to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and National Labor Relations Board pursuant to the…
Revised and Updated on January 12, 2012 Download a PDF version with hyperlinks to House and Senate Appropriations Committee documents: Appropriations Tracker: FY 2012 Designed to inform American policymakers and citizens, the…
Abstract: The past 10 years have represented a new era for America’s military, in which they not only are responsible for sustained combat during a time of war, but also are risking their lives while building hospitals, schools, and encouraging stable societies, rule of…
The Department of Justice is now prosecuting a 79-year-old grandfather. The reason: Richard Retta walks alongside women on the sidewalk outside a Planned Parenthood abortion facility and offers women hope that they can carry their babies to term. “They go in and they’re kind of sullen in what…
Abstract: The Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act guarantees overseas members of the military and their families the right to vote. However, the difficulties encountered in obtaining ballots in remote and dangerous areas of the world and returning them in time have led…
Abstract: Just before Christmas 2009, 11-year-old Sarah Haley Foxwell was brutally raped and murdered by a convicted high-risk sex offender, Thomas J. Leggs. Although Leggs was classified as a high-risk offender in Delaware, because of inconsistencies in sex offender classification between states, Maryland identified…
The Justice Department has been deceiving us for years. A new report from the Center for Immigration Studies details the fundamental dishonesty of DOJ's annual reports on immigration courts. Immigration cases are…
Abstract: In its Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District Number One v. Holder (NAMUDNO) decision, the Supreme Court of the United States cast grave doubt on the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act’s Section 5, which requires certain jurisdictions to submit all changes in voting-related…
Announce bad news on a Friday afternoon, the rule in official Washington goes. Attorney General Eric Holder seems to have a new corollary: Make bad appointments over holiday breaks. It works. Holder’s announcement on Christmas Eve that he was appointing Robin Ashton as the new head of…
Before the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate Delivered July 21, 2010 …
Last week the Supreme Court ruled that terrorist detainees held by the U.S. military in Guantanamo Bay can challenge their detention in federal court. Commentators called the ruling a major blow to the Bush administration and looked to the White House for its next move. But any effort by this White House to roll back…
Almost everyone seems to be asking the same question with respect to the WikiLeaks saga: What, if anything, can Julian Assange, and those who have worked closely with him, be prosecuted for? Most Americans have a visceral reaction that Assange did something wrong and must be…
The Obama Administration made a strong start at rationalizing U.S. cyber security policies, including an initial 100-day review of existing protocol and the creation of a “cyber coordinator” position.[1] Unfortunately, the momentum with which the Administration started seems to have waned. As a result, though the U.S. is…
Prosecution for exercising one’s free speech rights is becoming a trend in the current Administration and the...…
The National Organization for Marriage is asking the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate and prosecute the...…
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis described the states as "laboratories for democracy." Policies enacted at the...…
A new undercover video by conservative filmmaker James O’Keefe shows a man being offered Attorney General Eric Holder’s...…
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is currently blocking implementation of voter ID laws in South Carolina and Texas,...…
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is currently blocking implementation of voter ID laws in South Carolina and Texas....…
To no one’s surprise, the Obama Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division have objected to the voter ID law passed by...…
In yet another slight to rule of law, the Obama Administration has asked a federal court to put a press conference...…
Armed federal agents raided Gibson Guitar's Nashville headquarters in August, creating a national outcry over the...…
Attorney General Eric Holder used his testimony before a House committee on Thursday to tout the supposed need for...…
Senior Legal Fellow / Manager, Civil Justice Reform Initiative