by Joe Mozingo. A lesson on jury nullification. Julie Shemitz watched warily as the judge asked prospective jurors whether they or anyone close to them had a card for medical marijuana. Ten hands lifted, a third of the jury pool. "Look at all those hands," the judge said. An assistant U.S. attorney, Shemitz knew that this would be a ... MORE
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Pot's Popularity Creating Trying Times For US Prosecutor
by Joe Mozingo. A lesson on jury nullification. Julie Shemitz watched warily as the judge asked prospective jurors whether they or anyone close to them had a card for medical marijuana. Ten hands lifted, a third of the jury pool. "Look at all those hands," the judge said. An assistant U.S. attorney, Shemitz knew that this would be a ... MOREJohn Stossel: Who'll Build The Roads?
Government planners vs the free market. "Tea party members don't think there's a federal role in transportation!" complained Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, last week, near the site of a $5.8 million highway project. If only most tea party members were that radical. While Brown and other big-government folks worry that Republicans will ... MORETaxpayers Cough Up Record Amount As Deficits Increase
Government's unquenchable thirst for revenue. Federal tax revenues continue to run at a record pace (in inflation-adjusted dollars) in fiscal 2014, as the federal government’s total receipts for the fiscal year closed May at an unprecedented $1,934,919,000,000, according to the Monthly Treasury Statement. Despite record revenue, the ... MOREScott Johnson: The Courts Will Not Save Us
Just another branch of the federal government. George Will seems to me the preeminent political columnist of our era, with the possible exception of Charles Krauthammer. Will and Krauthammer are in a league of their own. Both are conservatives, of course, and you have to wonder who the liberals can put up against them. Tom ... MOREWestern States Want Feds to Surrender “Federal” Land
by Alex Newman. Elected officials from across the American West, from top lawmakers to county commissioners, held a historic gathering in Utah in recent days to discuss how Western states could wrest control of the almost 50 percent of land in the region currently claimed by the federal government. Aside from constitutional concerns — with ... MORELeaked Memo Uncovers Obama Administration Land Grab
by Shawn Martini. Senator Jim DeMint took to the pages of the Washington Post this morning to raise the alarm about a planned, 10 million acre Western land grab by the Obama administration. A secret administration memo has surfaced revealing plans for the federal government to seize more than 10 million acres from Montana ... MORECan Government Make You Pay A Relative's Debt?
by Wyatt Andrews. Whose going to stop them? Two months ago, Mary Grice, a career employee at the Food and Drug Administration, was notified the U.S. Treasury had confiscated her state and federal tax refunds totaling $4,500. The government had taken the money before she knew there was a problem. "To be honest, I was ticked off," ... MOREVerizon Reveals More About Federal Spying on Customers
by Josh Peterson. They can hear you now (the Feds, that is). Verizon
updated its transparency report Monday to include orders issued
by the nation’s spy court. During the first six months of 2013, the nation’s spy court, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, ordered Verizon between zero to 999 times to hand over content for 4,000 to ... MOREMark Hendrickson: The State Of The Disunion
Govt aggression against Americans is rampant. Americans are deeply divided in 2014, suggesting that this year’s elections will be another bitter clash. One major fault line that divides us is that many Americans view the federal government as their benefactor while others perceive it as a grave threat to their well-being. ... MORERob Natelson: Struggling With Nullification?
Jefferson and Madison understood the rightful remedy. Does a state have the right to nullify federal statutes the state considers unconstitutional? This depends largely on how you define “nullification.” It also depends on what you mean by “right” and what kind of document you understand the Constitution to be. In other words, it ... MOREMore States Using Nullification To Reign In Federal Power
by Adam Ulbricht. The battle for power between states and the federal government has been raging since the ink was still wet on the freshly signed U.S. Constitution. The struggle continues as state governments look to take back power they claim is rightfully theirs through a process called nullification. Although the application ... MORE
Terence P. Jeffrey: Uncle Sam's New Year's Binge
Gov't borrows $1,088 per household in just 1 day. Uncle Sam—AKA the federal government—went on a New Year’s Eve binge,
adding a net of $125,202,709,546.99 to its total debt in just the one
day of Dec. 31, 2013, according to the U.S. Treasury. That equals approximately $1,088.60 for each of the 115,013,000 households the Census ... MOREFederal Prison Population Grows 27% In Ten Years
Who says government fails to stimulate growth? The number of federal prison inmates has grown 27 percent in the last decade, according the Government Accountability Office (GAO). In a report examining the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) budget, the GAO found that prison population is rising: The Department of Justice’s ... MOREKeith Laing: Bill Would Nearly Double Federal Gasoline Tax
Government continues to make life more expensive. Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) is introducing legislation that would nearly double the 18.4-cents-per-gallon federal gas tax that is traditionally used to pay for federal transportation projects. Blumenauer's bill would increase the gas tax by 15 cents, matching a proposal that was ... MORESteve Chapman: Head Start And Other Federal Failures
Expensive measures that leave little trace behind. When the government shutdown began on Oct. 1, it forced the closing of Head Start facilities in several states, stopping educational services for thousands of low-income kids. So heart-rending was this spectacle that a pair of Texas philanthropists gave $10 million to keep the programs going. ... MOREVictor Davis Hanson: Beware Of Beautifully Misnamed Laws
Who opposes affordable care or farm security? Washington has a bad habit of naming laws by what they are not. These euphemisms usually win temporary public support. After all, who wants to be against anything “affordable”? But on examination, such idealistically named legislation usually turns out to be aimed at special interests ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: Is The FISA Court Constitutional?
A court where only one party can make an argument. After President Richard Nixon left office in 1974, a bipartisan congressional investigation discovered many of his constitutional excesses. Foremost among them was the use of FBI and CIA agents to spy on Americans in violation of federal law and the Fourth Amendment to the ... MOREThousands Cited For Possessing Pot On Federal Land
The victims of Obama's low priority. Karen Strand didn't think she'd get in trouble for having a small container of medical marijuana when she went hiking in Olympic National Park this summer. President Barack Obama, she remembered, had said the federal government had "bigger fish to fry" than people who follow state marijuana laws, ... MORE
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