by Baylen Linnekin. High Court enforces Fifth Amendment! This was, to put it mildly, a big week for legal news. Given the
decisions on Obamacare and gay marriage that were handed down by the
U.S. Supreme Court during the latter half of the week, it would be easy
to forget that the week started off with a key Supreme Court decision striking ... MORE
Showing posts with label property rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label property rights. Show all posts
The 'Simple' Rules For Fighting Federal Asset Forfeiture
by Scott Shackford. Why most don't bother to try. The Heritage Foundation, as part of a multipartisan effort to help educate Americans about our abuse-prone police civil asset forfeiture system, has produced a lovely pamphlet explaining how the whole racket works, complete with an illustrated story. Reason, along with the American Civil Liberties ... MORE
Scott Shackford: This Map Details Whether The Asset Forfeiture Laws In Your State Are Good or Awful
(Spoiler: Chances are they’re probably awful.) The liberty-loving activists at FreedomWorks has produced a useful tool to examine the quality of civil asset forfeiture laws (the rules that allow police to seize and often keep money and property from busts) across the states. They've put together a new map that grades each state and ... MORE
Katie Kieffer: Lower The Minimum Wage To $0
Or, how to energize a floundering economy. If you love In-N-Out burgers and care about the workers who flip your burgers, then you should support a minimum wage of $0. Deep down, I know you’re tired of seeing actors jump up and down for TV cameras while waving professional signs that read: “McGreedy! McStingy! McPoverty!” or “McShame. ... MORE
The Asset Forfeiture Issue Is Not Going Away
by Peter Dujardin and Ashley K. Speed. It doesn't appear that the asset forfeiture issue is going away any time soon. Civil asset forfeiture — the confiscation of people's money and assets by police without a criminal conviction — has recently been a matter of a U.S. Judiciary Committee hearing. And it seems likely to come up in the forthcoming ... MORE
The Fancy Way Of Saying State-Sanctioned Theft
by Matt Vespa. Welcome to the upside down world of civil asset forfeiture. On Monday, FreedomWorks and the Center for American Progress (CAP) joined forces to invite bloggers, writers, and some think-tank analysts for a daylong conference on justice reform. One of the aspects I liked about the conference is that it shows on some ... MORE
Federal Court Strikes Down 'No-Speech Zone' That Let Deputies Confiscate Political Signs On Private Property
by Nick Sibilla. A small business owner who had his political signs confiscated by the government won a First Amendment lawsuit last month in federal court. John Russell owns an auto body shop in Cold Spring, Ky., not far from Cincinnati. He allowed the candidates he supported—both Democrats and Republicans—to put up political signs on his ... MORE
DEA To Traveler: Thanks, I'll Take That Cash
by Joline Gutierrez Krueger. Public servants with a license to steal. Maybe he should have taken traveler’s checks. But it’s too late for that now. All the money – $16,000 in cash – that Joseph Rivers said he had saved and relatives had given him to launch his dream in Hollywood is gone, seized during his trip out West not by thieves but by drug ... MORE
Farmers Unable to Repair Tractors Because Of Copyright
by Rick Falkvinge. Stories are starting to appear about farmers unable to repair tractors and car aficionados unable to tinker with cars because of copyright legislation. That's not a side effect. It was the whole idea of the law. This week, there have been stories about farmers who can’t legally repair their John Deere tractors, as copyright monopoly ... MORE
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cronyism,
farming,
law,
policy,
politics,
property rights,
regulation,
technology
Radley Balko: If The Government Decides To Destroy Your Property To Fight The Drug War, You're Just Out Of Luck
The drug war means never having to say you’re sorry. A
Houston-based federal judge ruled that the U.S. Drug Enforcement
Administration does not owe the owner of a small Texas trucking company
anything, not even the cost of repairing the bullet holes to a
tractor-trailer truck that the agency used without his permission for a
wild ... MORE
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DEA,
drug war,
individual liberty,
law enforcement,
police,
police state,
property rights,
theft
Lynch’s Confirmation A Step Backward For Asset Forfeiture
by Mitchell Colbert. Another proponent of government theft at the helm. After nearly three months of debate the Republican-controlled Senate has allowed Loretta Lynch to become the nation’s next Attorney General, replacing Eric Holder. Barack Obama has now appointed both the nation’s first black man and first black woman to serve as ... MORE
Above the Law: New Report Finds Extensive Civil Asset Forfeiture Abuses by California Law Enforcement Agencies
Momentum for reform accelerates. Civil asset forfeiture laws allow the government to seize and keep cash, cars, real estate, and any other property – even from citizens never charged with or convicted of a crime. Because these assets often go straight into the coffers of the enforcement agency, these laws have led to a perversion of police priorities, ... MORE
Damon Root: Property Rights Vs. USDA Crop Seizures
Gov't takes without paying just compensation. According to the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the government must pay just compensation when it takes private property for a public use. Three years ago, in the case of Arkansas Game & Fish Commission v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed that command, declaring that ... MORE
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farming,
federal,
government,
production,
property rights,
Supreme Court,
takings,
theft,
USDA
Environmentalists Spoil The Planet For Human Beings
by Michael J. Hurd. From the HuffingtonPost.com 4/6/15: Former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina on Monday blamed environmentalists for what she called a “man-made” drought in California, which has led to the state’s first water restrictions. “With different policies over the last 20 years, all of this could be avoided,” Fiorina, a likely 2016 ... MORE
Daniel J. Mitchell: Liberty, Morality, and Discrimination
Decent people should not obey immoral laws. When describing their view of government and public policy,
libertarians and constitutional conservatives sometimes use a variation
of this phrase: “Not everything that’s illegal is immoral, and not
everything that’s immoral should be illegal.” To put this in tangible terms, consider the fact that ... MORE
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discrimination,
EPA,
equality,
government,
libertarian,
liberty,
morality,
property rights,
religion
Josh Fatzick: Study Shows Global Poverty Is At Its Lowest Rate In History, And It Is All Thanks To Capitalism
The recipe for prosperity is freedom. Capitalism gets a bad rap these days, often conjuring up images of greedy oil barons, sweatshop factories and polluted oceans, but a recent study shows exactly how much capitalism has helped the poorest of the world. The study, conducted by Max Roser of the Institute for New Economic
Thinking at Oxford ... MORE
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