States Should Seek New Revenue Sources Like Marijuana Rather Than Hope for a Federal Bailout
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. Numerous state and local governments are hoping Congress will ride to the rescue of their broken budgets. House Democrats are certainly on board,…
Congress Can Still Do the Right Thing on Civil Asset Forfeiture
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. Congressional efforts to reform policing have run into the usual logjams and partisan traps. But at least one item that should be supported…
Bipartisan Bribery Scandals Envelop Two State House Speakers
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. Powerful lawmakers in Illinois and Ohio have been caught up in bribery scandals linked to nuclear power plants in their respective states. The…
Second Amendment Lawsuit in Illinois Over Delays in State Licensing
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. Illinois residents seeking to buy firearms are running into a bureaucratic, and likely unconstitutional, roadblock: lengthy delays in processing the applications residents are…
Seattle Business Owners Sue Over City’s Non-Response to Occupation
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. When protestors took over Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood in June and mounted an “occupied protest” aimed at defunding local police, the city’s mayor,…
Gallup: Black Americans Want Police in Their Neighborhoods
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. A Gallup survey of attitudes toward police finds 61 percent of Black respondents want law enforcement to spend the same amount of time…
Feds Have Seized More Than $2 Billion From Travelers at Airports
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. A new report from the Institute for Justice found that the Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border patrol, among other agencies,…
Go to Jail, and Still Collect a Taxpayer-Funded Pension
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. Former Minneapolis police officer Derrick Chauvin, who faces murder charges for the killing of George Floyd, will still be able to receive “his…
Pew: 66 Percent Support Changes to Qualified Immunity
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. A Pew Charitable Trust survey on law enforcement reform shows broad public support for limiting qualified immunity – the court-created doctrine that shields…
Rand Paul Renews Push to Demilitarize Police
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul (R) has been a long-time advocate of demilitarizing America’s law enforcement agencies. In a new op-ed for Reason Magazine,…