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,…
No Realistic Way to Opt Out – or Avoid – CPB License Plate Readers
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency has released a “privacy impact assessment” report detailing how it uses license plate reader technology. Buried…
Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Appeal of Case Where Cops Destroyed Private Residence
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of a case from Colorado, wherein 2015, police officers in the Denver suburb of…