- Supreme Court applies constitutional ban on excessive fines to states
In a major victory for limited-government advocates, the Supreme Court unanimously found that a constitutional ban on excessive fines that Indiana had argued applies only to the federal government applies to all U.S. states. Civil libertarians have long complained that asset forfeitures arising from criminal convictions and cases in which a person is merely suspected of a [...]
- Parents sue to fight anti-white, anti-male, anti-Christian communist indoctrination in California: Leftist group “Just Communities” is in the legal crosshairs
Parents in Santa Barbara, California, are suing a leftist hate group called Just Communities and the local school board there to end the group’s taxpayer-funded so-called implicit bias training that has a powerful anti-white, anti-male, and anti-Christian slant. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Los Angeles, was brought by Fair Education Santa Barbara, a nonprofit [...]
- Supreme Court to consider reinterpreting Clean Water Act
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court’s decision Feb. 19 to hear a water pollution case from Hawaii could signal that the court is considering reversing new powers to regulate pollution granted in a recent decision and reining in some of the regulatory stances of the Obama-era Environmental Protection Agency. The County of Maui is appealing a novel Feb. 1, 2018 interpretation of [...]
- Study finds school choice works
School choice advocates are promoting a new study by the liberal Urban Institute that finds private K–12 schools in Florida produce significantly better outcomes for students than public schools, leading to a greater chance of private school students attending and graduating from college. The study, which looked at the Florida Tax Credit (FTC) scholarship program, showed [...]
