Tag: Legislative News and Analysis
North Dakota Eliminates Licenses for Braiding Hair and Threading Eyebrows
NICK SIBILLA, INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE
North Dakota became the latest state to untangle natural hair braiders and eyebrow threaders from a thicket of licensing red...
Truth Revealed About Equality Act
LIBERTY COUNSEL
Truth made a brief appearance from two unlikely sources at today’s House Judiciary Committee hearing of HR 5, known as the “Equality Act,”...
Heartbeat Laws on the Rise
LIBERTY ALERTS, LIBERTY COUNSEL
After the Kentucky Senate heard the beating heart of a woman’s unborn baby last week, they voted 31-6 to pass a...
Eagle Forum of Georgia ERA Arguments
LIBERTY ALERTS, EAGLE FORUM
The Equal Rights Amendment is an out-of-date idea that was attempted and rejected 50 years ago. Those who understand the consequences of ERA,...
Did Your U.S. Senator Force You to Pay for Abortions?
NATHANAEL BENNETT, ACLJ
For more than 40 years, the Hyde Amendment has prohibited U.S. tax dollars from directly funding abortions under Medicaid and several other...
Big Data Threatens Our Privacy
CAPITOL HILL REPORT, EAGLE FORUM
Against the wishes of concerned citizens, a dangerous data-mining bill, the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act (H.R. 4174, “FEPA”), became law this week....
The National Popular Vote Compact is an End run around the U.S. Constitution
Circumventing Electoral College and Stealing Votes
JANINE HANSEN, EAGLE FORUM
In 2016, if the National Popular Vote Compact was in force, Hillary Clinton would be our...
Pushing Back Against ADA Shakedowns
WALTER OLSON, CATO INSTITUTE
Each year thousands of small and large businesses, non-profits, and organizations are hit with drive-by ADA claims, typically batch-produced affairs in...
Pelosi’s agenda: REVEALED
ERICH PRATT, GUN OWNERS OF AMERICA
Breitbart has revealed Nancy Pelosi’s six-point agenda to try to strip you of your Second Amendment rights if she takes...
House Sends Knee-Jerk Crime Bill to Senate
BY BOB BARR
Lightning-fast responses may be an ability that separates good athletes from outstanding ones. Possessing the skill to respond instantaneously to what is...
New Rule to Deny Status to Immigrants Up to 95% Self-Sufficient
For decades, we have proposed to build a wall around the welfare state, not around the country.
DAVID BIER, CATO INSTITUTE
The Trump administration has...
Victory for Counseling Freedom: CA Counseling Ban Dead
LIBERTY COUNSEL
SACRAMENTO, CA – Today, Liberty Counsel celebrates that the dangerous California AB 2943 bill is dead. This horrendous bill would have established government-enforced censorship of counselors who...
3D Guns: A Slippery Slope Compromise
ERICH PRATT, GUN OWNERS OF AMERICA
Anti-gunners are now calling for a crackdown on 3-D guns for one simple reason…
… The Left knows they could...
Louisiana Legislature Sends License Review Bill to Governor
NICK SIBILLA, INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE
Late Thursday, the Louisiana House of Representatives unanimously approved HB 748, a bill that would review the state’s burdensome and often...
California Bill Assaulting Freedom of Speech and Religion Approved by Assembly
LIBERTY COUNSEL
SACRAMENTO, CA – The California Assembly approved a bill 50-18 that would ban counselors from providing counseling and adults from receiving counsel regarding...
Is This the End of Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity?
ERICH PRATT, GUN OWNERS OF AMERICA
Concealed carry reciprocity may be dead -- forever -- if some in the House and Senate Republican leadership have...