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    • Wisconsin Unions Lose First Round, Win Luck of the Draw in the Second

    June 17, 2011 at 2:39 pm

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    Wisconsin unions seem to have lucked out with the federal judge assigned to their latest lawsuit trying to stop the state’s new collective bargaining law for state employees.  The Wisconsin Education Association, the AFL-CIO, the Wisconsin State Employees Union, and other unions that have been violently and belligerently protesting the … More

    Justice Wins Out in Wisconsin on New Labor Law

    June 15, 2011 at 11:34 am

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    In approving Wisconsin’s new collective bargaining law yesterday, the Wisconsin Supreme Court dropped an anvil on Dane County Judge MaryAnn Sumi’s political rulings.  The state Supreme Court vacated all of Sumi’s orders against Wisconsin’s new labor law, declaring them void ab initio or invalid from the inception.  This avoids the … More

    Arizona Wins Big in Supreme Court Immigration Ruling

    May 26, 2011 at 1:57 pm

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    Arizona won a spectacular victory today in the Supreme Court in its ongoing efforts to do something about the hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens who reside in the state and cost Arizona taxpayers an estimated $1.3 billion a year. In its ruling against the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and … More

    Vote Against Goodwin Liu a Victory for the Rule of Law

    May 19, 2011 at 5:44 pm

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    In one of the most important votes on Obama’s lower court judicial nominees, Democrats were unable to overcome the filibuster of Ninth Circuit Court nominee Goodwin Liu in a vote in the U.S. Senate this afternoon. It takes 60 votes to end a filibuster under the Senate rules, and the … More

    Hoyer Breaks with Obama over Executive Order on Political Speech

    May 12, 2011 at 10:02 am

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    We have had the first break in the Democratic cone of silence over President Obama’s proposed Executive Order that attempts to implement provisions of the failed DISCLOSE Act.  The EO would require government contractors to report all of their contributions (including the personal contributions of their employees) to candidates, as … More

    The Heckler’s Veto of Arizona’s Immigration Law

    April 11, 2011 at 4:45 pm

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    It should come as no surprise to anyone that a panel of judges of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order today refusing to lift the stay issued by a federal district court against Arizona’s immigration law. After all, the Ninth Circuit is the most often overturned appeals court … More

    Wisconsin Judge Proves Government Unions Aren’t Only Ones in Need of Reform

    March 18, 2011 at 5:30 pm

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    Should it be any surprise that in a state like Wisconsin that has been under the thrall of liberals for far too long, a local judge has issued a temporary restraining order against the collective bargaining law recently passed by the legislature? Or that the judge sees nothing wrong with … More

    Judge Vinson to Obama: Speed up the Appeal or Stop Implementing Obamacare

    March 3, 2011 at 3:22 pm

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    The Obama administration got a well-deserved rebuke today from Judge Roger Vinson in the Florida lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare (aka the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act). Judge Vinson issued a new order in response to a bizarre and obtuse “motion to clarify” that the Department of Justice … More

    Wisconsin and Government Unions – Let the Voters Decide

    March 3, 2011 at 1:00 pm

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    President Obama calls Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to curtail the collective-bargaining rights of state employees an “assault.” But the real assault is the conspiracy that has existed for decades between elected officials and public-employee unions — and taxpayers are the ones who wind up battered. The unions get salaries, … More

    Protecting the Free Speech Rights of Those We Abhor

    March 2, 2011 at 2:22 pm

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    Just as it did last year in the Citizens United decision, the Supreme Court today upheld the First Amendment in a virtually unanimous opinion in a very difficult case. In Snyder v. Phelps, the Court held that the First Amendment shields the Westboro Baptist Church from a state tort claim. … More

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    Hans von Spakovsky

    Hans von Spakovsky

    Hans A. von Spakovsky is a Senior Legal Fellow at The Heritage Foundation's Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, where he manages the Civil Justice Reform Initiative. The project examines how state and federal courts administer civil justice, focusing on attempts by plaintiffs' attorneys and activists to manipulate the system for their own ends at the expense of the public.
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    Ed Meese: We’ve Seen the Effect of “Amnesty” BeforeExperts can’t always predict exactly how public policy will affect the nation, despite our best efforts. But when it comes to immigration policy, we have tried many of the types of reforms advocated by today’s Gang of Eight—so we should consider the effects these reforms had in the past. In … MoreMore
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