Chicago to Give Back Millions in Traffic Camera Fines
The latest setback for one of the most corrupt citation systems in the country
The latest setback for one of the most corrupt citation systems in the country
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
It's the latest effort to use the Congressional Review Act to assert the authority of elected lawmakers over appointed bureaucrats.
Former owners are suing for $2 million, accusing agency of violating the rules.
Licensing laws are putting 61-year-old Sally Ladd out of work. Together, we're suing.
The Washington Post is right: "Put Yucca Mountain to work. The nation needs it."
Unions try to use good years to deflect attention from a growing problem.
Friday A/V Club: A beatnik, a president, and a radio station that the FCC wouldn't license
Second-place finisher in 2016 presidential primary will run for Missouri Senate seat as a Republican.
Second-place finisher in 2016 LP presidential primary aims to take on Democrat Claire McCaskill in home state of Missouri.
Instead of splitting the state into six parts, lawsuit proposes increasing number of state lawmakers to give voice to rural residents of the state.
Rep. Justin Amash breaks from party and rejects both bills, citing constitutional violations.
All that's missing is Gov. Rick Snyder's signature.
Don't want to be portrayed as a villain? Stop restricting free speech.
FAA reauthorization bill would require airline ticket-counter and gate agents to be trained on reporting "potential human trafficking victims."
Irrational, half-baked anti-terrorist policies are not necessarily unconstitutional.
The argument carries a powerful emotional charge but it isn't a particularly constructive or clear-minded way to think or talk about writing laws.
Congressional Republicans promise to achieve greater frugality in Medicaid without inflicting more hardship. It's not gonna happen.
A South Carolina Supreme Court decision rejects rules based on economic protectionism.
Film favors martyrdom over careful analysis.
Paul's "Read the Bills" resolution would change Senate rules to allow one day of transparency for every 20 pages of a bill's length.
Paul Ryan is needlessly holding up tax reform by pushing a harmful Border Adjustment Tax.
Just because you haven't heard about New York City's pension problems doesn't mean they don't exist.
The Supreme Court to decide if gerrymandering is unconstitutional
From pill theft to cozying up to authoritarians, Trump's pick for U.S. ambassador on human rights has a long history of abusing the system.
People like lower taxes, just not lower spending. Kansas is a lesson that you can't have the former without the latter.
"Speech may not be banned on the ground that it expresses ideas that offend."
Neo-Malthusianism in the Sunday New York Times
Some legislators want more privacy protections from unwarranted snooping of U.S. citizens.
Trump and group of GOP senators don't want us to have greater privacy protections from unwarranted domestic surveillance.
Budget chaos at the state level isn't helping.
An appeals court upholds an injunction against the president's travel ban but once again leaves him perfectly free to improve screening.
State still owes over $70 billion to current workers and retirees, but moving future hires to 401(k)-style retirement plans will save taxpayers in the long run.
A batch of frightening new bills take aim at all sorts of civil liberties under the guise of stopping sexual exploitation.
The House approved the bill with a party line vote on Thursday, but it's prospects are dim in the Senate.
Defense attorney and Popehat blogger Ken White refutes all censorious clichés.
Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees asks SCOTUS to end mandatory public-sector union fees.
What goes around, comes around, governor.
Intent on blocking visitors from Muslim-majority countries, the president confuses political incorrectness with seriousness.
The Federal Reserve Transparency Act would not politicize the Fed, but will provide Congress with more information.
But is Jeff Bezos the new John D. Rockefeller?
Security officials who fail every test thrown their way, plan to inflict the punishment for those shortcomings on airline passengers.
A review of the bureaucracy in the Virginia capital found what most people suspected, that City Hill stinks.