by Jane Richey | Jan 25, 2014 | Politics
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) called for the appointment of a new special prosecutor to investigate the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) targeting of conservative groups. Cruz wrote a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Wednesday, saying the administration has...
by Jane Richey | Jan 15, 2014 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment
House oversight committee chairman Rep. Darrell Issa said that “politically motivated” leaks discredit the FBI investigation into the IRS targeting scandal, which is not expected to result in any criminal charges. “There is little reason for the American people to...
by Jane Richey | Jan 10, 2014 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment
Have you heard the story of the residents of Riverton, Wyo.? One day they were Wyomingans, the next they were members of the Wind River tribes — after the Environmental Protection Agency declared the town part of the Wind River Indian Reservation, undoing a 1905 law...
by Jane Richey | Sep 12, 2013 | Voting Issues
The American Civil Rights Union (ACRU) in April sued Walthall County, a white-majority southern Mississippi county that voted for Mitt Romney in 2012, and also nearby Jefferson Davis County, which has a black majority and voted for Barack Obama. The Jefferson Davis...
by Jane Richey | Feb 27, 2013 | Voting Issues
Voting Rights Act passed by Congress in 1965 ensured that states could not get around the new law by coming up with more changes to local voting rules. For those areas that had historically discriminated against people, the law required that they check with the feds...
