Montana sent a powerful message to the unelected health officers and health boards in the state.
The masks, and especially the mask mandates, are coming off- for those of you who have been forced to wear them, of course. Additionally the ability of unelected health officers and health boards to force private businesses to serve as their enforcement arm is now taken away.
If you re in Bozeman, of course, the unelected health officer there is still clinging to the restrictions, and even got kicked out of a local bar by a bouncer as he was attempting to film video.
We caught up with Henry Kriegel from Americans for Prosperity-Montana recently to get his take on the significance of several bills now signed into law by Governor Greg Gianforte (R-MT).
Americans for Prosperity national president Tim Phillips will visit New Hampshire on Thursday to lead a grassroots event urging Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan to support keeping in place the 60-vote Senate filibuster rule.
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NH Primary Source: New AFP-NH ad, grassroots campaign urges Hassan to âkeep her wordâ on filibuster
NH senator among âselectâ targets of national AFP effort focusing on vulnerable incumbents Share Updated: 4:49 AM EDT Apr 29, 2021
NH Primary Source: New AFP-NH ad, grassroots campaign urges Hassan to âkeep her wordâ on filibuster
NH senator among âselectâ targets of national AFP effort focusing on vulnerable incumbents Share Updated: 4:49 AM EDT Apr 29, 2021 New Hampshire Primary Source gives you breaking and behind-the-scenes political news by John DiStaso, the most experienced political writer in the state and a recipient of a New Hampshire Press Association Lifetime Achievement Award. To sign up for WMUR s weekly New Hampshire Primary Source and political email newsletter, which will be delivered to your inbox on Thursday at 6 a.m., click here.SIX-FIGURE NATIONAL EFFORT. The nationwide
. Both cases involved laws requiring non-profit political groups to report donor information to the IRS. The AFP group mentioned in the first case happens to be a Koch-financed outfit. A closely affiliated organization, Americans For Prosperity, also happened to pay for an ad campaign shilling for Barrett during her lickety-split confirmation process before last November’s election. This has drawn the attention of Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, who dropped the justice a line.
During your recent confirmation proceedings, you were asked in written questions whether you would recuse yourself from
Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Rodriquez (Becerra), No. 19-251, a case then pending on the Court’s certiorari docket. You declined to do so, answering that “[a]s a sitting judge and as a judicial nominee, it would not be appropriate for me to offer an opinion on abstract legal issues or hypotheticals,” and that “[s]uch questions can only be answered through the judicial proce
Supreme Court Wary of Donor Disclosure Requirement for Charities
The case, from California, could affect the regulation of “dark money” in political contests.
The Supreme Court will rule on whether donor disclosures required by California would be in violation of the First Amendment’s protection of the freedom of association.Credit.Stefani Reynolds for The New York Times
April 26, 2021, 3:57 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON The Supreme Court on Monday seemed skeptical of California’s demand that charities soliciting contributions in the state report the identities of their major donors.
A majority of the justices appeared to agree that at least the two groups challenging the requirement Americans for Prosperity, a foundation affiliated with the Koch family, and the Thomas More Law Center, a conservative Christian public-interest law firm should prevail in the case.