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RICHMOND, Va, — After some three hours of arguments on whether Dylann Roof, who in 2015 killed nine people in a South Carolina church, should have his death sentence overturned

April 30, 2021 1:15 PM, EDT Pennsylvania Panel Explores Alternatives to Bridge Tolls, Gas Taxes I-95s mile-long double-decked Girard Point Bridge in Philadelphia. (Matt Rourke/Associated Press) It’s not clear yet if Pennsylvania drivers will pay $1 or $2 to cross major bridges, but Pennsylvania needs billions of dollars from somewhere for transportation, state Rep. Mike Carroll said. “So whether those nine bridges get tolled is an open question, but for those who say, ‘No,’ my question ...

Since last summer, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have used an obscure federal regulation to impose a nationwide moratorium on a huge chunk of residential evictions. This is constitutionally dubious, to say the least. But the CDC just extended it through June. The moratorium’s proponents argue that federal authority over interstate commerce permits this move. But the Interstate Commerce Clause isn’t a plenary power over all areas of life simply because everything, a...

Wyoming State Representative Scott Heiner (R-HD18) provided the following update on the 2021 legislative session. This week we began to work on the Supplemental Budget on the House and Senate Floors.  The debate was often ‘spirited’ with a lot of good discussion.  All Legislators are trying to do the best for the future of Wyoming as best they can.  After the Governor spent many months making painful Step 2 and Step 3 cuts to the Budget, many of my colleagues in the House wanted to put m...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: I am trying to get TiNY back into the groove of publishing within days (instead of weeks) of the issuance of cases by the DTA. There were three Determinations and one ALJ Order posted to the DTA’s site last Thursday. PLUS, we have seen at least two Tribunal Decisions that, at least as of this writing, haven’t been posted yet, but should be soon. So we summarize those decisions too. ALJ ORDER Matter of Acquavella Fine Arts, LLC, et...

Minnesota attorney general Keith Ellison Photo by Bob LoCicero / Shutterstock.com MN Attorney General Cracks Down on Defiant Restaurants The state’s top lawyer is taking legal action against three more Minnesota establishments that have reopened for indoor dining, despite the governor’s most recent executive order. Most restaurants in the state have been compliant, AG’s spokesman says. Minnesota attorney general Keith Ellison Photo b...

Madeth enormous progress over te decade? >> it is amazing and i talk about in the book wicker versus a new deal case where they totally transformed interstate commerce clause to regulate state activity and power from the beginning what they cant get legislatively they will legislate through the court unapologetically but dishonestly because they claim they have a constitutional basis. to invalue at a time laws clearly constitutional or create laws through -- through judicial fiat that are uncons...

All the affordable provisions of the affordable care act. >> one who has agreed with the president on some things, such as his pick for attorney general. let me read you part of judge oconnors decision. individual mandate can no longer be fairly read as an exercise of congress tax power and still impermissible under the interstate commerce clause meaning the individual mandate is unconstitutional. he says if you dont have the individual mandate the whole thing has to go. >> the second part is th...

>> so good morning to you, victor. something very important to understand -- remember the law, lets take a quick walk back. in 2010 the laws passed, affordable care act, you might remember. then in 2012, based upon challenges, we had a supreme court decision which upheld the law. so the critical question is on what basis did they declare the law unconstitutional when was assailed and attacked by republicans as being unconstitutional. there were two critical issues that need to be explained. one,...

This is the judge is saying that the whole law, the entire affordable care act should, in fact, be torn down because the individual mandate demanding that you buy health insurance is unconstitutional. quickly, heres what he said. the district judge reed oconnor the individual mandate can no longer be fairly read as exercise of congress taxpayer and is still impermissible under the interstate commerce clause. meaning the individual mandate is unconstitutional without it congress and the supreme c...