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ConstitutionFeaturedPolitics
Ninth Circus Court No More? Trump-McConnell’s Judges Have Made Huge Differences Everywhere
by Seton Motley August 17, 2020The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals – the nation’s largest Appeals court – has long been a judicial joke.
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FeaturedPodcast
In The Tank Podcast (ep49): Platte Institute, Illinois is Broke, and Stadium Subsidies
by Donald Kendal August 2, 2016John returns to the show to join Donny in their weekly exploration of think tanks across the country in episode #49 of the In The Tank Podcast. This weekly podcast features (as always) interviews, debates, and roundtable discussions that explore the work of think tanks across the country. The show is available for download as part of the Heartland Daily Podcast every Friday. Today’s podcast features work from the Platte Institute, the Illinois Policy Institute, and the Yankee Institute.
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Environment/EnergyFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Michael Bowe: Greenpeace Under Fire in Court
by H. Sterling Burnett June 27, 2016In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Michael Bowe, a partner with the New York law firm Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman, joins the show to talk about the interesting legal case involving the environmental terrorist organization, Greenpeace.
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Environment/EnergyFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Jonathan Lockwood: Colorado Supreme Court Bars Local Fracking Bans
by Donald Kendal May 23, 2016In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Jonathan Lockwood, executive director of Advancing Colorado, joins host H. Sterling Burnett to discuss the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to bar localities from banning hydraulic fracturing.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Colorado Supreme Court Embraces the Rule of Law, not the Fear Mongering of the Anti-Fossil-Fuel Movement
by Marita Noon May 10, 2016On Monday, May 2 the Colorado Supreme Court ruled on what the New York Times (NYT) called: “a lengthy battle for energy production.” The court’s unanimous decision to strike down two cities’ limits on fracking is a victory for oil-and-gas companies and a “disappointment” to anti-fossil-fuel activists. Several states, including Colorado’s neighbors, New Mexico and Texas, have faced similar anti-oil-and-gas initiatives that have also been shot down.
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FeaturedLegal Affairs
The Progressive War on Free Speech – Part Three
by David Applegate April 20, 2016“The Revolution devours its children,” wrote French royalist Jacques Mallet du Pan in 1793, but in the case of the American left, the children are now devouring their masters, both literally and figuratively. For the progressive war on free speech is nowhere more evident than on campus, where it has taken on sinister aspects completely apart from Title IX, about which we wrote in Part Two of this series.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Sophia Cope: Apple vs. The Federal Government
by Jesse Hathaway March 1, 2016In this episode of The Heartland Daily Podcast, managing editor Jesse Hathaway talks with Electronic Frontier Foundation staff attorney Sophia Cope about the Federal District Court for the District of Central California’s recent demand that Apple, the $700 billion tech company producing consumer products like the iPhone and iPad, assist the Federal Bureau of Investigations with their investigation into the December 2, 2015 San Bernardino terrorist attack by devising a way to unlock the deceased terrorist’s iPhone without a password.
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Environment/EnergyFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Mike Duncan: Petition to Halt Obama’s ‘Clean Power Plan’
by H. Sterling Burnett January 28, 2016In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Mike Duncan, the president and CEO for the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, joins Managing Editor of Environment & Climate News to discuss the Washington D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decision in mid-January not to place a stay on the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan (CPP).
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EducationFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Michael Bindas: Defending School Choice in Colorado
by Heather Kays December 9, 2015In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Michael Bindas, Senior Counsel for the Institute for Justice joins Research Fellow Heather Kays to discuss an ongoing school choice court case taking place in Douglas County, Colorado that has been ongoing for years.
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Education
Lead Plaintiff of ‘Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association’ States her Grievances
by Nancy Thorner and Bonnie O'Neil November 20, 2015As noted in our collaborative article published Monday, Nov. 9, 2015 in Illinois Review, “Supreme Court to Adjudicate Mandatory Union Fees”, Rebecca Friedrichs is the lead plaintiff, an outspoken opponent of her teachers’ union who agreed to let her name become identified with the case. Friedrichs has taught elementary school for 28 years, mostly in the Savanna School District in Anaheim, Ca. You can listen to her discuss the case here, read a Q&A with her here, and a commentary by her in the Orange County Register here.
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Right now, while this Title II net neutrality horse race is still being run, the FCC and their political backers are high-fiving everyone in their loge viewing box, because they think that their strong race start means that they have already won the race.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Why Court Very Likely Will Stay FCC’s Title II Reclassification
by Scott Cleland May 17, 2015Based on the latest best arguments this week from both the FCC and broadband petitioners, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals is very likely to partially stay the FCC Open Internet Order’s reclassification of broadband as a Title II service and imposition of a new Internet conduct standard — in the coming weeks.
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Featured
When the Supreme Court Stopped Economic Fascism in America
by Richard Ebeling April 7, 2015There was a time when the Supreme Court of the United States defended and upheld the Constitutional protections for economic liberty in America. This year marks the 80th anniversary of one of the Supreme Court’s finest hours, when it overturned Franklin Roosevelt’s agenda for economic fascism in the U.S.