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Friday, December 14, 2012

Congressman Bob Goodlatte to Chair House Judiciary Committee 2013


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Protecting the Right to Work: A Victory in Michigan

This week we saw another victory for American workers and freedom in the workplace. Just days ago, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder signed into law two right to work bills, making Michigan the twenty-fourth right to work state in our nation, including Virginia. This means individual employees can join unions voluntarily, but unions cannot force membership or force the payment of dues across entire worksites. The news out of Michigan comes just 10 months after Indiana became a right to work state and is a particularly significant trend in the Midwest.
I have been an ardent and vocal opponent of any efforts by labor leaders to force a man or woman to pay dues to a union in order to work. Folks should have the freedom to decide whether or not they will join a union. This freedom creates healthier unions that are constantly seeking to provide better services to members and prospective members. Eliminating this freedom limits the individual freedom of workers, results in fewer jobs, and makes our nation less competitive versus our foreign competitors.
As our country struggles to find ways to stay competitive, create more jobs and grow our national economy, states must be looking for commonsense ways to ensure their prosperity. A recent study indicates that there is faster growth in employment and income in states with right to work laws in place.
I am also a strong supporter of the National Right to Work Act, which preserves and protects the free choice of individual employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations, or to refrain from such activities. This legislation is simple and reasonable. The bill deletes provisions in federal law that authorizes contracts forcing workers to pay union dues as a condition of employment.
Some argue that by passing a national right to work law, we will be wiping out a competitive advantage over other states that we currently enjoy in Virginia, thanks to our right to work law. However, our real competitors are Japan, Mexico, China, and Europe--not Ohio, New York, and California. So by making our nation more competitive as a whole, we also help Virginia’s workers and businesses.
By passing right to work legislation in statehouses or in Congress we can restore the freedom of America's workers to choose the form of workplace representation that best suits their needs or to choose not to participate. Most importantly, we help improve the standard of living of all American workers, support job creation and help keep the jobs we already have right here in the United States. These are the kind of pro-growth, pro-jobs policies we need to help fuel our economic recovery.
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

HUD Sued Records Obama Involvement USSC10-1032_St. Paul, MN, Judicial Watch

HUD Sued for Records of Obama Administration Involvement in Controversial St. Paul, MN, Housing Discrimination Case | Judicial Watch

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 (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a lawsuit (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (No. 1:12-cv-01785)) on November 2, 2012, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to force compliance with an April 4, 2012, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for documents relating to possible collusion between the Obama administration and the city of St. Paul, MN, in withdrawing a “disparate impact” appeal pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. HUD has refused all JW FOIA requests for public records, even after JW paid in advance for the information.
The disparate impact case arose from a lawsuit by a St. Paul minority contractor claiming that the city’s targeted enforcement of the city’s housing code against rental units reduced the availability of low-income rentals, with a disparate impact upon African-Americans. The Eighth Circuit found in the contractor’s favor, after which the city appealed to the Supreme Court. Generally speaking, under a disparate impact analysis, an entity can be found to have engaged in discriminatory activity for practices that merely have a “disparate impact” on protected minorities, irrespective of any intentional bias.
The Obama DOJ then intervened, apparently persuading St. Paul to take the extraordinary step of withdrawing its cert petition from the Supreme Court docket. On February 13, the Wall Street Journal reported that various federal officials had asked the City of St. Paul to withdraw its petition for certiorari in a controversy that had already been slated for argument before the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Obama administration’s concern, explained the article, was that a legal theory known as “disparate impact” might either: 1) harden into law as used by the landlords who had won at the state level or 2) be eviscerated entirely.  Apparently, several federal agencies that rely on that legal theory to secure out-of-court settlements in the consumer lending and family housing arena were reluctant to risk a change in the legal landscape.  The next day, the parties to Magner v. Gallagher withdrew their case by mutual consent.
Judicial Watch separately obtained documents under the Minnesota Data Practices Act, showing that St. Paul City Attorney Sara Grewing arranged a meeting between the chief of DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, Tom Perez, and Mayor Chris Coleman a week before the city’s withdrawal from the case, captioned Magner v. Gallagher. Following Perez’s visit, the city withdrew its case and thanked DOJ and officials at HUD for their involvement.
On April 4, Judicial Watch sent a FOIA request to the DOJ and HUD seeking access to the following:
  1. All communications with or about St. Paul, Minnesota, its residents, landlords, low-income properties or employees, specifically those exchanges:
a. relating to the city’s recent petition for certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court, including the petition’s withdrawal in February 2012;
b. regarding “disparate impact” theory or analysis in the housing, landlord-tenant, or mortgage arena;
c. involving any member of the U.S. Senate’s Democratic Policy & Communications Committee, the House Democratic Caucus, or the White House, and their respective staffs; and,
d. involving third parties such as the National Low Income Housing Coalition, Thomas Goldstein, orWalter Mondale and their respective staffs;
2.  All invoices for travel, food, lodging, communications, or entertainment expenses incurred in connection with any “disparate impact” lawsuit against St. Paul, Minnesota.
In filing its FOIA request, JW requested a waiver of both search and duplication fees, citing its role as a member of the news media. On June 11, 2012, HUD denied JW’s waiver request, informing JW that it would be required to pay a $1,024.43 fee before HUD would release any records.
On June 21, 2012, JW appealed HUD’s denial of a waiver request. On July 23, HUD denied JW’s appeal, and on July 31, JW paid the waiver fee in full.
Despite payment in full, and despite repeated inquiries from JW about the status of its FOIA request, HUD has continued to refuse to release of the documents requested by JW.
“We have reason to believe that the Obama administration improperly and successfully pressured St. Paul city officials to take the extremely rare action of withdrawing an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The Obama administration and its liberal activist allies are desperate to protect their ability to use the discredited ‘disparate impact’ legal standard in lawsuits in order to shakedown businesses and reward allies.”
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December 12, 2012
PLF fights feds' takeover of a Santa Fe couple's land

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VIDEO: PLF attorney Jennifer Fry explains why this case is of nationwide importance
Peter and Frankie Smith live outside of Santa Fe on property with a dry creek bed. Imagine their shock when the Army Corps of Engineers labeled this dry land a "water of the United States" subject to federal control!

"We can't believe that the Federal Government can control what we do in our own backyard under the Clean Water Act when there is no water on our property!" says Peter Smith.

This week, PLF attorneys sued the Corps on behalf of the Smiths, challenging its misuse of the Clean Water Act to grab control of private property.

As Fry points out, "If the federal government can tell the Smiths what they can and can't do on their own land, by twisting the Clean Water Act and essentially using a divining rod to conjure a 'water body' out of dry soil, then no property owner, anywhere, is safe from federal intrusion."

Smith case follows up on PLF's Supreme Court victory for the Sacketts
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This lawsuit follows up on PLF's victory earlier this year in Sackett v. EPA. The U.S. Supreme Court held that Idaho residents Mike and Chantell Sackett --- and by extension, all property owners --- have a right to bring a court challenge to a federal "wetlands compliance order." The Smith case, in turn, argues that property owners may seek court review if the federal government designates their land as subject to the Clean Water Act.

Help PLF fight for the Smiths --- and for victims of abusive regulations nationwide!
Francoise & Peter Smith, PLF Environmental Regulations clients"We don't believe Congress ever intended to give the Corps power to regulate dry creek beds like ours and we want to help put an end to the Corps' ridiculous interpretation of 'waters of the United States,'" said Peter Smith. "We heard about Pacific Legal Foundation when it helped Mike and Chantell Sackett. We are bringing this lawsuit now to get the feds off our property and also so that we, like the Sacketts, can help property owners across America stand up against federal government bullies."

YOU can help the Smiths --- and the cause of property rights nationwide --- by DONATING to help PLF "rescue liberty" from coast to coast!
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PLF Back in the Supreme Court with Important Property Rights Case!

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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Lawless America...The Movie: Update -- November 18, 2012

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Friday, November 30, 2012

VOTE NOW! Should Republicans try to stop Obama's tax increases? | Sponsored by Independent Living News

VOTE NOW! Should Republicans try to stop Obama's tax increases? | Sponsored by Independent Living News
In remarks on the Senate floor today, Alabama senator Jeff Sessions blasted President Barack Obama and congressional leadership for holding "secret" fiscal cliff negotiations.
"I rise today to express my reservations about the fiscal cliff negotiations that are currently underway," said Sessions. "Over the last two years, Congress and the President have held an endless series of secret negotiations. There have been gangs of six and eight, a supercommittee of 12, talks at the Blair House and the White House. But the only thing these secret talks have produced is a government that skips from one crisis to the next. Everything has been tried but the open production of a 10-year budget plan as required by law and open discussions of the difficult choices."
Sessions, the highest Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, saved most of his criticism for the president. "President Obama campaigned on a tax increase of ‘only’ $800 billion," said Sessions. "But now the White House is demanding $1.6 trillion in new taxes. Don’t the American people have a right to see these taxes and where they will fall? Shouldn’t the President of the United States, the only person who represents everybody in the country, lay out his plan, or must that remain a secret too? Will it just be revealed to us on the eve of Christmas or eve of the new calendar year? We will be asked to vote for it, to ratify it like lemmings, I suppose."
The Alabama senator insisted Obama is not serious about cutting spending--or cutting government waste.
In fact, the President is giving speeches calling for even more spending. On Tuesday, he gave a speech in which he said he wants to use the tax hikes to ‘invest in training, education, science, and research.’ Investment, of course, is just code for spending.