Category: Legal Reform
Liberal Justices’ Different Standard for Judging Trump, Obama Statements
National Center Senior Fellow Horace Cooper says the Constitution won out over emotionalism when the U.S. Supreme Court voted to keep President Donald Trump’s travel security orders in place. In an interview published by Newsweek, Horace also noted that the Supreme ...
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Dick’s Sporting Goods Doubles-Down on Reduced Gun Sales
CEO Admits Alienating Customers, Says It's "Fine" Shareholder No Longer Shops There Pittsburgh, PA / Washington, DC - Dick's Sporting Goods reaffirmed its decision to end certain firearms-related sales during today's annual meeting of its shareholders. A shareholder activist challenged corporate ...
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Salesforce Slammed for Anti-Religious Bigotry
Free Enterprise Project Shareholder Proposal Precedes U.S. Supreme Court in Rejecting Salesforce’s Position in Masterpiece Cakeshop Case San Francisco, CA / Washington, D.C. – Tech powerhouse Salesforce was accused of being unconstitutional, hypocritical, and loose with the facts by a ...
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Pardon Me, Mr. President! by Emery McClendon
We often say “pardon me” after accidentally inconveniencing or offending someone. It’s also a polite expression to ask for someone to repeat something. But we now seem more accustomed to using the term pardon in the context of the power ...
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Redemption: It’s Time for Trump to Pardon Model Prisoners Serving Time for Low-Level Crimes, by Council Nedd II
Last December, President Donald Trump first exercised his power to pardon by commuting the sentence of Sholom Rubashkin. The kosher meatpacking executive received 27 years in prison for money laundering. Rubashkin’s pardon was championed by members of Congress, former attorneys ...
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Big Government’s Focus on Fines and Fees Disparately Impacts Poor, Minority Communities
Black Leaders Offer Better Deal From the Criminal Justice System Washington, D.C. – Law enforcement agencies focus too much on revenue-generating activities that have a negative impact on poor and minority communities, further straining the relationship between police and the ...
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Black Leaders Urge Reduced Police Role in Regulatory Enforcement, Increased Autism Training and Gun Legalization to Improve Community-Police Relations
Costs to be Covered by Disarming Federal Agencies Washington, DC. – To improve community-police relations, police should get out of the regulation business, be given greater training in identifying and dealing with those with autism and other cognitive disabilities, build ...
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Pfizer Support for Groups Promoting Sanctuary City Policies Questioned by Free-Market Leader
Drugmaker Claims to Have No Official Position on National Immigration Reform; Its Corporate Philanthropy Suggests Otherwise Pfizer Support of the Human Rights Campaign, a Notoriously Anti-Religious Group, Also Called into Question Short Hills, N.J. / Washington, D.C. – At today’s ...
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Black Activists Want Government to Investigate Employer-Mandated “Implicit Bias” Workshops
Starbucks Shutdown Prompts Concern That “Racial Bias Training” Programs Actually Violate Civil Rights Non-Minority and Male Employees Could Be Disadvantaged Washington, DC – With the Starbucks chain of coffeehouses planning to shutter over 8,000 locations on May 29 to train ...
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Bank of America’s Decision to Sever Ties with Certain Gun Manufacturers Blasted by Free-Market Leader
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan Refuses to Say How Much Money Investors Will Lose Because of His Decision to Join Those Who Oppose Second Amendment Charlotte, N.C. / Washington, D.C. – At today’s annual meeting of Bank of America ...
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