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FreedomWorks interviews Mike Maharrey on Obamacare Nullification

Tenth Amendment Center national communications director Mike Maharrey recently sat down and chatted with Brad Jackson on the Freedomworks podcast on efforts to nullify Obamacare at the state level. Maharrey shared good news about a recently passed bill in Georgia that lays the foundation for stopping Obamacare implementation. He also talked about establishment Republican efforts…

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Anti-spying bill moves forward in Tennessee

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (March 27, 2014) – An amended version of the Tennessee Fourth Amendment Protection Act which would end the use of unconstitutionally gathered data in state court passed out of a House subcommittee on Wednesday. HB1907, as filed, addressed all four areas of the OffNow Coalition’s Fourth Amendment Protection Act, banning both material support…

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Nullifying the War on Drugs Makes for a More Prosperous Republic

There is a positive aspect of nullification that many overlook: the financial benefit of states taking control of their own policy. We see a fantastic example of this in Colorado. Last year, state that thumbed it nose at the feds and legalized marijuana. Today, Colorado is beginning to reap the benefits of its decision to…

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Tenth Circuit Holds Guarantee Clause Claim Justiciable

Via Derek Muller at Excess of Democracy, last week the Tenth Circuit found a guarantee clause claim justiciable.  Here is the opinion in Kerr v. Hickenlooper, which is challenge to Colorado’s constitutional limits on the legislature’s power to tax.   Additional thoughts from Garrett Epps at The Atlantic: Can the U.S. Government Declare a State Constitution “Un-Republican”? Previous thoughts on this case…

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UK tax office to get power to raid bank accounts without court order

“At the moment, if HMRC want to seize your property or cash, they have to take you to court, win and then get a court order. Now, after a couple of warning letters and a phone call, they apparently can do it at the flick of a switch. Crucially, there’s no safeguard built into this system – where’s the appeal process? To repeat, if HMRC decide you owe them cash, they just take it. If you haven’t managed to reach agreement with them, then you’ll just wake up one morning, check your bank account, and find the money’s gone. We’re told that ‘a minimum of £5,000 will be left across debtors’ accounts.’ That’s a very low threshold – especially for a business or a pensioner.” Continue reading →

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