Media Inquiry on Ben Carson at HUD

Today, I received an email from a reporter at the Washington Examiner about Ben Carson possibly being HUD secretary. My response below. Question: I’m writing to ask if the Tenth Amendment Center has any response to President-elect Trump apparently picking Ben Carson as HUD Secretary, given that Carson has written critically of the AFFH rule.…

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Tenther Tuesday Episode 5: Asset Forfeiture Victory, Privacy Protection and Local Action

On this episode of Tenther Tuesday, Mike Maharrey and Michael Boldin talk about a few of big wins for the nullification movement. In California, Gov. Jerry Brown recently signed asset forfeiture reform into law, closing a loophole that allowed police to circumvent more restrictive state forfeiture laws by passing cases of to the feds. A…

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New Jersey Township Says No to HUD, Refuses Federal Funds

Yet another town has rejected grants covered by HUD’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule, effectively nullifying a federal program designed to gain control over local communities. Castle Rock, a city of 55,000 people in central Colorado, along with Sedgwick County, Kansas, and Douglas County, Colorado, have all recently refused funds from the federal government’s Department…

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New Jersey Township Says No to HUD, Refuses Federal Funds

Yet another town has rejected grants covered by HUD’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule, effectively nullifying a federal program designed to gain control over local communities. Castle Rock, a city of 55,000 people in central Colorado, along with Sedgwick County, Kansas, and Douglas County, Colorado, have all recently refused funds from the federal government’s Department…

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Two More Counties Say No to HUD, Refuse Federal Funds

Two more counties have joined a Colorado town in rejecting grants covered by HUD’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule, effectively nullifying a federal program designed to gain control over local communities. Castle Rock, a community of 55,000 people in central Colorado, recently decided to refuse funds from the federal government’s Department of Housing and Urban…

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Colorado town says “no” to HUD, refuses federal funds

While the federal government always views its threats to cut off the flow of stolen money to the states as a kind of untrumpable trump card, a Colorado town has created a template for how to handle the federal government’s attempts at bribery and extortion. Castle Rock, a community of 55,000 people in central Colorado,…

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