HCR1: Resisting Federal Takeover of Water in Utah
This bill passed the House 64-9 and passed the Senate 22-4. Libertas Institute supports this bill. Recently the EPA finalized a new administrative rule to redefine “Waters of the United States” under its regulatory...
The Case Against Ken Ivory That Wasn’t, and Isn’t
The benignly-named “Campaign for Accountability” has made a few waves this week for filing complaints against Representative Ken Ivory for “engaging in an illegal scheme to defraud local government officials out...
The 2015 Real State of the State
Earlier this week, Governor Gary Herbert addressed government officials and members of the public to deliver his annual “State of the State” address. He touched on education, Medicaid expansion, criminal justice...
The “How” of a Federal Land Transfer
Between the Cliven Bundy standoff and the Recapture Canyon protest, federal ownership of vast swaths of land within western states has come to the fore of public attention. Utah has been leading efforts to transfer federal land...
Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste: Happy Sedition Act Day!
“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste, it’s an opportunity to do things you could not do before.”—Rahm Emanuel Following Rahm’s rule for expanding government power, 216 years ago today, the US Congress, controlled by...
New Judicial Federalism: How Utah Can Avoid Recent Supreme Court Erosion of the Fourth Amendment
The U.S. Supreme Court recently issued a decision in the case of Navarette v. California which has potentially grave consequences for Fourth Amendment rights. The decision upheld the stop of a vehicle precipitated by an anonymous...