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Caldara’s Newsletter 03-03-17 0
- March 3, 2017
When you’ve been rejected by as many women as I have, you’d think being rejected by the US Supreme Court wouldn’t hurt. We asked the high court to restore our First Amendment right to free speech, which was taken from us by McCain-Feingold. The Wall Street Journal explained the merits of our case well here. By
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Caldara’s Newsletter 02-24-17 0
- February 24, 2017
As I write this, we are anxiously awaiting word from the US Supreme Court on whether or not they will hear our challenge of McCain-Fiengold disclosure laws. Our question is: Do we lose our First Amendment right of free speech just because an election is within 90 days. Should the calendar trump free speech? (See,
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2017 Colorado Energy Outlook 0
- November 18, 2016
In the wake of one of the most surprising electoral outcomes in recent memory, we here at the Independence Institute have been assessing what the next few months, the 2017 Colorado legislative session, and the general future of energy policy in Colorado will look like under a President-elect Trump administration and a split legislature with
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Three New Supreme Court Cases Show in Some Areas, the Constitution No Longer Matters 0
- July 13, 2016
Note: This article originally appeared at CNS News. An earlier version included unauthorized editing and should be disregarded. Three recent Supreme Court decisions reveal in the area of personal rights, most of the justices are applying rules unrelated to the U.S. Constitution. In two of the cases, the majority refused to protect rights expressly laid
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Masters v. School District Number 1 0
- June 9, 2016
The Independence Institute has long been a champion of tenure reform, local control, and flexibility in the realm of school and district personnel decisions. In 2010, the Institute was part of a broad, bipartisan coalition supporting Senate Bill 191, Colorado’s teacher evaluation and tenure reform bill. It continues to defend SB 191’s critical reforms from both
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New Article on What “Taxes” Are (And Aren’t) Under the Constitution, and the Implications for Obamacare 0
- March 27, 2016
Was the Supreme Court right to call Obamacare’s insurance penalty a “tax?”
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