A year before Justice Department lawyer Jeffrey Bossert Clark tried to help Donald Trump overturn the presidential election results, he sought to delay one of the biggest water pollution cases in U.S. history.
Giving the Left’s healthcare scam a thumbs-up. Wed Jun 23, 2021 Conservatives across America have to be asking themselves why they put so much time, money, and energy into electing Republicans when the supposedly conservative Supreme Court justices who follow side with the Left in important cases. The latest jurisprudential atrocity is the high court’s dreadful but not altogether unexpected betrayal of the U.S. Constitution in California v. Texas, a challenge to the Obamacare redistribution statute lodged by Texas and 17 other states that had been backed by the former Trump administration. “It’s never been a proper role for the federal government to regulate health care and health insurance,” Robert Henneke of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, who represented two individual plaintiffs, said after winning at the trial court level. “It is a proper role for the states.”
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The affluent suburb of Edina banned the sale of flavored tobacco, but R.J. Reynolds and other tobacco giants argue it overstepped its bounds.
This May 17, 2018 file photo shows packs of menthol cigarettes and other tobacco products at a store. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
(CN) The tobacco industry went to bat against a Minneapolis suburb before the Eighth Circuit Wednesday afternoon, arguing that the city of Edina’s ban on flavored tobacco products like menthol cigarettes is preempted by federal law.
Edina, a wealthy suburb of about 52,000 people southwest of Minneapolis, enacted a ban on tobacco products with flavors other than tobacco in June of 2020, and was quickly sued by two convenience stores in the city and by tobacco giants, including the R.J. Reynolds Company. The businesses argued that Edina whose name, pronounced Ee-dye-nuh and sometimes uh-dye-nuh by locals, was butchered several times throughout the hearing had exceeded its authority under the federal Tobacco Cont