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WILL Testifies on Civil Forfeiture Reform

Bill safeguards civil liberties, increases transparency Milwaukee, WI – Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL)  Research Fellow Collin Roth testified Tuesday on AB 122/SB 61, a bill to reform Wisconsin’s civil forfeiture laws, in the Assembly Committee on State Affairs. Civil forfeiture is a practice whereby a law enforcement agency can seize, litigate, and…

John Doe Agents Get Legal Counsel – At Taxpayer Expense

By M.D. Kittle MADISON, Wis. – Three former agents in Wisconsin’s infamous “John Doe II” investigation now have attorneys representing them – at state taxpayer expense. Francis Schmitz, who served as special prosecutor in the unconstitutional probe into dozens of conservative groups and Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign, requested and was “appointed special counsel relating to…

FoxConn Facts

By Keith Best Governor Walker was quoted in a tweet; “once upon a time, Democrats claimed to be for goodpaying, family-supporting jobs. Now they seem to find new ways to attack them”. According to Bloomberg News, seven states were in the final bidding war for the Foxconn plant which has ultimately been awarded to Wisconsin…

EPA should ignore anti-coal activists at listening sessions

By Dr. Howard Hayden and Tom HarrisThe first of three new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) public listening sessions on the proposed repeal of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan (CPP) will be held this coming Wednesday in Kansas City, Missouri. Later sessions will be held on February 28 in San Francisco and March 27 in Gillette,…

Above the Law

At 2AM Friday morning, January 26th, 2018, the morally challenged Sterling Brown and a “party girl,” stopped at the Walgreens at 26th and National to pick up a pack of condoms.  (Unlike liberal talk show hosts, I do not commend him.) Brown doubled parked, and when he was issued a ticket, he started pushing a…