AUGUSTA - The debate over Maine Attorney General Bill Schneider's decision to join a lawsuit against President Obama's health care reform package intensified on Wednesday even as members of Congress considered a bill to repeal the law. About 75 people gathered outside of the State House Wednesday for a rally to decry Maine's potential participation in the multistate lawsuit as well as Republican-led efforts in the Legislature to block implementation of the law in the state.
Organizations Hand-Picked by Justice Department Reap Large Financial Rewards from Lawsuits to which They Have No Official Connection WASHINGTON, Nov. 9, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) to obtain information about a DOJ policy that directs large sums of cash settlements from DOJ Civil Rights Division discrimination lawsuits to organizations that are not officially connected to these lawsuits (Judicial Watch v U.S. Department of Justice (No. 10-1783)). According to Judicial Watch's lawsuit, filed on October 25, 2010:
Maine and five more states joined a lawsuit in Florida against President Barack Obama's health care overhaul on Tuesday, meaning more than half of the country is challenging the law. Maine Attorney General William Schneider has asked the state of Florida to petition the federal court in that state to allow Maine and five other states to join the multistate lawsuit challenging some provisions of the Affordable Care Act.
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration's federal health care law late Friday afternoon, saying it violated the state constitution. Pruitt's lawsuit makes Oklahoma the 28th state to challenge the individual mandate provision of the federal health care act.
Who is running the Justice Department? WASHINGTON, March 24, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it filed a lawsuit on March 9, 2011, against the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) to obtain records detailing contacts between DOJ and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) over a voter intimidation lawsuit filed against the New Black Panther Party for Self Defense. Kristen Clark, a representative of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, reportedly met with representatives from DOJ to discuss the lawsuit just prior to DOJ's decision to drop the case.
The defamation lawsuit filed by a former Obama administration official against conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart promises to test the application of traditional libel laws in an emerging media landscape in which blogs and social networking websites have taken the place of newspapers and television broadcasts. Media and legal observers say the case bears watching because of that, but that it largely will hinge on well-established law and precedents despite its high-tech setting.
Few affronts to the First Amendment have been so menacing and wrongheaded as the advocacy for freedom from religion - a freedom we do not have. And few individuals have done more to counter this threat than President Barack Obama, a warrior for prayer. The Gazette can praise few aspects of this presidency to date, but Obama has been stalwart in his defense of religious liberty. It's a significant contribution to keeping our country free. The Freedom From Religious Foundation, which seeks to silence religious people, filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration in an effort to end the President's National Day of Prayer. The foundation is an organization of atheists and secularists who believe they have a right to government-enforced protections from the sights and sounds of religious...
MADISON, Wis. - A federal appeals court has thrown out a ruling that the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional and ordered that the lawsuit against it be dismissed. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the Madison, Wis.-based Freedom From Religion Foundation did not have standing to bring the lawsuit against President Barack Obama.
Judicial Watch Files Amicus Brief on Behalf of Arizona State Legislature in Support of State of Arizona Supreme Court Petition WASHINGTON, Sept. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has filed an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the Arizona State Legislature, supporting Arizona's petition to the Supreme Court to review the Obama administration's lawsuit against SB 1070, Arizona's illegal immigration enforcement law. On April 11, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld an injunction against enforcement of some of the law's provisions, prompting the State of Arizona's petition. (State of Arizona and Janice ...
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