Police Killing Qualified Immunity Reforms Across the Country
With a police reform movement growing across the U.S., there has been an increase in efforts to eliminate the qualified immunity defense for police officers through state reforms. But various police lobbies aggressively opposed these efforts and defeated dozens of...
Texas Towns Avoid Some Federal Mandates By Rejecting Federal Money
BRADY, Texas (Nov. 5, 2021) – The federal government imposes all kinds of mandates and regulations on states and localities through requirements attached to federal funding. More than 60 Texas cities have avoided some of these strings by rejecting federal...
Feds Set Spending Record in Fiscal 2021; Ran Second-Largest Budget Deficit in History
With economies shut down and the U.S. government spending trillions in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the federal government ran a record $3.13 trillion deficit in fiscal 2020. The pandemic eased and economies opened back up in fiscal 2021, and you would expect...