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AFP Foundation files comment opposing Biden Administration’s unconstitutional actions on student loans
By Michael Pepson May 13, 2024 | Today, Americans for Prosperity Foundation filed a comment opposing the Department of Education’s proposal to use a provision of the Higher Education Act of 1965 that authorizes it to “compromise” on or “waive” student debt on case-by-case basis for a limited subset loans to mass cancel broad swaths…
Read MoreAmericans for Prosperity Foundation Opens Investigation into Biden Administration’s Onerous Energy Permitting Regulations
May 10, 2024 | Today Americans for Prosperity Foundation (AFP Foundation) filed FOIA requests seeking records on the Council of Environmental Quality’s recent overreaching revisions to energy permitting regulations. Last May, Congress passed amendments to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) as part of the Fiscal Responsibility Act. The amendments were meant to streamline the…
Read MoreCongress, not bureaucrats, should make federal criminal law
By Michael Pepson Would it surprise you to know that Congress has granted the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) unfettered power to write its own criminal code governing one-tenth of the land in the United States? A Nevada federal court ruled that Congress unconstitutionally transferred its legislative power to write crimes to the BLM. Last…
Read MoreAmericans for Prosperity Foundation Unveils New Report Analyzing Civil Asset Forfeiture Data in Kansas
TOPEKA, KS – Today Americans for Prosperity Foundation (AFPF) released an updated report analyzing civil asset forfeiture data in Kansas. The report follows a U.S. District Court’s judge’s recent opinion accusing the Kansas Highway Patrol of “waging war” on motorists. The court ruled unconstitutional the “Kansas Two Step,” a technique the Kansas Highway Patrol had…
Read MoreAFP Foundation-Mississippi Releases New Report Finding Certificate of Need Laws Leave Patients, Veterans, and Rural Communities Underserved
New AFPF-MS report highlights how CoN laws protect health care monopolies JACKSON, MS—Americans for Prosperity Foundation-Mississippi (AFPF-MS) released a new report highlighting the state’s costly Certificate of Need (CoN) laws that act as an unnecessary barrier for health care providers to treat patients across the Magnolia State. The report is the latest in AFPF’s “Permission to Care“ series analyzing CoN’s…
Read MoreAmericans for Prosperity Foundation Submits Letter for the Record on Defense Production Act Reauthorization
On Tuesday, the House Financial Services Committee held a hearing entitled “Mission Critical: Restoring National Security as the Focus of the Defense Production Act Reauthorization.” The hearing was the House’s first on the Defense Production Act (DPA) in over a decade. The DPA will lapse in 2025 unless reauthorized. Committee Chairman Blaine Luetkemeyer entered a…
Read MoreUnited States v. Pheasant: A Rare Bird That Might Be a Good Vehicle to Revive the Nondelegation Doctrine
Corner Post gives Supreme Court a chance to keep the courthouse doors open to new businesses harmed by stale, lawless regulations
by Michael Pepson Americans for Prosperity Foundation filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in Corner Post, Inc. v. The Federal Reserve, urging the Court to allow Corner Post’s challenge to a 2011 debit-fees regulation that Corner Post believes to be beyond the Board’s power. The question presented may seem dry: when does…
Read MoreAFP Foundation’s Certificate of Need work featured at top policy conference
“Permission to Care,” a multi-state investigation of Certificate of Need laws produced by Americans for Prosperity Foundation, is getting noticed by academics and policy experts, alike. Earlier this month, the report’s co-author, Thomas Kimbrell, presented findings from the investigation at a conference co-hosted by The Knee Center for the Study of Occupational Regulation at West…
Read MoreAFP Foundation highlights civil rights report on civil asset forfeiture reform in the Palmetto State
Last week, the Greenville News, Spartanburg Herald-Journal, and Bluffton Today published an op-ed authored by AFP-Foundation-South Carolina State Director Candace Carroll and me about the harm caused by civil asset forfeiture in South Carolina. The article highlights a recent report from the South Carolina Advisory Committee to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. “The report’s findings…
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