June 30, 2022, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following on the conclusion of the Supreme Court’s 2021 term which included West Virginia v. EPA, Kennedy v. Bremerton School Dist., New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn., Inc. v. Bruen and Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization:

“Today ends the most consequential Supreme Court term in more than a generation, as the Court eviscerated the power of the administrative state to contrive regulations outside the intent of Congress in the West Virginia v. EPA case, ended the federal legal onslaught against the free exercise of religion in the Kennedy, made it clear that individual liberties enumerated in the Constitution extend across state lines in the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association case, while rejecting the Court’s power to write legislation by ending the inferred right to abortion and returning the issue to the states in the Dobbs case.

“This Court restored individual First and Second Amendment rights, federalism and took a giant swipe at the power of the Article II executive branch of government to write laws through regulation.

“It is a great day in America and as we head into Independence Day weekend, the fireworks will shine a little brighter and pop a little louder as they proclaim the reclaimed freedom primarily due to the efforts, clarity and vision of Associate Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh. America is more free today than it was six months ago, and all liberty loving Americans should look at this day as a watershed in turning the tide against the ever-encroaching administrative state’s encroachment on individual liberty.”

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June 29, 2022, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement urging opposition to “American Innovation and Choice Online Act”:

“I have a great deal of respect for Representative Ken Buck, (R-Colo.), but I cannot understand why he would be pushing a Democrat anti-trust bill which does not include prohibitions on social media censorship of conservative viewpoints. Yet that is exactly what Representative Buck is doing in his on-going support for the ‘American Innovation and Choice Online Act’ (AICOA).

“Buck himself admitted that President Joe Biden will not sign a bill that, ‘harms the kind of censorship that the Democrats have appreciated in the last few years.’

“In plain terms, Biden won’t sign any bill that stops social media censorship of conservative thought. Not a surprise given that this administration (Department of Homeland Security) has admitted to working with social media companies to censor speech related to 2020 election security and COVID on their website. And it is this same agency which was pushing to have a Disinformation Governance Board to coordinate government wide social media censorship efforts of conservatives.

“So the question seems obvious.  Why would any Republican support without precondition giving the federal government more power over social media companies knowing that the Biden administration is already leveraging those companies to shutter speech on the right?

“They shouldn’t.  Americans for Limited Government urges every member of Congress, including Rep. Ken Buck, to join us in opposing passage of the American Innovation and Choice Online Act.”

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June 24, 2022, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement responding to the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision that returns the question of abortion law to the states:

“In 1973, Roe v Wade was wrongly decided by the Court, as the right to an abortion wholly contrived by activist judges. The Dobbs decisions rightfully returns this question to the states. Interestingly, with Democrats holding a 60-vote majority in the Senate and a substantial majority in the House in 2010, they never attempted to codify Roe into federal law, leaving the Court with no other choice but to return the issue to the states. If the left wants to blame anyone for today’s, they should look to Speaker Nancy Pelosi squarely in the eye, ‘Why didn’t you try to put it into federal law?’ The only thing for the Court to consider were state laws, and what the limit to those are. In this case, with a solid 6-3 ruling, the Court ruled that’s states is where the issue will remain for the next generation. Suddenly state legislature and gubernatorial races just became a lot more interesting as abortion laws will be decided in State Capitols.”

Attachments:

Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf#page=8 “The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. The Court overrules those decisions and returns that authority to the people and their elected representatives.”

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June 16, 2022, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement responding to President Joe Biden’s June 14 speech to the AFL-CIO, when he stated in part that “I don’t want to hear anymore of these lies about reckless spending. We’re changing people’s lives!… by the end of the fiscal year, we will have cut the federal deficit by another $1.6 trillion — in one year.”:

“President Joe Biden may be tired of hearing about how his reckless spending has played a major role in spiraling inflation in Americans’ day to day lives, but he can’t run away from the facts. When he took office inflation was 1.4 percent, but today, inflation is raging at 8.6 percent and is in no way transitory. Home mortgage rates were at 2.6 percent, now they are up over 6 percent. And real wages that were up 4 percent in 2020 are now down 3 percent the past 12 months.

“If Joe Biden were to be honest that our nation in 2020 faced an unprecedented crisis where $3.1 trillion dollars were spent above and beyond the budget in an attempt to restore the economy that was deliberately tanked due to Covid, and that he mistakenly insisted on spending another $2.4 trillion in 2021 on Covid and infrastructure, then he would have to admit culpability in the nation’s current stagflation.

“In the absurd world of Washington, D.C., Joe Biden bragged in the same speech that the deficit was cut more under him than at any time in history. While technically true, every sentient person in America knows that the budget deficit was reduced due to spending less money on the Covid crisis and not because of any action taken by President Biden. In fact, it was Sen. Joe Manchin and the Republicans in the Senate who refused to spend an additional $3 trillion on Build Back Better, with Manchin noting that inflation was out of control due to reckless spending. Incidentally, the White House Office of Management and Budget projects that 2022 will have the third largest deficit in American history at $1.4 trillion.”

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June 9, 2022, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to a letter by Senators Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Aleandro Mayorkas after a whistleblower revealed that the Department of Homeland Security’s disinformation efforts predate 2022:

“The U.S. Congress needs to repeal language in the CISA Act of 2018 that authorized the Department of Homeland Security to coordinate censorship with the private sector in the first place. It is impossible to reconcile the First Amendment rights of citizens with a federal government that by its own admission is ‘routing disinformation concerns to appropriate social media platforms’. Senators Hawley and Grassley have done a great job in continuing to pursue this issue. As these whistleblower documents clearly show, DHS and CISA have been censoring Americans’ speech through their social media sycophants well before anyone had heard of the Disinformation Governance Board. The scary part is that the law establishing CISA allowed and continues to allow them to do it and Congress must rip the language authorizing censorship through social media coordination out by the roots.”

Attachments:

“Congress authorized DHS and CISA’s Disinformation Governance Board activities—in 2018,” By Robert Romano, May 2, 2022 at https://dailytorch.com/2022/05/congress-authorized-dhs-and-cisas-disinformation-governance-board-activities-in-2018/

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June 6, 2022, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement blasting President Joe Biden for invoking the Defense Production Act to implement the Green New Deal’s plan to retrofit every building in America with solar panels, heat pumps, transformers and new building insulation:

“President Biden’s executive orders invoking the National Defense Production Act to produce solar panels, insulation and heat pumps are little more than an attempt to implement the Green New Deal’s plan to retrofit every building in America without any Congressional authorization. Fortunately, Congressional Republicans this spring blocked Biden’s attempt to get a blank check from Congress in the Ukraine war supplemental to reprogram Defense Department dollars to the Defense Production Act Fund and another bill that would have explicitly granted $100 billion for purpose, both of which would have created ready slush funds for Biden to implement the Green New Deal.

“One thing is abundantly clear, there is no national emergency related to any shortage of heat pumps, insulation or solar panels, and thus this is an inappropriate exercise of the Defense Production Act’s powers. Congress must remain vigilant to ensure that this broad grant of authority to the President over our nation’s economic system is not abused to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to implement the Green New Deal.”

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May 31, 2022, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to the jury’s not guilty verdict of former DNC, Clinton campaign and Perkins Coie lawyer Michael Sussman:

“Michael Sussman clearly lied to the General Counsel of the FBI when he claimed that he was not acting on behalf of his client — the Hillary Clinton Campaign — in arranging an appointment for him to deliver phony Clinton campaign opposition research to the FBI that falsely alleged that former President Donald Trump was a Russian agent.

“Unfortunately, today’s Washington, D.C.-based federal jury’s verdict serves more as an indictment of the jury itself and the idea that Republicans and Democrats can expect to receive equal treatment in the swamp. According to Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley, the jury included three Clinton donors, an AOC donor and a person whose daughter played on a sports team with Sussman’s kid, and somehow, these jurors were deemed ‘neutral.’

“The only plausible way to end the dominance of left-wing juries in D.C. and Alexandria, Va. is to create a vehicle to move all federal election and politically charged cases outside of the confines of the Washington, D.C. metro area. In the meantime, I don’t know if this finishes any hope of getting to the bottom of the Clinton campaign, DNC, Justice Department combined successful effort in perpetuating the Russian Collusion hoax, what I do know is that those who subverted our law enforcement and intelligence agencies to further their political ends in cahoots with the Clinton team are breathing much easier today than they were yesterday.”

Attachments:

“Sussmann brought fake Trump-Russia Alfa Bank allegations to the Clinton campaign almost two months before he gave them to the FBI,” By Robert Romano, May 31, 2022 at https://dailytorch.com/2022/05/sussmann-brought-fake-trump-russia-alfa-bank-allegations-to-the-clinton-campaign-almost-two-months-before-he-gave-them-to-the-fbi/

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May 18, 2022, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to the Department of Homeland Security’s announcement it is pausing the Disinformation Governance Board:

“Today’s Department of Homeland Security decision to pause the Disinformation Governance Board is a small but somewhat meaningless step. The law that authorized the creation of CISA in 2018 allowed for disinformation communications to be relayed to private sector social media companies. Now, with this announcement, Congress needs to focus its efforts related to censorship at DHS entirely by eliminating or defunding the language allowing communications to be issued to private sector social media companies and other interactive computer services. Failure to rip the authorizing law out by the roots that allows the censorship in violation of the First Amendment in the first place will make today’s announcement a Pyrrhic victory at best.”

Attachments:

“DHS’ Mayorkas tells Sen. Rand Paul that the Disinformation Governance Board is ‘not the truth police’, but his own website says DHS ‘rout[es] disinformation concerns to… social media’” By Robert Romano, May 5, 2022 at https://dailytorch.com/2022/05/dhs-mayorkas-tells-sen-rand-paul-that-the-disinformation-governance-board-is-not-the-truth-police-but-his-own-website-says-dhs-routes-disinformation-concerns-to/

“The Truth Police,” Americans for Limited Government, May 12, 2022 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n2I0t9MAuQ

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