Dec. 22, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement blasting the Justice Department for filing a lawsuit against Walmart over the prescription of opioids by licensed doctors:

“Today rogue career Justice Department employees filed a lawsuit against Walmart based upon their failure to follow legal theories that have been presented in DEA Power Point presentations related to the sale of opioids to the public. President Trump made it clear over a year ago to agencies that guidance letters and other non-formal legal renderings needed to be consolidated into actual rules and regulations that everyone could know, follow and challenge. Rather than engaging in this basic following of the Administrative Procedures Act, DOJ is attempting to have courts write laws that they would never be able to sustain if subjected to scrutiny.

“The opioid crisis is real. But pharmacies like Walmart are trapped between patient lobbies and state laws that insist that legal doctor prescriptions be filled and the U.S. Department of Justice attorneys more intent on getting a big score than on legitimately solving the problem. Ultimately, laws in this country are not made by social media people creating Power Points. There is a process, the Justice Department failed to follow it and in doing so, failed to follow a direct Executive Order by President Trump demanding they end the practice of making laws through what are essentially private letters and press releases. Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen needs to make it a top priority on Dec. 23 to enforce the Trump executive order and end this prosecutorial abuse by his attorneys. Americans are sick of a rogue Justice Department breaking laws to suit their own purposes and I for one am glad that Walmart is standing up for the rule of law rather than the rule of D.C. bureaucrats.”

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Dec. 18, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising Senate Republicans for the holding line on spending in the phase four Covid economic relief legislation:

“Senate Republicans have done their job during the most recent phase four economic relief spendathon by holding the line against poorly run state government bailouts, adding dollars to protect small businesses and working families who are struggling through no fault of their own, and resisting Nancy Pelosi’s $3 trillion spending siren song.

“It feels odd to be praising a spending bill that still will consume as much as a third of all the revenues collected in fiscal year 2020 as having restraint, but in today’s Washington, D.C. where a trillion dollars seems to have no weight or relevance in the overall discussion, Senate Republicans have done what was necessary to support the U.S. economy and the American people during Covid, while avoiding multiple trillion-dollar mistakes.

“It is likely that Covid spending will be revisited in the spring of 2021 no matter who is the president. And if those governors who keep crying about the self-inflicted loss of revenues want assistance, their economies will be open, and that assistance should rightly be given to the businesses that are creating the jobs necessary to recover from this pandemic, and not to the public employee union members who get paid not to work.”

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Dec. 14, 2020, Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement in response to the submission of electors for President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada:

“The decision by Trump electors and state legislatures in the contested states Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada to file alternate electors in opposition to the fraudulent certification of votes in the presidential election is an important step towards reconciling the election results with the legal votes actually cast. As more and more fraud is unearthed, particularly in the wake of the court-ordered audit of Dominion voting systems by Allied Security Operations Group in Antrim County, Michigan, which found that the maligned voting devices were essentially set up to enable vote switching, it is clear that there is much more to learn on the big election steal of 2020. Stay tuned, the election correction is still underway.”

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Fairfax, Va.—Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning today issued the following statement praising President Donald Trump and his administration for achieving a fourth peace agreement with Israel, this time with Morocco, effectively normalizing relations between the two countries:

“Donald Trump continues to prove to be the greatest peace President in modern American history, as he has just announced a fourth peace deal between Israel and Morocco. The prior peace and normalization agreements with United Arab Emirates, Sudan and Bahrain and Israel set the stage for the opportunity of a generation to put finally the Middle East at peace. Of course, this requires that whoever is President on Jan. 20, 2021 doesn’t fumble the ball by throwing the United States back into the arms of the Ayatollahs in Iran.

“It is incumbent upon Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who has a long history of supporting Israel, to demand that a potential Biden administration move forward with a winning peace process rather than gazing back longingly to their failed policies of the past. No matter the outcome of various election disputes, today’s announcement demonstrates that Donald Trump continues to be the most consequential President this century. It would be a shame if his peace legacy was abandoned by a China-bowing Biden stuck in the 1990s foreign policy establishment construct.”

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ALG Urges State Attorneys General to Join Legal Challenge

Fairfax, Va. – The State of Texas has filed a lawsuit directly with the U.S. Supreme Court challenging the election procedures in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin on the grounds they violate the Constitution. Texas is asking the Supreme Court to order the states to allow their legislatures to appoint their electors.

The Texas lawsuit makes these three arguments:

• the states violated the Electors Clause of the Constitution because they made changes to voting rules and procedures through the courts or through executive actions, but not through the state legislatures;
• there were differences in voting rules and procedures in different counties within the states, violating the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause;
• there were “voting irregularities” in these states as a result of the above actions.

Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning is urging state attorneys general to join the lawsuit or file a friend-of-the-court brief in support of the challenge.

“There is clear and compelling evidence the states targeted in this lawsuit violated the Constitution,” said Manning. “These states used the Covid pandemic to justify ignoring state absentee and mail-in voting laws. In flooding their states with millions of absentee ballot applications and ballots, statutory controls went out the window.

“For the sake of not only this election, but all future elections, I urge state attorneys general to support this lawsuit. If Americans don’t trust the result of this election, how can they trust the result of any future elections? Our republic is at stake.”

Texas approached the Supreme Court directly because Article III provides that it is the court of first impression on subjects where it has original jurisdiction, such as disputes between two or more states.

To view the Texas lawsuit, click here.

For the sake of not only this election, but all future elections, I urge state attorneys general to support this lawsuit. If Americans don’t trust the result of this election, how can they trust the result of any future elections? Our republic is at stake.”

— Americans for Limited Government LimitGov Tuesday, December 8, 2020

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“Under a new surprise billing proposal, Democrats would actually cut resources for our frontline healthcare workers”

Fairfax, Va. – Today, Americans for Limited Government announced a new cable TV ad buy urging Congress to reject a dangerous government rate-setting proposal that would defund frontline doctors in the midst of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. Big health insurance companies and their allies in Congress are taking advantage of a massive end-of-year spending package to force price controls into healthcare. If passed, the proposal will devastate rural healthcare providers by leading to doctor shortages and hospital closures.

“Congressional Democrats clearly haven’t learned their lesson from the 2020 election,” said Americans for Limited Government President Richard Manning. “Defunding those who protect us from harm is not only dangerous policy, the political ramifications are serious as well. Congress should address surprise medical billing, but massive pay cuts for our doctors on the frontlines at the height of the pandemic is not a credible solution. Defunding our doctors would only result in harming patients and our healthcare system. It is absurd that Nancy Pelosi wants to punish the very healthcare providers who have been the true heroes of this pandemic. Her callousness knows no end.”

The ad, titled “Defund,” will run in the Washington D.C. market on Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC.

 

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Faifax, Va. – NTD News is reporting that a Securities and Exchange Commission filing reveals the Communist Chinese government purchased Dominion Voting Systems one month before the November 3 election.

“If true, a report that the Communist Chinese government bought Dominion voting is beyond stunning.  It appears that the Chinese government purchased one of the key electronic voting systems companies through a New York subsidiary of UBS Bank.  The subsidiary has multiple board members with deep ties to the Chinese government.  The implications of this revelation, which was first brought to light by attorney Lin Wood, are almost difficult to fathom as it calls into question everything we think we know about the integrity of our elections.

“In a nutshell, the Chinese didn’t hack our elections, they purchased the machines that processed our elections. No state with fraud contentions should certify any electors to the Electoral College as this true bombshell combined with the massive ballot box stuffing operation conducted by some local elections officials make it truly impossible to certify electors for any presidential candidate.”

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