[FREEBEACON] A libertarian nonprofit group is seeking damages from the U.S. Virgin Islands’ chief law enforcement officer, alleging a politically motivated legal campaign designed to stifle the group’s policy advocacy activities.
Attorneys representing the Competitive Enterprise Institute filed a motion in a Washington, D.C. court on Monday alleging that Virgin Islands Attorney General Claude Walker violated a D.C. law designed to prevent frivolous legal actions targeting policy groups’ rights to free speech and government redress.
The motion is the latest chapter in a developing legal battle between conservative and industry groups that oppose Democratic attorneys general in 17 states who are pursuing racketeering charges against oil giant Exxon Mobil.
Walker subpoenaed CEI last month as part of the anti-Exxon campaign. He demanded a decade’s worth of internal documents and communications about the group’s work on energy and environmental policy.
Andrew Grossman, a BakerHostetler attorney representing CEI, called the subpoena "offensive," "unlawful," and "un-American" in an April reply. He vowed to fight the subpoena, which was filed in D.C., where CEI is headquartered.
An attorney representing a group of AGs, including Walker, in their Exxon probe replied on Friday, telling CEI that it is abandoning its subpoena but reserving the right to restart the effort at any point in the future.In response, Grossman and his BakerHostetler colleague David Rivkin filed a motion to vacate the subpoena entirely. They are also asking the court to reimburse CEI for its legal fees and levy additional penalties on Walker’s office as a means of discouraging abuses of the D.C. legal system.
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Fight government harassment. Go big, personal and publicize the conflict. Otherwise they will have their SWAT goons kicking down your door.
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Good. AGs like New York's and California's are using thuggish law tactics for shameless self-promotion. Make it hurt them professionally and personally for the abuse
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It is time to RICO that conspiracy of Attorney Generals. There is obviously a conspiracy here and the goal is clearly unconstitutional. Why not go after them.
[ENDINGTHEFED] We had a brief romantic fling when I lived with John in Manhattan and Hillary was studying at Yale, but eventually we lost touch. I am amazed how things are going well for her and wish her the best for her campaign” she told reporters during the press conference. "but eventually we lost touch"....???
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Boy. Not 15 minutes ago I left a safe area with my friends, and now I think I need to go back over there!
[Powerline] At a campaign stop in Kentucky, Hillary Clinton told the crowd that if she were president, she would put her husband Bill "in charge of revitalizing the economy." The impulse is understandable. The economy of the 1990s was good, or seemed to be prior to the collapse of the dot com bubble.
But Hillary’s promise to bring back Bill and put him "in charge of" the economy is, I think, a horrible blunder. Here’s why.
First, it undermines the entire rationale of Hillary’s candidacy. Donald Trump responded appropriately:
"Crooked Hillary said her husband is going to be in charge of the economy.If so, he should run,not her.Will he bring the "energizer" to D.C.?"
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Since she's repudiated most of his economic and social initiatives, why vote for her them?
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If she puts Bill in charge of the economy she better arrange to get Newt in charge of the House of Representatives to stop Bill from doing anything and the Soviets to come crashing down again so we can re-purpose money previously spent on the military into the economy.
It was the combo of the three that led to the good days during Bill's economy.
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The "energizer"? A lot of folks will think that's a new nickname for Willy, not for one of his groupies.
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Whether that did her campaign any good remains to be seen. As of a few minutes ago she had less than 2,000 more votes than Senator Sanders, with 99% of the count completed. Were I he I'd challenge everything possible, and then demand a recount , especially in those precincts that had more votes than registered voters. On the other hand, that requires a strong local team, not what the Bern! campaign has done well thus far.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[ENDINGTHEFED] We had a brief romantic fling when I lived with John in Manhattan and Hillary was studying at Yale, but eventually we lost touch. I am amazed how things are going well for her and wish her the best for her campaign” she told reporters during the press conference.
