Severability and Obamacare

By: Ben Domenech (Diary)  |  August 17th at 02:00 PM  | 

Several state legislators have reached out to me recently with questions about the nature of severability and Obamacare. Since some Redstaters seem to have questions as well, I thought I’d explain a bit about what this means. Most laws of large size and scope have something called a “severability clause” attached to them. Essentially, this means that if one part of a piece of large | Read More »

VA AG Cuccinelli to invoke Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act over Climategate?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 5th at 10:27 AM  | 

Could be, could be: Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is invoking a state anti-fraud law to demand the University of Virginia turn over years worth of documents related to climate scientist Michael Mann, targeting about $500,000 in grants that funded Mann’s studies. Cuccinelli, a Republican who is separately suing the federal government over regulation of carbon emissions, issued the school a civil subpoena late last | Read More »