Liberty Coalition Public Letters

Let Protect America Act Sunset

As you know, the Real ID Act was passed as a rider to an emergency supplemental bill in 2005.  It received no hearings and no debate in the full chambers.  Since its passage, Real ID has proved an enormous failure.

At present, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has a monopoly on the production of marijuana for legitimate medical and research purposes in the United States. Judge Bittner found this monopoly to be unjustified, since federal law clearly requires adequate competition in the manufacture of Schedule I and II substances. (See 21 U.S.C. § 823(a)(1); see also 21 C.F.R. § 1301.33(b).)  

Dear Leader Reid:

We are writing to request a commitment from your office to ensure that Congress restores genuine rights for government whistleblowers this year. Your leadership is needed because legislation to amend the Whistleblower Protection Act (WPA) has been paralyzed by a Senate hold, despite strong bipartisan support within the Congress and with voters to pass this good government reform.

The purpose of this letter is to alert Congress to the opportunity it has to protect the health of the American people by protecting a certain section in the "Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Revitalization Act" (S. 1082 and HR 2900), and overriding recent FDA Guidance threatening consumer access to natural therapies.

Accused “mental defects” facing a potential lifetime gun ban deserve at least the same due process rights now afforded to persons facing a potential
temporary domestic restraining order

a bill to greatly expand federal lists of “mentally defective” people. H.R. 297 will result in a large scale unwarranted invasion of the personal privacy of millions of Americans, and an unjustified lifetime deprivation of their civil rights.

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is the public’s most significant tool for ensuring integrity and accountability from the federal government. Unfortunately, FOIA’s promise of ensuring an open and accountable government has been seriously undermined by the excessive processing delays that FOIA requesters face across the government. The OPEN Government Act would: