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Landmark Legal Foundation president and Talk Radio powerhouse Mark Levin promised today that his foundation will file suit in federal court challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare if it is approved in the House using the Slaughter Solution. “Landmark has already prepared a lawsuit that will be filed in federal court the moment the House acts. Such a brazen violation of the core functions of Congress simply cannot be ignored. Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution is clear respecting the manner in which a bill becomes law. Members are required to vote on this bill, not claim they did when...

The Landmark Legal Foundation announced today: (LEESBURG, VA, MARCH 17, 2010)…Mark R. Levin, president of Landmark Legal Foundation, today issued a warning to the leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives about the possible use of the so-called “deem and pass,” “self-executing,” or “Slaughter Rule” to enact H.R. 3590, the legislative version of President Obama’s healthcare proposal that has been previously approved by the Senate. If this tactic is employed, Landmark will immediately sue the President, Attorney General Eric Holder and other relevant cabinet members to prevent them from instituting this unconstitutional contrivance. Read the rest and view the draft...

Our guest this weekend is nationally syndicated talk show Mark Levin who hosts "The Mark Levin Show." He is also the author of two books, "Men in Black" in 2005 and "Rescuing Sprite: A Dog Lovers Story of Joy and Anguish" in 2007. He is also president of the Landmark Legal Foundation, a legal advocacy group. Mr. Levin held various positions in the Reagan Administration, including Chief of Staff to Attorney General Ed Meese.

September 02, 2007, 0:00 a.m. Culture of Corruption Looking beyond “courageous” Craig assessments. By Mark R. Levin So, Larry Craig is gone. He solicited sex without actually soliciting sex or having sex. He pled guilty, but not to lewd behavior — to disorderly conduct (a misdemeanor). He is said to have a secret life involving same sex partners, but where are all these partners? According to one report, a guy in college believes Craig hit on him in 1967. Another says he “believes” he performed oral sex on the senator in a restroom at Union Station. He’s not 100-percent sure....

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Eric Christensen October 27, 2005 703-554-6100 703-554-6119 (fax) eric@landmarklegal.org www.landmarklegal.org (LEESBURG, VA)…Landmark Legal Foundation won a significant victory recently when it forced the California Teachers Union (CTA) to offer full refunds to nonunion, fee paying teachers for a special $60 per teacher assessment that the union is using to fund a $50 million campaign to defeat ballot initiatives in the November 5 special election. Landmark filed a complaint on September 14 with the California Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) documenting how the union’s special assessment would be used to retire a $50 million debt amassed for...

Earlier today there was a thread about Mark Levin requesting all kinds of info from the Texas DA's office....what happened?

BY FIRST CLASS MAIL AND FACSIMILE Fax: (512) 854-9695 October 4, 2005 Mr. Ronnie Earle District Attorney Travis County 509 W.11th St. Austin, TX 78701 APPLICATION FOR PRODUCTION OF PUBLIC INFORMATION Dear Mr. Earle: This is an application for production of public information pursuant to Sec. 552.221 of the Texas Public Information Act. Landmark Legal Foundation (“Landmark”) requests that that your office provide copies of requested material to Landmark’s Leesburg, Virginia address pursuant to Sec. 552.221(b)(2). The following information is sought from your office: REQUESTED INFORMATION 1. For the time period January 1, 2000 to October 4, 2005: Any and...

Q&A by Kathryn Jean Lopez Radio talk-show listeners know Mark R. "F. Lee" Levin well. President of the Landmark Legal Foundation, Levin is a frequent guest on/fill-in host on the Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity shows. He's also got his own show on weeknights in New York (WABC). But his first love is the Constitution, and that's the focus of his new book, Men in Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America. In Men in Black, Levin gives a brief, accessible history of judicial activism and offers possible solutions to curb it. Levin talked to NRO editor Kathryn Lopez...

In furtherance of Jonathan Adler's point, if you go to Landmark Legal Foundation's website you will find thousands of environmental groups that receive government grants. The Washington Post has used scores of these groups in its news stories. Does the Washington Post have a policy of disclosing the groups' government connections in its news pages? Not that I can discern. When the groups' representatives are on radio and TV shows, do they disclose that they've received money from the government? Not that I can discern. And when Kurtz took an incredibly lame slap at (my friend, associate, advisory board member,...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Rush Limbaugh and the American Civil Liberties Union do not agree about much, but they are in accord that the conservative radio commentator's medical records should be off-limits to prosecutors. The Florida ACLU filed court papers yesterday supporting Limbaugh's argument that investigators violated his constitutional right to privacy when they seized his medical records in November to investigate whether he violated drug laws when he purchased prescription painkillers. "It may seem odd that the ACLU has come to the defense of Rush Limbaugh," the state chapter's executive director, Howard Simon, said in a statement. "But...

School's out, but the nation's teacher unions will be working overtime this summer to help elect John Kerry president. The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) will host John Kerry at their convention next month, and the National Education Association (NEA) has launched a new ad campaign in several battleground states to attack President Bush's education record. The ads claim the president's No Child Left Behind Act "forces teachers to drill students for standardized tests," which, it contends, "hurts kids today and limits them in the future." Teacher union members will be the biggest single contingent of delegates to the Democratic...

"No school left behind by a few absentees" was the recent headline of a news story that told of how President Bush's "No Child Left Behind" education bill is being "tweaked" because of its requirement that all students must eventually pass federally mandated tests when, in fact, nearly 300 middle and high schools in New Jersey fell short. In the third "adjustment" to the law since the start of this year, Rod Paige, US Secretary of Education, announced in March that schools would be allowed to "average their participation rates" over three years. This takes into account that some students...

The next shoe to drop in the Gorelick-gate scandal may be a still-classified report on the Millennium bomb plot that faults Gorelick's "wall" of separation between prosecutors and intelligence gatherers for nearly blowing the Millennium Bomb Plot probe. Writing in National Review Online, Landmark Legal Foundation President Mark Levin notes that the Commission is sitting on a damaging post-Millennium-Plot report that chronicles the impact of Gorelick's terrorist-friendly directive, which Attorney General John Ashcroft alluded to on during his Wednesday testimony. Dubbed the Millennium After Action Review by the Clinton National Security Council, Ashcroft said the report chronicles how al...

<p>Pressure is growing for Jamie S. Gorelick to resign from the September 11 commission for what the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee has called "an inherent conflict of interest."</p> <p>Ms. Gorelick, who served in the No. 2 position in the Clinton Justice Department under Attorney General Janet Reno, was the author of a 1995 directive to the FBI, which repeatedly has been cited in testimony as a major hindrance to antiterrorism efforts prior to the 2001 attacks.</p>

WASHINGTON (AP) - House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner called on Jamie Gorelick to resign from the Sept. 11 commission Wednesday, citing a memo she wrote as a deputy attorney general on separating counterintelligence from criminal investigations. "Scrutiny of this policy lies at the heart of the commission's work," said Sensenbrenner, R-Wis. "Ms. Gorelick has an inherent conflict of interest as the author of this memo and as a government official at the center of the events in questions." On Tuesday, Attorney General John Ashcroft released the declassified 1995 memo from Gorelick containing instructions that "more clearly separate" counterintelligence from...

Thomas H. Kean, Chair Lee H. Hamilton, Vice Chair National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States 301 7th Street, SW Room 5125 Washington, DC 20407 Dear Messrs. Kean and Hamilton: Landmark Legal Foundation, a national public interest law firm that specializes in government accountability, formally requests that the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States ("Commission") request that Ms. Jamie S. Gorelick step aside as a Commission member. Ms. Gorelick is hopelessly conflicted in her role as a Commission member, given the numerous issues about which she has knowledge resulting from her service as Deputy Attorney...

<p>WASHINGTON — A teachers union that spends heavily to support political candidates is acknowledging for the first time that the government is investigating whether all its expenditures have been reported.</p> <p>National Education Association (search) general counsel Bob Chanin confirmed the Labor Department investigation began in April 2002, the same month a conservative law firm complained to the Bush administration that millions of dollars in political spending went unreported.</p>

Prosecutors rebuked in Limbaugh inquiry By Peter Franceschina Staff Writer January 29, 2004 The general counsel for the Florida Attorney General's Office criticized Palm Beach County prosecutors Wednesday, asserting they mischaracterized the office's input into the prosecutors' decision to release documents last week in the Rush Limbaugh investigation. The letter gave fresh ammunition to Limbaugh and his attorney Roy Black in their attacks against Palm Beach County State Attorney Barry Krischer for his handling of the prescription drug investigation. Also on Wednesday, a conservative public-interest law firm that supports Limbaugh filed ethics complaints with The Florida Bar against Krischer and...

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Limbaugh's pill use not extraordinary, lawyer says BY DANIEL de VISE ddevise@herald.com Rush Limbaugh's attorney mounted an offensive Monday, accusing Palm Beach County prosecutors of smear tactics and likening his client to any ordinary American with chronic pain. ''This nation is full of people who take medication every day and will do so for the rest of their lives,'' said Roy Black, speaking in a news conference in Miami. Discussing the prescription-drug abuse allegations in unprecedented detail, Black reasoned that the quantity of medicine Limbaugh is accused of ingesting -- 1,800 pills in 210 days -- works out to roughly...

Levin's Landmark Files Suit, Seeks Source of Rush LeaksLandmark Legal Foundation today filed a freedom of information request with the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office (SAO) seeking any and all information of communications to or from the SAO or any of its employees and outside individuals or groups relating to Rush Limbaugh. Mark R. Levin, president of Landmark, stated: "We want to know why Palm Beach County State Attorney Barry Krischer waited 10 months before investigating allegations against Rush Limbaugh – only after stories appeared in the National Enquirer. We're concerned that once the story became public, Mr. Krischer,...

Landmark Legal Foundation today filed a freedom of information request with the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office (SAO) seeking any and all information of communications to or from the SAO or any of its employees and outside individuals or groups relating to Rush Limbaugh. Mark R. Levin, President of Landmark, stated: "We want to know why Palm Beach County State Attorney Barry Krischer waited 10-months before investigating allegations against Rush Limbaugh -- only after stories appeared in the National Enquirer. We're concerned that once the story became public, Mr. Krischer, an elected prosecutor, may have been pressured to use...

This is an excerpt Conservative public-interest law firm suggests 'journalist shopping,' seeks records from State Attorney's Office. A conservative public-interest law firm is seeking records from the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office, in an attempt to determine if the office has planted negative stories in the media about an investigation into Rush Limbaugh.

LANDMARK LEGAL FOUNDATION January 15, 2004 Mr. Barry Krischer State Attorney Palm Beach County 401 North Dixie Highway West Palm Beach, Florida 33401 Mr. Steve Yeaw Custodian of Records Palm Beach County 401 North Dixie Highway West Palm Beach, Florida 33401 BY FIRST CLASS MAIL AND FACSIMILE Re: Request for Expedited Production of Public Records Dear Messrs. Krischer and Yeaw: This is a request for public records pursuant to the Florida Public Records Act, Ch. 119, Florida Statutes. This request seeks all public records in the custody of the State Attorney's Office ("SAO") for the County of Palm Beach, or...

Landmark Legal Foundation Seeks Documents from Palm Beach Prosecutor [ 2004-01-15 ] HERNDON, Va., Jan. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Landmark Legal Foundation today filed a freedom of information request with the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office (SAO) seeking any and all information of communications to or from the SAO or any of its employees and outside individuals or groups relating to Rush Limbaugh. Mark R. Levin, President of Landmark, stated: "We want to know why Palm Beach County State Attorney Barry Krischer waited 10-months before investigating allegations against Rush Limbaugh -- only after stories appeared in the National Enquirer. We're...

The nation's largest teachers' union may soon come to regret the educational-policy buzzwords "accountability" and "testing." The Internal Revenue Service is currently auditing the National Education Association and students of the NEA's political practices are betting that the powerful union's "new math" approach to its returns will flunk under long-overdue examination. A convincing stack of documents collected by the Landmark Legal Foundation reveals that for the past ten years the millions of tax-exempt funds that the 2.7-million-member union spends on political activity has wound up amounting to "zero" on its tax returns. "The IRS is potentially in the position, if...

12/14/00 1:05 p.m. What We Have Wrought The costs of winning. By Mark R. Levin, president, Landmark Legal Foundation oday's Washington Post, in an article titled "Court May Have Mapped New Territory," reports that "The Supreme Court's ruling in Bush v. Gore could have implications well beyond this year's presidential election, expanding the constitutional guarantee of equal protection of the laws in a way that — if the court sticks to its analysis — could significantly increase the federal role in state election law disputes. By holding that the equal-protection clause can be applied to the way votes are counted,...

<p>Throughout the past decade, the National Education Association (NEA), the nation's largest teachers' union, has spent tens of millions of dollars from members' tax-exempt dues fighting the Democratic Party's political battles and promoting the election of Democrats. As the Landmark Legal Foundation, a public-interest law firm, has argued in complaints filed with the Internal Revenue Service, the Federal Election Commission and the Department of Labor, these NEA expenditures, which are above and beyond the legal contributions from the union's political action committee, have been spent in violation of several federal laws.</p>

A legal group has filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Justice Department alleging the nation's largest teacher's union has failed to file proper federal reporting and tax statements regarding its political activity. The Landmark Legal Foundation, which specializes in constitutional issues, said the National Education Association, or NEA, "has flagrantly ignored its tax obligations." "We have given the IRS and the Justice Department a step by step roadmap to investigate the NEA and, where warranted, pursue criminal charges," said LLF's president, Mark Levin. The legal group points out the NEA is "required to report –...

WASHINGTON - The government should start a criminal investigation into the nation's largest teachers union to see whether the organization improperly used dues money to influence elections, a conservative law firm says. The National Education Association denied any wrongdoing. Landmark Legal Foundation said Thursday it reviewed thousands of pages of NEA records documenting political activities that were not reported to the government — and should have triggered tax payments. The complaints filed with the Internal Revenue Service (news - web sites) and Justice Department (news - web sites) alleged the union spent tens of millions of dollars from member tax-exempt...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A conservative law firm Thursday asked the government for a criminal investigation of the largest teachers union to determine whether the organization evaded paying taxes on money spent for political activities. Landmark Legal Foundation said it reviewed thousands of pages of National Education Association records documenting political activities that should have triggered tax payments. The complaints to the Internal Revenue Service and Justice Department alleged the union spent tens of millions of dollars, from member tax-exempt dues, on political expenditures and other activities that were not reported as required. Richard Wilkof, an NEA attorney, said, "In the...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 4, 2003 CONTACT: Eric Christensen (703) 689-2370 (703) 689-2373 (fax) info@landmarklegal.org www.landmarklegal.org (HERNDON, VA)…Landmark Legal Foundation, the leading authority on the political activities of the nation’s teachers unions, today has formally requested that the Criminal Investigation Division of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and the Criminal and Tax Divisions of the U.S. Department of Justice take criminal action against the National Education Association (NEA) for violating federal reporting and tax requirements. Landmark has examined thousands of pages of NEA internal strategic planning and budgetary documents, tax returns and other materials that prove that the union has...

It should be payback time for the New York Times' inflicting its deceitful liberal pretentiousness upon America. Here's a suggestion for a conservative law firm such as the Landmark Legal Foundation or the Washington Legal Foundation: With one or more disgruntled subscribers, initiate a class-action suit against the New York Times for willful negligence regarding Jayson Blair’s journalistic inventions. Blair wrote at least 60 such stories. There is abundant evidence that Blair’s editors were negligent in detecting or acting upon his fraudulent behavior. The suit should therefore demand that a pro-rated refund be paid to all New York Times subscribers...

<p>As much as one-third of the tax-exempt National Education Association's yearly $271 million income goes toward politically related activities, according to union documents filed with the Internal Revenue Service.</p> <p>The documents show that the 2.7 million-member teacher's union spends millions annually to field what one critic calls an "army of campaign workers," while maintaining that it spends nothing on politics.</p>

Landmark Calls for Probe into EPA Grants to Nature ConservancyFor Immediate Release May 15, 2003 CONTACT: Eric Christensen 703-689-2370 703-689-2373 (fax) info@landmarklegal.org (HERNDON, VA)...Landmark Legal Foundation has asked the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to investigate whether millions of dollars in agency grants to the Nature Conservancy and its state affiliates – the nation’s largest environmental organization with assets of more than $3 billion – were misused. The Foundation has also asked the agency to suspend current and future grant payments to the group pending the outcome of the investigation. Landmark asked EPA to ensure that none of the more than...