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States Rights January 12, 2017

Dems push for minimum wage increase for tipped workers -- but will it backfire?

Hourly workers who rely on tips for a living are turning to the states in a bid to boost their base pay, as the minimum wage debate stalls in Congress -- though business groups warn the move could backfire.

States Rights January 12, 2017

Policing for Profit? Lawmakers, advocates raise alarm at growing gov’t power to seize property

Massachusetts motel owner Russell Caswell wasn’t expecting to find himself at the center of a national controversy when federal authorities came knocking on his door. They said they wanted his business –and the land it was on- and said they could take it legally if they wanted to through a practice known as civil forfeiture. Caswell said no.

States Rights January 12, 2017

States target meth labs with name-and-shame strategy

As states struggle to clamp down on a growing meth epidemic, they're turning to a tactic commonly used to target sex offenders: name and shame.

States Rights January 12, 2017

Inmates getting coverage under ObamaCare, as states shift cost to feds

The Obama administration often touts that people with pre-existing conditions and countless others can now get covered under ObamaCare. But there's another group that's starting to benefit from the law -- prison inmates.

States Rights January 12, 2017

Land grab? Local officials blast move by Obama to set aside 500,000 acres in NM

Local officials in New Mexico warn a move by the Obama administration to designate nearly a half-million acres as a national monument could open up a crime corridor making it easier for illegal immigrants to cross the border and for drug cartels to operate undetected.

States Rights January 12, 2017

Wisconsin becomes first state to restrict parents from giving up adopted kids

Wisconsin has become the first state in the nation to pass legislation cracking down on parents who try to give away their adopted kids.

States Rights January 12, 2017

Did Michigan just trigger 'constitutional convention'? Bid gains steam

Momentum is building behind what would be an unprecedented effort to amend the U.S. Constitution, through a little-known provision that gives states rather than Congress the power to initiate changes.

Taxes January 12, 2017

Critics blast loophole that forces taxpayers to fund public sector union work

Bob Nicks has firefighting in his blood, but for the last four years, the Texas battalion chief has earned his six-figure salary sitting at a desk doing union work instead of running into burning buildings and saving lives.

Illegal Immigrants January 2, 2017

Local jails refusing to hold illegal immigrant offenders, forcing feds to track them down

Local police agencies across the country are frustrating efforts at the federal level to detain and deport criminal illegal immigrants, leaving immigration officials scrambling to track them down.

States Rights December 31, 2016

Federal officials ordered to help enforce Ariz., Kan., voter citizenship laws

Federal officials must help Kansas and Arizona enforce laws requiring new voters to document their U.S. citizenship, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, in a decision that could encourage other Republican-led states to consider similar policies.

Federal Courts December 31, 2016

Federal judge temporarily blocks Obama's immigration executive action

A federal judge has granted a request by 26 states to temporarily block President Obama's executive action on illegal immigration to allow a lawsuit aimed at permanently stopping the orders to make its way through the courts.