A libertarian-leaning Republican congressman from Michigan who has been billed as the “new Ron Paul” says that he would ban “abortion-causing” birth control and a woman’s right to choose abortion more than three days after conception. In an interview published on Monday, Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) told Reason‘s Nick Gillespie…
Rep. Justin Amash, a libertarian-leaning Republican from Michigan, sharply criticized a “misguided and unconstitutional” bill known as the No Budget No Pay Act of 2013. The legislation was touted by Republicans, who blasted Democrats for failing to passed a budget resolution since 2009. The No Budget No Pay Act withholds…
US lawmakers struck down a contentious provision Friday that would have curtailed the government’s power to indefinitely hold suspected terrorists captured on American soil. The measure, backed by an odd coalition of liberal Democrats and some Tea Party-backed Republican conservatives, had sought to ensure that suspected terrorists detained in the…