America’s future depends on a rich supply of energy. But in our most populous state, the California Coastal Commission controls the fate of the state’s last nuclear power plant and single-largest electricity source.

This isn’t just a California problem. The Coastal Commission is just one example of how environmental regulators hold energy—even clean energy—hostage.

Nearly 70 of North Carolina’s 80 rural counties are considered medical deserts and the state has one of the worst nursing shortages in the country. That’s no surprise, given North Carolina’s restrictions on advanced nurses.

Earlier this week, we launched a new billboard campaign with a clear message: Rural America needs nurses, not government roadblocks.

A decade ago, the Pung family of Isabella County, Michigan, was hit with an improper property tax bill totaling $2,240, which included interest and fees. Rather than own up to its mistake, the government foreclosed on the Pungs’ property, confiscating the whole home for a tax that never should have been due. 

In his latest in Bloomberg Law, PLF president and CEO Steven D. Anderson highlights the Pung family’s fight to recoup the equity they’ve lost and the history of our efforts to end home equity theft once and for all.

For more than 20 years, Ramona Bessinger has been a teacher in Providence, Rhode Island. After raising concerns about curriculum changes in Rhode Island schools, the mother of four became interested in serving on advisory committees that steer public policy decisions that affect students.

That’s when she found the Commission for Health, Advocacy & Equity and learned that appointments are made on the basis of race and sex—in direct violation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection clause.

Now, with PLF’s help, Ramona’s fighting back: “I just can’t sit back and allow equity to usurp our constitutional rights to free speech and fairness and the right to be individuals as our great historians and leaders have talked about.”

In 2024, the Plaquemines Port Harbor & Terminal District—a political subdivision of the state of Louisiana—launched a troubling campaign against a property owner by attempting to seize private land on the cheap via eminent domain, lease it to a private company, and pocket the profit.

But Louisiana’s Constitution draws a clear line against that kind of abuse. On December 5, PLF attorneys filed an amicus brief urging the Louisiana Supreme Court to uphold a lower court’s decision blocking the taking.

234 years ago this week, the Bill of Rights was officially ratified. As PLF’s Brittany Hunter explains, we owe a debt of gratitude to “a small group of determined Anti-Federalists—and their insistence on explicit protections like jury trials, property rights, and due process.” Otherwise, “the Bill of Rights would not exist."