OPINION: Private lawyer monopoly controls Alaska judge appointments
Alaska’s founders never intended for a private legal guild to control the judiciary. A constitutional amendment is not a power grab - it is a course correction, long
National watchdog warns that wayward Alaska magistrates are shielded from independent oversight
A national nonprofit legal watchdog organization has issued a warning about the fact that complaints against Alaska’s magistrate judges are not screened by an independent body, but by the same judges who regularly oversee their work and collaborate with
It’s time to uproot the lie that Alaska’s Constitution grants abortion ‘rights’
Alaska’s Constitution does not protect abortion. It never has. The 1992 Valley Hospital ruling invented a right that never existed, and it’s time to tear it out at the
OPINION: The State of Alaska neutered our most powerful citizen watchdog
Convenience is not the measure of constitutional rights. The People’s watchdog power was designed to be inconvenient to government - a safeguard against abuse of
Lawsuit attacks the heart of Alaska charter schools
A Mat-Su family, represented by the hard-left Northern Justice Project, has filed a lawsuit against the nationally acclaimed Academy Charter School in Palmer. Their complaint? The school’s requirement for parents to log 36 hours of volunteer time per
OPINION: Alaska’s new Grand Jury ‘process’ helps hide government corruption
On August 18, Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor gave a town hall presentation in Soldotna to supposedly “restore public confidence in the system,” and defend his new “process” in which he is the “gatekeeper” to Alaska’s Grand
An open letter to Alaska’s lame duck governor – USE YOUR POWER!
What have you got to lose, governor? Will they start a new recall effort? A lame duck executive can do a lot, and can show what the Left ought to fear, far more than the beginning of a governor’s new
BEN CARPENTER: Alaska can’t allow overreaching judges to gut citizen Grand Jury oversight
The people of Alaska must never surrender their watchdog - the independent grand jury - to the very institutions it was designed to
OPINION: Alaska AG Treg Taylor is trying to rehabilitate his image
Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor seems to be trying to rehabilitate his image, possibly in preparation for a run at the governor's office in next year's election. It appears that he is attempting to address two significant judicial issues he faces, so
OPINION: Why won’t Dunleavy and his AG meet with Alaska mayors to tackle judicial corruption?
There is absolutely no legitimate reason for the governor and AG to not meet with two borough mayors wishing to discuss evidence that Alaska’s judge investigator is falsifying investigations to keep corrupt judges on the bench; and that a deputy AG is
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