FGCU Young Americans for Liberty

01/20/2019

Behind the scenes with Ayemen Fatima at . Our Student of the Year award winner, she wants to show people that you can practice Islam and love liberty!

07/04/2018

“Florida Gulf Coast University economist Victor Claar said increased prices are inevitable across the board.

“More expensive automobiles, more expensive construction, higher costs of doing business for American firms — and those American firms employ American workers,” Claar said.

Claar also said the impacts could be felt nationwide.

“Potentially every single American could be affected in higher prices for all kinds of services, and not just ones in construction, ones in all the industries that use steel and aluminum as key imports,” Claar said.”

Gates Construction founder Todd Gates said he’s noticed a big jump in prices on steel and aluminum. “In a free market we crave certainty,” Gates said. “Right now there’s a lot of uncertainty in the market because of the tariffs.” President Trump’s tariffs on these supplies and other go...

06/09/2018

06/08/2018

"What I'm going to do is, I'm going to say to them instead of talk ... I am going to ask all of those people to recommend to me -- because that's what they're protesting -- people that they think were unfairly treated by the justice system," Trump said. "And I understand that."

President Donald Trump said he wants to meet with NFL players and other athletes who kneel during the National Anthem so they can recommend people they think should be pardoned due to unfair treatment by the justice system.

05/29/2018

Shouldn’t we try to compare women and men who studied the same things in college and selected careers in the same fields? Seems relatively important–and when we do that, the American Association of University Women finds that women actually make 93 percent of their male coworkers. What about com...

05/26/2018

05/17/2018

05/16/2018

VOTE ALERT: House Liberty Caucus statement on , Protect and Serve Act of 2018

May 16, 2018

The House Liberty Caucus urges opposition to H.R. 5698, Protect and Serve Act of 2018. This bill creates a new federal hate crime that violates the Constitution and furthers the dangerous federalization of criminal law.

H.R. 5698 makes it a federal crime to injure or attempt to injure a law enforcement officer. The bill includes state and local law enforcement, despite the Tenth Amendment’s reserving exclusively to the states the authority and responsibility to prosecute such offenses against their officers. Although the offense must have some connection to, or otherwise affect, interstate commerce, that requirement does not significantly narrow the range of covered offenses or avoid the constitutional violation. A tenuous connection to economic activity cannot transform a criminal law that has nothing to do with economic activity—and that is explicitly for the purpose of public safety—into a regulation of interstate commerce. If it could, the Commerce Clause would destroy the Constitution’s design for a very limited federal role in criminal law enforcement, covering only a few crimes that are clearly federal in nature.

H.R. 5698 continues the federalization of criminal law, which is dangerous in part because it allows the federal government to charge individuals with crimes that the state or locality has already addressed. This allows the federal government to supplant the local understanding and administration of justice, and it allows someone to be prosecuted twice for the same crime, violating basic principles of justice and fairness. This is not just a theoretical concern: H.R. 5698 specifically allows for federal prosecutions when a verdict has already been handed down in a state prosecution.

By creating a separate crime for offenses against law enforcement, H.R. 5698 violates the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection by literally giving police officers greater protection under the law than is afforded to people in other occupations.

For all these problems, H.R. 5698 provides no policy benefit. Every state already criminalizes this conduct, often with sentencing enhancements or separate crimes for harming police, and crimes against police are aggressively prosecuted by states.

05/15/2018

Democrats and Republicans reject individualism and free speech and both have become dangerous to our liberty.