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For Immediate Release Wednesday, October 21, 2015 A CBP officer scans a car dashboard with a density meter in Arizona. Photo: Customs and Border Protection Washington, D.C. — Agents of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) in the southwestern United States are unconstitutionally harassing and detaining American citizens, on a fishing expedition for drug busts, […]

For Immediate Release Tuesday, September 29, 2015 Attorney Bruce Fein is interviewed after filing lawsuit at U.S. District Courthouse. Washington, D.C. — The Libertarian and Green parties, along with their respective 2012 presidential candidates, Gov. Gary Johnson and Jill Stein, filed a lawsuit in federal court in Washington, D.C. today, charging that the exclusion of […]

For Immediate Release Tuesday, September 22, 2015 Monday, Gallup published a new poll showing that 49% of Americans think that “the federal government poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens.” This is up from 30% in 2003. Gallup also asked participants, “In what ways do you see the government posing […]

For Immediate Release Wednesday, September 16, 2015 No hair jokes, just issues. Nicholas Sarwark, Chair of the Libertarian National Committee issued the following statement: Libertarianism is the idea that you have the right to pursue happiness in any way you wish as long as it doesn’t hurt people or take their stuff. We support the […]

For Immediate Release Monday, September 14, 2015 The Libertarian Party applauds the efforts of Campaign Zero to go beyond merely protesting the injustices perpetrated by law enforcement on citizens of the United States to proposing specific, well thought-through changes in government policy. They include: Prohibiting excessive use of police force Ending the use of military […]

For Immediate Release Thursday, July 2, 2015 Republican politicians and their allies are wailing over the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling which affirmed provisions of Obamacare, blaming the president for the onerous, 17,000-page body of law that is driving up the cost of health insurance premiums and reducing health care access for Americans. But Republicans […]

For Immediate Release Friday, June 26, 2015 In a 5-4 ruling today, the US Supreme Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment requires states to license same-sex marriage and recognize those marriages entered into in other states. Libertarian candidates, including the party’s 1976 presidential nominee, Roger MacBride, have been bravely calling for marriage equality since long […]

For Immediate Release Monday, June 22, 2015 Attachment Size Amended Complaint 10.22.15.pdf 161.59 KB The Libertarian Party joined Level the Playing Field, the successor group to Americans Elect, and the Green Party to file a lawsuit aimed at the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), a Democratic- and Republican-run agency that sets rules designed to exclude […]

For Immediate Release Friday, June 19, 2015 Republicans howled when Nancy Pelosi famously said, ‘We have to pass [Obamacare] so that you can find out what is in it.” Now GOP lawmakers, who control the U.S. House, are following suit in their passage of a new Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade bill. After rejecting an earlier […]

For Immediate Release Monday, June 1, 2015 Today Libertarian National Committee Chair Nicholas Sarwark released the following statement: I woke up this morning to the news that the government no longer has the legal authority to spy on the phone records of every American. Those most egregious provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act expired last […]

For Immediate Release Wednesday, May 20, 2015 228 Republicans and 41 Democrats in the U.S. House voted for a $612 billion defense authorization bill on May 15 . They maneuvered the increase in military spending, which should have been prohibited by ‘sequester’ spending caps established by the Budget Control Act of 2011, by putting some […]

For Immediate Release Monday, April 13, 2015 Republican state representative Drew Springer of Muenster, Texas has filed HB 464, a bill to require minor party nominees to pay filing fees. Libertarian National Committee executive director Wes Benedict commented, “Republican Drew Springer’s bill is a poll tax on minor parties, including the Libertarian Party. It’s an […]