A native of Colorado, Laura Beth Latimer joined the Texas Public Policy Foundation in 2025, driven by a desire to serve the people of her adopted home state. Before moving into public-interest work, she spent four years as a felony prosecutor in the Bell County District Attorney’s Office. In that role, she focused her efforts on the sensitive and demanding prosecution of child abuse cases, working closely with law enforcement and families to seek justice for the most vulnerable members of the community.
Imagine buying a piece of property, being ordered by the government to clear it of fire hazards, and then being handed a near-million-dollar bill by that same government for doing exactly what it asked. It sounds like a dystopian satire of bureaucratic overreach, but for Matthew Bernard and Lynn Warner, it is a harrowing legal...
If possession alone counts as interstate commerce, Congress can regulate almost anything. Think back to fourth-grade American history. We learned why the Articles of Confederation failed and why the Constitution replaced them. One major problem was that states struggled to trade with one another and often tried to protect local interests by taxing or restricting...