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Both Adam Kokesh and Gov. Bill Weld have been appearing at numerous state Libertarian Party conventions this year, and now both have attended the party’s biennial national convention, which ran through July 3 at the Hyatt Regency in New Orleans. Kokesh has announced he will seek the Libertarian Party nomination for president. Although Weld has […]

Nicholas Sarwark won an unprecedented third consecutive term on July 2 as chair of the Libertarian National Committee, in balloting by delegates to the 2018 Libertarian National Convention in New Orleans. He received a landslide 65 percent of the vote on the first ballot in a seven-way race. Sarwark ran on his record of presiding […]

The U.S. Supreme Court on June 27 that nonunion government employees can no longer be forced to pay fees to public sector unions. The Libertarian Party platform states, “We favor repealing any requirement that one must join or pay dues to a union as a condition of government employment.” This ruling, however, makes a repeal […]

The government cannot track a person’s location using cell phone towers unless it has a warrant, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 22 in Carpenter v. United States. Timothy Carpenter, a suspect in a string of armed robberies in Detroit, was not arrested until his cell phone provider agreed to turn over to police […]

The price of that custom one-of-kind handmade Canadian maple end table that you can get on Etsy for $229 just increased between $4 and $22, depending on where you live. The U.S. Supreme Court just ruled that online merchants must charge the applicable sales tax wherever merchandise is sold, regardless of whether the merchant has […]

Organizers expect largest-ever midterm delegation For immediate release June 20, 2018 ALEXANDRIA, VA —  The Libertarian Party (LP) will hold its national convention from June 30 through July 3 in New Orleans at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. The biennial event will draw approximately 900 delegates from across the country to select its leadership for the […]

For the last month, the Department of Homeland Security has been separating captured immigrant children from their families at the border. They’ve been housing the children in cages at an abandoned Walmart and other facilities, and holding their parents in cages elsewhere. The public revulsion to this policy of families being forcibly separated led President […]

The largest computer company in the world, Apple, is about to make it more difficult for government agents to unreasonably search or seize your person, papers, home, and effects. Apple’s newest iPhone software update will prevent transfer of data from the phone’s charging and data port one hour after the phone is locked. This will […]