Home distilling is illegal under federal law, but represented by The Buckeye Institute John Ream is challenging that prohibition in Ream v. U.S. Department of Treasury, arguing that homemade spirits are a hobby as American as apple pie. The Buckeye Institute’s Robert Alt joins Anna Staver on All Sides to discuss the case.

An engineer and brewer thought he would take up home distilling as a hobby, but he then learned it’s a federal crime. In Ream v. U.S. Department of Treasury, he’s fighting back. The Buckeye Institute’s Robert Alt, John Ream’s attorney, explains.

Robert Alt, president and chief executive officer of The Buckeye Institute, testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary’s Subcommittee on the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust on the inherent problems when government agencies adjudicate their own cases. In his testimony, Alt notes that agency adjudication presents “unique threats to civil liberties and the traditional protections afforded to defendants” in federal courts.

On March 18, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear two cases related to “jawboning”—Murthy v. Missouri and NRA v. Vullo. The Buckeye Institute’s Robert Alt joins FedSoc’s Courthouse Steps Preview to discuss what is at stake in the two cases. The conversation features Alt; Will Duffield, policy analyst at Cato Institute; and was moderated by Casey Mattox, vice president for legal and judicial strategy with Americans for Prosperity.

In The Gazette, Robert Alt, president and chief executive officer of The Buckeye Institute, and Chris Ingstad, president of Iowans for Tax Relief Foundation, highlight the dire economic consequences for Iowa farmers and families related to the Biden administration’s climate-control policies. Buckeye’s report and this op-ed come after Iowa’s Secretary of Agriculture signed a joint letter to six of the country’s largest investment banks expressing concerns over the banks’ support for net-zero banking practices.

In The Columbus Dispatch, Robert Alt, president and chief executive officer of The Buckeye Institute, makes the non-partisan case for voting YES on Issue 1. “Tell your friends, family, and neighbors: voting ‘yes’ on August 8 will align Ohio’s constitutional amendment process with the wise supermajority requirements enshrined in our beloved U.S. constitution and simultaneously ensure that Ohio does not become beholden to special interests on either side.”

Robert Alt, president and chief executive officer of The Buckeye Institute, commented after Governor Mike DeWine signed House Bill 33, Ohio’s biennial budget, into law. “Governor DeWine proposed greater school choice for Ohio families, Speaker Stephens and the Ohio House expanded it, and President Huffman and the Ohio Senate rightly made it universal. As a result, Ohio families will have access to the education that best meets their children’s needs.”

On RealClear, The Buckeye Institute’s Robert Alt asks, “Who is authorized to tax the income of a commuter who doesn’t commute?” Buckeye challenged a half dozen cities across Ohio in court—most recently Cincinnati in Schaad v. Alder, which had its oral arguments before the Ohio Supreme Court on March 1—for taxing the income of workers who do not live in, and were legally prohibited from working in, those same municipalities under Ohio’s pandemic-era stay-at-home order.  

Robert Alt, president and chief executive officer of The Buckeye Institute, issued a statement on Thursday. “As The Buckeye Institute has argued time and time again over the years and well before any present controversies, Ohio simply must avoid the Californication of our state constitution. In order for constitutional republican government to succeed—no matter which party is in the majority at that time or whether a particular and timely issue is politically popular—our state must require supermajority approval before amending our Ohio constitution.”