The Evidence Record

The Evidence Record

• Timbs v. Indiana, 586 U.S. 146

  Court Filing · 2019

  Supreme Court of the United States

  The Court incorporated the Excessive Fines Clause against the states. It did not finally decide whether Timbs’s forfeiture was excessive.

• Treasury Announces Nine Pre-Qualified Investment Managers for the Legacy Securities Public-Private Investment Program

  Government Record · 2009

  U.S. Department of the Treasury

  Treasury's July 2009 announcement naming nine pre-qualified managers for its bailout investment funds, including BlackRock.

• Treasury Announces TARP Capital Purchase Program Description

  Government Record · 2008

  U.S. Department of the Treasury

  CPP supplied preferred-stock investments with 5%/9% dividends, warrants, repayment, and executive-compensation conditions. These terms contradict “low-interest loans with no strings attached.”

• Treasury Currency Report: China Designation Removed (January 2020)

  Government Record · 2020

  U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of International Affairs

  U.S. Treasury's January 2020 currency report: China is no longer designated a currency manipulator, after the Phase One trade deal.

• Treasury Designates China as a Currency Manipulator

  Government Record · 2019

  U.S. Department of the Treasury

  U.S. Treasury, August 5, 2019: designated China a currency manipulator.

• Trilateral Commission: About

  Document

  Trilateral Commission

  The Trilateral Commission's own description: founded in 1973 by David Rockefeller to bring together leaders from policy, business, media and academia.

• Trilateral Commission: Leadership, Members and Fellows

  Document

  Trilateral Commission

  The Trilateral Commission's current leadership, member and fellow roster across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific.

• Troubled Asset Relief Program: Lifetime Cost (GAO-24-107033)

  Government Record · 2023

  U.S. Government Accountability Office

  GAO reported $443.5 billion disbursed and a $31.1 billion lifetime TARP cost as of September 30, 2023. CPP produced a $16.3 billion net gain, while housing…

• TSP Funds Investment Management and Custody Agreement, BlackRock Modifications Through 2026

  Government Record · 2026

  Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board and BlackRock Institutional Trust Company

  The federal retirement board's contract with BlackRock for the TSP index funds. It gives BlackRock discretionary authority over the account assets and the power to vote…

• U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Minnesota Advisory Committee: Radio Consolidation

  Government Record · 2003

  U.S. Commission on Civil Rights / Minnesota Advisory Committee

  Minnesota Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 2003: after the 1996 Act, the number of commercial radio owners fell by about 1,700, a…

• U.S. Copyright Office: How Songwriters, Composers and Performers Get Paid (2022)

  Government Record · 2022

  U.S. Copyright Office

  U.S. Copyright Office guide to how musicians get paid: for digital radio royalties, labels get 50 percent, featured artists 45 percent, and backup musicians and singers…

• U.S. Credit Markets Interconnectedness and the Effects of the COVID-19 Economic Shock

  Government Record · 2020

  SEC Division of Economic and Risk Analysis research staff

  DERA attributes selling pressure to demand for safety and liquidity, a dash for cash, margin calls, collateral haircuts, deleveraging, and market interconnectedness. It does not attribute…

• U.S. Cross-border Tax Reform and the Cautionary Tale of GILTI

  Peer-Reviewed Study · 2021

  Erica York

  Tax Foundation, 2021: argues GILTI's foreign-asset break gives only limited tax benefits and does not necessarily pull investment overseas. A think-tank view.

• U.S. Multinational Companies: Operations of U.S. Parents and Their Foreign Affiliates in 2010

  Government Record · 2012

  Kevin B. Barefoot, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis

  Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2012: U.S. multinationals' share of their workforce employed in the U.S. fell from 75.2 percent in 1999 to 67.3 percent in 2010,…

• U.S. Right to Know: American Council on Science and Health

  Document · 2023

  U.S. Right to Know (usrtk.org)

  U.S. Right to Know, an advocacy group, 2023: compiles funding records showing the American Council on Science and Health took money from tobacco, chemical, food and…

• U.S. Virgin Islands DOJ Achieves Historic $75 Million Victim-Supporting Settlement with JPMorgan Chase

  Government Record · 2023

  U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Justice / Attorney General Ariel M. Smith

  The U.S. Virgin Islands Justice Department's September 2023 announcement of a $75 million settlement with JPMorgan Chase over its Epstein banking, with commitments to fight human…

• U.S.-China Relations Act of 2000 (PNTR), Public Law 106-286

  Government Record · 2000

  U.S. Congress

  The U.S.-China Relations Act of 2000: Congress granted China permanent normal trade relations (PNTR), effective when China joined the WTO. President Clinton signed it October 10,…

• Unified Code of Corrections, 730 ILCS 5/5-4.5-45

  Government Record · 2026

  Illinois General Assembly

  The ordinary Class 4 determinate imprisonment range is one to three years, subject to other statutory provisions and sentencing circumstances.

• Union Members — 2025

  Government Record · 2026

  U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

  Bureau of Labor Statistics: union membership fell from 20.1 percent of workers (17.7 million) in 1983 to 10.0 percent (14.7 million) in 2025.

• United States v. AT&T (1982)

  Court Filing · 1982

  U.S. District Court, D.D.C. (Greene, J.)

  Federal court in Washington, D.C., August 1982: Judge Harold Greene approved the consent decree breaking up AT&T and spinning off its 22 local Bell telephone companies.

• United States v. Bundy, No. 18-10287

  Court Filing · 2020

  U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

  The Nevada Bundy case ended through Brady-based dismissal for prosecutorial misconduct, not jury nullification. Some Nevada co-defendants were convicted, and Malheur outcomes likewise included pleas and…

• United States v. IBM (1982)

  Court Filing · 1982

  U.S. District Court, S.D.N.Y. (Edelstein, J.)

  Federal court in New York, 1982: records the end of the government's 13-year monopoly case against IBM. The Justice Department and IBM filed to dismiss it…

• United States v. Michael J. Madigan, No. 25-2249

  Court Filing · 2026

  U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

  The Seventh Circuit affirmed Madigan’s convictions. A certiorari petition was filed July 27, 2026 in Supreme Court No. 26-137; no clemency or commutation was located.

• United States v. Microsoft (D.C. Cir. 2001)

  Court Filing · 2001

  U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit

  Federal appeals court, June 2001, full court: upheld the finding that Microsoft illegally maintained its monopoly, but threw out the order breaking up the company, removed…