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EXCLUSIVE: Judge in Trump’s Manhattan Trials Reviews Risk Assessment by Anti-Trump Psychiatrist
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Five mental health professionals, some of whom already accused Donald Trump of being “dangerous,” prepared a risk assessment for New York state Judge Juan Merchan to consider in his July 11 sentencing decision on Trump, according to forensic psychiatrist Dr. Bandy X. Lee, a longtime critic of the former president. It… -
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Trump Rips Biden’s Performance in First Post-Debate Rally
“The question every voter should be asking themselves today is not whether Joe Biden can survive a 90-minute debate performance, but whether America can survive four more years of ‘crooked Joe Biden’ in the White House.” That was the main theme of former President Donald Trump’s first rally, held Friday in Chesapeake, Virginia, since the… -
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Gaslight: 4 Times the Media Tried to Tell You Biden’s Health Wasn’t a Problem
The longtime media and Democratic Party gaslighting over President Joe Biden’s health decline has finally imploded. The mask fully came off Thursday night as the narrative about Biden being A-OK collapsed in an excruciating 90-minute “debate” with former President Donald Trump. By now, you’ve likely at least seen some video clips of it, so I… -
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Supreme Court Charts New Course in Sea Change for Administrative Law
A few fishermen just brought about a sea change in administrative law. In Loper Bright v. Raimondo and Relentless v. Department of Commerce, herring boat owners took aim at a mainstay of the Supreme Court’s administrative law jurisprudence: the doctrine of Chevron deference that required judges to defer to executive branch agency interpretations of ambiguous laws…. -
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Supreme Court Rules for Jan. 6 Defendant, Implications for Trump Case
The Supreme Court decided a case Friday that will affect the prosecutions of around 350 individuals charged in connection with the events at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. And the decision could also well affect two of the four charges brought by special counsel Jack Smith that are pending against former President Donald Trump… -
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Biden’s Dim Debate Performance Showcases 3 Bright, Shining Lies
“We finally beat Medicare.” That was just one of the many astonishing things that President Joe Biden said, or tried to say, in his Thursday night face-off with President Donald Trump. The de facto Democrat and Republican standard bearers parried for 90 minutes on CNN. The normally rabid, Trump-hating moderators, Dana Bash and Jake Tapper,… -
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Supreme Court Decides Legislatures, Not Judges, Should Address Homelessness
The Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision Friday holding that the government may punish the homeless by fines or imprisonment for trespassing or camping on public property. In 2013, the city of Grants Pass, Oregon, had a population of roughly 38,000 and as many as 600 homeless individuals on any given day. Many of… -
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Chip Roy Calls on Kamala Harris to ‘Immediately’ Invoke 25th Amendment and Replace Biden
A leading House Republican filed a resolution in Congress urging Vice President Kamala Harris to invoke the 25th Amendment in the wake of President Joe Biden’s performance Thursday night in the first debate with former President Donald Trump. Even Democrats and Biden supporters described the president’s performance as poor, though few have suggested a need… -
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‘We’re Turning the Corner’ in Fight Against Transgendering of Kids, Author Says
America is “turning the corner” toward recognizing the harms to children of transgender ideology, says a Daily Signal journalist who recently published a bestselling book on the subject. In an interview with Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts, Daily Signal senior reporter Mary Margaret Olohan shared what has encouraged her while reporting on the controversies surrounding… -
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Supreme Court Confirms No ‘Right’ for Foreigners to Enter US: The BorderLine
The one poker rule I taught my kids was: “Don’t cry when you lose, don’t gloat when you win.” Ideally, this would apply to our court system, though lower court decisions seem increasingly to be influenced by ideology and politics. The Supreme Court is our highest and last protection, and its justices should be the… -
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Courts Block Biden’s Student Loan Cancellation Plan: A Win for Taxpayers
On Monday, two federal court judges issued nationwide injunctions stopping the Biden administration from illegally canceling hundreds of billions of dollars in student debt. This scheme, the Saving on a Valuable Education, or SAVE, Plan, is the latest lawless loan redistribution attempt to fail in court. Background President Joe Biden finalized SAVE via an administrative… -
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Supreme Court Rules on Anti-Obstruction Law in Jan. 6 Case
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in favor of a Capitol riot defendant, a decision that could affect hundreds of other cases, and raises the question of whether federal prosecutors went too far in enforcing a statute about “corruptly” obstructing, influencing, or impeding an official proceeding. The high court’s ruling could affect the prosecutions of about… -
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Supreme Court Throws Back ‘Chevron Deference’ in Ruling on Fishermen’s Case Against Government
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in favor of commercial fishermen who challenged the U.S. government’s imposition of charges for onboard federal inspections. The case deals a massive blow to the power of federal agencies. Commercial fishermen in New Jersey initiated the case, Loper Bright Enterprises vs. Raimondo. The fishermen argued that they were unjustly charged… -
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Supreme Court Rules Cities Can Ban Homeless Sleeping Outside
The Supreme Court sided with a small Oregon city’s crackdown on homeless people sleeping in public in its ruling Friday in the case of City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who dissented along with Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, wrote, “Sleep is a biological necessity, not a crime. For… -
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Stop the Ukrainian Meat Grinder?
Nearly eleven months ago, in August 2023, The New York Times reported that U.S. officials had estimated that some 500,000 Russians and Ukrainians had been killed, wounded, or missing in the then 18-month Ukrainian War. Both Russia and Ukraine underreport their losses. Hundreds of thousands of additional casualties have followed in the 28 months of… -
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There’s a Charlottesville Every Week, and Joe Biden Is Fine With It
Not long ago, Snopes, a left-wing “fact-checking” site, finally admitted that former President Donald Trump had never called the neo-Nazis who marched at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017 “very fine people.” For years, Democrats, including President Joe Biden, have repeated this false claim. Indeed, Biden, who’s been running for the presidency… -
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GOP Lawmakers Aim to Strip Government of All DEI Programs
A group of Republican lawmakers is working to strip all DEI programs out of the government through legislation they call the Dismantle DEI Act. “This bill goes through the federal government and works to remove the officers, the programs” centered on DEI, or diversity, equity, and inclusion, Rep. Michael Cloud, R-Texas, says. Cloud and Sen…. -
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Biden Has a Debate Disaster for the Ages
“I really don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence—and I don’t think he knows what he said either.” That line from former President Donald Trump on Thursday night pretty much sums up the first—and who knows, maybe the only—2024 debate between Trump and President Joe Biden. I wrote not long ago… -
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2 Senators Say Biden Debate Performance Raises 25th Amendment Concerns
Members of President Joe Biden’s Cabinet should consider invoking the 25th Amendment to remove the president, two sitting U.S. senators suggested. They said Biden’s performance in the first presidential debate against former President Donald Trump raised questions about his ability to perform his office. “We’ve definitely entered 25th Amendment territory,” Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, wrote… -
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‘He Failed’: Biden’s Debate Performance Sparks Concern Among Democrats
Some Democrats expressed disappointment about President Joe Biden’s performance in Thursday’s debate against former President Donald Trump—even suggesting he should step down as their 2024 nominee. A lack of energy, a raspy voice, stuttering, and rambling answers to questions plagued the 81-year-old president, who faces widespread voter concerns about his age. Media figures reported that…