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5 Major Cases That Highlighted Supreme Court’s 2022-2023 Term
Another year, another Supreme Court term in the books. And again, the court kept everyone waiting for many of its most consequential decisions until the last days of the 2022-2023 term. It was worth the wait, however, since the court issued important decisions that proved to be victories for the rule of law on affirmative… -
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Smoke, Mirrors, and Justice
In the recently concluded term, the Supreme Court found itself in a storm of consequential cases, overturning precedents, and taking controversial stances that shifted society and upheld constitutional values. Democrats have, in reaction, decried the Supreme Court, framing it as a rogue entity, a politicized institution that has lost its credibility. They lament what they… -
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Montana State Library Commission Cuts Ties With American Library Association Over New ‘Marxist Lesbian’ President
The Montana State Library Commission voted Tuesday to withdraw from the American Library Association based on that organization’s new president, who is a “Marxist lesbian” by her own description. The lopsided vote (5-1, with one abstention) represents the first time a state entity has withdrawn from the 147-year-old nonprofit. “Our oath of office and resulting duty to the… -
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‘It’s Time … to Take Off the Golden Blindfolds,’ GOP Rep Tells US Corporate Leaders Doing Business in China
A Republican congressman warned about the dangers of foreign companies doing business in China, noting that “Beijing reserves the right to swipe any data, seize any assets, and filch any IP [intellectual property] that it wishes.” “The government often mandates the creation of [Chinese Communist Party] cells inside firms, and China’s Military-Civil Fusion Policy means… -
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House Votes to End Pentagon Abortion Funding in Passing National Defense Authorization Act
A divided House voted Friday morning to pass an annual national defense bill after Republicans amended it to prohibit the Pentagon from spending taxpayers’ money to pay for travel and other abortion-related expenses. With this pro-life amendment, the $886 billion National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2024 passed by a bipartisan vote of 219-210,… -
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How Fauci and NIH Leaders Worked to Discredit COVID-19 Lab Leak Theory
House of Representatives investigators just issued an interim report on Tuesday detailing a sophisticated effort by leaders at the National Institutes of Health and a select group of researchers—including those who had received substantial NIH grant funding—to disprove the hypothesis that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese research laboratory and push the narrative that it instead… -
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What’s at Stake If FBI Isn’t Fixed
The FBI needs to be fixed, because it has become a threat to the fundamental liberties of Americans, Steve Bradbury of The Heritage Foundation argues in a lengthy new white paper released this week. “The liberty of the American people is under threat from politicized national security agencies, exemplified by the abuses of the Federal… -
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EXCLUSIVE: Biden Laptop Deniers Employed by Taxpayer-Funded Groups
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—U.S. tax dollars are going to the employers of former intelligence officials who signed a misleading open letter in 2020 claiming that emails, photos, and other content on Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop likely amounted to a “Russian information operation.” The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project determined that research organizations, think tanks that… -
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SAFER IN PERU? Dylan Mulvaney’s Latest Gambit to Shut Down Trans Debate
Is it a new day in America? Dylan Mulvaney just deployed the “s” word—and it doesn’t seem like it’s changed anything about the boycott of Bud Light, which continues to lose sales months after partnering up with the transgender influencer, much less the larger national debate about gender identity. In a new TikTok video, Mulvaney… -
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Secret Service Closes White House Cocaine Probe. Heritage Isn’t Giving Up So Easily
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project is demanding that the Secret Service turn over the list of individuals who may have accessed the area of the White House where cocaine was discovered over the Fourth of July weekend, on the heels of news Thursday that the agency had closed the investigation. "Pursuant… -
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4 Takeaways From Climate Czar John Kerry’s House Hearing
Lawmakers grilled climate czar John Kerry on Capitol Hill Thursday, asking about his private jet usage and views on China. Kerry, the U.S. special presidential envoy for climate, defended the cost of President Joe Biden’s climate policies before the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on oversight and accountability. The country’s first climate czar is set to… -
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Left ‘Undermines Americans’ With Its Open Border Policy, Ken Cuccinelli Says
“The radical Left thinks” that viewing immigration from a pro-American standpoint is “selfish, as if we owe the world welfare.” In reality, if America doesn’t protect and secure her borders, “you really don’t have a nation,” former Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli told Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts during Roberts’ weekly podcast show. Cuccinelli,… -
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FDA Approves Over-the-Counter Contraceptive, Won’t Say If Recommended for ‘Transgender Women’
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration did not directly answer if its newly approved over-the-counter contraceptive could be safely used by males who identify as “transgender women.” The FDA announced Thursday that it has approved the first ever over-the-counter contraceptive pill, Opill (norgestrel). “Availability of nonprescription Opill may help reduce the number of unintended pregnancies… -
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The Left Was Wrong, Wrong, Wrong on Cluster Munitions
For well over a decade, the Left has waged war on cluster munitions. Left-wing nongovernmental organizations and other groups have demonized them, liberal U.S. administrations have downplayed them, and the left-leaning media have exaggerated the civilian casualties they cause. But now, in a complete about-face, the U.S. has agreed to supply cluster munitions to the… -
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These 49 Senators Voted to Confirm Biden EEOC Pick Seen as Likely to Force Transgender Ideology on Employers
The U.S. Senate narrowly confirmed Kalpana Kotagal, President Joe Biden’s pick to serve on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, in a move critics warn will force transgender ideology on employers across America. “I’m incredibly concerned about Kalpana Kotagal’s record of support for radical transgender ideology,” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told The Daily Signal in a statement Wednesday… -
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Biden Admin Illegally Yanks Tennessee’s Title X Funding for Being Pro-Life
June 24 marked the first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down Roe v. Wade, and while the court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was a monumental victory for life, it was not the end of the fight. In some ways, it was just the beginning. Today, we have the chance to make… -
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College Racism
The Left is angry because the Supreme Court ruled race-based affirmative action unconstitutional. President Joe Biden says he “strongly disagrees.” But Chief Justice John Roberts was right to say, “Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it.” It’s a victory for Students for Fair Admissions, the group that sued, thereby forcing Harvard to admit that… -
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Conservatives Urge Senators to Oppose Gen. Brown for Chairman of Joint Chiefs
Calling him the “wrong man for the job,” a group of conservative leaders strongly opposes the president’s nomination of Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown to be the nation’s highest-ranking military officer as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In an open letter to senators, the 30 leaders of conservative groups urge the lawmakers… -
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How Proposed EPA Electric Vehicle Rule Would Compromise Auto Safety
A proposed Environmental Protection Agency rule that “would limit tailpipe emissions so that in order to comply, auto companies would have to sell 60% of new vehicles as electric by 2030” would adversely affect the safety of cars. So says Diana Furchtgott-Roth, director of The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment. (The Daily… -
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Georgia State Lawmaker Explains Why She Quit Democratic Party
State Rep. Mesha Mainor won election as a Democrat in 2020 to serve the people of Georgia’s General Assembly District 56. But a Republican will now represent the solidly blue Atlanta House district. On Tuesday, Mainor made headlines when she announced she was leaving the Georgia Democratic Party “establishment” due to her support for school…