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Lawyer With Firm That Won Freddie Gray Settlement Is Next Obama Judge Up for Senate’s OK
President Barack Obama has not been able to move his Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, through the Senate but Republicans continue to advance the president’s lower court nominees. The chamber on Monday is set to take up the nomination of Paula Xinis, a partner and senior trial attorney at Murphy, Falcon & Murphy—the Baltimore law…Philip Wegmann -
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NC Lawmaker Calls Obama Administration’s Bathroom Bill Attacks ‘Appalling’
RALEIGH, N.C. — A North Carolina state senator fired back at U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch after she compared the state’s bathroom bill to Jim Crow laws and likened it to state-sponsored discrimination. “Frankly, I find it appalling that someone from North Carolina would work so hard to hurt the state where she’s from,” state…Kelsey Bolar -
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Obama Unilaterally Rewrites Law, Imposes Transgender Policy on Nation’s Schools
All across America, parents, teachers and local school districts have been having conversations about how best to accommodate the privacy and safety concerns of transgender students while also addressing the privacy and safety concerns of other students. Solutions were found, such as the creation of new single-occupancy restrooms and changing facilities for transgender students while…Ryan T. Anderson -
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Senate Appropriations Bill Spends More Than Obama Requested
The U.S. Senate’s first spending bill of 2016 allocates $261 million more than President Barack Obama requested and lacks significant conservative amendments, but it still sailed to passage Thursday in the Republican-led chamber. An overwhelming number of senators on both sides of the aisle approved the energy and water development appropriations bill, by a vote of…Philip Wegmann -
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Exclusive: North Carolina Lt. Gov. Calls Obama Administration’s Jim Crow Claim ‘Shameful’
RALEIGH, N.C. — Two days after North Carolina and the Justice Department announced dueling lawsuits, The Daily Signal sat down with Lt. Gov. Dan Forest. Forest, a Republican, called the Obama administration “shameful” for equating the state’s so-called bathroom bill to Jim Crow laws and other forms of state-sponsored discrimination. “To use Jim Crow laws…Kelsey Bolar -
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UNC Students Fight Back Against Obama Administration Bathroom Lawsuit
A group of students at the University of North Carolina are fighting back against the Obama administration’s civil rights lawsuit against the state this week by filing a lawsuit of their own, alleging that the federal government is forcing them to choose between their educational pursuits and personal privacy. “Our clients, the students, are between…Kelsey Bolar -
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Why Obama Is Wrong to Focus on Hiroshima
History remains very much alive in East Asia. Millennia of invasions, occupations, and subjugation form the foundation for present-day perceptions. The predominant calamity for many in this regard is the 20th century war precipitated by the Japanese attempt to impose a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere on its neighbors. The second World War, or “The…Bruce Klingner -
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NC Conservatives: Obama Administration Using Children as ‘Pawns’ for LGBT Agenda
North Carolina conservatives are fighting what they call “bullying” after the Obama administration threatened a lawsuit against the state. The Justice Department is threatening to sue North Carolina over a law that allows private businesses to set whatever bathroom policies they like for transgender people, but mandates that biological sex will determine access to government bathrooms….Kelsey Bolar -
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Obama’s Zika Request Can Be Paid for With Ebola Funds
On Feb. 22, President Barack Obama requested an emergency supplemental appropriations bill to respond to public health concerns of the Zika virus. The request includes a total of $1.885 billion in additional funding in excess of the $518.491 billion in total base nondefense discretionary budget authority already available for fiscal year 2016. If the president’s…Paul Winfree -
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Obama’s Anti-Brexit Threat Will Backfire
Last Friday Barack Obama made an extraordinary intervention into the British debate over whether or not to remain in the European Union. Just two months before voters across the United Kingdom go to the polls in an historic referendum on June 23, the U.S. president issued a stark warning to the British people on a…Nile Gardiner -
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Obama’s Violating the Constitution by Not Submitting Climate Treaty to Senate
Today at United Nations Headquarters in New York City, Secretary of State John Kerry and representatives of over 130 nations will sign the Framework Convention on Climate Change agreement that was negotiated in Paris last December. According to President Obama, this “historic agreement” will “hold every country accountable” if they fail to meet its carbon…Sen. Mike Lee -
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Obama’s Wrong: Climate Change Is Not Our Biggest Threat
Throughout President Obama’s time in office, he and his cabinet officials have made claims that climate change is the greatest threat we face. Last year, Vox pressed the president on the matter, asking if he truly believes it is a greater threat than even terrorism. He responded by saying “absolutely,” and his press secretary Josh Earnest…Sen. Jim Inhofe -
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The Castros Are Getting Everything They Want From Obama
The White House decision to disinvite a Grammy-award winning jazz legend who is a strong defender of democracy in Cuba was nothing short of contemptible. The fact that it has now embarrassingly backtracked and re-invited him proves it had acted like corporations that are only too happy to ignore human rights violations in exchange for…Mike Gonzalez -
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Will the Supreme Court Stop Obama’s Illegal Executive Amnesty Program?
One of the most fundamental challenges facing the United States today is the deep and growing distrust between the American people and their political system in Washington, D.C. And the inconvenient truth—rarely acknowledged by Washington elites—is that the American people’s distrust of their public institutions is totally justified. Most moms and dads in America still…Sen. Mike Lee -
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Top 5 Reasons Congress Should Reject Obama’s Climate Change Treaty
Secretary of State John Kerry will join leaders from around the world to sign the Paris Protocol global warming agreement this Friday at the United Nations headquarters. Here are the top five reasons Congress and the next administration should withdraw from the accord: 1) Higher energy bills, fewer jobs and a weaker economy. The economic…Nicolas Loris -
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The Highlights of the Supreme Court Oral Argument on Obama’s Executive Amnesty
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in a case brought by Texas and 25 other states challenging the Obama administration’s attempt to give legal status and work authorizations to more than 4 million illegal immigrants. At the argument, the justices wrestled with whether the Obama administration exceeded its authority and whether the states have…Elizabeth Slattery -
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Obama Administration Admits It Could Have Respected Nuns’ Rights After All
It may have taken five years, numerous regulatory updates, hundreds of legal battles, and two trips to the Supreme Court, but the government has finally admitted that, well, maybe it was wrong about the Health and Human Services mandate. In a brief filed at the Supreme Court this week in the Little Sisters case, the Obama…Sarah Torre -
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Obama’s Following Through With Promise to Bankrupt Energy Companies
Here’s one set of energy companies: Peabody, Arch Coal, Patriot Coal, Alpha Natural Resources, James River Coal and Walter Energy. Here’s another: Solyndra, Abound Solar, Fisker Automotive, Beacon Power, Vehicle Production Group. Both sets companies have two common elements. They’ve all filed for bankruptcies and the federal government had a role in their demise. The…Nicolas Loris -
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What’s Needed to Roll Back Obama’s Regulatory Regime
Last week’s Daily Signal op-ed on a new regulation by the Environmental Protection Agency provided an informative crash course on the history of private property rights and its relation to the Clean Water Act. Judging by the transcripts and media reports of the oral arguments from the March 30, 2016 Army Corps v. Hawkes Co….Rep. Bob Gibbs -
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Obama Is Abusing His Authority to Try to Stop American Tax Inversions
The U.S. tax system makes it extremely difficult for international businesses to compete in the global market. A prominent and recent example of the lengths American businesses will go to escape our anticompetitive system is Pfizer, a large U.S. pharmaceutical manufacturer. Pfizer recently tried to merge with Allergan and locate the newly formed business’s headquarters…Curtis Dubay