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    EXCLUSIVE: This Jewish Cancer Counselor Got Fired For Objecting to an Anti-Trump DEI Assignment. Now, She’s Suing.
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A veteran social worker who says she was fired for expressing concern over racial harassment against her as a Jewish woman and political harassment over her ties to the Trump administration is suing for wrongful termination. Tammy Weitzman last week sued her former employer, the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, now known…
    Tony Kinnett | Tyler O’Neil
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    Trump Defeats Haley in New Hampshire Primary
    Former President Donald Trump appeared poised to win his third consecutive Republican presidential nomination after a clear victory Tuesday over former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley in the New Hampshire primary. The results seemed likely to set up a rematch in November between Trump and President Joe Biden, the Democrat who unseated him in the…
    Fred Lucas
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    South Carolina Republicans Slammed for Pushing ‘Trump-Hating’ Pro-Abortion Democrat for Judicial Appointment
    South Carolina Republicans are drawing fire from the South Carolina Freedom Caucus for pushing a pro-abortion former Democratic House leader as the state’s next circuit court judge for the 5th Judicial Circuit. James Smith, the 2018 Democratic gubernatorial nominee and the former Democratic leader of South Carolina’s House of Representatives, is described by one Planned…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Cruz, Scalise Lead Supreme Court Brief to Keep Trump on 2024 Colorado Ballot
    Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., led a brief Thursday to the Supreme Court arguing for keeping former President Donald Trump on the Colorado ballot for 2024.  The brief had a total of 177 House and Senate Republicans including House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell,…
    Fred Lucas
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    How Trump Legal Team Makes the Case He Never Engaged in Insurrection
    Former President Donald Trump’s legal team filed a brief with the Supreme Court Thursday, arguing that a Colorado Supreme Court ruling to keep him off the ballot would “disenfranchise tens of millions of Americans.” The Colorado Supreme Court ruled last month that Trump was not eligible to be a presidential candidate because he had violated…
    Katrina Trinko
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    Trump Won Iowa. Political Insider Explains Why.
    The polls didn’t lie. Former President Donald Trump was projected to be the winner of the Iowa caucuses Monday night just about 30 minutes after they began. In the polls, Trump had a 30-point lead, give or take, over former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as Iowans arrived at their…
    Virginia Allen
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    Trump Calls for Nation to ‘Come Together’ After Iowa Victory
    After a giant win in the Iowa caucus, former President Donald Trump took a gracious tone in his victory speech, and talked about issues such as border security, energy independence and paying down the national debt.  “I really think this is time now for everybody, our country, to come together,” Trump told his supporters. “We…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Wins Overwhelming Iowa Victory
    Former President Donald Trump won a smashing victory in the Iowa caucuses, the first in the nation contest for the 2024 presidential race. The Associated Press called the race for Trump at 8:31 p.m. ET, or Iowa’s time of 7:31 p.m. CT. Fox News reported Trump had 70.2% of the vote with 1% of precincts…
    Fred Lucas
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    Allegations of Affair With Her ‘Special Prosecutor’ Could Boot Fani Willis From Trump Case
    A stunningly salacious motion filed Monday by a lawyer for one of Donald Trump’s codefendants in a criminal case in Georgia accuses Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis of engaging in an “improper, clandestine personal relationship” with a married private attorney she hired as a “special prosecutor.” The motion asserts that since Willis never got…
    Hans von Spakovsky | Cully Stimson
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    Democrats Reveal Contempt for Democracy With ‘Any Means Necessary’ Attacks on Trump
    When faced with the possible return of former President Donald Trump, the current agenda of the Democratic Party is summed up simply as “We had to destroy democracy to save it.” The effort shares a common theme: Any means necessary are justified to prevent the people from choosing their own president, given the fear that…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    6 Top Takeaways From Trump’s Debate-Skipping Town Hall
    Donald Trump again counterprogrammed a Republican presidential debate Wednesday night, skipping another opportunity as the front-runner to take on his GOP challengers.  “Remember this: Our ultimate retribution is success,” Trump said during one memorable moment as he appeared live on Fox News Channel for town hall-style questions from an audience while CNN aired a fifth…
    Fred Lucas
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    Could Allegations About Fani Willis’ ‘Improper’ Romantic Relationship Sink Her Racketeering Case Against Trump?
    Allegations about District Attorney Fani Willis’ “improper” relationship with the special prosecutor could have serious ramifications for her racketeering case against former President Donald Trump, legal experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. The attorney for a Trump co-defendant filed a motion Monday alleging Willis not only hired the man she was romantically involved with, Nathan Wade, as special…
    Katelynn Richardson
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    Court Appears to Take Dim View of Trump’s Immunity Claim
    Former President Donald Trump’s claim to presidential immunity from prosecution came under intense questioning Tuesday by a three-judge federal panel. Surrounded by high amounts of security and media due to the former president’s attendance, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit heard arguments Tuesday to consider Trump’s appeal of U.S. District Court Judge…
    Katelynn Richardson
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    Trump Files Flurry of Motions Seeking to Dismiss Georgia Election Charges
    Former President Donald Trump filed three motions Monday to dismiss his Georgia 2020 election case, including one claiming presidential immunity prevents his prosecution. The motions argue for dismissal based on due process grounds, double jeopardy and presidential immunity. The claims in Trump’s presidential immunity filing mirror those made in his bid to dismiss the federal indictment brought by special…
    Katelynn Richardson
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    Supreme Court to Expedite Review of Colorado’s Unilateral Removal of Trump From State’s Ballot
    The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear former President Donald Trump’s appeal of the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to kick him off the state’s ballot. The Colorado Supreme Court ruled Dec. 19 that Trump is ineligible to be on the state’s primary ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The…
    Katelynn Richardson
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    Trump Slams Ohio Governor for Caving on Gender Ideology
    Former President Donald Trump condemned Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine for vetoing a bill that would have protected children from experimental transgender surgeries and hormonal interventions. “DeWine has fallen to the Radical Left,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Saturday, vowing that he would no longer promote the Republican governor. “No wonder he…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Michigan Supreme Court Declines to Remove Trump From State’s 2024 Ballot
    The Michigan Supreme Court declined Wednesday to remove former President Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 ballot. The court wrote that it was “not persuaded that the questions presented should be reviewed by this Court” before rejecting the case on procedural grounds, according to a brief order. Last week, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Trump was ineligible to…
    Katelynn Richardson
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    Biden vs. Trump: 5 Ways the Left Is Way Beyond Double Standards
    The abject narcissism of the insular Left is startling. They apparently believe the American public is amnesiac enough to forget what leftists once did, now that they’re doing the utter opposite. And they assume we are to discount their hypocrisy and self-absorption simply because they self-identify as erudite and moral, and assume their opponents are…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Barring Trump From Ballots Is a Recipe for Violence
    On Tuesday evening, the Supreme Court of Colorado ruled that former President Donald Trump had to be removed from the state ballot, for both the primaries and the general election. It cited Amendment 14, Section 3 of the Constitution of the United States, which states, in relevant part, that candidates are ineligible for office if…
    Ben Shapiro
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    Fact Check: Would US Sanction Other Countries for Doing What Colorado Supreme Court Did to Trump?
    Officials associated with the political party in power act to ban the opposition’s leading candidate from even competing on the ballot.  Not to fear, the Biden administration—and before that, the Trump administration—stepped up to sanction other nations that did that. The Colorado Supreme Court’s controversial ruling Tuesday disqualifying former President Donald Trump from the state’s…
    Fred Lucas
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