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    Don’t Let Guilty Pleas in Trump Indictment in Georgia Fool You

    Whatever one thinks of Donald Trump, no one should assume that the recent plea agreements in the criminal indictment filed by Fani Willis, district attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, or the public apologies she demanded legitimize the claims made against the former president and the other defendants. This includes the lawyers indicted for doing what they’re…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    ‘I Will Object’: JD Vance to Continue Holding Up Biden DOJ Nominees Over Politicized Trump Indictments

    Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, said Wednesday he would continue to hold up nominations in the Justice Department over the targeting by the Biden administration of former President Donald Trump. Special counsel Jack Smith secured a four-count indictment of Trump in August relating to the former president's efforts to contest the results of the 2020 election, months after…
    Harold Hutchison
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    Judges Have No Legal Authority to Bar Trump From 2024 Ballots

    Editor’s note: On Tuesday, Dec. 19, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that former President Donald Trump was not eligible to appear on the ballot in the Centennial State. The ruling was 4-3. House Speaker Mike Johnson posted on X, formerly known as Twitter: “We trust the U.S. Supreme Court will set aside this reckless decision…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    Untested Legal Imagination’s the Mother of Trump and Jan. 6 Prosecutions

    Donald Trump doesn’t know Thomas Robertson. But the former president’s fate appears inextricably tied to that of the former Army Ranger, who was convicted last year for his involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, protest at the U.S. Capitol. That’s because the prosecutions of Trump and his supporters, including Robertson, have often depended on reimagining…
    Julie Kelly
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    Controversial House Speaker Nominee Drops Out After Trump Attack

    House Majority Whip Tom Emmer dropped out of the speaker race on Tuesday after former President Donald Trump warned Republicans not to support Emmer, saying he is “totally out-of-touch with Republican Voters.” Emmer had won the Republican speaker nomination on Tuesday morning, but around 26 House Republicans voted against Emmer during the closed-door roll call vote, according to…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    If You’re OK With Gag Order on Trump, You’re No Friend of Democracy or Constitution

    This week, U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan, overseeing United States v. Donald Trump, issued a gag order prohibiting a leading presidential candidate, Donald Trump, from engaging in speech aimed at “government staff,” among others, during his trial. Listen, I understand the disdain some conservatives feel for the former president. I share the sentiment. But…
    David Harsanyi
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    Trump Case Just Got More Unprecedented With Gag Order

    Declaring “I do not need to hear any campaign rhetoric in my court,” a federal judge known for strict sentencing of Jan. 6 Capitol riot defendants on Monday imposed a gag order on former President Donald Trump. U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is overseeing the case in which Trump is charged with four…
    Fred Lucas
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    The Politically Charged Rulings of Judge Overseeing Trump Case

    At her first appearance in the criminal case against Donald Trump for his alleged attempt to overturn the 2020 election, U.S. District Court Judge Tanya S. Chutkan repeatedly warned the former president’s lawyers that politics would not be tolerated in her courtroom.  But even as she warns Trump about his “inflammatory” language, Chutkan has routinely…
    Julie Kelly
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    Poll: 37% of Americans Think Trump Gives GOP Best Chance of Winning 2024 Election

    Former President Donald Trump is the candidate who would give the Republican Party the best shot at winning the 2024 presidential election, 37% of Americans said in a new poll. Asked “which candidate would give Republicans the best chance of winning in 2024,” regardless of their own personal preference, 37% of respondents in a Scott…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    ‘Join the Ultimate Strike Against the Globalist Class’: 6 Takeaways From Trump’s Michigan Speech

    Donald Trump was back in Michigan on Wednesday night, speaking to a crowd connected with the automotive industry as the United Auto Workers union continued its strike of the Big Three automakers.  Trump, who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination again and a rematch with Joe Biden in 2024, made a pitch to a traditionally…
    Fred Lucas
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    DeSantis Swings at Trump for Skipping Debate: ‘Donald Trump Is Missing in Action’

    Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis swung at former President Donald Trump for skipping Wednesday night’s GOP primary debate. “You know who else is missing in action?” he asked, after critiquing President Joe Biden. “Donald Trump is missing in action.” “He should be on this stage,” he insisted. “He owes it to you to defend his…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    State Election Officials Will Defer to Courts on Removing Trump From 2024 Ballot

    Top election officials in multiple states have said they would defer to the courts on the question of removing former President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot. Lawsuits to remove Trump from the ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which bars certain government officials who took an oath to the Constitution and then…
    Katelynn Richardson
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    Garland Blames Trump for Stalled Hunter Biden Probe

    Attorney General Merrick Garland tried to blame the Trump administration Wednesday for allowing the statute of limitations to lapse on potential tax charges against first son Hunter Biden.  But when Garland said so during testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, was having none of it.  At several points during the hearing,…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Promises to Pardon Pro-Life Advocates Jailed by Biden

    Former President Donald Trump has promised he will pardon or commute the sentences of sidewalk counselors, pro-life advocates, and “every political prisoner who’s been unjustly persecuted by the Biden administration” on the first day he returns to office, he told the 2023 Pray Vote Stand Summit on Friday. Trump also vowed he would prohibit transgender procedures for…
    Ben Johnson
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    Top Pro-Life Leaders Slam Trump for Calling Heartbeat Protections for Unborn ‘Terrible’ 

    Former President Donald Trump is drawing fire from pro-life leaders for describing Florida’s heartbeat protections for the unborn as “terrible.” “I think what he did is a terrible thing and a terrible mistake,” Trump told NBC’s new “Meet the Press” host, Kristen Welker, in an interview that aired Sunday. The former president was referring to…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Donald Trump Pledges to Champion Homeschool Families

    Former President Donald Trump pledged Thursday to champion American homeschoolers if he should again become president in 2025. “As president, it was my honor to support America’s homeschool families—and to protect the God-given right of every parent to be the steward of their children’s education,” Trump said in a new Agenda47 video released on social…
    Mary Margaret Olohan
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    Trump Isn’t Disqualified From Holding Office Under the 14th Amendment

    Recently some people have started making the argument that former President Donald Trump is barred from running for president by the 14th Amendment, one of the Reconstruction Amendments ratified in 1868 three years after the end of the Civil War. These Trump critics rely on the first sentence of Section 3 of that amendment, which…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    ‘We Will Not Comply,’ Trump Says of COVID-19 Lockdowns, Mandates

    In a video released Wednesday, former President Donald Trump denounced the left’s push to “restart the COVID hysteria” and pledged that the United States would not return to lockdowns, mask mandates and vaccine mandates. “To every COVID tyrant who wants to take away our freedom, hear these words: We will not comply, so don’t even…
    Daily Signal Staff
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    Georgia Officials Didn’t Follow Ethical, Legal Rules in Trump Indictment

    A judge in Fulton County, Georgia, failed to properly follow the precedent set by the state Supreme Court in allowing the county’s top prosecutor to go forward with a grand jury investigation of former President Donald Trump after disquaifying the prosecutor from part of the probe for misbehavior. In a legal analysis Aug. 15 in…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    ‘Coordinated Effort’: House Judiciary Seeks White House, DOJ Communications on Trump Prosecution

    The House Judiciary Committee is pressing both the White House and Justice Department to provide information about meetings between special counsel Jack Smith’s team and White House aides in the weeks leading to the indictment of former President Donald Trump in the classified documents case.  House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, wrote letters to Attorney…
    Fred Lucas
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