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    Supreme Court Justices Cite ‘Wall of Precedent’ Against Boulder Climate Lawfare
    Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical Monday of Boulder County’s claims that the energy company Suncor caused the county concrete harm by contributing to global climate change in a case that could open the floodgates of climate lawfare across the country. “If Boulder’s claims are allowed to go forward, some 90,000 municipalities across the country will…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    ‘Creating a One-Party System’: Conservatives Warn of Consequences and Need to Counter Left’s Weaponization of Legal System
    Conservatives are pushing back against the Left’s effort to discipline lawyers for the clients they represent, in what is being called “barfare,” with threats of disbarment or other actions. During a conference Wednesday near Capitol Hill on the topic, Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., praised the effort to fight back. “We need smart people who have…
    Fred Lucas
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    Jack Smith’s Media Dragnet Gets a Pass From Legacy Press
    One of the biggest government attacks on free press occurred under a presidential administration and the legacy media have collectively shrugged. Why? Because it was carried out by a Democrat administration and not President Donald Trump. It’s that simple. On Tuesday, former special counsel Jack Smith—who served under former President Joe Biden—testified before the Senate…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Jack Smith Team Knew Spying on Congress ‘Might Be Unconstitutional’ but ‘Forged Ahead’: House Report
    Former special counsel Jack Smith and the Biden administration’s Department of Justice violated the DOJ’s policies with respect to separation of powers, according to a House report released Wednesday. Smith, appointed in 2022 by Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate Donald Trump, expanded his investigation into members of Congress who communicated with then-first-term President Trump…
    Fred Lucas
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    ‘Kid Gloves’ vs. ‘Public Spectacle’? Newly Released FBI Photos Fuel Biden-Trump Double Standard Claims in Doc Probes
    The Oversight Project on Monday released photographic evidence from the FBI’s search of former President Joe Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, and the Penn Biden Center in connection with the investigation of his alleged mishandling of classified documents. The watchdog organization contends the photos confirm Biden got the “kid-glove treatment” from the Justice Department while…
    Fred Lucas
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    ‘Evil Lawfare Needs to End’: Oversight Project Unveils New Firm to Combat Government Weaponization
    The Oversight Project is ramping up its fight against government weaponization. The Washington-based watchdog is launching a law firm to defend targets of politicized lawfare and investigate investigators conducting seemingly meritless probes across the executive and legislative branches at the federal and state levels. The firm will also aim at the state bar association level…
    Fred Lucas
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    Victor Davis Hanson: How Trump Came Back From Rock Bottom
    On the premiere episode of the Daily Signal’s new weekly podcast, “Midterm Report,” Daily Signal senior contributor Victor Davis Hanson talks about the upcoming midterm elections, his new book “The Counterrevolution: The Fall and Rise of Donald Trump and the MAGA Movement,” and the miraculous comeback of America’s 47th president. This excerpt has been lightly…
    Robert B. Bluey
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    Legal Fight Escalates Over Leftist Billionaire’s Funding of E. Jean Carroll’s Lawsuit Against Trump
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A watchdog group is pressing New York to act against the lawyer for E. Jean Carroll for allegedly failing to disclose that Democrat donor Reid Hoffman bankrolled the defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump. In July, the National Legal and Policy Center filed a bar complaint with the Attorney Grievance Committee…
    Fred Lucas
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    Declassified Documents Reveal Democrats’, Deep State Targeting of Sessions in Russia Probe
    In the early months of President Donald Trump’s first term, when enemies of the administration clung to the since-discredited Russia collusion narrative, the FBI opened a probe called “March Toll” into then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The FBI launched the probe at the behest of two Democrat senators, one of whom resigned from office in disgrace…
    Fred Lucas
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    EXCLUSIVE: Bar Complaint Rejected After Claims E. Jean Carroll Lawyer Concealed $7 Million Funding Source for Trump Lawsuit
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The lawyer for E. Jean Carroll will not face any sanction for not immediately disclosing that a major Democrat donor funded Carroll’s sexual assault lawsuit against President Donald Trump. The New York State Attorney Grievance Committee of the New York State Supreme Court sent a letter Monday to the watchdog group…
    Fred Lucas
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    Jim Jordan Refers Jack Smith for DOJ Criminal Investigation, Alleges He Misled Congress
    House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, made a criminal referral of former special counsel Jack Smith to the Justice Department, alleging he misled Congress about his investigations of Donald Trump. House investigators deposed Smith behind closed doors in December, and the former prosecutor testified in a public hearing in January. According to a letter from…
    Fred Lucas
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    The Cure for Left-Wing Lawfare Is Not Litigation Finance Reform
    In recent years, left-wing activists have increasingly turned to America’s courts as the solution to their policy failures elsewhere. After countless failed attempts to enact progressive mandates through Congress and federal agencies—the Green New Deal, firearm bans, and other unpopular policies—activist groups have been aggressively teaming up with trial lawyers in an effort to force…
    O.H. Skinner
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  • Supreme Court Rebuffs Trump’s Appeal in E. Jean Carroll Case
    WASHINGTON, June 29 (Reuters)—The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear President Donald Trump’s bid to overturn a $5 million verdict in favor of E. Jean Carroll in a case in which a jury found him liable for sexually abusing the former magazine columnist and then defaming her. The justices turned away Trump’s appeal…
    Andrew Chung
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    The Case for Climate Lawsuits Just Got Weaker
    Climate litigation is having a difficult month.  As plaintiffs suing energy companies for global warming gear up for their upcoming Supreme Court hearing, the plans to extract billions under local tort laws suffered significant setbacks in recent weeks.  Last week, the modeling scenarios used to predict the most dire consequences from global warming were deemed “implausible” by the U.N.’s…
    Kevin Stocklin
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    Cooke on Newsmax: SPLC Controversy Raises New Questions About Fraud and Accountability
    The Daily Signal’s Senior Political and Legal Analyst Mehek Cooke said on Newsmax Wednesday that congressional scrutiny of the Southern Poverty Law Center over fraud concerns is long overdue, arguing that Americans deserve answers about whether the organization engaged in political targeting and how it used donor funds. A federal grand jury in April charged…
    Daily Signal Staff
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    FBI Targeting Republicans Went Deeper Than ‘Arctic Frost,’ New Documents Show
    The Biden Justice Department’s data collection on political opponents was more expansive than initially thought, according to documents released Tuesday by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the committee’s chairman, on Tuesday published documents revealing “Operation Rampart Twelve,” a Biden-era investigation that targeted Republican members of Congress including Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Eric…
    Fred Lucas
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    Climate Lawfare Suffers Major Defeat at the Supreme Court
    The Supreme Court on Friday unanimously struck down a bizarre effort at climate lawfare, which aimed to penalize Chevron for its role in boosting the U.S. war effort against the Nazis and Imperial Japan in World War II. The ruling is good news for sanity, but it also sets an important precedent for the Left’s…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    The Supreme Court’s Golden Opportunity to Eviscerate Climate Lawfare
    Climate alarmism has lost at the ballot box time and time again, and last year, even Bill Gates significantly dialed down his support for it. However, enterprising lawyers on the Left are still trying to smuggle in an effective carbon tax through the courts—and the Supreme Court should put an end to it. It works…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    How Liberal Lawfare Actors Spearheaded Case That Got Trump-Appointed Prosecutor Disqualified
    A three-judge panel disqualified President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer as the acting U.S. attorney in New Jersey, in a case pushed by the head of a liberal lawfare group, and by Hunter Biden’s former lawyer. The panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit determined Monday that Alina Habba’s appointment violated…
    Fred Lucas
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    Teachers Union Anti-Trump Lawfare Cases Have Little Connection to K-12 Public School Education
    After President Donald Trump was sworn in for a second term in January, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten asserted she was “really sad” about the inaugural speech.  “Rather than unifying people and building on America’s best qualities, Trump delivered a speech that was laden with divisiveness, showing that he is the president of…
    Fred Lucas
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