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Jan. 6-Related Court Case Could Affect Indictment Against Trump
The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments in a challenge to the criminal prosecution of a Pennsylvania man, Joseph Fischer, for entering the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Lurking in the background is the fact that the outcome of this case could affect the pending federal indictment against former President Donald Trump in U.S. District… -
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Supreme Court Justices Appear Skeptical of Biden DOJ’s Broad Use of Statute to Charge Jan. 6 Defendants
A majority of Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical Tuesday of the government’s broad reading of a statute used to charge hundreds of Jan. 6 defendants, as well as former President Donald trump. The defendant in the case Fischer v. United States argued that the statute he was charged under, Section 1512(c)(2), was expanded beyond its intended purpose… -
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Apologies for Government Response to COVID-19 Not Good Enough, Witnesses Say
America can’t move on from what happened during the mass government response to the COVID-19 pandemic. That was the message Tuesday at a House Judiciary Committee subcomittee hearing titled “Liberty, Tyranny, and Accountability: COVID-19 and the Constitution.” Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, said the government response to the pandemic triggered “some of the most aggressive usurpations… -
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How Left-Wing Organizations Betray the Groups They Claim to Represent
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union—like most communist parties—came to power as the great defender of workers. In reality, the Soviet Communist Party didn’t give a hoot about Russian workers. The party was nothing more than a totalitarian organization that used workers to gain power—and then suppressed the proletariat, just as it suppressed every… -
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WATCH: HHS Secretary Won’t Condemn Abortions Up Until Birth
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra refused on Tuesday to condemn or even distance himself from abortions of unborn babies who are ready to be delivered. During a hearing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Becerra repeatedly told Sen. John Kennedy that he supports the abortion limitations that were encompassed in Roe v. Wade, which… -
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After Discovery of ‘Vote for Biden’ Flyers in Mexico, Mayorkas Can’t Say How to Stop Illegal Aliens From Voting
After the revelation of flyers at a Mexican shelter reminding unlawful border crossers “to vote for President Biden,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas couldn’t tell Congress on Tuesday how his department could safeguard U.S. elections from illegal voting by foreigners. “We do not oversee the election enrollment process,” Mayorkas told the House Homeland Security Committee…. -
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‘Unpacking’ the Court: Why the Left Wants Sotomayor Gone
Ever since losing control of the Supreme Court to a nominally conservative majority, many of the same liberals who have brazenly called for “packing the court” are now just as brazenly seeking to unpack it. If ever there was proof that the Left views the Supreme Court as just another legislative body to lobby for… -
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DC Mayor Mum on Motorbikes on City Streets Without License Plates
The mayor’s office in Washington, D.C., has remained silent on widespread license-plate violations in the city following a Daily Signal investigation of the phenomenon of unlicensed drivers. Men and women alike—many of them in the country illegally—are driving motorized bikes around the District of Columbia without license plates. Some of the riders of the motorcycles… -
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Long-Awaited Articles of Impeachment Against DHS Secretary Mayorkas Arrive in Senate
The House delivered the two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate on Tuesday afternoon. The articles are expected to be acted on quickly by the Democrat-controlled Senate, but not in the manner House GOP lawmakers are seeking. “We want to address this issue as expeditiously as possible,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck… -
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Biden’s ‘Plan C’ Scheme for Canceling Student Loan Debt Also Gets an ‘F’
If you’re confused about President Joe Biden’s various student loan debt-cancellation schemes, who can blame you? And on Tuesday, the Biden administration unveiled its third attempt to make you pay for someone else’s life choices. First, some background. In August 2022, the Biden administration announced its initial plan for canceling student loan debt. Borrowers earning… -
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California School System Sued Over Falsified History About Israel-Hamas War
A California public school district that attempted to hide pro-Hamas course material from parents now faces legal action. The Deborah Project, which describes itself as “a public interest law firm that defends the civil rights of Jews in education,” filed suit April 8 against the Berkeley Unified School District, accusing it of “intentionally trying to… -
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Trump’s New York Trial Has Officially Begun. Here’s What’s at Stake.
Jury selection began Monday in the first of former President Donald Trump’s criminal cases to go to trial, a case legal experts say is the weakest and most political but could nevertheless result in a conviction in the overwhelmingly Democratic New York county. The trial for Trump’s hush money case, expected to last between six and eight… -
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Johnson Vows Not to Resign, as Second GOP Lawmaker Announces Support for Ouster
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., announced on social media Tuesday that he’s co-sponsoring a motion to vacate the chair against House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. In doing so, Massie joined the motion to vacate push against Johnson launched by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., in March. Massie is the first other Republican to back Greene in the effort…. -
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NPR Suspends Editor Who Blew Whistle on Left-Wing Takeover of Newsroom
National Public Radio on Friday officially suspended veteran editor Uri Berliner, who recently published an essay exposing the government-funded outlet’s alleged bias during former President Donald Trump’s presidency. Berliner, who has worked at NPR for 25 years, alleged in the essay published in The Free Press that the outlet was seeking to take down Trump during his presidency by citing Russia-collusion… -
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Illegals Instructed to Vote Biden for Border NGO to ‘Stay Open’
An advocacy group based in Northeastern Mexico that lobbies U.S. lawmakers has distributed and posted flyers encouraging illegal immigrants to vote for President Joe Biden in the 2024 election, according to The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project. Translated from Spanish, the Oversight Project notes, the flyers posted by the organization Resource Center Matamoros say: “Reminder to… -
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Is War Imminent? Former Trump Official Weighs in on Israeli Response to Iranian Attack
Israeli leaders say the nation will respond to Iran’s weekend attack, but what that response will entail remains unclear. “I can see a number of scenarios in which this does escalate to a regional and potentially even a global conflict,” says a former member of the National Security Council, Robert Greenway, adding, “I can see fewer… -
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Indiana Prosecutor Laments That Self-Defense Laws Exist, Protect Defensive Gun Users
Apparently, some Indianapolis public officials have forgotten how their own self-defense laws work and why they exist in the first place. In an interview that’s equal parts amusing and alarming, Indiana’s Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears recently lamented an increase in self-defense shootings in Indianapolis. Mears complained to reporters that shootings involving self-defense claims are… -
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California Cares More About Virtue Signaling Than Alleviating Homelessness
California spends an astounding amount of money to combat homelessness. Presumably. I know this is a crazy question to ask, but does all that spending actually do anything to reduce the amount of homelessness? The answer from California’s state agencies tasked with running homelessness programs seems to be no more than a shrug. According to… -
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Sayonara, Chevron
It’s time for the Supreme Court to jettison the doctrine known as Chevron deference, which forces federal courts to surrender their judicial function to the unaccountable bureaucrats of the administrative state. This past January, the high court heard arguments in two cases—Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless Inc. v. Commerce Department—that present the opportunity… -
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Antiwar Activists Chant ‘Death to America’ at Event Featuring Chicago Alderman
Chicago Alderman Byron Sigcho-Lopez, a member of the mayor’s leadership team, headlined an event Saturday at which some participants chanted “Death to America” and plotted ways to disrupt this summer’s Democratic National Convention in the city. Sigcho-Lopez made headlines last month for appearing at another anti-convention protest, where he spoke next to a burned American…