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Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, deftly paid respect to liberal Democrats in remarks Tuesday on protecting religious liberty in cases such as the Hobby Lobby decision. “Hobby Lobby came to court and said, ‘We deserve protections too. We’re a small, family-held company … ,’” Gorsuch said of the retail chain in a…
A federal judge is raising an alarm about “judicial psychoanalysis” resulting from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling on President Donald Trump’s executive order on “extreme vetting.” Last week, the 9th Circuit voted against rehearing the case that a three-judge panel had previously ruled on in affirming the federal district judge’s temporary restraining…
House conservatives are holding their ground in opposing the GOP’s health care bill, even after leaders made additional changes to the plan in an attempt to find middle ground and President Donald Trump delivered a stern warning to the conference Tuesday morning. Republicans released their changes to their health care bill Monday night, which were…
Rockville, Maryland, the city home to the recent immigrant high school rape scandal, is considering declaring itself a sanctuary city. Although Rockville police have had a longstanding policy neither to question suspected illegal immigrants about their immigration status, or to cooperate with federal immigration authorities, the city is now considering the process of formalizing that informal…
Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, faced questions about the Second Amendment during the second day of his confirmation hearings, to which he responded, “Heller is the law of the land.” In the Heller decision, a case formerly known as District of Columbia v. Heller, the Supreme Court overturned Chicago and Washington, D.C.’s, virtual…
Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, told senators during his second day of confirmation hearings Tuesday that he could not forecast how he would decide cases involving abortion. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., asked Gorsuch, “Do you view Roe as having superprecedent?” The Supreme Court’s 7-2 decision in Roe v. Wade…
Members of the House Freedom Caucus said the leadership-backed Obamacare repeal legislation, which is slated to go to vote Thursday, is far from where it needs to be to gain their support and lacks the votes to pass the lower chamber. The powerful conservative group was joined by GOP Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Ted Cruz…
Last week, the Department of Homeland Security announced there was an “unprecedented decline” in illegal border crossings during President Donald Trump’s first month in office. >>>Find out when and where you can watch “Full Measure” Meanwhile, border hawks are trying to reverse another trend: the refusal by many countries to accept the deportation of their…
Judge Neil Gorsuch’s dedication to upholding the rule of law became the focus of the Supreme Court nominee’s first day of Senate confirmation hearings. “My decisions have never reflected a judgment about the people before me—only my best judgment about the law and facts at issue in each particular case,” Gorsuch said in his prepared…
For the first time, the director of the FBI publicly revealed Monday that the bureau is conducting a counterintelligence investigation of the Russian government’s efforts to interfere in the presidential election and whether there was any coordination between the Trump campaign and Moscow. “I have been authorized by the Department of Justice to confirm that…
As House Speaker Paul Ryan works to satisfy the concerns of conservative and more liberal Republicans opposed to the GOP’s Obamacare replacement plan, more than 180 state lawmakers are joining the chorus of voices with issues with the bill. The state legislators, who represent 25 states, sent a letter to Ryan and Senate Majority Leader…
Judge Neil Gorsuch’s former law student who is accusing the Supreme Court nominee of encouraging firms to engage in sexist and possibly illegal hiring practices has close ties to the Democratic Party, The Daily Signal has learned. Jennifer Sisk, a 2016 graduate of the University of Colorado Law School, wrote a scathing letter to the…
Janie Nitze has known Judge Neil Gorsuch for nearly a decade. In 2008, after graduating with honors from Harvard Law School, she clerked for him at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, based in Denver. Since then, Nitze’s career has taken her to the U.S. Supreme Court, where she clerked for Justice Sonia Sotomayor,…
Conservatives are coming to the defense of The Daily Signal after The Washington Post questioned its journalistic legitimacy for being part of White House press pool coverage. Pool reporting is a responsibility that includes covering day-to-day activities of the president, vice president, and first lady. The Washington Post called Daily Signal correspondent Fred Lucas’ participation…
The president’s budget called for slashing funding for a block grant program primarily because it was difficult to determine whether it was getting the desired results. That was President Barack Obama’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2012. It justified the 7.5 percent reduction in the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Community Development Block Grant program…
“I didn’t come here to be popular, I came here to get stuff done.” Those were the words of House Speaker Paul Ryan at the National Review Institute’s 2017 Ideas Summit in Washington. Despite criticism from members of his own party, Ryan remains confident that the American Health Care Act (AHCA) is the bill to…
Confirmation hearings for Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court choice, will begin Monday, with the process culminating in one of four likely outcomes. Gorsuch, a 49-year-old federal appeals judge, could potentially see these outcomes as his confirmation process unfolds: He is confirmed with at least 51 votes after there are 60 votes to end…
KYIV, Ukraine—A Russian bank in the historic heart of Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, has become the epicenter of an escalating crisis that has Ukrainians doubting whether a political solution is still possible to end a three-year-old war against a combined force of pro-Russian separatists and Russian regulars. On March 13, protestors built a wall of cinder…
The Trump administration is promising to reconsider America’s relationship with the United Nations, with the White House aiming to limit U.S. financial contributions to the global body, and to enact reforms. In his first action suggesting a new approach to the international organization, President Donald Trump released a budget proposal Wednesday night that would reduce…
A group of conservative lawmakers came out in support of the House GOP’s Obamacare replacement plan Friday, but even with their backing, an influential bloc of conservatives remain opposed to the bill. President Donald Trump held a meeting Friday in the Oval Office with members of the Republican Study Committee to discuss the health care…