The Supreme Court rejected two cases challenging federal regulation of gun suppressors Monday, just days after one such accessory was used in a massacre that left 12 dead in a Virginia Beach municipal building. Suppressors, which are commonly referred to as “silencers,” are tightly regulated under the 1937 National Firearms Act . Both cases arose from…
Who decides a president’s fitness for office? We, the people, do. Or, at least that’s how our republican system of government is supposed to work. In the past few years, however, that idea has been seriously challenged. President Joe Biden delivered a speech at the National Safer Communities Summit at the University of Hartford in…
The Supreme Court heard oral argument Monday in the first major case involving gun rights in nearly a decade. A local shooting club is challenging New York City’s handgun regulations, perhaps the most restrictive and draconian in the nation. New York’s regulations banned residents from taking their lawfully owned and registered handguns anywhere outside their homes…
The Supreme Court justices will be hard at work churning out decisions through the end of June, but April brings to a close oral arguments for the 2014-2015 term. Over the next two weeks, the justices will hear oral arguments in seven cases, including cases involving criminal law, overregulation, same-sex marriage and the death penalty….
Burt Quick, a retired California police chief, took a cruise with his wife last winter only to be quarantined on the ship for five days when other passengers got sick with COVID-19. Quick and his wife then spent two weeks quarantined at Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Georgia along with hundreds of other cruise ship passengers….
Northwest Georgia faces a crowded race to fill the surprise vacancy in Congress created by the sudden departure of Marjorie Taylor Greene. Greene, who represented the state’s 14th Congressional District, recently resigned from Congress following escalating disputes with President Donald Trump. The dispute erupted after Greene pushed for the release of Justice Department files linked to Jeffrey Epstein, causing Trump…
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s House seat remains open after a special election to fill the vacancy moved to a runoff on Tuesday. The GOP has a razor-thin House majority of just four seats, and the Democrats could narrow that further by flipping this typically Republican seat. The crowded Tuesday night ballot featured 17 candidates, with 12 Republicans and five Democrats. Since no candidate won a majority of the vote outright, the two top candidates will…
Conservative leaders are asking President Donald Trump to establish a free trade agreement with Taiwan that they say would bolster America’s interests. Calling Taiwan “a model trade partner,” the conservative leaders write in a letter addressed to the president, “The idea of a U.S.-Taiwan free trade agreement has been blocked for decades by Washington’s concern…
A group of vocal conservatives in the House stands to gain seven or more new members after Tuesday’s election results are all in. The House Freedom Caucus has pressed the larger GOP conference for more than five years on issues ranging from spending and taxes to abortion and religious liberty. The Freedom Caucus expects to…
A division of the Labor Department charged with overseeing benefits for American workers is telling employees to use the words “they,” “them,” and “their” to describe individuals as part of “Gender-Inclusive Language Policy,” The Daily Signal has learned. “The policy encourages the use of the singular ‘they’ and its variations where applicable, encourages the use…
Eric Flannery, a military veteran, is on the cusp of losing his business. In his Washington, D.C., bar, The Big Board, Flannery has a strict “everybody is welcome” policy. He’s not demanding to see vaccination cards, as the District of Columbia now requires bars to do, and he’s not forcing his team to wear masks….
Elite Western institutions have not only failed to pass on our history and traditions, in many cases, they have intentionally tried to tear them down. The result is generations of Americans entirely untethered from their past. At best, they know much that isn’t so. That’s the theme of my new podcast, “History Reconsidered,” which I…
The top 10 Republican candidates hoping to call the White House home in 2016 duked it out Thursday night for the first presidential debate of election season. Stealing the primetime slot from the seven lower-polling candidates, the top group jockeyed for attention to spotlight policy positions in an attempt to standout among the crowded bunch….
California schools are obsessed with race. One school district in the Bay Area has enforced mandatory, critical race theory-based “ethnic studies” lessons beginning in preschool. In another district, a San Diego high school principal and school board skirted the law in their rush to erase California history and the legacy of a Catholic saint after…
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has issued an order sanctioning lawyers at Perkins Coie—the Washington law firm that represents Democratic candidates, as well as prominent Democratic political organizations—for filing a “redundant and misleading” motion in the court in an election case out of Texas. Among the specific lawyers named in the March 11…
Editor's note: This weekend we reach deeper into the mailbag for a smattering of your views on a bunch of different issues. Let's lead off with observations on the state of our union by Anthony Cosenza, a Defense Department veteran who teaches at Philadelphia University these days. Enjoy.—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: This is regarding your reporting on Obamacare…
A lawsuit filed Wednesday by the Women’s Liberation Front accuses the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation of endangering women by housing biological males in women’s prisons. According to the lawsuit, a biological male sexually assaulted a female prisoner in Central California Women’s Facility after being housed there under state law. The prison’s response to…
In a much-awaited decision, the Supreme Court held on Thursday in a 5-4 decision that partisan gerrymandering is a political question beyond the reach of the federal courts. This should come as no surprise, since it’s the same conclusion the court reached the last time this issue was before it in 2004 in a case…
Florida, like most other states, requires those who wish to vote in upcoming elections to register. Florida’s deadline for registering to vote in the upcoming general election was 11:59 p.m. Oct. 5. To facilitate the process, Florida provides a voter registration website, RegisterToVoteFlorida.gov. Unfortunately, the registration website malfunctioned for several hours on that day, potentially…
MADISON, Wis.—It’s pretty clear that state Rep. Chris Taylor doesn’t much care for the American Legislative Exchange Council and its limited-government, free-market principles. But now the Madison Democrat and self-described anti-ALEC spy wants to put regulatory chains on the organization for doing what Taylor’s left-leaning allies freely do every day. Taylor is the author of…