An amended version of the Laken Riley Act passed through the Senate Monday night with bipartisan support in a vote of 64 to 35. “We are a proud nation of immigrants. We are also a nation of laws, and the lawlessness ends today,” Alabama Republican Sen. Katie Britt, who led the reintroduction of the Laken…
Debate over the future of the Export-Import Bank is beginning to ramp up on Capitol Hill again. Today, the House Financial Services Committee rejected an amendment that would have forced the panel to formally consider reauthorization of the bank. Three Democrats on the committee—ranking member Maxine Waters of California and Reps. Gwen Moore of Wisconsin…
Sen. Marco Rubio is attempting to end Operation Choke Point—for good. The Florida Republican and potential 2016 presidential candidate introduced legislation yesterday that would completely defund the Justice Department program while protecting gun sellers and manufacturers from future attempts to eradicate the industry. “It has become clear that the FDIC and the Department of Justice…
Editor’s note: A previous version of this article has been removed. It has been updated to reflect that Sen. Rubio’s bill would not result in the infringement of any person’s First Amendment freedoms, but instead would ensure that federal law would not stand in the way of the right of state and local governments to…
The Supreme Court lifted an order Monday that punished a Christian couple in Oregon who refused to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding, telling a lower court to reconsider the dispute in light of the high court's decision last year involving another Christian baker in Colorado. The decision keeps a contentious social dispute over…
The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in favor of free speech in NIFLA v. Becerra, a case regarding California’s attempt to force pro-life pregnancy centers to advertise the state’s free or low-cost abortion program. The court rightly held that the California law in question, the Reproductive FACT Act, “likely violates the First Amendment” and “unduly burdens…
Editor's note: Many readers admired the high school students who stood up for a teacher who was fired for declining to use male pronouns to refer to a transgender student who was born female. Those comments lead off this week's mailbag. Don't forget to write us at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: Bless the hearts…
President Joe Biden’s censorship efforts with Big Tech companies have shocked even a federal judge, who asked the administration last week whether the president’s staff had ever read George Orwell’s famous dystopian novel “1984,” because the court case reminded him so much of the censorship in that book. Judge Terry A. Doughty, chief district judge…
Virginia farmer Martha Boneta thought her long-running dispute with a local green group was coming to an end. But now, that light at the end of the tunnel has gone dark again. Efforts to reach a settlement with a local green group, the Piedmont Environmental Council, are on hold. The PEC currently oversees enforcement duties…
In a special episode of “Problematic Women,” Heritage Foundation President Kay Coles James joins us to talk about the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission. President Donald Trump appointed James to the bipartisan commission formed to celebrate the passage of the 19th Amendment, which secured women’s right to vote. In this week’s podcast, we discuss the history…
This article is fourth in a series of five about the importance of Section 702. You can read the first article, “How the Section 702 Program Helps America Thwart Terrorist Plots,” here, the second article, “Anti-Terror Law’s Safeguards Against Incidental Collection of Domestic Data Are Sufficient,” here and the third article, “Ample Safeguards of Civil Liberties Warrant FISA…
Harvard University remains embroiled in controversy more than a year after violent pro-Palestinian demonstrations began on its campus in April 2024. Recently, the Trump administration asked Harvard to disclose information about foreign students seeking to enroll, after the administration alleged that the university was guilty of civil rights abuses and antisemitism from its failure to…
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again—or just hide your idea in a giant piece of legislation, where you hope it won’t get noticed. The National Popular Vote campaign hopes that Minnesota voters won’t see its sneaky maneuver until it’s too late. Perhaps National Popular Vote supporters feel desperate. They’ve been trying to…
A federal judge in San Antonio appointed by President Bill Clinton, Orlando Garcia, has issued a temporary restraining order against portions of Texas’ new sanctuary city law. SB 4, which was set to take effect on Sept. 1, outlawed sanctuary policies by Texas counties, cities, and municipalities. This order is wrong on two levels: It…
With Jon Stewart off the air, it seems the left has found a new progressive comedian it can look to for all the big cultural and public policy debates. After spending September lobbying on air to keep Obamacare, Jimmy Kimmel went on a rant this week on the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” TV show about the…
President Barack Obama is running out of time to fulfill his campaign promise to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay and bring some detainees to the United States. As the last months of Obama’s term approach, a new Republican measure could now make that a political impossibility. An amendment to the National Defense Authorization…
As our nation finds it way forward after weeks of pandemic-related lockdowns, governments have unfortunately treated churches and religious gatherings differently—and often less favorably—than comparable secular gatherings. This means the actions taken by some states are discriminatory. Fortunately, defenders of the First Amendment successfully restored their right to worship in-person (albeit in a limited capacity)…
A framework for a federal red flag law undoubtedly would be abused by President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security in conjunction with its efforts to take away American citizens’ guns based on speech the left doesn’t like. After the recent school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, Democrats and Republicans are yet again arguing over gun…
F. Scott Fitzgerald once quipped that the “test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” The protests over the war between Israel and Hamas that have roiled university campuses across the nation are testing our collective intelligence…
With government funds running out Dec. 8, House conservatives argue that lawmakers should boost military spending in a new funding bill. “We are breaking the caps on defense,” Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said Thursday at Conversations with Conservatives, a monthly Q&A with reporters hosted by House conservatives and The Heritage Foundation. Jordan, along with other…