LawCommentary
In America, It’s Too Easy to Be a Criminal
A law in South Carolina bans playing pinball if you’re under 18. That’s just one of America’s many ridiculous laws restricting freedom. “There is a… Read More
LawCommentary
The Pentagon Has a New Common-Sense Acquisition Framework
Last week, the Department of Defense took a big step to streamline its notoriously burdensome procurement processes. Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment… Read More
SocietyCommentary
We Hear You: From Misery in San Francisco to Impeachment in Senate
Editor’s note: This week’s dip into the mailbag isn’t impeachment free, but does show that much more is on the minds of The Daily Signal’s… Read More
LawNews
Sending Unsolicited Nudes in Texts, Online Soon Could Be Illegal in California
Californians who send unwelcome sexual images to others online without expressed invitation soon could face legal repercussions for such unwanted sexting. A proposed bill in… Read More
LawNews
San Francisco DA Touts Progressive Ambitions for Already Troubled City
Chesa Boudin spent his childhood influenced by members of a radical left and violent domestic terrorist organization. During college, he worked as an English translator… Read More
LawNews
6 Key Points From Report to Secret Court on FBI Spying
A former Obama administration lawyer who long defended investigating President Donald Trump’s Russian ties and spying on a campaign aide concludes in a new report… Read More
LawNews
DHS Strategy on Human Trafficking Aims to Put Issue Front and Center
Americans need to be talking more about the problem of human trafficking in order to successfully combat it, the nation’s acting homeland security secretary says. … Read More
SocietyCommentary
Virginia’s Would-Be Gun Grabbers Likely to Face Blowback
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam apologized for his medical school blackface stunt, but he will have much more to apologize for if he signs into law… Read More
LawNews
Investigation of Trump-Russia Probe Looks at ‘Actors,’ Agencies Beyond FBI
Attorney General William Barr provided new details of a federal prosecutor’s criminal investigation of the origins of the Trump-Russia probe in an interview on Fox… Read More
LawNews
Surveillance Footage Outside Jeffrey Epstein’s Jail Cell Goes Missing
Surveillance footage showing the outside of alleged child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s jail cell the night he first tried to commit suicide is missing, prosecutors… Read More
LawNews
Attorney General Dismisses Comey’s ‘Nonsense’ on FBI Probe of Trump Campaign
Attorney General William Barr hit back in an interview at James Comey over the former FBI director’s attempts to downplay his role in Crossfire Hurricane,… Read More
LawNews
Liberal Virginia Prosecutors Spread Soros Project to DC Suburbs
Parisa Dehghani-Tafti placed her left hand on her old law school textbook, “A Theory of Justice,” from New York University as she was sworn in… Read More
LawCommentary
11 More Examples of How Firearms Save Gun Owners’ Lives, Property
At a time when some gun control advocates appear intent on painting lawful gun ownership as a danger to society, and the Second Amendment as… Read More
Law Analysis
‘People Want Justice’: Rep. Jody Hice Talks IG Report and Impeachment
“One of the biggest questions I have back home in the 10th District of Georgia is, ‘When are heads going to roll over all this… Read More
LawCommentary
Pot Pushers and Cartels Would Reap Benefits From This Bill
Last month, the House of Representatives passed a bill known as the SAFE Banking Act, a seemingly innocuous bill offering the nascent, state-legal marijuana industry… Read More
LawCommentary
Speeding Toward Impeachment in the Absence of Facts
The Democrats’ case for impeaching President Donald Trump boils down to this: the accusation that he solicited, demanded, perhaps even coerced a foreign government to help him… Read More
LawCommentary
Impeachment Witnesses Have Failed to Prove Trump Guilty
As House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., passed the impeachment inquiry baton to the Judiciary Committee this week, he said the central allegation against President Donald… Read More
LawCommentary
Liberal Law Professors at Hearing Fail to Make Case for Impeachment
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler opened Wednesday’s impeachment hearing with testimony from three left-wing law professors who consider President Donald Trump to be evil incarnate. If Nadler thought… Read More
LawCommentary
Marriage and Pregnancy Reduce Crime
There’s a general assumption in public policy discourse that economic policy and social policy are separate universes. When economic policy is the topic, we think… Read More
LawCommentary
The Loss of Our Watchmen’s Moral Authority
One symptom of a society in crisis is the unreliability or even corruption of its own auditors. After all, when the watchmen have lost moral… Read More
LawNews
Trump Acts to Curb Violence Against Native Americans, Reopen Cold Cases
More than 5,000 Native American women and children are reported missing each year, and Native American women are 10 times more likely to be murdered… Read More
LawCommentary
Are Thought Crimes Impeachable?
During special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, his legal “dream team” tried to make a secondary case that Donald Trump also obstructed efforts to prove Trump-Russian… Read More
LawCommentary
Jussie Smollett Remains Determined to Play the Victim
In the you-just-can’t-make-this-stuff-up category, we interrupt the impeachment proceedings to return to the Jussie Smollett drama. The latest head scratcher is the fact that Smollett… Read More
LawNews
Top House Republican Demands Information From ABC on Killed Epstein Story
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy sent a letter Sunday to ABC News demanding answers surrounding allegations that the network killed a 2015 story about dead… Read More
LawNews
San Francisco’s New DA: Public Urination ‘Will Not Be Prosecuted’
San Francisco’s pee problem could soon get worse. Chesa Boudin, the urine-and-feces-plagued city’s incoming district attorney, pledged during the campaign not to prosecute public urination… Read More
LawCommentary
Justices Should Reject Criminal Alien’s Appeal of Deportation Order
The Supreme Court on Nov. 4 heard oral arguments in an immigration case that could have a dramatic impact on how many criminal aliens plaguing… Read More
LawCommentary
ABC Keeps Covering for Jeffrey Epstein
This week, James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas, a group that has often infiltrated news organizations to uncover liberal bias, released an explosive “hot mic” video of… Read More
SocietyNews
Antifa’s Ultimate Goal Is Communism, Journalist Attacked by Adherents Says
The Portland, Oregon-based journalist who was beaten last summer by Antifa extremists says the violent leftist group’s ultimate goal is to establish a communist state. … Read More
LawCommentary
Trump Should Take on the Mexican Cartels
At least nine American women and children were slaughtered in northern Mexico on Monday, the victims of cartel violence. Tragically, such carnage is all too common. The unchecked power… Read More
LawNews
Clinton Advisers Won’t Comment After Ronan Farrow Says Former President Was ‘Credibly Accused of Rape’
Some of former President Bill Clinton’s closest former administration officials have remained silent after investigative reporter Ronan Farrow said the former president was “credibly accused… Read More
