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[ad_1] Attorney General William Barr testifies before the House Judiciary Committee in Washington, D.C., July 28, 2020. (Chip Somodevilla/Reuters) I just spent nearly four hours of my life that I can never get back listening to oral arguments in the Flynn case. At issue was D.C. Circuit federal appeals court’s en banc reconsideration — i.e.,
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[ad_1] A demonstrator sits on the roof of a car in Portland, Ore., August 1, 2020. (Caitlin Ochs/Reuters) The Portland district attorney will only be pressing charges against rioters arrested for assault, theft and property damage, opting to drop lesser charges, including rioting and disorderly conduct, that have come out of months of violent protests
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[ad_1] Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden arrives to speak about his plan to combat racial inequality at a campaign event in Wilmington, Del., July 28, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) On the menu today: A long look at Joe Biden, how little he appears in his campaign’s videos, and what we can determine
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[ad_1] President Donald Trump gives a coronavirus pandemic briefing at the White House in Washington, D.C., August 10, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) President Trump is reportedly considering temporarily blocking U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents who are abroad from returning home if authorities believe they are infected with the coronavirus. A proposal draft of the immigration
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[ad_1] New York Mayor Bill de Blasio addresses the New Hampshire Democratic Party state convention in Manchester, September 7, 2019. (Gretchen Ertl/Reuters) Welcome to The Tuesday, a cheery little weekly newsletter about the existential despair Irving Kristol indicated when he noted that Western civilization is collapsing “but it’ll take a long time, and, meanwhile, it’s
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[ad_1] Senators Ben Sasse (R-NE) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) attend the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on “Police Use of Force and Community Relations” in Washington, D.C., June 16, 2020. (Tom Williams/Pool via Reuters) Senator Ben Sasse (R., N.E.) doubled down on his criticism of President Donald Trump’s recent executive orders in a tweet on Monday
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[ad_1] DACA recipients celebrate outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., June 18, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) In response to Do Americans Even Care If There’s a Constitution? In reacting to President Trump’s recent executive orders, Jim Geraghty asks “Do Americans Even Care If There’s a Constitution?” He reluctantly suggests that the answer is “no.” This
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[ad_1] Tantolunden park in Stockholm, Sweden, May 30, 2020 ( TT News Agency/Henrik Montgomery/Reuters) Unherd — a British website featuring independent thinkers on the left and right – has a good interview with Anders Tegnell, the epidemiologist who has led the pandemic response in Sweden. Sweden is one of the few western democracies that did
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[ad_1] The 2021 Cadillac Escalade is unveiled during Oscar week in Los Angeles, Calif., February 4, 2020. (Patrick T. Fallon/Reuters) As the automotive industry continues to globalize, some are wondering, “What is an American car?” Dmitri Solzhenitsyn recently wrote a piece making the case for why we should buy from Cadillac — the luxury arm
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[ad_1] S. Kyle Duncan showed the courage of his convictions throughout his pre-judicial career, perhaps most notably during his service as general counsel of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. His nomination to the Fifth Circuit was met by intense liberal opposition, and he was confirmed in 2018 by a margin of 50–47. In In
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[ad_1] President Donald Trump signs executive orders for economic relief during a news conference in Bedminster, N.J., August 8, 2020. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) President Trump is abusing his authority, just as his predecessor Barack Obama abused his. Two executive actions he took in the name of COVID relief over the weekend are attempts to legislate without
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[ad_1] A Tyson Foods pork processing plant, temporarily closed due to an outbreak of the coronavirus, in Waterloo, Iowa, April 29, 2020. (Brenna Norman/Reuters) One year ago, ICE raided multiple chicken plants in Mississippi, arresting hundreds of illegal aliens. Dozens of them have been convicted of various federal crimes, such as identity theft and document
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[ad_1] (mj0007/Getty Images) Since his inauguration, President Trump has appointed over 200 federal judges, including two Supreme Court justices and 53 judges on the second-highest courts in the land, the circuit courts of appeals. Even with months to go before this presidential term concludes, this circuit-judge total already surpasses that of every first presidential term
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[ad_1] Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C, August 5, 2020. (Erin Schaff/Reuters) Newly declassified documents show that the FBI misled Congress regarding the reliability of the Steele dossier, Senator Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) said on Sunday. The Senate
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[ad_1] (Taalulla/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Citing the pandemic, a judge has relaxed conditions under which women can procure the harmful drug Mifeprex. While COVID-19 dominates the news cycle, a battle is being fought over a deadly drug that has killed over 3.7 million children and at least 24 women. The drug is Mifeprex — commonly known
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[ad_1] President Donald Trump signs executive orders for economic relief, Bedminster, N.J., August 8, 2020. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) President Trump’s executive actions for COVID relief offer little relief but are constitutionally dangerous. On Saturday, President Trump put his name to four executive actions — three presidential memoranda and one executive order — intended to offer some
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[ad_1] (Globalstock/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Institutions that shape public policy should beware of discrimination against traditional Christians. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T oday’s culture wars have disturbing historical precedents, both in the U.S. and abroad, reflecting fundamentally contrasting approaches to managing the tradeoffs between unity and diversity and to the very role of the nation-state in a
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[ad_1] House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks in support of tax limitations in 1997. (Reuters) The old Democratic establishment that Gingrich helped bring down had rotted before he got to Congress. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE F or decades, analysts and pundits have tried to trace the origins of the polarization, intense partisanship, and the “politics of personal
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[ad_1] Cadillac dealership in Highland, Mich., in 2019. (Rebecca Cook/Reuters) As consumers, surely we have the right to make the aesthetic — perhaps irrational — decision to purchase the fruits of American design, ingenuity, and labor. NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE W ith German, Korean, and Japanese models widely available in the U.S. market, American automakers have
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[ad_1] Patricia McCloskey and her husband Mark McCloskey draw their firearms in St. Louis, Miss., June 28, 2020. (Lawrence Bryant/Reuters) Republican members of Congress on Thursday demanded that the Justice Department investigate “rogue prosecutors,” including the prosecutor leading the case against the St. Louis couple who pointed guns at protesters outside their house last month.
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[ad_1] (Halfpoint/Getty Images) The health officer for Montgomery County, Md., issued an executive order on Friday allowing private schools in the county to open for in-person classes, following pressure from the governor’s office as well as a looming lawsuit. Health officer Travis Gayles issued an order last week mandating that all schools in the county,
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