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A president is accountable through the election process. It is the independent federal agencies that are the true threat to democracy.

A federal judge in Washington on Friday handed Elon Musk’s government efficiency team a win by declining a request to temporarily block it from accessing sensitive data from at least three federal agencies.

Their radicalism put them out of step with American voters. One of the notable facts accompanying Donald Trump’s return to the White House is the cratering support among the American people for immigration of all types.

Matt Taibbi’s opening remarks on John Kerry, European speech law, and USAID before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, February 12th, 2025

Democrats, those stalwart champions of democracy who tried to keep Donald Trump off the ballot, have an endlessly malleable understanding of whose view prevails whenever disputes arise between any combination of Congress, the courts, the president and the states. It’s almost as if they decide based not on any fixed principle, but on whose side they take.

Following the extraordinary joint press conference by President Trump and Elon Musk from the Oval Office, the press went on the offensive against Musk’s claims of transparency and finding billions of dollars in fraudulent or erroneous payments by the US Treasury.

In this case—Carson v. Makin—the Institute for Justice (IJ) and First Liberty are challenging this Maine law that bans families from participating in a student-aid program if they choose to send their children to religious schools. This law unjustly discriminates against both religious schools and religious families. We could not allow this law to stand.

Today, First Liberty Institute and the Independence Law Center sent a letter on behalf of Rusty Trubey, a veteran chaplain at the Coatesville VA Medical Center, asking U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins to take immediate action to eliminate a speech code being imposed by the VA and ensure that Chaplain Trubey and his colleagues may preach according to…

Former President Joe Biden left a terrible legacy: the border catastrophe, chaos and disorder abroad, increased crime, oppressive wokeness. But for today’s purposes, consider the damage done by Biden’s economic policies.

By: Karl Rove – wsj.com – February 12, 2025 He faces a a series of hard legislative fights, and Congress needs his leadership. So far, the administration’s strategy of flooding the zone and dominating the news cycle is working. But there’s a warning in the CBS data. Only 31%—roughly the size of his MAGA hard-core base—said Mr. Trump is focusing…

By: David Zimmermann – nationalreview.com – February 12, 2025 The judge previously extended his pause on the ‘Fork in the Road’ initiative without issuing a formal ruling. A federal judge in Massachusetts on Wednesday lifted his days-long pause on the Trump administration’s deferred-resignation program that allows federal workers to continue working remotely with full pay and job benefits until September…