By: David French – nationalreview.com – June 27, 2018 Earlier this afternoon, Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement. Court observers long thought it was possible that he’d step down after this most recent term, but now it’s confirmed. The moment has arrived. In the first two years of his first term, President Trump is set to nominate just as many...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – June 27, 2018 In Janus v. AFSCME, the court struck a strong blow against government-compelled speech for the third time this term. Perhaps the worst government affront to the rights of conscience, far worse than mere censorship, is compelled speech, the practice of forcing Americans to fund or express ideas they find abhorrent. It’s...

By: Ballotpedia.org – ballotpedia.org – November 17, 2017 President Donald Trump announced Judge Neil Gorsuch as his nominee to succeed Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court of the United States on January 31, 2017. On May 18, 2016, he released a list of individuals that Trump “would consider as potential replacements for Justice Scalia at the United States Supreme Court.”...

By: Ballotpedia.org – ballotpedia.org – November 17, 2017 President Donald Trump announced Judge Neil Gorsuch as his nominee to succeed Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court of the United States on January 31, 2017. On May 18, 2016, he released a list of individuals that Trump “would consider as potential replacements for Justice Scalia at the United States Supreme Court.”...

By:  Samuel Chamberlain – www.FoxNews.com – June 26, 2018 How much damage has family separations issue done to Trump? Newt Gingrich breaks down the optics of the president’s handling of the immigration debate. Attorneys general from 17 states and the District of Columbia sued the Trump administration Tuesday over its policy of separating families who cross the U.S-Mexico border illegally....

By: Adam Liptak & Michael D. Shear – www.nytimes.com – June 26, 2018 The Supreme Court upheld President Trump’s ban on travel from several predominantly Muslim countries, delivering to the president on Tuesday a political victory and an endorsement of his power to control immigration at a time of political upheaval about the treatment of migrants at the Mexican border....

By: Elizabeth Zwirz – foxnews.com – June 26, 2017 Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao tried to intercede between protesters and her husband, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, as they continually asked McConnell why he was “separating families,” at an event in Washington, D.C. on Monday. The couple was departing an event held at Georgetown University, The Hill reported, when the individuals...

By: Kaitlyn Schallhorn – foxnews.com – June 26, 2018 Supreme Court reaches decision on the Trump administration’s travel ban. The Supreme Court has upheld the Trump administration’s controversial travel ban that affected a handful of Muslim-majority nations. In what is the first substantive ruling on a Trump administration policy, Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the majority, said presidents have...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – June 25, 2018 There is no limiting principle on leftist fury. American politics is taking a dangerous turn. Or, I should say, American politics is taking a dangerous turn again. In the space of a few days last week, leftist protesters individually targeted trump aide Stephen Miller, taunted Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen...

By: Avi Selk & Sarah Murray – www.washingtonpost.com – June 25, 2018 Stephanie Wilkinson, owner of the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Va., asked White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave on June 22. (Allie Caren/The Washington Post) Stephanie Wilkinson was at home Friday evening — nearly 200 miles from the White House — when the choice presented...