By: Brad Dacus – pacificjustice.org – July 9, 2018 President Trump on Monday night made his highly-anticipated announcement of his choice to fill the seat of retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. President Trump has selected Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. The announcement is sure to ignite a firestorm in an already hotly-contested confirmation...

By: Van Taylor – vantaylor.com – 2018 Securing our Border and Stopping Illegal Immigration As a United States Marine, I served on the U.S. / Mexico border as part of Joint Task Force 6 and know it is not secure. In the Texas Senate, I used this background to pass important legislation granting Texas military personnel legal safeguards to protect...

By: Fred Lucas – dailysignal.com – July 12, 2018 A joint hearing of two House committees Thursday repeatedly turned testy as FBI agent Peter Strzok sought to explain away text messages sharply critical of Donald Trump and how they did not affect the fairness of the FBI investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Strzok, reassigned but still...

By: Merrill Matthews – ipi.org – July 10, 2018 President Donald Trump has a message for the majority of members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization: Spend what you pledged on national defense. It’s an important message in these troubled times, especially with the Russian bear once again on the prowl. Trump’s issue is the money member countries pledged to...

By Kelly Shackleford – FoxNews.com – July 10, 2018 President Trump’s announcement of Brett Kavanaugh as his nominee to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court of the United States is directly in line with the president’s record thus far of selecting nominees who have demonstrated strict adherence to the Constitution. While campaigning for president, Donald Trump promised the...

By: Hugh Hewitt – washingtonpost.com – July 11, 2018 The modern confirmation process for the Supreme Court is full of rules: the “Ginsburg Rule,” the “Biden Rule,” the “Reid Rule ” and the “McConnell Rule.” Often their definitions and their relevance are hotly contested. What isn’t contested is that the court itself has a widely recognized and easily understood rule:...

By: Rachel del Guidice – dailysignal.com – July 11, 2018 An amendment to protect the religious freedom of adoption providers was passed by the House Appropriations Committee to be part of the fiscal year 2019 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education appropriations bill in a vote Wednesday. “What occurred today is a milestone,” Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., said in...

By: Adam Andrzejewski & Tom Coburn – washingtonexaminer.com – July 09, 2018 While the nation was distracted by the political theater around immigration before the July 4 recess, the Senate cast a critical vote killing a very modest attempt offered by President Trump to rein in spending. If Trump plays his cards right, this will not be the end of...

By: Ben Shapiro – nationalreview.com – July 11, 2018 With Kavanaugh, we’re likely to get careful, narrowly tailored decisions, not earth-shattering transformation. Amid the wailing and gnashing of teeth from the political Left and the triumphalist trumpeting from the political Right regarding the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, one question has gone missing: What, exactly, will...

By: Avery Anapol – thehill.com – July 10, 2018 Lawmakers on Tuesday overwhelmingly voted in favor of a motion supporting NATO, as President Trump continues to criticize the alliance ahead of his summit in Europe. The nonbinding motion, which came as the Senate voted to reconcile its version of the annual defense policy bill with that of the House, expresses...