United States Chief Justice John G. Roberts (Jim Young/Reuters) Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D., R.I.) has implied that 80 recent Supreme Court decisions are illegitimate due to the “partisan” nature of the decisions and the influence of Republican donors on the court’s composition. “As the architect of an 80-case barrage of partisan, 5-4 decisions for big
Month: March 2020
Republican Reps. Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows react on ‘Fox & Friends’ to Sen. Chuck Schumer taking aim at Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh. #FoxNews FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com and the direct-to-consumer streaming service, FOX Nation. FOX News also produces
We recently looked at some new proposals for fixing New York’s disastrous new “bail reform” law or at least mitigating some of the damage it’s causing. They may want to get off the stick and start looking at those suggestions in a hurry because a newly released report shows that major crimes in New York
Sen. Bernie Sanders Soviet officials used then-mayor Bernie Sanders’s attempts to establish a sister-city relationship with Yaroslavl, Russia as propaganda to “reveal American imperialism as the main source of the danger of war,” according to documents reviewed by The New York Times. As mayor of Burlington, Vt., Sanders was only one of several dozen mayors
Michael Bloomberg speaks at his Super Tuesday night rally in West Palm Beach, Fla., March 3, 2020. (Marco Bello/Reuters) He found a path to the nomination, but it was already too late Almost lost in the intense coverage and analysis of the Super Tuesday results, and the remarkable relaunch of Joe Biden as an ark
Sen. Mike Lee on Capitol Hill in 2017. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Repealing vital national-security powers is not the right way to hold government officials responsible for abuse of power. National security has become an afterthought in the latest national-security debate. The debate centers, instead, on what is called “FISA reform,” the imperative of which appears to
It’s understandable that a weak and anxious man like Chuck Schumer would find himself swept up in the hawkish fever for casual termination of the small and inconvenient. #FoxNews #TheFive FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com and the direct-to-consumer streaming service,
On Monday an announcement was made by Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group, that Woody Allen’s memoir would be released on April 7, 2020. Hachette said the book would be released in Canada, Italy, France, Germany, and Spain, with other releases around the world. By Friday the publisher canceled it. Talk about
(Flickr/Wikimedia ) The University of Washington in Seattle said Friday that it will move all classes online after a university staff member was diagnosed with the coronavirus this week. Campus services such as dining halls, hospitals and clinics, resident halls, and recreation facilities will remain open but classes for the school’s 50,000 students will be taught
Unless there’s a revolution in the status of the race, it’s hard to see Bernie’s opening to do it. Apparently he’s been saying that he might catch Biden when all the California delegates are allocated, but that’s not plausible. From NBC’s First Read: On Wednesday night, Bernie Sanders told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that the outstanding
Cuban President Fidel Castro speaks during May Day celebrations at the Revolution Plaza of Havana in 2002. (Rafael Perez/Reuters) Cuba’s supposed educational triumph is better understood as a product of propaganda and statistical chicanery. Last month, on 60 Minutes, in a moment that starkly illustrated his worldview, Bernie Sanders repeated his longstanding admiration for Communist
President Trump discusses his new Middle East peace plan and border security in a Fox News Town Hall. Watch Part 1: https://youtu.be/VVcbmisaTUo Watch Part 2: https://youtu.be/sM56D2yu-9s FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com and the direct-to-consumer streaming service, FOX Nation. FOX News
Shoppers are thinking ahead and stocking up on food and cleaning products just in case the COVID-19 epidemic strikes in their community. Some shoppers are taking it farther and hoarding canned goods and snack products. One of the products in demand is Campbell’s Soup. Soup is the ultimate comfort food if you are feeling under
Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks to supporters in Monterey Park, Calif., March 2, 2020. (Kyle Grillot/Reuters) Voters didn’t reject the Massachusetts senator because of her policy positions; they rejected her because of her penchant for lying about herself. The unsurprising news that Senator Elizabeth Warren is dropping out of the 2020 presidential race invites a lot
A voter drops ballots for the March 3 Super Tuesday primary into a mobile voting mail box in Laguna Woods, Calif., February 24, 2020. (Mike Blake/Reuters) It encourages people to vote based on limited information. Any juror who tried to render a verdict after hearing two-thirds of the trial evidence soon would become an ex-juror.
Rep. Mark Meadows speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill, October 29, 2019. (Erin Scott/Reuters) President Trump on Friday named Representative Mark Meadows (R., N.C.) as White House chief of staff, replacing acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney. “I have long known and worked with Mark, and the relationship is a very good one,” Trump wrote
AT&T outsourcing American jobs, forcing employees to train their eventual replacements. #FoxNews #Tucker FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com and the direct-to-consumer streaming service, FOX Nation. FOX News also produces FOX News Sunday on FOX Broadcasting Company and FOX News Edge.
He’s been on the short list a long time, almost as long as the man he’s replacing has had the job. Now Mark Meadows moves to the inner sanctum of the Trump administration as the president’s fourth chief of staff. Meadows had already announced his retirement from Congress in December, which means that this move
Central American migrants surrenders to a U.S. Border Patrol agent south of the U.S.-Mexico border fence in El Paso, Texas, March 6, 2019. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) The Pentagon announced on Thursday that it will send a crisis force of 160 troops to two points on the U.S.–Mexico border as the Supreme Court prepares to decide whether
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a statement at the Health Ministry in Jerusalem, March 4, 2020. (Ammar Awad/Reuters) The prime minister hangs on — as the result of political genius, or of a deep unwillingness to admit that voters have decided his time is up? Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu almost — but did
The Harvard Crimson distributed a survey to more than 1,000 faculty members in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, seeking to gauge the political and electoral commitments of faculty members at Harvard. The anonymous survey received just short of 500 responses. Of the responding faculty, 38.4 percent identified themselves as “very liberal,” 41.3 percent identified
High court mulls law that requires doctors performing abortions in Louisiana to have hospital admitting privileges; Fox News chief legal correspondent Shannon Bream, anchor of ‘Fox News @ Night,’ reports from Washington. #FoxNews FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com and the
Fox News is reporting the Trump re-election campaign has sued CNN for libel over an opinion piece which claimed the campaign decided to leave the option of seeking Russian’s help “on the table” in the 2020 election: “The complaint alleges CNN was aware of the falsity at the time it published them but did so
President Donald Trump with Vice President Mike Pence and members of his coronavirus task force for a news conference at the White House, February 26, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) President Trump on Friday signed an $8.3 billion emergency spending bill to combat the coronavirus as the number of cases of infected people in the U.S. passed 200
One more reason that billionaires should not run for president without a serious self-examination about their weaknesses as a candidate: Money can buy you a presidential campaign staff, but it can’t necessarily buy you a good, motivated, disciplined one. The Nation gets the inside scoop on Mike Bloomberg’s apathetic, mercenary, and in some cases, grifting
People wear protective face masks in London, England, March 2, 2020. (Henry Nicholls/Reuters) Holman Jenkins makes the case that everyone is overreacting. Meanwhile, this piece in the New York Times sheds some light on the debate over the death rate. First, it notes the similarities with the flu: For most people, the disease is probably
Billionaire Mike Bloomberg’s presidential campaign falls flat on Super Tuesday. #FoxNews #TheFive FOX News operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines 24/7, FOXNews.com and the direct-to-consumer streaming service, FOX Nation. FOX News also produces FOX News Sunday on FOX Broadcasting Company and FOX News Edge. A
Fifteen in all so far, including lead author Josh Hawley. Hawley is sponsoring a measure to censure Schumer for his remarks at SCOTUS yesterday. Cosponsors: Mike Braun, Kevin Cramer, Ted Cruz, Steve Daines, Joni Ernst, Jim Inhofe, Mike Lee, Kelly Loeffler, Martha McSally, David Perdue, Ben Sasse, Rick Scott, Tim Scott, and Thom Tillis. —
Senator Mitt Romney walks from the senate chamber during a break in the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump in Washington. January 31, 2020. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) Senator Mitt Romney (R., Utah) warned Thursday that Senator Ron Johnson’s (R., Wis.) probe into the Bidens and Burisma “appears political,” and would not comment whether he would vote
Gretchen Whitmer during her 2018 Michigan gubernatorial campaign in Lansing, MI, August 20, 2018 (Jeff Kowalsky/Reuters) Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, on Thursday endorsed Joe Biden ahead the of the state’s March 10 primary. “I’ve been watching this campaign play out, and there’s been sources of inspiration in a variety of candidates,” Whitmer said