Rep. Mark Meadows speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill, October 29, 2019. (Erin Scott/Reuters) White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows warned Monday of “additional lawsuits” against social media companies over their censorship of political material including news articles on Hunter Biden’s business dealings. “They have two standards: one for one campaign, one for the other.

On Friday, a divided panel of the Sixth Circuit ruled (in EMW Women’s Surgical Center v. Planned Parenthood) that a district court had improperly enjoined the operation of Kentucky statutory and regulatory provisions that require abortion facilities to have transfer and transport agreements with hospitals and ambulance services. Judge Joan Larsen, joined by Judge Chad

Former President Barack Obama participates in a town hall meeting at the Orange County Fair and Event Center in Costa Mesa, Calif., March 18, 2009. (Larry Downing/Reuters ) Prohibitive costs placed coverage outside the reach of everyday Americans, including countless with preexisting conditions. President Trump’s recent executive order laying out his “America-First Healthcare Plan” makes

Republican Senate candidate John James (johnjamesforsenate.com) A number of prominent journalists shared a deceptively edited video that purported to show Republican Michigan Senate candidate John James fumbling his response to a question about protecting patients with pre-existing health conditions. “I don’t see a full health care plan on your website. What do you want to replace

I hesitate to disagree with the great former Fourth Circuit judge J. Michael Luttig. But I respectfully must do so on the question whether the Supreme Court’s 2009 ruling in Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co. has any meaningful bearing on whether Amy Coney Barrett, once appointed as a justice, would have to recuse herself

Containers are seen at the Yangshan Deep-Water Port in Shanghai, China, October 19, 2020. (Aly Song/Reuters) Chinese officials reported on Sunday that the country’s GDP grew by 4.9 percent in the third quarter, despite the ongoing toll the coronavirus pandemic is taking on the global economy. The newly recorded growth is close to projections of

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE T he nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court exposes the Left’s disdain for women who are not like them. As accomplished scholars, jurists, and mothers, Barrett and Ginsburg represent the very best of the legal profession. But their confirmation processes could

If you know how to read the ether, you can hear whispers of what is really happening, what is wrong, and, sometimes, what is coming. The Wall Street Journal is an indispensable daily firehose of facts and figures: new unemployment claims, GDP growth, IPO prices, movements within asset classes. If you were like … Read

(DragonImages/Getty Images) Deregulation and market forces are making care more available at lower cost. Our health-care system is experiencing rapid, powerful change, far more consequential than is generally recognized. Although these changes are welcomed by many in the health-policy community (see our assessment a year ago), even those who applaud them have been surprised at

Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Ron Johnson in Washington, U.S., November 8, 2017. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) Senator Ron Johnson (R., Wis.) has sent a letter to FBI director Christopher Wray asking him to clarify whether the agency possesses documents from the laptop of Hunter Biden, Fox News reported on Sunday. The

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I f you know how to read the ether, you can hear whispers of what is really happening, what is wrong, and, sometimes, what is coming. The Wall Street Journal is an indispensable daily firehose of facts and figures: new unemployment claims, GDP growth, IPO prices, movements within asset classes. If you

A poll worker labels a wrapped pallet of absentee ballots for shipment at the Wake County Board of Elections on the first day that the state started mailing them out in Raleigh, N.C., September 4, 2020. (Jonathan Drake/Reuters) A Michigan court ruled Friday that absentee ballots must be received by Election Day in order to

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., January 15, 2019. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters) One of the nation’s top abortion groups is calling for Senator Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) to be ousted from her position as the Judiciary Committee’s ranking member after she praised the confirmation hearings on Supreme Court nominee Amy

An absentee ballot await preparations in Raleigh, North Carolina, September 4, 2020. (Jonathan Drake/Reuters) A Kentucky postal worker who allegedly threw out more than 100 absentee ballots in a dumpster on Thursday has been fired by the U.S. Postal Service and may face federal prosecution. The Postal Service Office of Inspector General discovered 112 discarded

According to a 2015 email, then–vice president Joe Biden met with a top executive at Burisma, the Ukrainian energy firm that paid Biden’s son, Hunter, $50,000 a month to sit on its board. Earlier, the Burisma executive had asked Hunter to use his influence to quell Ukrainian government officials who were … Read More

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden makes remarks before boarding an Amtrak train in Cleveland, Ohio, September 30, 2020. (Mike Segar/Reuters) Sometimes when Joe Biden offers yarns about his childhood, I think of a Woody Allen bit from his stand-up days in which the comic tells the story of being invited to a Halloween party while

NRPLUS MEMBER ARTICLE I n the era of stewardship by Chief Justice John Roberts, the Supreme Court has fretted more about the public perception of the Court as a non-partisan institution than about doing what is most necessary to shore up its reputation: Do its job. Decide the tough questions in accordance with what the

Michigan GOP Senate candidate John James (johnjamesforsenate.com) Republican Senate candidate John James of Michigan positioned himself as a hawk on China in a call with reporters on Friday, pitching proposals to return jobs to Michigan that have been lost to Chinese and other foreign markets. James, a West Point graduate who served in the Iraq

According to a 2015 email, then–vice president Joe Biden met with a top executive at Burisma, the Ukrainian energy firm that paid Biden’s son, Hunter, $50,000 a month to sit on its board. Earlier, the Burisma executive had asked Hunter to use his influence to quell Ukrainian government officials who were … Read More

(Robert Galbraith/Reuters) Facebook used an erroneous fact check as justification to block two ads by pro-life group the Susan B. Anthony List on Friday. The S.B.A. List has claimed in the past that Facebook moved to censor ads and other content promoted by the group. Facebook’s decision to block the new ads came two days

Stickers for people who cast their ballots for the upcoming presidential elections as early voting begins in Ann Arbor, Mich., September 24, 2020. (Emily Elconin/Reuters) Michigan will prohibit the open carry of guns at polling places and other official voting locations on Election Day, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson announced Friday. The announcement comes one

Three years ago, historian Niall Ferguson wrote about Silicon Valley’s determination not to get caught flat-footed again when it comes to Donald Trump. “Make no mistake: 2016 will never happen again,” he warned. Zuckerberg had been personally lobbied by Barack Obama on these matters. Governments in Europe were looking for their pound of flesh too.

(flavijus/Getty Images) The common presumption that the federal deficit doesn’t matter is entirely wrong. ‘Who the hell cares about the budget” — Donald Trump. “Debt is money we owe to ourselves.” — Paul Krugman. “Future generations will pay the price for runaway national debt.” — Heritage Foundation. The president may be right that no one cares

President Donald Trump gives a thumb-up during a live one-hour NBC News town hall forum with a group of Florida voters in Miami, Fla., October 15, 2020. (Carlos Barria/Reuters) President Trump on Thursday laid the blame for the stalled coronavirus stimulus negotiations on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, saying he is ready to sign a stimulus

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden approaches his seat ahead of an ABC Town Hall event at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pa., October 15, 2020. (Tom Brenner/Reuters) Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said on Thursday that he would clarify his stance on court packing ahead of the November 3 election, contingent upon how Republicans

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett speaks during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill, October 12, 2020. (Patrick Semansky/Pool via Reuters) Yesterday, Senator Chris Coons asked Judge Barrett about Griswold v. Connecticut, the 1965 Supreme Court decision holding that the Constitution protects a right to “marital privacy” that encompasses the use of contraception.

Kevin Williamson thinks it’s “preposterous” to think that only Trump could have won in 2016. I’m a little more tolerant, though unconvinced, of that proposition. A couple of thoughts that bear on the question: (1) Trump ran behind Republican candidates in a lot of swing states. Republican Senate candidates ran well ahead of him in

People line up for taxis across the street from the New York Times headquarters in 2013. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) In the New York Times, Emily Bazelon reminds us once again that an enormous number of journalists, law professors, and other academics simply cannot be trusted to defend the First Amendment — and, in fact, that they

(Dado Ruvic/Reuters) Twitter said Thursday that it censored a New York Post article based on emails between Hunter Biden and a Burisma executive in accordance with its “hacked materials policy.” “In line with our Hacked Materials Policy, as well as our approach to blocking URLs, we are taking action to block any links to or

Then-Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter attend an NCAA basketball game in Washington, D.C., in 2010. (File photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) A corrupt Ukraine firm reportedly got direct access to then-vice president Joe Biden through his son. According to a 2015 email, then–vice president Joe Biden met with a top executive at Burisma, the