One of President Donald Trump’s earliest judicial picks easily secured Senate confirmation on Tuesday, filling the vacancy left by a retiring Obama appointee. Whitney Hermandorfer was confirmed to a lifetime seat on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Ohio, succeeding one of former President Barack Obama’s two nominees to that bench. Senate Majority … Read more
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem responded to CNN on Thursday after the network accused her of delaying the response to the Texas flood. CNN reported in its article, “FEMA’s response to Texas slowed by Noem’s cost controls,” and that the DHS secretary’s new policies aimed at cutting spending delayed the Federal Emergency … Read more
Despite a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling limiting lower court judges’ power to block President Donald Trump’s policies through nationwide injunctions, a federal judge on Thursday blocked the administration from enforcing an executive order that restricts birthright citizenship. U.S. District Judge Joseph Laplante of Concord, New Hampshire, a George W. Bush appointee, issued the ruling … Read more
Attorney General Pam Bondi issued guidelines on Monday to implement President Donald Trump’s executive order designating English as the nation’s official language, describing the guidance as “transformative” and intended to promote “a more cohesive and engaged nation.” “As President Trump has made clear, English is the official language of the United States,” Bondi said in … Read more
President Donald Trump has authorized a new wave of U.S. military assistance to Ukraine, signaling a notable shift in his administration’s posture amid ongoing tensions with Russia. The announcement comes on the heels of a leaked audio recording in which Trump allegedly suggested he would respond to a Russian invasion of Ukraine by launching an … Read more
Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul is once again referring former top immunologist Dr. Anthony Fauci to the Justice Department following recent revelations regarding former President Joe Biden’s prolific use of an autopen. Paul announced the referral – his second to the DOJ regarding Fauci – after reports claimed that Biden may not have personally known … Read more
Former President Joe Biden defended his decision to use an autopen for signing his final pardons, explaining the administration’s rationale for employing the device in a recently published interview. The conversation with The New York Times focused specifically on his use of the autopen to execute the last round of clemency measures at the close … Read more
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) stated last week that he believes a client list tied to Jeffrey Epstein once existed but was “destroyed” by the Biden administration. “I think the files existed at one time,” Burchett said in an interview on NewsNation’s “On Balance” with host Leland Vittert. “I think they were destroyed in the previous … Read more
The FBI has quietly opened an investigation into a decade’s worth of activities—from the Russia collusion narrative to the Jack Smith prosecutions—by Democratic operatives and elements of the intelligence community, according to a Monday report. The probe could lead to the appointment of a special prosecutor to determine whether these well-documented episodes constitute a coordinated … Read more
Former U.S. Senator Alan Simpson passed away at the age of 93, according to a statement from his family and the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. After battling to recover from a broken hip in December, the former Republican senator, who played for Wyoming and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2022, … Read more