Image 01 Image 03
Sign In or RegisterLogout

Author: Kemberlee Kaye

Profile photo

Kemberlee Kaye

Kemberlee Kaye is the Senior Contributing Editor of Legal Insurrection, where she has worked since 2014 and is the Director of Operations and Editorial Development for the Legal Insurrection Foundation. She also serves as the Managing Editor for CriticalRace.org, a research project of the Legal Insurrection Foundation.

She has a background working in immigration law, and as a grassroots organizer, digital media strategist, campaign lackey, and muckraker. Over the years Kemberlee has worked with FreedomWorks, Americans for Prosperity, James O'Keefe's Project Veritas, and US Senate re-election campaigns, among others. 

Kemberlee, her daughter, and her son live a lovely taco-filled life in their native Texas.

You can reach her anytime via email at kk @ legalinsurrection.com.

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on January 19, 2016 13 Comments
When asked, Marco Rubio is not shy about sharing his faith (see here and here). Sen. Rubio is Catholic. At a recent campaign event, self-described atheist, Justin Scott, confronted Sen. Rubio about his faith. Referencing one of Rubio's latest ads, Scott explained there was concern in the non-theist community that Rubio was running to be "Pastor in Chief."

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on January 19, 2016 31 Comments
Hillary Clinton's decision to use a private email account while serving as Secretary of State was a security disaster if ever there was one. Not only did she route her personal email account through a home-brewed server (a home-brewed server that was kept in the bathroom), classified information has been found in over 1,000 emails reviewed by the Department of State. Worse still, emails released by the State Department as part of court-ordered monthly document dump suggest Hillary instructed subordinates to remove classified designations from documents in order to send them through insecure channels. Now, the Inspector General says Hillary's emails contained information from the most secretive, classified sources.

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on January 18, 2016 10 Comments
Of everything Dr. King said or wrote, this is easily my favorite. Scarcely does there arise a situation where Love's message does not apply. Particularly in a time -- during a year, of heightened contentiousness and rank discourse, Dr. King's words are exceedingly salient. Writing from jail in Birmingham, Alabama, King wrote:
"We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly."
Though we gravitate towards rhetoric that holds two versions of America (an idea that is most certainly true), also true is that our destiny as a country is bound to that of the other.

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on January 18, 2016 23 Comments
After being relegated to the Republican presidential primary undercard debate last week, presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul decided not to attend. Mind you, debate stage rankings are based on national polling, but whatever. Childish? Perhaps. But nowhere near as cringe-worthy as this ad released not by an unaffiliated PAC, but by Paul's campaign. "Audit the Ted" takes aim at fellow Republican contender, Sen. Ted Cruz for his close ties to big banks. As evidence of this, the ad cites Cruz's Goldman Sachs loans. Two crudely animated characters with British accents (?) chat with one another about Cruz's "inside connections" and Paul's standing as the only liberty-oriented, good-haired candidate. Meanwhile, the voices are from a rudimentary talk and play program. The whole ordeal is terrible from beginning to end. Without further ado, "Audit the Ted."

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on January 18, 2016 7 Comments
The Democratic Party's decision to limit presidential primary debates to a paltry six drew the ire of non-Hillary candidates and delegates alike. O'Malley and Sanders vocally opposed the meager debate schedule, delegates in New Hampshire shouted "we want debates" at DNC Chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and candidates considering extra-DNC sanctioned debates were told they'd be ineligible for future DNC debates should they go rogue. As if that wasn't bad enough, three of the last four debates were scheduled on the weekend. Last night's NBC/YouTube debate was scheduled up against two NFL playoff games and Downton Abbey (a PBS favorite). It's almost like the DNC is trying to tuck their presidential debates away in plain sight. CNN’s Brian Stelter prodded DNC Chairwoman Wasserman Shultz on the limited weekend-only debate schedule. Wasserman Shultz claimed other candidate forums, like the one held on Fusion last week, are meant to draw national exposure in lieu of more debates. Stelter expressed his frustration with incredibly low ratings in other candidate forums saying, "I feel like your all's [sic] voices aren't getting heard the way the could be if there were more of these events."

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on January 16, 2016 6 Comments
Friday, President Obama issued a proclamation declaring today Religious Freedom Day. In 1992, a Joint Resolution from Congress requested then President George H.W. Bush to designate January 16 as Religious Freedom Day:
"Be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That January 16, 1993, is designated as “Religious Freedom Day,” and the President is authorized and requested to issue a proclamation calling on the people of the United States to join together to celebrate their religious freedom and to observe the day with appropriate ceremonies and activities."

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on January 16, 2016 10 Comments
Talk about a bad week. Poll numbers tanking, polling shows millennial ladies prefer Bernie, her attempts to connect with minority demographics flopping hard, 13 Hours hits theaters, resurrecting the Benghazi story, and now a second Congressional investigation. This latest investigation centers around the security of Hillary's home-brewed email server used during her tenure as Secretary of State. According to Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas), House Science, Space and Technology Committee Chairman:
Understanding these companies’ roles in providing software and services to maintain former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email server is critical to improving government cybersecurity standards. A high profile government official deviating from established information security requirements raises significant concerns. The sensitive nature of the information stored on Sec. Clinton’s private server created a unique challenge to ensure all of the information was properly safeguarded. The Committee takes seriously its duty to ensure the NIST Cybersecurity Framework is properly equipped to safeguard our nation’s information.”

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on January 15, 2016 12 Comments
More bad news for Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton ahead of the next Democratic presidential primary debate -- millennial-aged women prefer Bernie Sanders. A USA Today/Rock the Vote poll conducted between January 4-7, and released Thursday night, questioned over 1,100 women ages 18-34, 77% of whom were registered voters. According to USA Today:
Sen. Bernie Sanders, 74, a Vermont independent, will head into the Democratic presidential debate Sunday with a 19-point lead over front-runner Hillary Clinton, 50% to 31%, among Democratic and independent women ages 18 to 34, according to a recent USA TODAY/Rock the Vote poll.

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on January 15, 2016 10 Comments
Is nothing sacred? Actually, don't answer that. This one comes to you from the White House's latest episode of YouTube Stars (yes, they exist) Interviewing President Obama. Ingrid Nilsen of YouTube fame poked the president's brain on the Civil Rights Issue of Our Time™ -- tampon taxes. Take a look:

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on January 14, 2016 16 Comments
Welcome to our live coverage of the GOP presidential primary debate. The main stage debate begins at 9:00 EST. The debate will last two hours and will be moderated by FBN Managing Editor of Business News Neil Cavuto and FBN Global Markets Editor Maria Bartiromo. The prime time debate will include:
  • Donald Trump
  • Sen. Ted Cruz
  • Sen. Marco Rubio
  • Dr. Ben Carson
  • Gov. Jeb Bush
  • Gov. Chris Christie
  • Gov. John Kasich

How to watch:

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on January 14, 2016 12 Comments
Earlier today, the Washington Post compared Hillary's poll numbers from her presidential run in 2008 to data from the current election. The results? Bad news for Mrs. Clinton and her supporters. Philip Bump writes at WaPo:
If we compare where Clinton is now in the Real Clear Politics polling average, the 2016 picture and the 2008 picture aren't really all that similar. Nationally, she was doing much better in 2008 than she is right now, perhaps in part because the anti-Clinton vote in 2008 was still split between two people -- Barack Obama and John Edwards -- instead of just one. But that recent trend line, a function of two new national polls that were close after a bit of a lull, is not very good news.

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on January 14, 2016 14 Comments
Thursday, Planned Parenthood filed suit against pro-life undercover video makers, Center for Medical Progress or CMP. CMP released a series of undercover videos showing Planned Parenthood doctors and managers from around the country haggling over the price of aborted baby parts. Reuter's reports:
The lawsuit filed in federal court in San Francisco against anti-abortion group the Center for Medical Progress alleges conspiracy and fraud among other violations in connection with the recordings. The videos, which were released in July, sparked widespread controversy by purporting to show Planned Parenthood officials trying to negotiate prices for aborted fetal tissue.

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on January 13, 2016 78 Comments
It must be old campaign oppo dump day in America. Earlier today, an old, deceptively edited campaign ad from Marco Rubio's Senate run floated to the surface of the internet. This evening, the New York Times thinks they have a hot scoop with a story about Ted Cruz's Goldman Sachs loans. The New York Times is about four years late to the "exclusive" party though. Cruz's Goldman Sachs loans are old news. According to their 2012 personal filings, the Cruz's took loans from both Goldman Sachs and Citibank. His wife, Heidi Cruz, works for Goldman Sachs, but is currently on leave. These loans were not, however, disclosed in the FEC filings for Cruz's campaign, Ted Cruz for Senate Committee. First, the NYT story:

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on January 13, 2016 24 Comments
What better way to start the new year than a little "audacious" executive action? White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough told reporters at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast, "we’ll do audacious executive action throughout the course of the rest of the year, I am confident of that." The Hill has the story:
The comments are a clear sign the president will continue his go-it-alone approach, which has angered Republicans in Congress.

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on January 13, 2016 11 Comments
Tuesday, The Hill reported the State Department will sift through and release emails of top Hillary Clinton aide, Huma Abedin. 29,000 pages of Adedin's emails will be scrutinized by the State Department for monthly release over the next 14 months. At least 400 pages per month (should they meet certain requirements) will be published in a similar fashion as Hillary Clinton's. From The Hill:
The State Department has agreed to comb through 29,000 pages of emails from a top aide to Hillary Clinton and release batches of those emails every month.

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on January 13, 2016 25 Comments
Wednesday morning, an abbreviated interview from Marco Rubio's time as Speaker of Florida's House mysteriously surfaced and began bouncing its merry way through the political corners of the internet. Judging solely on the content of the 2008 clip (which cuts off Rubio mid-sentence) the viewer is led to believe that way back in the day, Rubio advocated for carbon taxes and cap and trade. Basically, Al Gore, Jr. First the clip: It concludes with Rubio saying, "I am in favor of giving the Department of Environmental Protection a mandate that they go out and design a cap and trade or a carbon tax program, and bring it back to the legislature for ratification some time in the next..." and that's where we're left hanging. There's just one teency weency problem though -- that's not what Rubio said, at least not entirely.

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on January 12, 2016 20 Comments
Tonight President Obama will deliver his final State of the Union Address. No need for cable to watch the president's remarks. You can watch the livestream beneath. We've also included two live reaction feeds for your viewing pleasure. At the conclusion of President Obama's address, we invite you to join us on our separate live thread, where Aleister will be live blogging the Republican rebuttal given by Gov. Nikki Haley.

The speech:

Accessibility by WAH