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KBJ Angry Dissent After Unable to Convert Any Other Justice To Her Side in Conversion Therapy Case

There is a "Popularized Conception of Birthright Citizenship, Which May Not be Accurate"

Ballroom Blitz: Judge Orders Halt to Construction, Trump Not Amused

VIDEO: Surviving The Big Tech Purge

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2021 15 Comments

On Sunday night, January 17, the Legal Insurrection Foundation held an Emergency Event: Surviving The Big Tech Purge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZSxmyjKGEY

Surging recall effort now has Gov. Gavin Newsom worried

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 24, 2021 45 Comments

California Gov. Gavin Newsom once promised that his coronavirus policy decisions would be driven by data shared with the public to provide maximum transparency.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpOddwL4kfE

China Authorizes Coastguard to Fire on Foreign Ships in Disputed Waters

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on January 24, 2021 32 Comments

Just days after Joe Biden's inauguration as the U.S. president, Communist China has escalated tension in the Asia Pacific, authorizing its coastguards to fire on foreign ships and to destroy structures in disputed waters.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/01/24/mitt-romney-trump-impeachment-senate-trial-constitutional-sotu-bash-intv-vpx.cnn

Mitt Romney on board with post-departure impeachment trial of Trump

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2021 105 Comments

A post-departure Senate impeachment trial of a former President is unconstitutional. Just read the plain text of the constitution, which talks of a trial of the president, not a former president. None of the opinion to the contrary explains the absense of the word "former" (or similar) in the text of the constituational impeachment provisions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCvELoL188g

Biden Rewards Pipefitters Union For Endorsement By Destroying Members’ Keystone XL Jobs

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 24, 2021 67 Comments

The United Association of Union Plumbers and Pipefitters endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 election. Now that he has shut down the Keystone XL Pipeline, they are angry. What did they think Biden was going to do? This is only the beginning.

Florida Removes Sociology Requirement From General Education Due to Concerns About Bias

Truman Scholarship Reviewers are Overwhelmingly Democrats

Former SJU Prof Targeted for Opposing Reparations Settles Lawsuit With Some Defendants

Boxer and Influencer Jake Paul Says Charlie Kirk Would Have Been a President

Social Justice Program at Vanderbilt U. Invites Planned Parenthood Lawyers to Discuss Racial Justice

Pro-Trans Student Group at Brown Holds Rally to Criticize 'Anti-Trans' Laws

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m55tzTIJwwA

Biden the Destroyer Week at Legal Insurrection

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 24, 2021 10 Comments

All the news you may have missed....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST7unLIS_yA

Los Angeles District Attorney Gascon’s “Reforms” Put Criminal Justice In Free Fall

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 23, 2021 32 Comments

I noted that billionaire George Soros is behind the team that helped elect Los Angeles county’s new District Attorney George Gascón this past November. Gascón promptly announced sweeping changes as he was sworn into office, including the end of cash bail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAYdlpbVUNA

Reuters: CDC’s early COVID response “marred by . . . career scientists and frontline staff”

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 23, 2021 34 Comments

A year has passed since the first reports of the novel coronavirus and its potentially devastating health effects surfaced from China.

Now Biden Tells Us: ‘Nothing We Can Do to Change Trajectory of Pandemic in Coming Months’

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 23, 2021 72 Comments

Joe Biden campaigned on the response to COVID-19. Every time he spoke of it, he offered criticism of the way Trump was handling it and insisted that he could do better for the American people. He is singing a very different tune now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJnOWLEe78Q

NYC Mayoral Candidate Andrew Yang Vows to Fight Anti-Israel Boycott: “BDS Rooted in Antisemitic Thought”

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on January 23, 2021 20 Comments

New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang has vowed to fight the antisemitic boycott movement if he becomes the city's next mayor. In a column penned for the left-leaning Jewish magazine Forward, Yang likened the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement to Nazi boycotts of Jewish businesses.

WaPo Caught Stealth Editing 2019 Story About Kamala Harris Mocking Prisoners Begging for Food and Water

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on January 23, 2021 33 Comments

I've been watching with some mixture of mild surprise, horror, and disdain as the Democrat's activist media arm whiplashes from attacking President Trump with all hate all the time to fluffy, chills-enthusing fanfic about Joe Biden.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bFDjq0_kTo

Beyond Cancel Culture Week in Higher Education

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 23, 2021 3 Comments

Your weekly report on campus news....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvcEHoMADOM

Harvard Law School Student Crybullies Continue Attacks On Professor Over Tweets Mocking Leftists

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 22, 2021 25 Comments

On December 6, 2020, we covered yet another pathetic self-absorbed cancel-culture pity-party attack in academia, this time against esteemed Harvard Law School Law Professor Adrian Vermeule, because his tweets were too snarky and made fun of leftists and hurt their precious feelings.

https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1352641773760356352

Schumer Calls McConnell’s Filibuster Request ‘Unacceptable’

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 22, 2021 93 Comments

The Democrats and Republicans split the Senate 50-50, but Democrats have a slight majority since Vice President Kamala Harris holds the tie-breaking vote. But what about the filibuster? That is one topic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell must decide in their power-sharing agreement discussions.

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1352043124512747523

ANTIFA Violence Continues to Plague Portland, Seattle While Locals Vent Anger at Local Officials

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 22, 2021 43 Comments

ANTIFA celebrated President Joe Biden's inauguration by vandalizing and rioting in Seattle, WA, and Portland, OR. They do not care who is in charge in D.C. They chanted, "F*ck President Biden" as they destroyed businesses in Seattle, WA. The only thing that has changed is the silence from the Democratic leaders even after ANTIFA vandalized the Oregon Democratic Party offices in Portland, OR.

Texas Attorney General Sues Biden Administration Over Deportation Freeze

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 22, 2021 24 Comments

Among Biden's many initial executive orders was a halt on deportations. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton wasted no time reacting to this and filed a lawsuit against the administration. Biden is trying to undo pretty much everything Trump did on immigration and is expected to go much further.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0DUMnetbzk

Pelosi Will Deliver Article of Impeachment Against Trump to the Senate on Monday

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 22, 2021 136 Comments

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi will deliver the article of impeachment against President Donald Trump on Monday, January 25. The House voted to impeach Trump for inciting the Capitol Hill riots on January 6th.