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Republicans Wake Up to an Electoral Bloodbath

'Lawyer Up': Democrats Declare War on Trump Administration

2026 Midterms Results: Democrats Win the House and Senate

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

OC Sheriff Refuses To Enforce Newsom’s Latest Draconian Lockdown Order

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on December 06, 2020 10 Comments

California governor and lockdown scofflaw Gavin Newsom recently instituted nonsensical and draconian new lockdown measures for his state.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7UZCjnSmOc

Trump Announces That Rudy Giuliani Has Tested Positive For Wuhan Coronavirus

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on December 06, 2020 22 Comments

President Trump tweeted Sunday that Rudy Giuliani has tested positive for the Wuhan coronavirus. It is not clear at this time if the former mayor of New York City is symptomatic or not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c1B0Z5Ozvg&t=1s

Prime Minister Netanyahu Welcomes Hundreds of Ethiopian Jews to Israel, More Airlifts Planned

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on December 06, 2020 11 Comments

Amid an escalating armed conflict in northern Ethiopia, Israel has kick started an operation aimed at airlifting around 2000 Ethiopian Jews from the country. The first flight of this mission arrived on Thursday carrying 319 members of Ethiopia's Jewish community. They were greeted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and leading members of his government at Ben Gurion airport.

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Pennsylvania: Alito Moves Up Response Date on Emergency Application To 12/8

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 06, 2020 61 Comments

A lot of people read a lot into Justice Samuel Alito setting December 9, 2020, as the date for Pennsylvania and its officials to respond to the Emergency Application for Injunctive Relief filed by people challenging the Pennsylvania certification. The argument was that Alito was going to let the application die on the vine, so to speak, by putting the response date the day after the federal "safe harbor" date for certifying elections, December 8.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rms3T4C2gRQ

China plants its flag on moon during recent lunar mission

Posted by Leslie Eastman on December 06, 2020 13 Comments

More than 50 years after the American flag was planted on the moon, China's flag has been unfurled on the lunar surface.

Harvard Grad Student Workers Continue Strike

Indiana University Libraries Promote Feminist Guides Targeting ‘Cisheteropatriarchy’

College-Aged Voters Help Democrats Sweep Key Races in Midterms

American Association of University Professors Backed Only Democrats in Midterms

U. Michigan Student Faces Assault, Battery Charges After Attacking Jewish Activist

Washington State U. Bans Fall Rush for Fraternities, Sororities Starting in 2027

https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1280578930060128256

Socialist Member of Seattle City Council Facing Recall for Allegedly Abusing Office

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 06, 2020 16 Comments

Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant is an openly radical Democrat Socialist who is partly responsible for the sad state the city finds itself in today. During the unrest over the summer, Sawant reportedly let a mob of protesters into city hall after hours, and participated in a march to the mayor's home. Now she is facing a recall effort.

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Democrats and COVID Hypocrisy Week at Legal Insurrection

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 06, 2020 3 Comments

All the news you may have missed....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L83-chSOmY

Approaching The Inflection Points

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 05, 2020 105 Comments

I have received numerous requests to explain where I think things stand now in the post-election legal battles.

https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1248019305368862720

Appeals Court Approves Trump Diverting Pentagon Funds To Border Wall Construction

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on December 05, 2020 7 Comments

One of President Trump's prominent campaign promises in 2016 was the building of a border wall, and try as he might, he was consistently thwarted by Democrats and anti-Trumpers both in Congress and within the federal bureaucracy.

Video: Nancy Pelosi Admits She Deliberately Stalled Relief Bill, Now Will Compromise Since Trump Lost

Posted by Stacey Matthews on December 05, 2020 25 Comments

President Trump made it a priority over the last several months to point out to the media that Democrats were using the Wuhan virus pandemic and stalling a relief bill in a deliberate attempt to undermine his presidency and hand him a defeat on Election Day.

https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1334924495300272134

Marijuana Decriminalization Legislation Breezes Through the House

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 05, 2020 30 Comments

The U.S. House voted mostly along party lines to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level. A few representatives finally admitted the war on drugs is a disaster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_CTLkpUr5g

China Poses ‘Greatest Threat to Democracy and Freedom,’ U.S. National Intel Chief Warns

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on December 05, 2020 12 Comments

China is the single biggest threat to the United States and the free world in our times, a leading U.S. intelligence official warned this week. "Beijing intends to dominate the US and the rest of the planet economically, militarily and technologically," U.S. National Intelligence director John Ratcliffe wrote in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal on Thursday.

McGill University Students Want Prof Stripped of Emeritus Status for Criticizing Social Justice, BLM, Etc.

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 05, 2020 15 Comments

Philip Carl Salzman is a retired Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at McGill University in Canada. He has become the target of a cancel culture mob for the crime of criticizing social justice, rape culture, Black Lives Matter, and other aspects of the academic left which are considered beyond reproach. Students want Salzman stripped of his emeritus status and are demanding a review of the university's policy on academic freedom.