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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=7WyK3zOIpi0

Chicago: 2020 On Track to Surpass 700 Homicides and Become the City’s Deadliest Year

Posted by Mary Chastain on November 20, 2020 24 Comments

Chicago 1998: 704 homicides. Chicago 2016: 781 homicides. Data from the medical examiner's office shows that 2020 might become Chicago's deadliest year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7B7Hz5k6T0

Joyce Carol Oates Equates Trump Supporters With Germans Living Under Nazis

Posted by Mary Chastain on November 20, 2020 57 Comments

Joyce Carol Oates, author and English professor at Berkeley, is no stranger to controversy on Twitter. Her latest is comparing the COVID-19 pandemic to the Holocaust and Trump supporters to Germans who lived under the Nazis.

Megyn Kelly Pulls Her Kids Out of NYC Schools Over Left-Wing Political Indoctrination

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 20, 2020 26 Comments

Former FOX News host Megyn Kelly recently revealed on her podcast that she has pulled two of her children out of their private New York City school over what she sees as political propaganda. She even says she is leaving the city. The document she describes, and claims was circulated to parents and school staff, is the same sort of social justice rhetoric we regularly document in higher education.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nThItjbHQ2g

Rising Democratic Star Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs Loses to Military Veteran

Posted by Leslie Eastman on November 20, 2020 11 Comments

Legal Insurrection readers may recall that in 2018, the California city of Stockton's then 27-year old mayor, Michael Tubbs, planned to launch his version of “universal basic income”, where its citizens are paid simply for being citizens. Two years later, this "rising Democratic star" lost to military veteran Kevin Lincoln.

Stacey Abrams’ Georgia Voter Effort Was Overrated and Overhyped

Posted by Stacey Matthews on November 20, 2020 30 Comments

Even as votes were still being counted in the state of Georgia the first time around, Stacey Abrams was being hailed in media/Democrat circles as the tireless hero who may have flipped her state blue in the presidential election.

U. Oregon Gives $27K to Study ‘White Supremacy’ in Medicine

Anti-Israel Faculty Group at American U. Demands School Cut Ties With Anti-Defamation League

Turning Point USA Event at U. New Mexico Ends With Arrest of Two Students

UC Santa Barbara Offers Free Needles for Hormone Injections

U. Chicago Backtracks on Statement About Gender Identity Following Media Inquiry

Judge Sides With Cornell in DEI Hiring Lawsuit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvuM3DjvYf0

Democrats and media blew up all norms to get Trump, and shouldn’t lecture about election contests

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 19, 2020 79 Comments

The Trump campaign and various allied Republicans are contesting the results of the presidential election in several key swing states, particularly Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, and Arizona. Some court cases have been filed, but the promise of more substantial legal efforts are in the offing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_r1uMiycA8

South Australia Police: ‘You Cannot Leave the House to Walk the Dog or to Exercise’

Posted by Mary Chastain on November 19, 2020 20 Comments

The news of South Australia floated under the radar until the South Australia Police tweeted that residents cannot even walk their dog or exercise during the six-day lockdown to combat COVID-19.

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

While You Were Focused on The Kraken, the Senate Continued Confirming Trump Federal Judges

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 19, 2020 50 Comments

Mitch McConnell long ago promised to leave no federal court vacancy unfilled by the end of Trump's first term. Depending on what happens in the next three weeks, this may be Trump's only term and McConnell has continued moving judicial nominations through to confirmation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG3srA1j42I

Petition at Harvard to Bar Trump Admin Members From Teaching or Speaking at the School

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 19, 2020 32 Comments

A petition making the rounds at Harvard seeks to prevent members of the Trump administration from doing pretty much anything at the school. For an institution that's supposedly dedicated to diversity and inclusion, they have a funny way of showing it.

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

Pompeo Declares BDS Movement Antisemitic, Seeks to Defund Anti-Israel Boycott Campaigners

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on November 19, 2020 5 Comments

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recognized the anti-Israel boycott campaign, or the BDS Movement, as antisemitic.

The State Department "will regard the global anti-Israel BDS campaign as anti-Semitic," Secretary Pompeo said during a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adB8RW4I3o4

Danish Study Shows That Face Masks Provide Only Limited Protection Against COVID-19

Posted by Leslie Eastman on November 19, 2020 26 Comments

Last month, I reviewed the many reasons why mask mandates won't work. In a nutshell, it is because those mandates' success relies on humans to use and maintain those masks at all times...which, of course, dooms it to failure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_J-bAHqJ6I

Wayne County GOP Rescind Votes Certifying Results, Claims Democrats Bullied Them To Vote Yes

Posted by Mary Chastain on November 19, 2020 25 Comments

Michigan's Wayne County Board of Canvassers Republican members Monica Palmer and William C. Hartmann signed affidavits to rescind their votes to certify results. They claimed the Democrats bullied them into voting yes.

Philadelphia Lawyer Representing Trump Placed Under Protection After ‘Threats of Harm’

Posted by Mary Chastain on November 19, 2020 30 Comments

Court papers revealed that Philadelphia lawyer Linda Kerns has received official protection after people sent her "threats of harm." Kerns is one of the lawyers representing President Donald Trump's campaign, "which is challenging his projected loss to Joe Biden in the crucial Keystone State."

https://twitter.com/FiveThirtyEight/status/1329042795156402177

Republicans In States Hold Overwhelming Control In Post-2020 Congressional Redistricting

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on November 19, 2020 12 Comments

As the Democratic Party engages in a highly amusing circular firing squad over their shock loss of so many House seats, the impact of Republican gains at the state level doesn't seem to have fully dawned on them. Or if it has, they are doing what they do best, kicking that particular can down the road, a decade down the road.