November 6 is election day, and there is a lot at stake. If Dems win the House, expect impeachment and endless investigations of Trump. If Dems take the Senate, no more Trump judges and a once-in-a-generation to salvage the federal judiciary will be lost.
Oh boy. First Lady Melania Trump made news this morning when she made an unannounced trip to the border to tour facilities. Unfortunately, her jacket has received all the attention.
As Melania boarded the plane to Texas, she wore a jacket that says, “I really don’t care. Do U?”
The framework of a proposal unveiled by the White House provides for a pathway to citizenship for 1.8 million so-called Dreamers, 25 billion for border security and The Wall, and an end of extended-family chain migration (though immediate family chain migration still permitted).
You can read the full details here.
Another year of fabulous A.F. Branco cartoons is coming to an end. You can view a video of all Tony’s 2017 cartoons here.
A reader vote on the Best cartoon is becoming an annual event:
When Donald Trump announced a phased-out end to Obama’s illegal DACA program, which made an executive branch end round around the Constitution and Congress, Trump made clear he wanted Congress to pass legislation dealing with the problem.
Hollywood, the liberal media, and Democrats kept a dark, dirty secret for decades.
It is now acknowledged to have been common knowledge in those domains that numerous women over a long period of time complained about sexual harassment by movie industry mogul Harvey Weinstein. And there was substantial evidence to back up...
We have a winner.
Out of 15 cartoons selected by me from the past 5 years of A.F. Branco cartoons, Legal Insurrection readers voted for the best cartoon.
It was a close vote, possibly influenced by Russian bot accounts and meddling, and the winner was “That Was Then”:
Five years ago, on August 6, 2012, A.F. Branco posted his first cartoon at Legal Insurrection, a side by side of the two Dirty Harry’s:
I am pleased to announce that Antonio F. Branco will begin contributing political cartoons created exclusively for Legal Insurrection….
Shakespeare in the Park’s horrific and offensive rendition of Julius Caesar with Caesar as President Trump being killed has created a lot of controversy, and some advertisers have pulled...
Donald Trump has laid down the gauntlet, or maybe taken the bait, on key portions of James Comey’s Senate testimony.
We’ll have a transcript and video when available. Here are the key Trump points: Never told Comey to close Flynn investigation, never asked for loyalty pledge, willing to testify under oath.
On the...
Yesterday, Trump turned the beltway on end when he abruptly fired FBI Director Comey. In Comey’s absence, Andrew McCabe is acting as the interim director.
But we want to hear from you.
Who do you think should replace Comey as FBI Director?
Earlier today, Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly announced she’d be parting ways with the cable news network and heading over to NBC News. Kelly’s departure will leave a gaping hole in Fox’s prime-time lineup.
We’re just speculating here but we’ve picked potential replacements from the Fox News stable of the well-known faces,...
We did this last year, Best A.F. Branco Cartoon of 2015 (Reader Poll), and the vote was a precise tie. So we had a runoff was extremely close, with just an 11 vote difference, Runoff Election: Best A.F. Branco Cartoon 2015 (Reader Poll).
And the winner was a cartoon that is so timely it...
In 1974, President Gerald Ford granted former President Richard Nixon a full pardon. “It could go on and on and on, or someone must write the end to it. I have concluded that only I can do that, and if I can, I must,” said Ford.
What do you think? Should President...
The FBI letter to Congress stating that it is reopening the investigation into her handling of classified information set off the expected reaction, documented in our prior post, Mother of all October Surprises – FBI reopening Hillary email case.
Ed Morrissey suggested on Twitter that this might be another case Lucy (James Comey)...
