In a nakedly political move, Nancy Pelosi has declared that Trump’s state of the union address next week shouldn’t take place in the House of Representatives. She cited safety concerns due to the government shutdown, but that’s utter nonsense.

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The Supreme Court issued Orders in two cases involving the Trump administration decision not to permit transgender persons to serve in the military.

The Orders stayed District Court preliminary injunctions that had prevented the ban from going into effect. The votes split along ideological lines, with the four liberal Justices voting to...

President Trump’s triumphant SOTU address caused quite a buzz because he was not only presidential but spoke eloquently about unity and common cause.  Much to my delight, the mainstream media is now a bit worried about this year’s midterms.  Headlines warned that “Democrats Should Revise Their Hopes for 2018” and “Republicans...

Oh how the tides have turned. Democrats have thought latching onto celebrities would keep their brand afloat, but that has slowly died down with Trump’s victory being the climax. Well, so we thought. Democrats and celebrities have a tough time accepting reality…you know, like how us regular Americans don’t give a...

Trump’s first SOTU speech was a little long, but extremely effective.

• LIVE BLOG: Trump’s First State of the Union Address
• “Americans are dreamers too”
• Post-speech polling is in: Trump’s State of the Union Address was a home run

The opposition was pathetic.

• Democrats did themselves no favors with their SOTU responses

Reports of a “blue wave” may...

Shocking no one, those within the DC bubble cannot believe that approval numbers for President Donald Trump and Congressional GOP lawmakers continue to climb into February.

A Rasmussen poll has shown Trump’s approval rating at 49% while RealClearPolitics has it at 41.9%

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Tom Perez and Keith Ellison run the DNC, and one of their jobs is to raise money. Any way you look at it, they are failing their party in this task. The DNC had a miserable year for fundraising in 2017.

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It’s highly likely that the Democrats had prepared a unified strategy in advance for reacting to the SOTU. It probably went something like this:

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President Donald Trump’s Chief of Staff John Kelly said on Fox News Radio that the president will release House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes’ memo soon. From Fox News:

In a radio exclusive, White House Chief of Staff General John Kelly, joined Brian Kilmeade at the White House to talk about President...

If you subscribe to our newsletter, Morning Insurrection, (*cough* shameless pitch *cough*) you’ve received my take on Trump’s first State of the Union Address. If you’re not a subscriber (you should be), my initial take (exclusive content!) was as follows:

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Tonight, President Trump will give his first State of the Union address; we’ll have a live post on that later, so be sure to come back and share the fun.   In the meantime, the guest lists for both the president and the Democrats have been released.

The contrast between those guests invited...

A hot topic in the Legal Insurrection comment sections has been whether the insane/deranged/lunatic/vicious/malicious reaction of Democrats and the open-borders left to Trump’s generous DACA/Dreamer amnesty framework was part of some three-dimensional chess play by Trump.

In that scenario, Trump offered what he knew never would be accepted in order to make...

Rep. Maxine Waters of California has made an industry out of opposing Trump. Her constant calls for Trump’s impeachment has earned her the nickname “Auntie Maxine” from hordes of progressive youngsters.

She won’t be offering the official Democratic Party response to Trump’s state of the union address (more on that in a...

An army veteran named Ricky Taylor took advantage of the fact that Maxine Waters and other Democrats are boycotting Trump’s first state of the union address. He published a tweet asking to take Waters’ seat and it went viral.

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In the wake of Representative John Lewis (D-GA) announcing he would not attend President Trump’s inauguration, more than 50 Democrats refused to attend.  Now three Democrats, so far, are refusing to attend the president’s State of the Union (SOTU) address on January 30th.

The first to announce his intention of skipping the...

In order to honor President’s Day, I thought I would share five of my favorite presidential moments. I’ll present them in historical, rather than “top” or favorite, order.

Abraham Lincoln: “Gettysburg Address”

Like many conservatives, I have serious reservations about much that Lincoln did, but this speech is a winner from beginning...

Legal Insurrection readers are part of a small community of people outside the inner-city of Chicago who may be familiar with Joe Watkins, who passed away this week after a battle with cancer. We’ve published a few videos and interviews with Joe on this site, including Rebel Pundit’s “Chicago Unchained,” which reached more...