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Seth Liebsohn: An Alien Ideology Entering American Politics
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An alien ideology is entering American politics, and its threat cannot be dismissed. While our Constitution guarantees us a republican form of government, the tools of democracy can be exploited to render that asunder. Two major cities—New York and Minneapolis—now have candidates for Mayor running as avowed socialists under the Democratic party. Th…
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Carol Platt Liebau: Our Entitled Government Class
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About thirteen hundred workers were recently laid off from the State Department. X was full of emotional videos, recording diplomats gathered in the lobby to applaud, hug, and weep with their departing colleagues. Americans might wonder where similar coverage was for private sector workers when Joe Biden shut down construction of the Keystone Pipel…
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He was the towering preacher of his age. John Fullerton MacArthur, Jr., known to so many as “Pastor John,” has died, after more than a half-century of faithful preaching. John McArthur was the son and grandson of preachers. He became pastor of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California just as the state was exploding. John was a master exposi…
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Ed Morrissey: The Pardons Are Only the Entree
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Did Joe Biden decide who received pardons and commutations? The New York Times cast fresh doubt on the legitimacy of thousands of clemency actions this week. Biden refuted allegations that he didn’t authorize the auto-pen for every pardon issued at the end of his term. However, the Times reviewed e-mails during the post-election period, and discove…
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Seth Liebsohn: Is Elon Musk the Next John Anderson
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Elon Musk is starting a third party evidently, seemingly out of pique with Donald Trump. About this, a few things. Good luck with it having any traction whatsoever. When a strong conservative’s picking up the pieces and cobbling together a new coalition of conservatives and former Democrats, one John Anderson tried to run against him with a message…
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Ed Morrissey: Time for Accountability on Russia Collusion Hoax
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For nine years, the people who put together a grand hoax based on a campaign dirty trick, have never been held accountable. A new CIA review concludes that American intelligence knew that the Steele Dossier was baseless, and yet then Director John Brennan insisted on using it to conclude that Russia had interfered with the 2016 election to benefit …
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Carol Platt Liebau: The Left Jumps to Politicize a Tragedy
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After Texas floods claimed the lives of Americans including seven- and eight-year-old girls, discourse on social media illuminated something about the state of our nation. And it’s not heartening. Some on the left jumped to politicize the tragedy. Commentators like Obama advisor David Axelrod linked the disaster to Trump administration government c…
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Socialism is planting itself firmly in America—and the Democratic party is its cultivator. The same week Tim Walz said socialism is nothing more than neighborliness, Kamala Harris chose him as her running mate. Today, the Democratic party’s largest rallies are headlines by self-described socialists. In New York City, an avowed socialist is on path …
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President Trump’s supporters have been frustrated with lawfare 2.0. Left-wing lawyers slowed his agenda by finding federal judges to impose nationwide injunctions against Trump’s executive orders. That ended with the close of this term. Although the Supreme Court didn’t rule on the merits of the Trump order on birthright citizenship, Justice Amy Co…
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Seth Liebsohn: Taking Up the Challenges of Our Day
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The great political scientist Harry Jaffa wrote on our bicentennial: In 1776 the United States was nothing, promising to become everything; having become everything, it now promises to become nothing. This is even truer today, on the cusp of our 250th anniversary. A new Gallup poll reveals a record-low percentage of Americans proud of America, drag…
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Hugh Hewitt: America The Best Hope of Mankind
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The nation goes into this fourth of July holiday weekend at pivotal period of our nation’s history. Next year we’ll be marking 250 years of independence … our "semiquincentennial." Quite an achievement and a word —quite an experiment in democracy it has been. As we mark this day, I don’t need to remind you—but it still bears stating: Our nation is …
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Carol Platt Liebau: A Big Win for Parents Rights
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What a win for parents’ rights! In Mahmoud v Taylor, handed down last Friday, the Supreme Court affirmed in a 6 to 3 holding, that parents — not schools — have the last word on what their children are going to be taught. The case focused on Maryland’s Montgomery County Board of Education. There, books with LGBTQ themes had been approved for primary…
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Albert Mohler: A New York Political Earthquake
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This is Albert Mohler for Townhall.com. In politics, there are earthquakes and then there are earthquakes. What took place last week in New York City is a very big earthquake. The Democrats are now nominating Zohran Mamdani, a man identified with Democratic Socialism, a Muslim, born in Uganda, now to be the Democratic Party’s nominee to be mayor of…
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Hugh Hewitt: A Message to the Middle East - and the World
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Seven B-2 bombers dropped at least a dozen Massive Ordinance Penetrators on to Iran’s nuclear weapons faculty at Fordow, but since the mountain didn’t explode like the Death Star in Star Wars, the mission was deemed a disappointment by some in legacy media and many online keyboard warriors. "Minimal damage causing a month or two delay": That’s a su…
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Chris Stigall: Trump Delivers on What He Promised
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President Trump’s approval rating soaring above 50%, with polls like Rasmussen showing it at 53%. His handling of illegal immigration, even more impressive at 54% approval. And then there’s his handling of the Iran nuclear threat—90 percent of Trump voters support him. Despite the relentless negativity from the legacy media, it’s no mystery why his…
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Hugh Hewitt: "They Should Have Done the Deal"
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There are a handful of phrases from the national security crises of the past 50 years that stand out. President Donald Trump has now added his signature line to that list. For the sake of brevity, I’ll just note Mr. Reagan in 1987 saying, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" George W. Bush in 2001: "I can hear you! The rest of the world hears you.…
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Ed Morrissey: The Rocky Path to Peace Requires Regime Change
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Donald Trump heralded a cease-fire between Israel and Iran on Monday evening – and then spent the next several hours keeping it in place. Trump exploded in frustration Tuesday over the retaliatory exchanges that continued past the deadline, declaring that neither country knows what they’re doing. By later in the morning, both countries appeared res…
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Seth Liebsohn: A Mission That Should Be Applauded
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In the wake of America’s bombing Iran’s nuclear sites, too many partisans and ideologues have broadcast misplaced objections—saying it was imprudent, didn’t comport with our (or their) foreign policy, and was unconstitutional. Such malcontents don’t need a gut-check, they need a morality check …and a fact-check. The same Democrats who say this viol…
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We saw a win for sanity at the Supreme Court last week as a 6-3 majority of the justices sided with the state of Tennessee in the states ban on so-called transgender treatment for minors. Tennesseans had overwhelmingly adopted legislation that was challenged in the courts. And, last week, the court found that the law was NOT unconstitutional. The c…
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Carol Platt Liebau: The Lefts Problem With Men
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The New York Times “celebrated” Father’s Day in its own, inimitable way. Susannah Meadows, a senior staff editor in the opinion section, devoted an entire piece to trashing her ninety-two-year-old father. The essay is a lengthy litany of woe. Meadows tells us her father gave her financial anxiety and a genetic predisposition to melanoma . He was a …
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Last Saturday, the Army celebrated its two hundred fiftieth birthday with a military parade on the national mall. The contrast with the No Kings rally, held the same day, couldn’t have been more striking. No Kings rallies seemed to be populated predominately by unhappy, aging baby boomers. You had to wonder whether, given their age, they were getti…
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Those of us who have supported Donald Trump since 2015 need no lecture that Trump is abandoning his America First base when he stands by our nation’s greatest ally. It’s not we, Trump, or America who have loyalty problems. We never called Donald Trump “demonic” or said we “hated him passionately.” Neither Israel nor America is starting a war with I…
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After decades of bad-faith talks, lies and state-sponsored terrorism aimed at the United States and our allies, Iran suddenly wants Donald Trump’s intervention on their behalf. On Monday, their foreign minister implored Trump to intervene to force Israel into a cease fire. “It takes one phone call from Washington,” he wrote on Twitter, “to muzzle s…
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Seth Liebsohn: The World Should Be Thanking Israel
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Iran turned down opportunity after opportunity to forgo its nuclear enrichment, and, just as the International Atomic Energy Agency reported Iran was in non-compliance with its non-proliferation obligations, yet again, Iran declared it was opening up yet another enrichment facility. All this as Iran’s leadership pledges to liquidate Israel. Iran ha…
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Ed Morrissey: LA Politicians Fuel Riots Through Nullification
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The basic duty of government is to maintain public order and safety while protecting the rights of its citizens. The government of Los Angeles and the state of California have failed miserably—and repeatedly—on both points. Mismanagement and dereliction of duty led to the destruction of the Palisades and Alta Dena in January. Actual malice today to…
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Carol Platt Liebau: A Good Week for Religious Liberty
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Religion had a good week at the Supreme Court. The justices ruled unanimously in favor of a Catholic group. They held that Wisconsin improperly discriminated based on religion when it denied Catholic Charities a tax exemption. Catholic Charities Bureau in Superior, Wisconsin, cares for disabled people. It was denied the tax exemption routinely give…
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Seth Liebsohn: Mayor Bass and Governor Newsom Failed
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“What is there to negotiate?!” California Governor Ronald Reagan responded, when a reporter asked him why he wouldn’t negotiate with rioters at Berkley in 1969. Quote “All of this started because people who know better told our young people they had the right to choose which laws they wanted to obey, and which they didn’t.” Los Angeles Mayor Karen …
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Ed Morrissey: Democrats Let Their Revolution Flags Fly
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One month ago, House Democrats started a melee at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Newark. That signaled radicals across the country to escalate, and Los Angeles agitators clearly got the message when ICE began enforcing the law in California. Gavin Newsom and mayor Karen Bass refused to intervene to protect federal law enforcemen…
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Hugh Hewitt: A Big Beautiful Bill by the Fourth?
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It was on January 5 of this year when President Trump—on my Salem program— said his preference was for “one big, beautiful bill.” And thus he started a snowball rolling down Congressional Hill and that gathered momentum and should be on his desk, perhaps by July 4, certainly not later than Labor Day. Trump willed H.R. 1 into being the way he willed…
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Seth Liebsohn: Democrats Doubling Down on Radicalism
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Recent stories in the New York Times report on how Democrats are trying to regain lost constituencies. One reports that the Democrats have a “$20 million effort, that aims to reverse the erosion of Democratic support among young men….” promising to “study the syntax, language and content that gains attention and virality in these spaces.” Let’s sav…
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Ed Morrissey: Finally: Some Consequences to "Globalizing the Intifada"
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The Free Palestine/Globalize the Intifada movement started after the October 7 attacks to promote Hamas’s cause—and it immediately took violent forms. For too long, the lack of response from progressive-elite prosecutors encouraged even more radical violence aimed at Jews. The lack of immediate and significant consequences created the impunity that…
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Carol Platt Liebau: A Win for Trumps Immigration Policy at the Supreme Court
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The Trump administration notched another win at the Supreme Court last week. The Court stayed a lower court’s ruling, which had blocked the president from revoking protected status to half a million migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. This decision paves the way for these immigrants to be removed from the United States. A district c…
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Seth Liebsohn: The Democrats Have a Problem With Jew Hatred
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The firebombing of Jews in Colorado comes in the wake of the arrest of an Islamist plotting to kill Jewish pre-schoolers in Michigan, which comes in the wake of two employees of the Israeli Embassy being gunned down in our nation’s capital, which comes in the wake of the firebombing of Governor Josh Shapiro’s residence when he and his family were t…
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Carol Platt Liebau: A Judiciary Out of Control
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It really has gotten out of control: Every federal district court judge effectively wields a veto over the president’s agenda. Here’s how it works: The left finds friendly judges and persuades them to place a nationwide injunction on a Trump policy. With that, the people’s will —expressed in the last election—is thwarted by an unelected judge. The …
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Ed Morrissey: They Hijacked The Presidency. No Film At 11
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In his tour for the book Original Sin, Jake Tapper has grudgingly admitted that the mainstream media missed a scandal that “may be worse than Watergate.” There is no “maybe” about it. Watergate was a criminal conspiracy to cover up a dirty political campaign trick. Bidengate involves the hijacking of the presidency itself, with a conspiracy that in…
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Chris Stigall: Trump Building a Foundation for a Sustainable and Prosperous Future
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President Trump has a vision for his second term laying a strategic foundation to ensure America’s safety, prosperity and global leadership for decades to come. He’s drawing on his real estate experience, President Trump is planning for America like a developer mapping out a city's growth. He knows energy is key to the future, that’s why he’s expan…
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Carol Platt Liebau: The Elites and Lessons From a Biden in Decline
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In October 2023, special counsel Robert Hur interviewed Joe Biden about the classified documents found in his garage. Ultimately, Hur decided Biden had behaved illegally but declined to prosecute. He said Biden’s mental acuity was so poor that jurors would find it difficult to convict him of a crime requiring willful wrongdoing. Democrats attacked …
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Hugh Hewitt: A Heartfelt Salute on Memorial Day
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The dangerous world we are looking at today serves as an appropriate backdrop for our expression of gratitude for those who have died in the service of our nation. From the time of our nation’s founding to today, well over 1.2 million Americans have paid the ultimate price in the service of our country. Today is a day for us to say, “thank you.” It…
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Carol Platt Liebau: Legacy Media Will Not Recover
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Here’s a question for all the journalists insisting they didn’t know about Joe Biden’s cognitive decline: Were you corrupt, stupid, or both? It’s been obvious to everyone for a very long time that the former president was struggling to fulfill even the most basic duties of his office. Back when there were only a limited number of legacy media outle…
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Seth Liebsohn: Homicidal Ideation and Ideology
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The assassin of two Israeli embassy workers at the Jewish Museum in Washington, DC was an active member of the Party of Socialism and Liberation. When arrested, he shouted “Free Palestine, Free Palestine!”—the same chant we’ve heard from left wingers and socialists on our college campuses. It shouldn’t be surprising: the Palestinian cause has alway…
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Commentary after commentary has been arguing that there’s a rift between the United States and Israel, especially since removing Mike Walz as National Security Advisor, certain backs-and-forths over nuclear negotiations with Iran, and President Trump’s recent trip to Saudi Arabia. Such speculations are overblown. First, President Trump is the presi…
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Ed Morrissey: The Worst Scandal in Modern American History Keeps Getting Worse
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Even before this weekend, officials from Joe Biden’s administration struggled to answer allegations of a cover-up relating to Biden’s cognitive health. By Monday, two stunning developments showed just how deep the corruption went. When Robert Hur issued his special-counsel report in January 2024 with the explanation of Biden’s cognitive issues for …
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This is Chris Stigall for Townhall.com. We’ve been greeted with great news in recent days. I want to be sure you didn’t miss it. The Treasury shocked us with their second biggest budget surplus in history thanks to Trump tariff revenues. That’s right: their second biggest budget surplus in history. Inflation numbers are down—to 2.3 percent, that’s …
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Pope Leo the XIV will be formally installed as the new Pope this coming Sunday. Catholics around the world have been marveling at the wild diversity to reactions of the election of Pope Leo the XIV within the United States. The not merely conventional wisdom, but the actual “universally held belief” an American could not be elected Pope fell like s…
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Carol Platt Liebau: A Much Needed Weaponization Working Group
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Ed Martin was Donald Trump’s pick to serve as US Attorney for Washington DC — its top federal prosecutor. But he was blocked by Senate Republicans like Georgia’s Thom Tillis. Martin had vowed legal action against those who impeded DOGE’s effort and fired 30 prosecutors who’d worked on January the 6th cases. Perhaps Tillis thought stopping Martin’s …
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When Britney Griner was taken prisoner in Russia for bringing in illegal drugs, she became more famous as an American hostage than she ever was as an athlete—media made her cause the cause of freedom and her release was celebrated as America’s victory. This week, American Edan Alexander was released from Hamas captivity after 19 months of torture. …
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This is Ed Morrissey of HotAir.com for Townhall. The Catholic Church has set a new path for its future with the election of Pope Leo XIV. He made history as the first American pontiff, but otherwise he seems to fit into a more traditional path for The Vatican. An insider who worked regularly with bishops and cardinals, Pope Leo XIV is an expert on …
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Albert Mohler: An Affirmation of Creation Order
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The Department of Health and Human Services has released a groundbreaking new report on the dangers of mixing gender, ideology, and medical practice for children and teens. The report was commissioned, and it came out last Thursday. It's over 400 pages long. But the bottom line is this. The Trump White House ordered the inquiry into and the evaluat…
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ED Morrissey: The Time to Hold Iran Accountable Is Now
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Recently, Trump administration figures have sent mixed messages about the efforts to end the Iranian nuclear weapons program. Republicans and the Israelis have worried that Trump may sign a deal similar to President Obama’s—with only marginal changes on verification. Trump spoke out this weekend by insisting on “total disarmament,” but still left t…
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Seth Liebsohn: Illegal Aliens and Due Process
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President Donald Trump sat for a wide-ranging interview with Kristen Welker from Meet the Press last Sunday. The only headline to emerge, and it was everywhere: “Trump Says ‘I Don’t Know’ When Asked About Due Process and Upholding Constitution.” That was the New York Times. Versions of that were reposted everywhere. The answer was about criminal il…
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