Attorney Alan Dershowitz called any notion that Vice President Kamala Harris will be nominated to replace Associate Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court “absurd.” News that Breyer will step down broke on Tuesday, although the long-serving jurist has not yet released a statement about it. President Joe Biden vowed on the campaign trail in […]
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White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki faced waves of questions about what President Joe Biden will do about Justice Stephen Breyer’s upcoming retirement.
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Three prominent Black female judges top the list of potential replacements for Justice Breyer.
YouTube permanently banned right-wing commentator Dan Bongino on Wednesday, reported The Hill.
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Sen. Rick Scott, the National Republican Senatorial Conference (NRSC) chairman, made the prediction in a Wednesday press release after Breyer’s retirement reveal.
Ron Perlman has sent a harsh message to critics of Netflix’s Don’t Look Up.
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Many Senate Republicans have, as a matter of course, opposed Mr. Biden’s nominees for seats on the lower federal courts.
Progressive groups have heavily pressured Justice Breyer to leave so Biden could nominate a younger and more liberal replacement, says CNN.
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FIFA president Gianni Infantino called for biennial World Cups, but made the outrageous claim that hosting the event every two years will help stop the African migrant crisis. Infantino spoke to European lawmakers Wednesday, preaching the need for more World Cups to help make the sport more global and inclusive. According to the FIFA president, […]
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Jen Psaki objected when Peter Doocy made the clear suggestion that President Joe Biden might be lying about his communications with another world leader.
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Representative James E. Clyburn, Democrat of South Carolina, supports a little-known federal judge in his home state: J. Michelle Childs.
Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair, said the central bank could raise rates at its March meeting.
Michael Sussmann represents only the third individual charged as a result of Special Counsel John Durham’s probe.
Justice Stephen Breyer is reportedly “upset” at news of his reported retirement from the nation’s highest court, according to Fox News’ Shannon Bream.
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The Justice Department is investigating allegations of phony Electoral College certifications from 2020 that declared Republicans were the electors voting for Donald Trump and Mike Pence when in fact Democrats had won and voted for President Biden and …
Biden, then a candidate with a struggling campaign for the Democratic nomination, made the promise ahead of his party’s primary in South Carolina.
What would happen if Floyd Mayweather suddenly announced he was transitioning to be a woman, and now wanted to compete in women’s boxing?
In the short term, not much.
A cruel irony: Our misguided faith that America is special is shielding Trump and the fascists from punishment
Continuing uncertainty about the pandemic has ensured that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will have a prominent role in the daily lives of Americans. Unfortunately, the agency isn’t living up to this responsibility. It seems to change …
Newt Gingrich says the situations in Ukraine and Taiwan are both dangerous, and President Biden appears incapable of meeting the dual challenge.
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If Breyer’s replacement doesn’t yield controversy, it will be unusual.
Shannon Bream reports that Justice Breyer is not pleased that his retirement has been announced.
The first Black woman on the Court wouldn’t necessarily change its balance. But she would make history.
Dreadful leadership in the offices of state’s attorney, mayor, and governor has played a significant role in the city’s escalating violence.
Amid continued calls for police reform and a surge in firearm deaths, the Biden Administration and Mayor Eric Adams are trying to balance public safety and politics.
Districts should rethink imposing on millions of children an intervention that provides little discernible benefit.
Progressives today can look to the American past for examples of political movements transitioning from short-term defeat to long-term success
SACRAMENTO, CA—Daring midday train robberies are the latest phenomena to flourish in the Golden State. These rail heists, along with a dearth of electricity and banishment of gas vehicles, have led to California rebranding with a vintage Old Wes…
His voting over the years was generally similar to that of other Democratic appointees, if perhaps a little more conservative.
Joe Biden on Wednesday met with private sector CEOs to discuss his Build Back Broke agenda that is currently stalled in the senate. A reporter asked Joe Biden about liberal justice Breyer’s retirement as Biden’s handlers were shooing the media out of the State Dining Room. 83-year-old Justice Stephen Breyer will retire from the US…
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A jury has convicted Afghan national Mohammed Tariq for sexually abusing a 3-year-old girl at a Marine Corps refugee camp in Quantico, Virginia. Tariq, who was not related to the child, was seen kissing and touching her by a pair of Marines at the refugee camp. When the child tried to get away from him, […]
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Lou Dobbs decided to ignore the legal perils of flirting with the “Big Lie” again as he and President Donald Trump moved to cast doubt on the 2020 election.
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Republicans now lead Democrats in the generic congressional ballot by 2 percentage points, according to the FiveThirtyEight polling average.
Army vet Hason Correa was savagely stabbed to death in Harlem in 2018. Three of the four people charged in his death are behind bars but a fourth was granted bail.
A new Quinnipiac poll in Georgia finds Gov. Brian Kemp (R) leading primary challenger David Perdue (R) for the GOP gubernatorial nomination, 43% to 36%. They are followed by Vernon […]
Manchin and Sinema have had no problem this year bucking their party on big votes.
Judge Jackson, 51, already successfully went through the Senate confirmation process last year.
President Joe Biden declined to answer reporters’ questions at the White House about reports that Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will retire.
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The Federal Reserve said Wednesday it will likely begin to raise interest rates soon, probably in March, as the central bank tries to rein in record-high inflation. The Fed didn’t set a timetable, but said a quarter-percentage-point increase of its ben…
WATCH: Joe Biden’s March 2020 Campaign Promise on Supreme Court Nominees: ‘I’ll Appoint the First Black Woman to the Court’
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To no one’s surprise, Curt Schilling did not make the Hall-of-Fame this year, his tenth and final appearance on the ballot. But he did have an unlikely supporter in Bomani Jones. While Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens have been punished for their use of performance enhancing drugs, Schilling’s career as a Major League Baseball player […]
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“The Federal Reserve held short-term interest rates steady on Wednesday and signaled intentions to raise them in mid-March, the latest turn toward removing stimulus to temper elevated inflation,” the Wall […]
Dominion Voting Systems said this week in a court filing that there was no “realistic possibility” that it would settle its $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit with MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell […]
Members of the progressive squad called on President Biden to replace Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer with a Black woman.
Denmark will lift all Covid restrictions by February 1 after UK, Ireland and the Netherlands made similar announcements. Reuters reported: Denmark aims to scrap all remaining domestic COVID-19 restrictions next week, following on from similar announcements in the UK, Ireland and the Netherlands in the past week despite high numbers of Omicron infections in Europe.…
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House Democrats have unveiled their version of sweeping legislation aimed at bolstering U.S. competition with China, though bipartisan buy-in will be needed to finish the job and Republicans objected to being shut out of the process. The nearly 3,000-p…
Actor Michael Rapaport shared video of an alleged shoplifter casually strolling out of a New York City Rite Aid with multiple full bags.
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Judges Ketanji Brown Jackson, Leondra Kruger and Michelle Childs have been floated as potential replacements for retiring Justice Stephen Breyer.
A Supreme Court nomination fight will feel like a return to normal for the Biden administration, but it probably won’t help Biden improve the public’s mood.
“Ben Williamson, a top aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, met on Tuesday with the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection,” Politico reports. “His […]
Top Senate Democrats Wednesday vowed to confirm President Biden’s yet-to-be-named nominee to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer.
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring at the end of the current term later this summer. Who could President Biden nominate to take his place?
WASHINGTON, D.C.—As progressive Justice Stephen Breyer announced his retirement this week, President Biden wasted no time in nominating a progressive woman of color to the Supreme Court: Elizabeth Warren.
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Justice Stephen Breyer announced Wednesday that he plans to retire at the end of this term. Democrats have been clamoring…
Playbook: “After months of legislative stumbles (Build Back Better, voting rights), the White House has the chance for a major, legacy-shaping win that the entire Democratic Party can rally around.” […]
The extremist House member remains under investigation for having sex with an underage girl, which he denies.
“If all Democrats hang together — which I expect they will — they have the power to replace Justice Breyer in 2022 without one Republican vote in support. Elections have […]
A Texas teen who allegedly murdered his 16-year-old girlfriend by shooting her 22 times is out on bail. Frank Deleon, Jr., 17, is accused of killing Diamond Alvarez, 16, on January 11 while she was out walking her dog. Booking photo of Frank Deleon, Jr., charged with murder in the 174th State District Court. pic.twitter.com/BX7g41qyHO…
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Dyjuan Tatro, the DCCC’s senior adviser for strategic outreach, also claimed the media is pushing “copaganda” in the tweet posted Sunday.
“Oil touched $90 a barrel for the first time in seven years on Wednesday, supported by tight supply and rising political tensions between Russia and Ukraine that added to concerns […]
Recent changes in Senate rules mean a nominee can be confirmed with a bare majority, but Democrats will have to hold their narrow ranks together.
It’s hardly a cure-all for a Democratic Party facing a historic deficit on the court, but it’s still big, for a host of reasons.
Political and jurisprudentially, it’s not all doom and gloom.
Republican senators are requesting a formal investigation into the Biden administration’s alleged coordination with the National School Boards Association (NSBA) and the National Education Association (NEA) and whether those relationships were used to …
His departure will give President Biden an opportunity to nominate a replacement to reinforce the court’s liberal minority while Democrats have narrow control of the Senate.
On Monday, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin made remarks about HBO host Bill Maher criticizing COVID-19 pandemic protocol, essentially agreeing with the host. Palin made her comments during an interview on Fox News Channel’s “Jesse Watters Primetime.” Palin: I don’t know who decided that this was going to be one that was going to be […]
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“Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) recently announced a hefty $2.8 million campaign haul, showing the competition he can still raise big bucks while under FBI scrutiny,” the Dallas Morning […]
WASHINGTON, D.C.—With the announcement of Associate Justice Stephen Breyer’s pending retirement dominating the current news cycle, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has put forth the following statement: “The American people sho…
Florida Surgeon General, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, four months after Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) appointed him to the post, faced his first confirmation hearing on Wednesday – where he was grilled by Democrats in the state senate over Covid-19. The four Democrats on the Senate Health Policy Committee walked out of the proceedings after Senate Minority […]
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Tom Brady has cryptically spoken about his NFL future in the last week, probably because he truly isn’t sure when he’s going to retire. While it’s possible Brady won’t return to the football field for a 23rd NFL season next fall, the iconic quarterback hasn’t made that announcement yet, but Fox Sports host Skip Bayless […]
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A new book reveals that California Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein repeatedly defended the public image of China’s ruling Communist Party while her husband reaped major profits from his Chinese business ties.
MyPillow Guy Mike Lindell’s lawyers are refusing to comply with the discovery process for Dominion Voting System’s $1.3 billion defamation…
The Biden regime wants to send US tropps to Ukraine to protect its border with Russia. Meanwhile, over 500,000 illegal aliens stormed the US border in the first fiscal quarter of this year. The Biden regime could not care less. The US does not deserve borders according to the Biden regime. So, is it a…
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Wednesday that the United States has delivered written responses to demands made by Russia, saying it will be up to the Kremlin on how they want to proceed amid heightening tensions between Moscow and Ukraine.
Breyer, the court’s oldest justice, has been under unprecedented pressure to retire while Democrats have narrow control of the Senate.
(Steven Hayward) The advocates for mandatory vaccination ought to be brought up short by a study out today in JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, which looked closely at the data on vaccines and incidents of myocarditis, with findings of special significance for young males. The study boasts 26 authors, including figures from the CDC and top medical schools. It hardly comes much more “mainstream” than this. Myocarditis Cases Reported
AP’s Josh Boak racked up criticism when he tweeted about President Joe Biden’s ice cream run, but he actually wrote a very pro-Biden article about the trip.
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The State Department on Wednesday denounced Russia’s crackdown on Jehovah’s Witnesses in a blistering response to reports that a Russian court has sentenced a female Witness to six years in prison for practicing her faith. “The United…
Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer’s retirement could pave the way for President Biden to put Vice President Kamala Harris on the nation’s highest court. Mr. Biden pledged during the 2020 presidential campaign that he would nominate th…
Fox News contributor Tomi Lahren appeared to say the quiet part out loud when she ridiculed the idea of a Black woman filling the soon to be empty Supreme Court Justice seat — now that Justice Stephen Breyer has announced his plans to step down. NBC’s Pete Williams broke the news on Wednesday morning that […]
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Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring after serving nearly 30 years on the high court.
The father of a female swimmer at Penn said his daughter and many of her teammates are realizing they “will never make it” to the winner’s podium while transgender swimmer Lia Thomas is on their team.
Yesterday, Wisconsin Representative and American hero Timothy Ramthun proposed a resolution in the WI House calling for the decertification of the corrupt 2020 Election results for President Trump and Vice President Pence in that state. The assembly voted unanimously to move forward Rep. Ramthun’s resolution to reclaim Wisconsin’s 10 electors for US President and Vice…
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By Casey Harper (The Center Square) The majority of Americans think the rise in inflation last year will only get worse in 2022, according to a new poll. Gallup released polling data Wednesday showing that 79% of surveyed Americans “predict inflation will go up,” with 50% saying it will go up “a lot.” Those are the most […]
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After nearly three decades on the US Supreme Court, Justice Stephen Breyer, 83, is stepping down, paving the way for President Joe Biden to make his first nomination to the high court, NBC News reports. Breyer has been under heavy pressure since the November 2020 election to retire so that a Democratic president would have […]
St Louis DA Kim Gardner is in a world of hurt after she lost her appeal for refusing to turn over her communications with operatives of George Soros and others in her prosecution of former Gov Eric Greitens. A court has already found that she committed 62 acts of misconduct and 79 cases of misrepresentation […]
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Long-serving liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer reportedly plans to retire from the bench. The leftwing judge, who is 83 years old, originally appointed by President Clinton in 1994, served for 27 years on the nation’s high court. His resignation will hand President Joe Biden the opportunity to name his successor – which will likely […]
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(Paul Mirengoff) Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will retire, according to multiple reports. Some liberals have been urging him to do so since Joe Biden was elected. Many more, I suspect, were hoping he would, so that Biden could appoint a relatively young left-liberal to replace him. Breyer is 83 years old. I suspect that Breyer would like to have stayed on the Court for a few more years. However, it now
A close friend of Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg — who was Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-FL) wingman — is…
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee are demanding that Biden administration officials explain why the British citizen who attacked a Texas synagogue this month was allowed into the U.S. In a letter sent Tuesday, the 11 committee Republicans c…
This is huge. But, you need to remember that this is just the beginning and not the end. With the passage of this resolution, it is now referred to the rules committee. It was a voice vote and it passed unanimously. Once the rules committee passes it, it will then go to the Senate and […]
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Justice Stephen G. Breyer will retire from the Supreme Court, closing out a decadeslong tenure for the liberal-leaning justice and giving President Biden his first chance to shape the court. The 83-year-old associate justice had been under pressure fro…
Is this an example of the media forcing attention — or is it something else?
83-year-old Justice Stephen Breyer will retire from the US Supreme Court after 27 years on the bench. Breyer, who was nominated by former President Bill Clinton, is currently one of the three liberal justices serving on the highest court of the land. Breyer’s retirement while the Democrats control the Senate will allow Joe Biden to…
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The vacancy will give President Biden his first chance to name a new justice. He has promised to nominate a Black woman.
Justice Stephen Breyer is planning to retire from the Supreme Court, according to multiple reports, ending a nearly three-decade career on the bench and clearing the way for Democrats to seat the libera…