Plus: Opening the Floodgates: Will Other Prosecutors Target Presidents and Their Families Now?
April 15 2023
Good morning from Washington, where his past defense of a black nationalist leader and insulting attack on a Supreme Court justice return to haunt the House’s top Democrat. Samantha Aschieris reports. Aides to the Senate’s top Republican deflect retirement rumors, Virginia Allen writes. On the podcast, Missouri’s new attorney general says he won’t roll over for Biden and the Left. Plus: Florida embraces a “heartbeat” ban on abortion; an influential employers group skewers Biden’s economic numbers; and the State Department funds LGBT projects. On this date in 1910, President William Howard Taft becomes the first president to throw a ceremonial first pitch at a Major League Baseball game, as the Washington Senators meet the Philadelphia Athletics at National Park.
“It is long past time for Republican state attorneys general, Republican DAs, and Republican prosecutors to get creative in charging Democrats for actual crimes,” says Mike Davis of the Article III Project.
In Maryland, Gov. Wes Moore’s initial plan to phase out the BOOST program would’ve meant fewer chances for students from low-income families to get a good education.
In recent weeks, as terrorism metastasized, the Biden administration urged Israel to “deescalate,” as though any state could ignore its moral duty to defend its citizens from routine acts of terrorism.
For me personally, the image of the man leading the chant reveals the motivation behind the transgender ideology. He was dressed with a red triangular cloth on his chest and horns on his head.
