Insidious: Special Counsel Jack Smith’s new indictment of former President Donald Trump is really an indictment of the Department of Justice (DOJ) for putting politics ahead of free speech, says Heritage Senior Legal Fellow Hans von Spakovsky. 

• The DOJ has “no right and no authority to criminally charge anyone for doubting the outcome of any election, no matter whether that claim is unreasonable or not,” argues von Spakovsky. 
• The sheer number of politicians who’ve questioned election outcomes—ahem, Stacey Abrams and Hillary Clinton—are proof that the scales are weighted, he says. 

Read more: Hans von Spakovsky lays it all out here. 

11%: That’s how many young Americans are ineligible for military service because they are overweight.  

• “While it might not be politically correct to point out the detrimental effects of obesity, America’s security demands it,” writes Center for National Defense Director Thomas Spoehr. 

Shape up: In an era of rising tensions, our military—and our nation—need to get in shape. Read Spoehr’s full analysis here.  

Big Censors: “It’s egregiously obvious they were violating our First Amendment rights,” says Research Associate Jake Denton of the Biden administration’s collusion with Facebook to censor COVID-19 information.

• Meanwhile, a Daily Signal exclusive revealed that Facebook employees were leaking information about internal discussions back to the Biden White House. 

Read that story here. 

“Dystopian hellholes”: Did you know that 27 of the 30 cities with the highest murder rates are run by Democrats? 

• This is thanks to the Left’s “pro-criminal, anti-victim, police-hating policies,” write Senior Legal Fellow Charles “Cully” Stimson and Legal Fellow Zach Smith. 

Get the full story here. 

 

Want to learn more? Check out Stimson and Smith’s new book, Rogue Prosecutors.  

• DeSantis, Newsom, and the Debate For America—Kevin Roberts 
• US Aid to Ukraine Amounts to $900 Per American Household, Economist Says—Samantha Aschieris 
• 2023 Medicare Trustees Report: Another Year, Another Warning—Robert E. Moffit 
• China Is Determined To Push Its Way Into the Arctic—Daniel Kochis 
• Biden’s War on Texas Border Buoys Reveals What He Really Thinks About Immigration Laws—Hans von Spakovsky and Charles Stimson 
• The Left’s Relentless, Unjustified Assaults on the Supreme Court’s Legitimacy—John G. Malcolm  
• From Worst to Worster: Adding Xylazine to Fentanyl—Paul J. Larkin and Abby Carr 
• End the Practice of Federal Government Serving as Unions’ Bill Collector—Rachel Greszler 
• False Aid: Why Congress Must End Funding of the InterAction Nonprofit—Tim Meisburger 
• Joe Biden Enjoys His 1967 Corvette While Forcing You to Go Electric—Alexander Gage 
• Once More with Feeling: Department of Education Releases Second Title IX Rule—and Fails Again—Sarah Parshall Perry 
• On-Campus DEI Bureaucrats Already Ditching New Loyalty Oaths—Jonathan Butcher 

The Oversight Project’s Sam Dewey appeared on Fox Business to discuss the latest revelations in the Hunter Biden scandal. Watch the clip here.  

 

Follow the Oversight Project on Twitter at @OversightPR. 

 

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