Trump Attorneys Appeal Colorado Ballot Ruling to Supreme Court: ‘State Has Interfered’

• In its Dec. 19 order, the Colorado Supreme Court said that its ruling that Trump should be removed from the ballot was stayed until Jan. 4 or "if review is sought in the Supreme Court" before Jan. 4, then Trump would be listed on the Colorado ballot "until receipt of any order or mandate from the [U.S.] Supreme Court."
• On Dec. 27, the Colorado Republican State Central Committee filed a petition for certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court.
• Since the state GOP filed an appeal before the Jan. 4 deadline, Trump will continue to be on the state's presidential primary ballot until the U.S. Supreme Court acts on the appeal.

Schedule an interview: Hans von Spakovsky

Exposing DEI: Inside the Pressure Campaign that Finally Ousted Claudine Gay as Harvard’s President

• Claudine Gay ended her tenure Tuesday as the shortest president in the history of Harvard University, yet her resignation statement didn’t acknowledge the scandals that led to her ouster—instead suggesting that racism was to blame.
• Claudine Gay ended her tenure Tuesday as the shortest president in the history of Harvard University, yet her resignation statement didn’t acknowledge the scandals that led to her ouster—instead suggesting that racism was to blame.
• The incident arguably illustrates the effectiveness of conservative critics in drawing attention to Gay’s many scandals, and the fecklessness of a university so rooted in diversity, equity, and inclusion that it refuses to acknowledge the ideological roots of the scandal.
• While neither Gay nor Harvard acknowledged the scandals that led to Gay’s resignation, the event demonstrates the impact of conservative media, even as the Left dominates so many of America’s institutions.

Schedule an interview: Tyler O’Neil and Mike Gonzalez

Border and Immigration Concerns are Deciding Elections in Europe

• Loose immigration policies have generated a wave of frustration throughout the European Union. Governments with no plan or willingness to respond have suffered electoral defeat. Growing concern over unchecked illegal immigration will doubtless affect the 2024 U.S. elections, too.
• Polls indicate that the European Conservatives and Reformists and Identity and Democracy parties could lead a shift to the right in the 2024 EU Parliament elections.
• In the United States, Republicans have been outraged ever since President Biden dismantled former President Donald Trump’s border policies and effectively opened the borders by releasing most illegal crossers and severely curtailing interior enforcement of immigration law. Even Democratic-led states and cities are frustrated with the administration’s inaction.
• New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, who previously committed to house and protect illegal migrants, now asks them to go somewhere else. New York City once declared itself a sanctuary city, but Mayor Eric Adams recently claimed that migrants would destroy it and is now offering illegal aliens one-way plane tickets out of town.
• Both the pivots of EU governments and the red wave in New York highlight the ability of conservatives to win by focusing on issues that have a direct impact on constituents’ lives: crime, inflation and immigration.

Schedule an interview: Simon Hankinson