Lawfare: That was how Heritage President Dr. Kevin Roberts characterized the guilty verdict on all 34 counts in the “hush money” trial against Donald Trump. 

• “This was a bogus prosecution engineered by President Biden and his weaponized DOJ that has made the New York justice system look like that of a third-world country,” Roberts said in a statement.  
• "Business as usual is no longer an option," Roberts said in a post on X, calling on Congress to take immediate action. "Biden and his leftist regime have, by their actions, decreed it’s no longer 'politics as usual'."
• “This case was clearly election interference,” Hans A. von Spakovsky, manager of  Heritage’s Election Law Reform Initiative, said in a video post.  
• Tony Kinnett, investigative columnist for The Daily Signal, talks about what comes next. 

Check out more reactions from Heritage experts on X. 

On the lam: For decades, Americans have been spoon-fed the idea that America throws too many people in jail.  

• The reality is that “mass incarceration” numbers are overcounted and ignore the fact that many crimes—even violent ones—go unreported, write Meese Center Deputy Director Cully Stimson and Senior Legal Fellow Zack Smith. 
• “Those who push the ‘mass incarceration’ myth seek to divide the U.S. along racial lines,” they write. 

Read the report here. 

Rocket boosters: Ten years ago, Heritage launched The Daily Signal as an alternative to leftist media and it’s been a huge success. 

• To turbocharge this growth, The Daily Signal is now an independent media organization with its own leadership team and board of directors. 
• The public’s crumbling faith in media is "a moment to put rocket boosters on our scrappy news outlet,” said Rob Bluey, president and executive editor of The Daily Signal.  

Read more about this exciting news.  

When not going after gun owners, the Biden administration is now attacking American firearms manufacturers. 

• A new interim final rule by the U.S. Department of Commerce threatens to suffocate gun manufacturers with red tape that would prevent civilians in other countries from lawfully buying American-made firearms.

You can fight back by filing a comment through the Heritage Action for America portal here. 

Shining star: Republican voters in Texas made their voices heard last week when they primaried-in most of the school-choice candidates, forcing those who voted against last year’s school choice bill from office. 

• “The victories are a vindication of what ‘school choice evangelist’ Corey DeAngelis calls the ‘Red State Strategy’ in his new book ‘The Parent Revolution,’” writes Research Fellow Jason Bedrick. 

Texas scored another win protecting kids online. Read about that here. 

Truth to pride: Regnery just released Senior Daily Signal Reporter Mary Margaret Olohan’s  new book, “Detrans,” for which she interviewed victims of gender ideology who have “transitioned” and suffered the consequences. 

• “Detrans” exposes the unconscionable abuse they have endured—manipulative therapy, mental and emotional anguish, botched surgeries, and attempts to construct phantom body parts. 

Learn more about the book here.

How Reagan Won the Cold War 

The inaugural Lee Edwards Lecture in Conservative Leadership features  remarks by Peter Robinson, Hoover Institution senior fellow and former Reagan speechwriter.  

• Heritage established the Lee Edwards Lecture in recognition of Dr. Edwards’ long service as a distinguished fellow in conservative thought. 

June 13, 6:30 p.m. Register here. 

• How DEI Undermines U.S. Diplomacy—Simon Hankinson 
• Biden’s Housing Headache—Kevin D. Roberts, Ph.D., and EJ Antoni, Ph.D.  
• 5 Americans Remain Hostages in Gaza. Does Biden Have a Plan to Bring Them Home?—Virginia Allen 
• When His Poll Numbers Go Low, So Does Biden—Mike Gonzalez 
• Houston Storm Shows Downside of Forced Electrification—Diana Furchtgott-Roth 
• The U.S. Should Oppose ICC Attempts to Target Israeli Officials—Brett D. Schaefer 
• Campus Protests: Free Speech Needs Order, Too—Adam Kissel and Donald Downs 
• Ted Cruz and Katie Britt’s IVF Bill Misses the Mark—Emma Waters 
• A Truly Pro-Family Culture—Delano Squires 
• Pensacola Is Being Held Hostage at Whims of TSA. It Doesn’t Have to Be That Way—Zack Smith 
• Illusion vs. Reality—Jonathan Butcher 
• We Need the Pax Americana. A Multipolar World Spells Doom for the West—Nile Gardiner, Ph.D. 
• Navy Should Return the Expeditionary Transfer Docks to Service—Brent Sadler 
• Reforms Needed to Reduce Delays and Costs in U.S. Shipbuilding—Wilson Beaver and Jim Fein 

“This is damage to the reputation of the American justice system like we have never seen,” Hans von Spakovsky, senior legal fellow at the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, said on Fox Business in the wake of the jury’s guilty verdict in the Trump “hush money” trial. Watch the clip here.