Plus: By Dodging School Bathrooms Case, Supreme Court Cements Earlier Win for Transgender Rights
June 29 2021
Good morning from Washington, where Attorney General Bill Barr is speaking out about how he doesn’t think the evidence shows the 2020 presidential election was stolen. Former President Trump isn’t pleased, and Fred Lucas reports. Is the Justice Department upholding the law or Democrat Party priorities with its new suit against Georgia’s election laws? Hans von Spakovsky and Zach Smith analyze. Plus: Rachel del Guidice on a congressman fighting against earmarks in a massive spending bill, and Sarah Parshall Perry on the Supreme Court refusing to take a case on transgender students and bathrooms. On this day in 1613, the Globe Theatre, famed for being the site of William Shakespeare’s plays, burns down. In the era before green screens and special effects, the theater is felled by fire ignited by a cannon used for a performance of “Henry VIII.”
The Justice Department claims Georgia’s new election reform law violates the Voting Rights Act because it discriminates against black Georgia voters. The complaint reads like it was drafted by the DNC.
Even though the bipartisan deal spends huge amounts on left-wing priorities and uses gimmicks to avoid politically damaging tax hikes, that apparently isn’t enough for the left.
The week after the election, Barr authorized federal prosecutors to investigate “substantial allegations” of vote irregularities that “could potentially impact the outcome” of the election.
“I’m not speaking to the people that are content with an LGBTQ life. But there are so many that are not fulfilled with that. It doesn’t scratch the itch,” says Ken Williams.
Two inexorable energy trends are underway in California: soaring electricity prices and ever-worsening reliability—and both trends bode ill for the state’s low- and middle-income consumers.
