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Supreme Court Hears Arguments Against Biden Vaccine Mandates Today

From the story: “No constitutional or legal authority is given to the federal government to issue this type of mandate, and the Supreme Court should reiterate this fact quickly and without ambiguity,” Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts said. “When Heritage filed our lawsuit against this unconstitutional mandate, we expected the fight would ultimately end up at the U.S. Supreme Court. That day is here. This is a pivotal moment for our judicial system. The outcome of this case will have consequences far beyond a mandate over the COVID vaccine” (Washington Times). From Alliance Defending Freedom’s Erin Hawley: While the federal government is within its right to encourage vaccine development, distribution, and inoculation, it cannot ignore constitutional protections and safeguards, even during national emergencies. That is what this federal vaccine-or-test mandate does, and why it’s unlawful (Newsweek). From the Wall Street Journal: The Court’s ruling in this case will echo into the future about how far the executive branch can go in rewriting statutes. Some Justices will be tempted to defer to the executive given the pandemic emergency. But Presidents have been increasingly eager to find emergencies whenever they are politically convenient (WSJ).

New Poll: Biden Approval Sinks to 36 Percent

Of note in this poll: It is lowest among the 18-34 crowd at 28 percent. And he’s nearly 40 points underwater among independent voters. Only four states have him above water. There are 32 Senate seats up for election in 2022, only three are in states where Biden is above water.

CIVIQS

Strassel: Jan 6 Panel Ignores True Failures

From the story: Members made no secret they hoped to prove a coup plot run from the White House. Yet in all its 725 prosecutions, the Justice Department hasn’t presented a scintilla of evidence supporting the hypothesis. Neither has the committee—even after 300 witnesses, or texts of the former White House chief of staff. Twisting in the wind are the urgent issues the committee won’t explore. In a memo this week to colleagues, Illinois Rep. Rodney Davis—the ranking Republican on the House Administration Committee, which has jurisdiction over the Capitol complex—noted that the select committee, a year after the riot, is “no closer to finding out what led to the catastrophic security failure,” even as the security situation has arguably deteriorated because of Capitol Police resignations and poor morale.

WSJ

Blue Cities Search for Answers as Homicide Soars in 2021

From the story: Philadelphia, Portland, Ore., Louisville, Ky., and Albuquerque, N.M., had their deadliest years on record. Philadelphia, the nation’s sixth-largest city, had 562 homicides surpassing its previous high of 500 set in 1990. Later in the story: New mayors were elected in major cities last year with tough-on-crime messages. New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a retired New York Police Department captain, promised to reinstate a plain-clothes anticrime unit that was criticized as being too aggressive in the past. Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens promised to hire hundreds of new police officers (WSJ). A look at the effort in New York to beef up police (Fox News).

Puzder: Biden Finally Sees Shutting Down Economy is the Wrong Move

From the story: Biden’s oft repeated – and spirited – campaign vow that he would ‘shut down the virus’ has given way to his concession that, in reality, ‘there is no federal solution.’ Biden’s claim that Donald Trump was personally responsible for 220,000 pandemic deaths and that ‘[a]nyone who is responsible for that many deaths should not remain President of the United States,’ must now face the reality of over 400,000 COVID deaths since he took office. Biden’s promise of a ‘national strategy’ to defeat COVID has collapsed under the reality that his only meaningful strategy was to coerce Americans to take the vaccines developed under the Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed – the same vaccines he railed against as untrustworthy during the campaign. As disingenuous as Biden’s campaign rhetoric appears today, that was not the case just 13 months ago.

Daily Mail

Chicago Teachers Bail on Students for Third Straight Day

From the story: The announcement to cancel classes for a third straight day comes after Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot blasted the Chicago Teachers Union and accused them of attempting to hold students’ education “hostage.” “I will not allow [the Chicago Teachers Union] to take our children hostage. I will not allow them to compromise the future of this generation of CPS students. That is not going to happen,” Lightfoot said during a Wednesday night press conference (Fox News). From Marc Thiessen: “The teacher’s unions in Chicago: 75% of Chicago teachers voted not to return to in-person learning. Any teacher who refuses to teach in this environment is engaged in child abuse; they should not be teaching” (Fox News).

California Assembly Missing Dozens of Democrats After Super Spreader Party

A going-away party for a member.

Fox News

Cooke: Media has Much to Apologize for on Covid

From the blistering story, filled with receipts: When Cillizza says that “we need to recognize,” what he should mean is, “We need to apologize.” There is one reason and one reason alone that Cillizza and his ilk are running away from the Judgment of God assumption that has marked the press’s coverage of Covid for nearly two years: Now that they’ve contracted Covid themselves en masse, the ruse has become unsustainable. It is one thing to point at the hicks down South and conclude that they’re coughing because they have the wrong politics; it is quite another to reckon with what infection must mean when your own city is inundated, when your own friends are sick, when your own policies have failed. It’s different when it’s you and people like you. It’s different when the “adult” president proves as hapless as the “moron” president. It’s different when the Buzzfeed Christmas party, rather than Spring Break at the Lake of the Ozarks, becomes the super-spreader event of the season.

National Review

Once Again, Washington Post Corrects Story About Tom Cotton

Last time, it was over the lab leak theory. This time, it’s about his claim that Democrats are making sure the Boston Bomber gets a stimulus check (Hot Air). From Tom Cotton: Now that the Boston Bomber received his stimulus check from Biden’s slush fund, I’m looking forward to the @washingtonpost updating this fact check. Remember—every Democratic Senator voted against my amendment that would have stopped prisoners from getting checks (Twitter).

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Story Now Admits Vaccines May Change Women’s Cycle

Remember when this was a conspiracy theory? (NPR). From Katie Pavlich: Them: There’s no evidence the Wuhan coronavirus vaccine affects reproductive health. Me: There’s no evidence because it hasn’t been fully studied (Twitter).