Good morning from Washington, where the House panel investigating the Capitol riot produces a White House witness who gives first- and second-hand accounts of Trump’s behavior that day. Fred Lucas has main points. Biden can’t be trusted with red flag laws, Erin Dwinell writes. On the podcast, Doug Blair interviews the operator of a pro-life pregnancy center vandalized after the end of Roe v. Wade. Plus: Instagram changes its mind about publishing justices’ addresses; sex offenders get a break; and “Problematic Women” considers the pro-life work ahead. Fifty years ago today, the Supreme Court rules 5-4 that capital punishment is unconstitutional as employed on the state and federal levels, a ban it will lift in five years in the wake of reforms.
In the backstage area of the rally on Jan. 6, 2021, Cassidy Hutchinson testifies, Trump was angry that the crowd wasn’t larger, concerned that people could feel “excluded” after coming far for it.
America is home to at least 81 million gun owners. If the federal government had the power to invoke a red flag law, it would be a significant threat to those Americans’ Second Amendment rights.
“I don’t think that it’s going to stop, and I think that it’s only going to get worse from here … [but] we’re not intimidated or dissuaded from our mission,” says Susan Campbell of Blue Ridge Pregnancy...
The American Law Institute’s work will make it more difficult to prosecute sex crimes, to obtain justice for victims, and to protect the public from sexual predators.
The Daily Signal reported Sunday that popular social media sites Instagram and Reddit hosted posts listing home addresses of Supreme Court justices and urging activists to protest at their residences.
After being labeled as a “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a Christian ministry sued SPLC for defaming the organization over its position on “homosexual conduct.”