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House-Passed ‘Respect for Marriage Act’ Isn’t About Marriage. It’s About Complying With Woke Ideology <[link removed]> – In an alarmist overreaction to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, congressional liberals this week passed radical legislation mislabeled as the Respect for Marriage Act. Despite what advocates might say, similar laws elsewhere have been weaponized to punish dissenters. As they have done with dissenters before, radical leftists would use this law to ensure yet a more total compliance with their ideology. Ultimately, enactment of H.R. 8404 would destabilize essential pillars of American society: family and religion. Now more than ever, we need courageous elected leaders who will stand up to woke ideology and protect the foundations of our free society. Heritage Experts: Jay Richards <[link removed]> and Jared Eckert <[link removed]>

With CHIPS on Table, Leave It to Congress to Drop Ball on Semiconductor Subsidies <[link removed]> – The U.S. cannot beat China by becoming more like China. The U.S. should further examine government-imposed barriers that are preventing American companies from competing, rather than awarding industry-specific subsidies. Semiconductors will not be the last technological paradox faced vis-a-vis China, but we have an opportunity to create the best fundamental economic conditions to thrive against all these challenges from Beijing while resourcing proper national security measures. The underlying issues and concerns regarding America’s technological might against China as a current and future adversary warrant more serious and difficult policy prescriptions. Unfortunately, Congress missed an opportunity to put runs on the board. It has struck out looking. Heritage Experts: Dustin Carmack <[link removed]> and Jim Carafano <[link removed]>

Is the labor market really as good as the administration says? <[link removed]> - Between out-of-control inflation, ongoing supply-chain struggles, the crisis at the southern border, foreign policy concerns, exploding energy
prices, rising crime, and a high likelihood that the country is either already or soon will be experiencing stagflation (an inflationary recession), it's no wonder that Democrats and the Biden administration are talking up the strong labor market. A recent tweet on the Democrats' official Twitter page stated, "Under Joe Biden, the private sector has recovered all of the jobs lost during the pandemic--and added jobs on top of that." That statement is only half true, at best. Heritage Expert: Rachel Greszler <[link removed]>
Rogue Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby Loses Reelection Bid in Dem Primary <[link removed]> - Since Mosby was first
sworn into office in January 2015, homicides, rapes, aggravated assaults, burglaries, and robberies in the gritty city have exploded. Clearly the cumulative impact of Mosby’s bad decisions, lack of enforcement of crimes, sweetheart deals, lying, mismanagement and poor community relations drove the majority of those who voted to vote for someone other than her. Heritage Experts: Zack Smith <[link removed]> and Cully Stimson <[link removed]>

Kamala Harris Is Conveniently Overlooking A Glaring Fact About Abortion <[link removed]> - It is abortion supporters like Harris who deny the
humanity of developing babies, just as slave owners denied the humanity of the men, women and children they owned. It is abortion supporters like Harris who believe that developing babies are property that can be disposed of based on, as she says, “the personal decision” of a woman, one that is “her right to make.” How is that any different than the attitude of slave owners who treated their slaves like chattel and claimed that it was their right to dispose of them as they willed?
Answer: It’s not. Heritage Experts: Hans von Spakovsky <[link removed]> and Sarah Parshall Perry <[link removed]>

What You Need to Know About Biden’s Climate ‘Emergency’ <[link removed]> – The left’s anger at those developments exposes
a disturbing impatience with representative government and a preference for control to be concentrated in the hands of an unelected, select few. That Americans’ constitutional system of government and elected representatives are disdainfully, shrilly considered as obstacles to this (or any) president’s agenda is something that should concern every American, regardless of political party. Ends justified by means, regardless of the rule of law, is not a sustainable way to run a country. In reality, Biden’s problem is that he and his administration have never bothered <[link removed]> to make the case for, and earn the consensus of Americans
or their elected representatives for, the extreme, unrealistic, and deeply flawed climate commitments <[link removed]> the president unilaterally made to the U.N.’s Paris
Agreement. Heritage Expert: Katie Tubb <[link removed]>

Brittney Griner’s Prolonged Detention Isn’t Racism, But The Limits Of American Diplomacy <[link removed]> - The hard truth is that Americans overseas are subject to foreign laws, just like
foreigners are over here. Americans arrested and accused of crimes in other countries have to work through those legal systems the best they can. Short of sending SEAL Team Six, arranging a prisoner exchange, or cutting a secret deal giving the other country something it wants, there is little a U.S. president can do in cases where a foreign government isn’t amenable to friendly persuasion. Heritage Expert: Simon Hankinson <[link removed]>

Originalism rules at this Supreme Court, and that's a good thing <[link removed]> - The three words that best describe the Supreme Court's decisions this term are text, history and tradition. If that's one word too many, try this: Originalism rules! And that's a good thing. The court considered several important constitutional cases this term. The split in most of these cases was 6-3, with the "conservative" justices in the majority and the "liberal" justices in dissent. Heritage Expert: John Malcolm <[link removed]>

Immigration Amendment Doesn’t Belong in National Defense Authorization Act <[link removed]> - Open-borders activists continuously try to overwhelm our immigration system using children and build new immigration
laws on false representations of children’s situations. Once such legally baseless precedents are set, the impact extends far beyond the original category. If Amendment #923 were to become law, advocates will use it to call for the expansion of age-out requirements for any and every category of visas and immigration benefits. The Senate must reject this age-out amendment for what it is; namely, a straw-man argument and a Trojan horse vehicle to usher in more ineligible aliens. Heritage Experts: Simon Hankinson <[link removed]> and Erin Dwinell <[link removed]>




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