Plus: 'Outrageous': GOP Lawmakers Slam DOJ Official for Smearing Legal Defense Organization as ‘Hate Group’
September 14 2022
Good morning from Washington, where GOP lawmakers say a Justice Department official maligned a respected legal defense organization as a “hate group.” Samantha Renck reports. What happened at the third National Conservatism Conference? We’ve got a roundup from Miami. On the podcast, our Doug Blair talks with “canceled” D.C. journalist Amber Athey about whether turnabout is fair play. Plus: the fallout from a Twitter whistleblower; a new bill would ban abortion after 15 weeks; the first lady defends inappropriate children’s books; and an old leftist group spawns new PACs. On this date in 1901, President William McKinley, 58, dies after being shot nine days earlier by a deranged anarchist at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
Attorney General Merrick Garland "should investigate this incident" of a staffer calling Alliance Defending Freedom, a religious freedom legal group, a "hate group," says Sen. Ted Cruz.
After Amber Athey made a joke about Vice President Kamala Harris’ outfit at last year’s State of the Union address, enraged leftists harassed her employer, a talk radio station, into firing her.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, notorious for branding mainstream conservatives and Christians as “hate groups," is taking aim at school boards and local elections.
