Plus: FBI Reportedly Raid Home ‘Guns Drawn,' 11 Pro-Life Activists Charged for Blocking Abortion Clinic
October 6 2022
Good morning from Washington, where the National Archives deflects document requests about the FBI raid on Donald Trump’s home. FOIA expert Roman Jankowski lets ’em have it. Media outlets try to hang Hurricane Ian on climate change, Jarrett Stepman writes. On the podcast, two Heritage Foundation legal eagles preview some hot upcoming Supreme Court cases. Plus: A theft case involving election software concerns lawmakers and ”Problematic Women” visits besieged border communities. On this date in 1961, President John F. Kennedy advises Americans to build bomb shelters to guard against radioactive fallout in case of a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union.
Are fossil fuels and climate change really causing more and larger hurricanes? No: There has been a slight decline in major hurricanes making landfall in the U.S. in the past century.
The Justice Department has charged 11 more pro-life activists with violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act for blocking the entrance of an abortion clinic in 2021.
In releasing its first tranche of records about the Trump raid, the National Archives withheld 96% of the records sought by The Heritage Foundation from being released to the public.
"Allegations that the personal data of election workers was criminally mishandled" by an election software company "raise deep concerns ... for the integrity of our elections,” says Rep. Claudia Tenney.
“We don’t know if the attorney general himself approved the raid, but presumably one of his top aides did,” says Peter Breen, a Thomas More Society attorney.
