Plus: Senate Advances Judge Nominations of SPLC Attorney, Abortion Lawyer, Biden Pick Who Called Voter ID 'Grounded in White Supremacy'
February 13 2023
Good morning from Washington, where President Biden’s personnel agency floats rules that would allow the government to shut out applicants who don’t line up with the administration’s radical views. Hans von Spakovsky has the chilling details. Some of the president’s most questionable judicial nominees are moving toward Senate confirmation, Tyler O’Neil reports. On the podcast, Samantha Aschieris explores how old knowledge equips us to conquer new challenges. Plus: a whistleblower threatens a transgender center for kids and what states should do when COVID-19 no longer is an official emergency. One hundred years ago today, owner-coach Robert Douglas organizes the first all-black pro basketball team, the New York Renaissance, and the Rens go on to dominate most all-white teams in the 1920s and 1930s.
The Biden administration is proposing federal hiring rules that easily could be abused to deny employment to anyone who questions liberal, woke policies or criticizes the government.
“The Biden Administration is attempting to cram through all their most partisan, controversial nominees at once ... to shield them from focused public scrutiny," says Sen. Ted Cruz.
With the official end of the COVID-19 emergency in sight, now the work to restore normalcy falls to the states. Most urgent are those related to the Medicaid and food stamp programs.
"The U.S. has virtually no capacity to manufacture antibiotics,” writes Rosemary Gibson. “That’s because China currently controls roughly 90% of the global supply of inputs" needed for popular antibiotics.
