Plus: Will Trump Be Arrested? Legal Expert Weighs In
March 21 2023
Good morning from Washington, where FBI agents were all over the Capitol riot but yawned at the D.C. riots inflamed by Black Lives Matter. Fred Lucas reports. Similarly, New York City prosecutors go after Donald Trump—violent criminals, not so much. Virginia Allen gets analysis from Heritage Foundation legal scholar Zack Smith on the podcast. Plus: who school choice really helps; conservatives knock Biden’s first veto as irresponsible; a federal court advances a case alleging government collusion with social media companies; and Congress’ role in the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. Sixty years ago today, Alcatraz, a federal prison that once housed over 200 inmates on the island of the same name in San Francisco Bay, closes with the transfers of all remaining prisoners.
FBI agents worked about 16,000 more hours during the pay period of the Capitol riot of Jan. 6, 2021, than they did during the pay period of the 2020 riots that hit Washington, D.C.
“Without a doubt, most of these investigations would not have been initiated if Donald Trump wasn’t the target,” says Heritage Foundation legal analyst Zack Smith.
“President Biden’s first veto is against a bipartisan bill that protects retirement savings from political interference,” says House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
The majority of students enrolled in a private school choice program—63% in Arizona, 56% in New Hampshire, and 87% in Wisconsin—otherwise would have been enrolled in a public school.
Two attorneys general say the Biden administration colluded with social media companies to censor debate on multiple issues, including the 2020 election and the COVID-19 pandemic.
In Seattle, a couple and their children were threatened by two armed robbers. The father also was armed, however, and exchanged gunfire with the robbers until they fled.
Our economic seas are so rough that the financial experts at Silicon Valley Bank made a bad bet on U.S. Treasurys—one of the safest asset classes—and sank their bank.
