LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield The White House has announced the first four people selected for the launch of “Skype seats,” aimed at allowing individuals outside Washington, D.C., to participate in the daily White House press briefings, reports The Hill. WATCH: Natalie Herbick of Fox 8 in Cleveland, conservative radio talk show host Lars Larson of…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield The Independent Journal Review (IJR) is reporting that, based on the confirmation from two Trump administration sources, Colorado Judge Neil Gorsuch will be nominated by President Donald Trump to be the next Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. The IJR report reads: Speaking on background, an administration source instrumental to…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Michael Bastasch A top Republican lawmaker introduced legislation ordering the Interior Secretary to sell off 3.3 million acres of “excess” federal lands in western states. Utah Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz’s bill, if passed, would allow the Trump administration to sell parcels of federal lands to private parties and states….
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ethan Barton Social Security benefits were withheld from an estimated 114,000 individuals of at least 50 years in age as of 2015 in order to repay their student loan debts, a congressional watchdog reported Tuesday. “An increasing number of older Americans have defaulted on their federal student loan debt,”…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kevin Daley The state of play surrounding President Donald Trump’s first Supreme Court appointment remains in flux just hours before an official announcement regarding the nomination is expected, sources tell The Daily Caller News Foundation. A source involved in the judicial selection process told TheDCNF that the president is…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield In response to President Donald Trump’s recent actions on immigration, California is looking to prohibit local law enforcement agencies from cooperating with federal immigration authorities, effectively making a sanctuary out of the nation’s largest state. The state of California, whose government is controlled by a supermajority of Democrats, is…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Jacob Bojesson Guy Verhofstadt, the European Union’s Brexit negotiator, lists U.S. President Donald Trump as one of three existential threats facing the EU. Verhofstadt said Trump, along with Russian President Vladimir Putin and radical Islamists, is part of a three-pronged attempt to break up the European Union. “I have…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kevin Daley President Donald Trump dismissed acting Attorney General Sally Yates on Monday night, after she ordered government lawyers not to defend his executive order on refugees. In a brazen act of defiance that cost her the post, Yates said she could not enforce a policy that is not…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Ryan Pickrell Members of the Department of State are challenging President Donald Trump’s latest immigration policies. Trump signed an executive order Friday barring citizens of seven terror-prone, majority-Muslim countries from the U.S. Numerous consular professionals, foreign service officers, and civil servants have since drafted a dissent memo criticizing the order, Lawfare reports. The…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kody Fairfield Bob Ferguson, the Attorney General for the State of Washington, has said he will sue the Trump Administration over an executive order that suspended immigration from seven countries with majority-Muslim populations and sparked nationwide protests, reports the LA Times. Ferguson announced his lawsuit Monday, making Washington state the first to…