LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Amber Randall The NAACP president and other activists were arrested Monday afternoon for hosting a sit-in outside Sen. Jeff Sessions’ Alabama office. Cornell Brooks, NAACP president, and ten protesters spent three hours in jail after being charged with criminal trespass, reports USA Today. “I think it’s clear that this…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Robert Donachie Democrats are trying an emotional appeal to gain support in their fight against President Donald Trump’s so-called “Muslim ban.” WATCH: Trump signed an executive order Friday suspending all refugee admissions from any country for 120 days, and a 90-day moratorium on U.S. entry of any citizen from seven Middle Eastern…
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 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 Jonah Bennett Illinois Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner has come into conflict with President Donald Trump, saying that sending the National Guard into Chicago to get a handle on the violence would be a “mistake.” Although Trump broached the subject in a tweet Tuesday, saying that he would “send in the feds”…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Saagar Enjeti Emanuel Lutchman of Rochester, New York was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison Thursday, for planning a 2015 New Years Eve machete attack at the behest of the Islamic State. Lutchman fell under the auspices of an American-born ISIS fighter in Syria known as Abu Issa Al…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kevin Daley President Donald Trump told Sean Hannity on Fox News Channel that he is prepared to ask Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to move for cloture, or the 60-vote threshold required to confirm a Supreme Court nominee. The 60-vote requirement for nominees to the federal bench was eliminated…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Luke Rosiak Immediately after it accepted without question a black employee’s claim that hearing a single racist movie reference entitled her to $900,000 in damages, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) refused to pay a white employee who was left bankrupt and in a wheelchair after her own mistreatment…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Saagar Enjeti The Trump administration accepted a large swath of senior State Department officials resignations Wednesday, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Thursday. Toner’s statement came in response to a Washington Post story which posited that senior State Department officials resigned en-masse. The story was followed hours later by a CNN report that…