Tag: Politics/International Relations
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Opinion | The Supreme Court Spurns Jack Smith
[ad_1] Updated Dec. 22, 2023 6:47 pm ET The Supreme Court made the right call on Friday when it declined to expedite a ruling on Donald Trump’s presidential immunity defense against special counsel Jack Smith’s Jan. 6 prosecution. The Justices declined Mr. Smith’s petition for quick review in a single sentence without dissents. It takes…
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Opinion | The Great Blue to Red State Migration Continues
[ad_1] The migrant border mess is benefiting progressive states like New York, California and Illinois in one respect: It’s offsetting some of their population loss from droves of taxpayers fleeing to lower-cost and low-tax states. That’s one lesson from new Census Bureau state population data released this week. The U.S. population increased by 1.6 million…
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Opinion | National Unity and the Colorado Supreme Court
[ad_1] I sympathize with the decision’s spirit, but it was a dangerous move in a deeply divided country. [ad_2] Source link
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Opinion | The Houthi Assault on Global Shipping
[ad_1] The press is reporting that the Biden Administration is contemplating the use of military force in response to continuing attacks on commercial shipping by the Houthi militia in Yemen. It’s about time. The Houthi missile attacks pose the most significant threat to global shipping in decades, and they will continue unless a global coalition…
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Opinion | Jack Smith and the Supreme Court
[ad_1] Special counsel Jack Smith’s indictments of Donald Trump have made him a central actor in the 2024 election, and now he is dragging the Supreme Court into the political thicket. The Justices don’t have to dance to Mr. Smith’s timetable, nor to his view of presidential immunity. The Justices this week agreed to consider…
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Opinion | Illinois Concedes on Pregnancy Centers
[ad_1] Illinois has been trying to use its fraud laws to target pro-life pregnancy help centers, and Gov. J.B. Pritzker declared this summer that he was “confident” the law was constitutional. If he still believes that, then Mr. Pritzker ought to explain why the state is backing down in federal court, unless he’s too embarrassed…