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Trump’s Triumphal Arch Completes A Longstanding National Aspiration Original
President Trump has honored our nation and its noble veterans throughout both terms of his presidency. Now, President Trump is planning to complete a long overdue project to honor our nation’s veterans by building a monumental arch on Memorial Circle at the entrance of Arlington National Cemetery. It is a national embarrassment that policy makers have neglected for more than 100 years to build a congressionally authorized monument on this circle to honor our nation and its veterans.
What Makes Clarence Thomas Great
In May, Justice Clarence Thomas became the second-longest-serving Supreme Court justice in American history, with a tenure of 34 years and counting. God willing, he will become the longest-serving justice in May 2028, with more than 36 years on the Court, and serve for many more years after that. Not only is he one of the longest-serving justices in American history, he’s also one of the most consequential.
Democrats’ ‘Ethics’ Smears Against Thomas And Alito Are So Embarrassing They Buried Their Own Report
Dems' 'Ethics' Report On Thomas And Alito Is 93 Pages Of Lies
The Democrat-run Senate Judiciary Committee’s two-year partisan assault on conservative Supreme Court justices, especially Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, on baseless “ethics” allegations ended with a pathetic 93-page Democrat staff report replete with dishonest and false information. It was so bad it was issued the day after Congress left town for the year and right before the Christmas recess.
Trump nominates Harmeet Dhillon and Mark Paoletta for positions in his administration
President-elect Donald Trump nominated two more people to serve in his presidential administration, starting in January 2025. The president-elect announced the selections on his Truth Social account, nominating attorney Harmeet Dhillon as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice and declaring that Mark Paoletta would return as General Counsel of the Office of Management and Budget.
“I Worked With John Kelly In The White House And And Don’t Believe A Word He Says”
Go to Article “John Kelly has done a disservice to the nation by being dishonest and insubordinate, quitting on the job, and now smearing Trump to help elect perhaps the worst presidential candidate in history.” Even far left publications have, in the past, called Kelly a “dishonest man.” They called him “a liar and a coward. That [….] is what John Kelly is.” By: Mark Paoletta, The Federalist, October 29, 2024: As Donald Trump gains momentum to be reelected on Nov.
I Worked With John Kelly And Don't Believe A Word He Says
As Donald Trump gains momentum to be reelected on Nov. 5, the anti-Trumpers have unleashed their last desperate wave of smears to stop him. Most despicably, but not surprisingly, former Chief of Staff and retired Marine Gen. John Kelly gave interviews to The New York Times and The Atlantic in which he claimed President Trump fit the definition of a fascist and supposedly made favorable comments about Adolf Hitler. I worked in the White House with Kelly, and I don’t believe a word he says.
The President’s Constitutional Power of Impoundment
Since the Founding, it has been understood that Article II vests the President with authority to decline to spend the full amount of an appropriated fund. This commonsense power, known as impoundment, was exercised for most of this nation’s history. In 1974, however, at the height of the Watergate scandal, Congress enacted the Impoundment Control Act, which purports to divest the President of his constitutional impoundment authority.
Exclusive-Mark Paoletta: Kamala Harris Supports Radical Plan to Destroy the Supreme Court’s Independence and Rule of Law
This new proposal is not simply a court packing or term limit plan, but a pack and replace plan, adding liberal Justices and immediately removing conservative Justices, starting with Justice Clarence Thomas. Democrats do not believe in an independent judiciary and want to rig the Court to control its decisions. According to Senator Sheldon Whitehouse – the single most malignant individual attacking the independence of the Supreme Court – Harris is in agreement with his proposed bill (S.
Court-Packing Democrats Would Turn America Into Venezuela
The left’s attacks on an independent Supreme Court over the past four years have only ratcheted upward. With Vice President and Democrat presumptive presidential nominee Kamala Harris’ embrace of President Joe Biden’s recent push to both pack the court and strip the most senior justices of power, we are facing a real possibility that the United States will descend into the chaos and lawlessness of Venezuela.
Court-Packing Is Just One More Way Democrats Would Turn America Into
We support our Publishers and Content Creators. You can view this story on their website by CLICKING HERE. The left’s attacks on an independent Supreme Court over the past four years have only ratcheted upward.
PAOLETTA: Trump Should Assert Operational Control Over DOJ If He Gets Elected
One of the most important tasks for a newly-elected President Trump is to assert operational control over the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) agenda and decision-making, including on specific prosecutions. In recent times, many have argued that the DOJ and Attorney General operate independently of the President. Indeed, many on the left have gone so far to argue that it is corrupt for the President to have any say in what the DOJ does. This gets things completely backwards.
ProPublica’s Pulitzer Should Be Revoked
The left-wing activists at ProPublica are standing by their mendacious smears of Justice Clarence Thomas. The most recent attack on the justice began with an infamous April 2023 hit piece, which contends the Supreme Court justice broke federal law by failing to disclose vacations he took with longtime friend Harlan Crow. The misleading story turned out to be fundamentally incorrect.
Opinion: Trump is right about the Impoundment Control Act — it’s unconstitutional
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Trump is right about the Impoundment Control Act — it’s unconstitutional
Skip to content The media has breathlessly reported that former President Donald Trump plans to upend longstanding norms around the separation of powers, such as in coverage of Trump’s criticisms of the Impoundment Control Act, a 1974 law that purports to restrict the president’s authority to save taxpayer money.
The History of Impoundments Before the Impoundment Control Act of 1974
Introduction Since the Founding, Congress’s power of the purse has been understood to establish a ceiling on Executive spending, not a floor, and certainly not an authority for Congress to compel the President to expend the full amount of an appropriation. This understanding stems from the nature of the appropriations power and the Executive’s independent authority.
Opinion | The ‘Fix’ Is in With the Latest Attack on Clarence Thomas
WSJ Opinion: Hits and Misses of the Week Your browser does not support HTML5 video. 0:00 Paused 0:00 / 1:36 WSJ Opinion: Hits and Misses of the WeekPlay video: WSJ Opinion: Hits and Misses of the Week It’s late in the Supreme Court’s term, which means it’s hunting season for the justices’ detractors. As usual, Clarence Thomas is a prime target.
Congress Usurped The President's Constitutional Spending Power
Imagine if you were provided $50 million to build a tank, but you were able to do the job properly for only $32 million. In the normal world, you would be applauded for getting the job done under budget. You might even get a promotion. In Washington, D.C., you are violating the law according to many.
Opinion | Mrs. Alito and the Ginsburg Standard
The late justice didn’t recuse herself after expressing her own political opinions. The left’s campaign against the Supreme Court took a comical turn last week when the New York Times reported that an upside-down flag briefly hung outside Justice Samuel Alito’s Virginia home in January 2021. Some supporters of Donald Trump have used the inverted flag, a traditional symbol of distress, to express their view that the 2020 election was stolen.
Opinion | Samuel Alito, His Wife and the Ginsburg Standard
The late justice didn’t recuse herself after expressing her own political opinions. The left’s campaign against the Supreme Court took a comical turn last week when the New York Times reported that an upside-down flag briefly hung outside Justice Samuel Alito’s Virginia home in January 2021. Some supporters of Donald Trump have used the inverted flag, a traditional symbol of distress, to express their view that the 2020 election was stolen.
Clarence Thomas Has No Reason To Recuse From Any J6 Cases
The left’s intolerance toward an independent Supreme Court and its gaslighting tactics are on full display in the latest calls for Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse from the presidential immunity case the court will hear next week. MoveOn.org is even raising money off this absurd claim to pressure Justice Thomas to recuse. These thuggish tactics won’t work.
This Black History Month, Honor American Hero Clarence Thomas
This Black History Month is an excellent opportunity for Americans to celebrate the inspiring life and jurisprudence of Justice Clarence Thomas, the second black Supreme Court justice in our nation’s history (and now the 11th longest-serving justice in history) and the intellectual leader of the Supreme Court. Justice Thomas is our greatest living American.
ProPublica Plots Yet Another Baseless Clarence Thomas Hit Piece
In its obsession to smear Justice Clarence Thomas, the left-wing billionaire-funded website ProPublica is expected to publish another dishonest hit piece to justify its previous dishonest hit pieces on Justice Thomas’ vacations with his friends. But this new hit job does nothing to change the fact that Thomas acted consistent with the law and the governing legal body’s 2012 ruling that Thomas acted properly.
Subpoenaing Friends Of Justices Will Backfire On Democrats
Subpoenaing friends of public officials we don’t like — how crazy is that? But this is where we are, as the Senate Judiciary Committee meets Thursday to consider voting on subpoenas to two individuals whose crimes are simply being friends with Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito. This is not only unconstitutional, it would set an insane precedent.
Senators Attack Justices On Ethics While Ignoring Their Own Conflicts Of Interest
The Democrats’ attack on the Supreme Court has never been about ethics. It’s about trying to destroy the court now that the left no longer controls it. Democrats’ criticism of the court’s recently issued Code of Ethics, which every justice on the court signed, proves this point again.
Smear Of Justice Thomas Reveals A Partisan Double Standard
ProPublica continues its non-stop smear campaign against Justice Clarence Thomas, this time because he delivered remarks to some attendees at a non-profit seminar event in 2018. It’s their trademark tactic: ProPublica strings together perfectly ethical conduct, adds lots of innuendo, and then falsely claims Justice Clarence Thomas acted unethically. It’s a lie. Justice Thomas acted ethically and appropriately, and consistently with how other justices have conducted themselves.
Opinion | What ProPublica’s Latest Hit Piece Gets Wrong
Among other errors, it wrongly places Clarence Thomas in the Bahamas and overestimates the value of a football ticket by three orders of magnitude. ProPublica is at it again. On Aug. 10 the website, which styles itself “an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism with moral force,” published its latest hit piece against my friend Justice Clarence Thomas.
Ruth Marcus’ Alito Attack Is Grossly Hypocritical Considering Her Endorsement Of Nina Totenberg’s Work
Ruth Marcus' selective outrage over Supreme Court justices and the media is emblematic of the rot in American journalism.
Ruth Marcus Slams Alito For WSJ Op-Eds, Praises RBG's Grip On NPR
Washington Post Editor Ruth Marcus recently criticized Justice Samuel Alito for having the audacity to give two interviews to The Wall Street Journal editorial page and publish an opinion article on these pages in the past few months defending himself from the left’s attacks on the Supreme Court, including on Alito specifically.
The Latest Smear of Clarence Thomas: His Friends Defend Him | National Review
The latest left-wing attack on the justice is that those who know him dare to rebut vicious attacks on him.
If Democrats Are Worried About SCOTUS Ethics Rules, They Should Look Into Lefty Justices First
Democrats claim they need to strengthen SCOTUS ethics rules, but they never had a problem with leftist justices' glaring ethical violations.
Dems Worried About SCOTUS Ethics Should Probe Lefty Justices
Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats will convene a business meeting Thursday to consider their Supreme Court “ethics” bill. But there is no “ethics problem” with the Supreme Court, and certainly not with Justices Thomas and Alito, who have been falsely smeared even though they complied with the relevant disclosure provisions in place at the time.
ProPublica’s Smearing Of Conservative Justices Is Part Of The Left’s Ploy To Destroy The Court
ProPublica's 'reporter' and 'ethics officials' are all funded by the same left-wing organizations with an agenda to radically reshape the court.
Welcome To The Far-Left Racket To Destroy The Supreme Court
A foray of attacks on Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas, Sam Alito, and Neil Gorsuch by left-wing publications and the radical left echo chamber is nothing more than a political campaign to destroy the court because it is no longer acting like super-legislature imposing left-wing policies. These political attacks, masquerading as journalism, are all funded by uber-wealthy left-wing donors and are marching to those donors’ agendas.
Opinion | ProPublica Recycles Old Clarence Thomas News
The site accuses the justice of legal violations—but he was officially cleared more than a decade ago. The first attack in the left’s spring offensive against the U.S. Supreme Court was an April 6 ProPublica hit piece about Justice Clarence Thomas. The site quotes “ethics experts” who accuse him of violating federal law by not disclosing trips he had taken with a longtime friend. The accusation turns out to be old news that was adjudicated more than a decade ago.
Democrats' Double Standard On SCOTUS Financial Disclosures
The weaponization of financial disclosure forms is alive and well. But per usual, the heightened scrutiny is only applied against conservatives. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., is reportedly considering holding a hearing to investigate the Judicial Conference’s handling of Justice Clarence Thomas’s inadvertent omission of his wife’s salary from the Heritage Foundation and Hillsdale College on his financial disclosure forms in the early 2000s.
Democrats Hold Glaring Double Standards On SCOTUS Financial Disclosures
Democrats have spent weeks going after Clarence Thomas for financial disclosures but turn a blind eye to leftist justices' ethical slip-ups.
Harlan Crow's Purchase of Clarence Thomas's Mother's Home Conducted Ethically
The Left is weaponizing financial disclosures to smear conservative justices. It's important for defenders of the Court to call this out for what it is.
Justice Thomas Acted Properly and Was Not Required to Disclose His Trips | National Review
Justice Clarence Thomas acted properly, and in a manner consistent with the rules in place at the time. He was not required to disclose these trips on his financial-disclosure forms.
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