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August 17, 2026 • 04:40 PM
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One Year After the Supreme Court Overturned Chevron Deference:
 
 

"The Supreme Court eliminated so-called 'Chevron deference' more than a year ago. Hatched from the 1984 Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council ruling, the doctrine held that courts should defer to agency interpretations of the laws authorizing their activities if the language was ambiguous.

"Over four decades, this misguided doctrine had warped the balance of power in our government, transforming agency staff from mere executors of the law into quasi-legislators. Thankfully, in last year's Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision, the court restored some sanity, ruling that federal judges were no longer required to defer to federal agency interpretations of law.

"To say Chevron blurred the constitutional separation of powers would be an understatement. It required judges -- those who hold the exclusive authority of legal interpretation -- to effectively shrug and say, 'Whatever the agency says, goes.' That's not adjudication -- it's abdication.

"Loper Bright reminds the nation that final legal interpretation belongs squarely with the judiciary -- a core thread of our jurisprudential fabric stretching all the way back to Marbury v. Madison. When judges are forced to bow before bureaucrats on questions of law, we risk not only implementing the policy preferences of unelected regulators, but also expanding executive branch 'lawmaking,' eroding the separation of powers characteristic of our system.

"Although Loper Bright cleared the way for our federal courts, it left state judiciaries untouched. Nearly two-thirds of the states continue to operate under some form of deference, many suffering under a jurisprudential fog of unclear or inconsistently applied precedent."

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— Nino Marchese, Director of the Judiciary Task Force at the American Legislative Exchange Council
— Nino Marchese, Director of the Judiciary Task Force at the American Legislative Exchange Council
Posted October 27, 2025 • 08:32 AM
 
 
Reporting on the Problem of Noncitizens Being on Voter Rolls:
 
 

"The dual revelations that an illegal alien school administrator from Iowa made it onto the voter rolls in Maryland and that over 2,700 noncitizens escaped strict voter ID checks to qualify to vote in Texas are creating new momentum for creating a nationwide citizenship check system for elections.

"'Many folks that come into my office will tell me, and anyone who will listen, this is the biggest issue in the country. Democrats don't want tightly run elections,' Rep. Eli Crane, R-Ariz., told Just the News on Thursday night. 'We all know that they want as much room for, you know, fraud, as humanly possible.'

"'So right now, in many states, you can just check a box and say you're a citizen, and that's it. What we're fighting for is we're actually fighting that you as a citizen have to prove that you're a citizen of this country if you're going to vote in our election,' he said during an interview on the Just the News No Noise television show."

Read the entire article here.

 
 
— Amanda Head, Just the News
— Amanda Head, Just the News
Posted October 24, 2025 • 07:11 AM
 
 
Reporting on Controversies Surrounding a Maine Senate Candidate:
 
 

"A Democratic Senate candidate from Maine, Graham Platner, said he covered up a tattoo resembling a Nazi symbol that he got on his chest nearly two decades ago.

"It's the latest controversy surrounding the Marine and U.S. Army veteran and oyster farmer. He was recently under scrutiny for posts he made on Reddit forums years ago in which he called himself a socialist-turned-communist and said all police are bastards, among other comments. He has since apologized for his posts, noting that he was struggling with mental health challenges at the time."

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— Sudiksha Kochi, USA Today
— Sudiksha Kochi, USA Today
Posted October 23, 2025 • 07:05 AM
 
 
Reporting on the House Judiciary Committee Referring John Brennan to the Department of Justice for Criminal Prosecution:
 
 

"The House Judiciary Committee referred former CIA Director John Brennan to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution on Tuesday over allegations that he 'knowingly made false statements' to Congress about his role in the Russia collusion hoax.

"In the letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi obtained by The Federalist, Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, argued that 'Brennan made numerous willfully and intentionally false statements of material fact contradicted by the record established by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) and the CIA.'

"'Making false statements before Congress,' Jordan wrote, 'is a crime that undermines the integrity of the Committee's constitutional duty to conduct oversight.'"

Read the entire article here.

 
 
— Shawn Fleetwood, The Federalist
— Shawn Fleetwood, The Federalist
Posted October 22, 2025 • 07:40 AM
 
 
On Health Expert Advise on Childhood Peanut Allergies:
 
 

"Decades of faulty medical guidance telling parents to keep peanuts away from babies likely fueled the childhood food allergy crisis, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics.

"Health experts spent years recommending that parents avoid exposing infants to common allergens as food allergy rates climbed. But a 2015 trial flipped that thinking on its head, finding that feeding peanuts to babies slashed their chances of developing an allergy by over 80 percent, New York Times reported.

"After national guidelines reversed course in 2017, food allergy rates in children under 3 dropped 36 percent between 2017 and 2020 compared to 2012-2015 levels. Peanut allergies specifically fell 43 percent."

Read the entire article here.

 
 
— Mark Tanos, Daily Caller
— Mark Tanos, Daily Caller
Posted October 21, 2025 • 07:44 AM
 
 
On How the Trump Administration Has Reduced the Flow of Fentanyl into the United States:
 
 

"Cartels have severely pumped the brakes on trafficking fentanyl into the United States, and experts say that's thanks to the Trump administration's aggressive crackdown.

"Fentanyl seizures year-over-year at the southern border have been cut roughly in half almost every month since President Donald Trump took office, according to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data. In June, it was only a 42 percent decrease, but there was a 70 percent drop in May.

"According to experts, the plunge isn't because authorities are catching less fentanyl -- it's because cartels simply aren't trafficking as much. They said a suite of interconnected Trump policies that enhanced border security and increased targeting of cartels by U.S. and Mexican agencies -- under pressure from Trump -- have forced the criminal organizations to scale back operations."

Read the entire article here.

 
 
— Jessica Costescu, Washington Free Beacon
— Jessica Costescu, Washington Free Beacon
Posted October 20, 2025 • 08:38 AM
 
 
Reporting on a Newly Released Voicemail Message of Joe Biden Privately Praising Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ Character:
 
 

"During his campaign to secure the 2020 Democrat presidential nomination, Joe Biden infamously told the leftist co-hosts of ABC's The View that, 'from the beginning,' he believed Anita Hill's unsubstantiated allegations of sexual harassment against now-Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

"'Not only didn't I vote for Clarence Thomas, I believed [Hill] from the beginning. I was against Clarence Thomas, I did everything in my power to defeat Clarence Thomas and he won by the smallest margin anyone ever won going on the Supreme Court,' Biden said in the 2019 interview.

"But if Biden's claim about believing Hill is true, then why did he leave a voicemail on Thomas' answering machine praising him as a 'person of character' after his confirmation to the Supreme Court?

"Obtained by The Federalist, the voice message in question further underscores Biden's duplicitous behavior throughout Thomas' Senate confirmation. As the then-chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Delaware Democrat had an instrumental role in shepherding the three-ring circus that sought to sink the George H.W. Bush nominee's appointment to the highest court in the land."

Read the entire article here.

 
 
— Shawn Fleetwood, The Federalist
— Shawn Fleetwood, The Federalist
Posted October 17, 2025 • 07:10 AM
 
 
On Rogue Lower Court Federal Judges Anonymously Attacking the U.S. Supreme Court:
 
 

"Since returning to office, President Trump has faced an onslaught of leftist-backed lawfare seeking to grind the implementation of his voters' agenda to a halt. Unsurprisingly, many of these lawsuits have been filed in districts predominated by Democrat-appointed judges, who have been more than happy to issue a myriad of preliminary injunctions and temporary restraining orders blocking enforcement of the administration's policies.

"Now, with the U.S. Supreme Court largely agreeing to shut down this lower court judicial coup for the time being, a number of rogue judges have taken to anonymously attacking the high court for stopping the crisis they helped create.

"The latest instance of this phenomenon came on Saturday, when The New York Times published an article highlighting criticisms from more than three-dozen unnamed lower court judges about the Supreme Court's handling of cases involving the Trump administration. More specifically, these (mostly Democrat-appointed) jurists attacked the high court for its management of the 'emergency' docket."

Read the entire article here.

 
 
— Shawn Fleetwood, The Federalist
— Shawn Fleetwood, The Federalist
Posted October 16, 2025 • 08:57 AM
 
 
On the Government Shutdown:
 
 

"Those who follow the news might have noticed something different about the current government shutdown, which is now entering its third week.

"Namely, the lack of horror stories that usually accompany shutdowns. Anyone want to guess why that is?"

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— Issues & Insights Editorial Board
— Issues & Insights Editorial Board
Posted October 15, 2025 • 09:08 AM
 
 
On the Brewing Crisis in Cuba:
 
 

"Rolling blackouts. A worthless currency. A once-mighty industry on life support. Doctors, engineers and students leaving in droves in search of a future. That all sounds like Venezuela, but I'm talking about Cuba.

"As Venezuela's crisis deepens, another -- quieter but just as dangerous -- is unfolding just 90 miles from Florida. The drama may be smaller, but the danger is real. If Venezuela is wobbling, Cuba is starting to fall. ...

"Venezuela's collapse dominates the headlines, but Cuba's slow-motion breakdown could have far more profound consequences. A failed state just 90 miles from Florida would unleash new migration waves, invite rival powers into the region, and test America's resolve. Havana's flickering lights may be the hemisphere's next alarm bell."

Read the entire article here.

 
 
— Daniel Allott, Author and Former Opinion Editor of The Hill
— Daniel Allott, Author and Former Opinion Editor of The Hill
Posted October 14, 2025 • 08:06 AM
 
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— Sophocles, Ancient Greek Playwright
 
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