Yesterday was day one of the Senate confirmation hearing for Donald Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch. And while the usual good cop/bad cop rhetoric was displayed by Republicans and Democrats during their opening statements, Senator Al Franken…
In this episode of The Conservative Conscience, Daniels observes how so many conservatives are more concerned about Trump’s criticism of judicial tyranny than … the judicial tyranny itself. Moreover, that behavior seems to be embodied by Neil Gorsuch, which…
In typical reality show fashion, Donald Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals to fill the open seat on the Supreme Court made vacant by the death of Antonin Scalia last year. According to Trump, this…
In 1975, the right to own a handgun in Washington, D.C. was illegal. In addition, all other firearms such as rifles and shotguns had to be “unloaded and disassembled or bound by a trigger lock,” making them useless in the…
When he was the minority leader of the Senate–a position he’s likely to return to in November–Mitch McConnell attempted to explain his inability to get anything done with these words: “Today, Democrats not only have the White House, they have…
“It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.” Do you know who said those words? If you’re thinking it was some radical right-wing Republican, you would be wrong. These are the words of George Meany, the former president of…
In the hours following Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court following the death of Antonin Scalia, Republicans reiterated their plan to postpone taking any action until after the November election. Meanwhile, the Democrats…
