Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom convened the special session and wants the state legislature to approve a $25 million legal defense fund for the state’s justice department. The goal of the fund would be to “Trump-proof” the state against legal challenges from the Trump administration.
Read More: Daily Wire
President Joe Biden announced on Sunday that he signed a pardon for his son, Hunter Biden, despite repeated denials that he would ever do so.
Read More: Daily Wire
The High Court will soon decide whether states can protect kids from irreversible sex change procedures, stemming from a case dealing with Tennessee’s law banning irreversible gender transition procedures for children. The Biden administration joined the ACLU and several teenage plaintiffs suing to stop the law, and a Tennessee district court initially blocked it in April 2023. But in September 2023, a sixth circuit court upheld Tennessee’s protections for children.
Read More: Daily Wire
British lawmakers gave initial approval Friday to a bill to help terminally ill adults end their lives in England and Wales.
Read More: Breitbart
The Department of Education’s Office of Enforcement — created by the Obama administration and resurrected by the Biden administration — has repeatedly attempted to shut down colleges and universities that don’t align with the administration’s “woke agenda.” A report, released Nov. 18, revealed approximately 70% of the office’s enforcement efforts were aimed at Christian and career schools. Last year, the Biden administration increased the Office of Enforcement’s budget by nearly 600% and requested an almost 230% increase this year, the report found. “After being ‘deprioritized’ under the Trump-Pence administration, the Student Aid Enforcement Unit was ‘restored’ by the Biden Department of Education in October 2021 under a new moniker, the Office of Enforcement.
Read More: Newsmax
Silicon Valley billionaire venture capitalist Marc Andreessen accused the Democrats and the Biden administration of weaponizing executive agencies to pressure financial institutions to “debank” companies politically opposed to them.
“We have this thing called the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, CFPB, which was the – it’s sort of Elizabeth Warren’s personal agency that she gets to control,” he continued. “And it’s an independent agency that just gets to run and do whatever it wants, right? And if you read the Constitution, like, there is no such thing as an independent agency. And yet there it is.” “This is one of the reasons why we ended up supporting Trump.”
Read More: Daily Wire
Lawyers for President-elect Trump are requesting that New York Attorney General Letitia James drop her case against him, his family, and businesses “for the greater good of the country,” the New York Post reported.
Read More: Newsmax
A judge ruled on Monday that the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) must open its books and potentially reveal foreign funding sources, the New York Post reported.
Read More: Daily Wire
Special counsel Jack Smith has moved to drop his cases against President-elect Donald Trump over the 2020 election and classified documents.
Read More: Daily Wire
President-elect Donald Trump reportedly will reinstate a ban on transgender people in the U.S. military. A trans military ban initially took effect during the first Trump administration in 2019 but was reversed by President Joe Biden.
Read More: Newsmax
The judge in Donald Trump’s criminal hush money case on Friday delayed his sentencing indefinitely, in what the president-elect’s team called a “decisive win” as he prepares to return to the White House.
Read More: Breitbart
The Biden administration was given advance warning of Russia’s ballistic missile attack Thursday on Ukraine, and also briefed Ukraine and other allies in the days leading up to the attack about Russia’s possible use of an experimental medium-range ballistic missile “to help them prepare.”
Read More: Newsmax
Outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden has reportedly approved the use of long-range American missiles by Ukraine to strike within the Russian mainland, in a move which may escalate the conflict two months before President-Elect Donald Trump comes into office with a mandate to seek a peace settlement.
Read More: Breitbart
As President-elect Donald Trump nears inauguration for his second administration, he has announced several individuals for key positions.
Read More: Newsmax