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Some conservatives are blaming the Secret Service for the seeming attempted assassination of President Donald Trump on Saturday — but one Wall Street Journal columnist is not having any of it. “One conservative called the Secret Service’s handling of security an ‘unmitigated failure,’” wrote The Wall Street Journal’s William McGurn on Monday , who also reported on how mainstream media outlets like The Washington Post covered the story. “Others complain about ‘lax security.’ The Washington Post reported that ‘the Trump administration provided a lower level of security for the White House correspondents’ dinner than it has for other gatherings of high-ranking officials.’ Attendees have reported being waved in to the building with barely a showing of their ticket—though the security perimeter around the ballroom held.” He added, “The second-guessing has only begun, and it’s becoming wrapped up with other issues. On his X account, Chairman James Comer of the House Oversight Committee n...
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Trump is one risky move away from a constitutional crisis: conservative think tank

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President Donald Trump is at risk of violating the Constitution through his Cabinet picks, a Libertarian scholar recently warned — although right now he appears to be on the right side of the law. Describing Trump’s decision to keep Todd Blanche as acting attorney general and Keith Sonderling as acting labor secretary, in lieu of Pam Bondi and Lori Chavez-DeRemer respectively, a scholar from the prestigious Cato Institute warned that the president is walking a very fine line. “Almost all vacancies in the executive branch are governed by the Federal Vacancies Reform Act (FVRA) of 1998, which sets uniform rules of who can be an acting officer and how long they can serve,” Thomas A. Berry , the director of the Cato Institute’s Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies and editor in chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review, wrote on Monday. “But when the FVRA was enacted, about 40 separate statutes were on the books that provided different special rules for how acting officers may...
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Republicans only have themselves to blame for Trump’s unhinged reign: conservative scholar

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Donald Trump commands the U.S. less like a president and more like Julius Caesar, one conservative legal scholar wrote for The Atlantic , with his unhinged leadership being the result of a decades-long plot by the right that has backfired severely and threatens to fully erode Democracy. Gregg Nunziata is the executive director of the Society for the Rule of Law and previously worked as legal counsel for Senate Republicans. On Monday, he published an extensive new piece for The Atlantic, decrying Trump's new brand of "American Caesarism in nearly full bloom," emulating the rule of the Roman emperor who destroyed the republic by "claiming to speak for the people even as he disregarded laws and norms to govern by caprice ." "Despite ambitions to fundamentally change the course of the country, this administration has no real legislative agenda ," Nunziata wrote. "Instead, the president governs by executive orders, emergency decrees, and extortiona...
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Another radically underqualified Trump appointee is about to bite the dust

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You can be Secretary of Defense (War) and cause the mightiest military in the world to be brought to its knees, and still keep your job in the Trump regime. You can be in charge of public health and cause measles to reemerge as a major hazard to Americans, and still keep your job. You can be illegally enriching yourself and your family as Commerce Secretary, and still keep your job. But you’ll be fired for actively and unnecessarily getting bad press. A few days ago, a senior White House official told Politico that FBI director Kash Patel’s bad press was “not a good look for a cabinet secretary” and had frustrated Trump. “It’s only a matter of time,” they said, before Patel is canned. Like Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi, and Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Patel has been his own worse press agent. He filed a $250 million defamation claim against The Atlantic magazine over its April 17 report claiming that his FBI colleagues were alarmed by his excessive drinking and unexplained absences . The...
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News24 | Seven hearty salads to fight the winter chill

These seven hearty bowls, from loaded cauliflower to coffee-dressed roasted vegetables, pack enough personality and substance to stand as proper meals when the weather turns cold. from News24 News24/TopStories/rss https://ift.tt/GxbQIie via sinceretalk
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News24 | Eastern Cape traffic cop killed in head-on collision with bus on N2, road closure in place

A traffic officer died when the state vehicle she was driving collided head-on with a long-distance bus on the N2 in Jeffreys Bay on Monday morning. from News24 News24/TopStories/rss https://ift.tt/yHXB57c via sinceretalk
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News24 | REPORTING NOTES | R22m paid, plant failing: Joburg Water’s contractor web of suspicious billing

News24 investigative journalists Khaya Koko and Azarrah Karrim take you behind the scenes of the latest Johannesburg Water story and the contractors that pocketed millions. from News24 News24/TopStories/rss https://ift.tt/Y9ZepDR via sinceretalk
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