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May 13, 2016
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| Good morning from Washington, where the House's legal challenge to Obamacare could depend on election results. Melissa Quinn reports. How could the Republican-led Senate spend more than President Obama sought? Philip Wegmann has the lowdown. A small-town judge faces removal because her faith tells her not to perform gay marriages. Ken McIntyre has the facts. Plus: Rob Bluey finds out why a constitutional scholar is so pessimistic. Hans von Spakovksy and Elizabeth Slattery analyze a new court ruling against the Affordable Care Act. |
AnalysisObama Administration Loses Key Obamacare Case The case centers on the Obama administration's payment of subsidies to insurance providers for providing cost-sharing reductions to certain policyholders. There's just one problem: Congress explicitly refused to appropriate funds for these subsidies. Read More |
NewsJudge Faces Removal, $40K Fine Because of Her Beliefs About Marriage Judge Ruth Neely is one of a growing number of judges and other officers of the court targeted by self-identified progressives who argue that religious convictions about marriage are trumped by the political goals of those who successfully sought to redefine marriage in a landmark Supreme Court decision last year. Read More |
NewsHow November's Elections Could Impact the House's Obamacare Lawsuit Republicans mounted the lawsuit two years ago and charged that President Obama was going outside the powers granted to him under the Constitution by spending money Congress hadn't appropriated. Read More |
NewsSenate's First Appropriations Bill Spends More Than Obama Requested Conservatives objected to the higher spending levels and lack of policy riders in the weeks leading up to Thursday's vote. Most Republicans supported the bill anyway. Read More |
CommentaryStoned Drivers Are Killing More and More Innocent Victims It is only going to get worse given the trend toward increased legalization and liberalization of marijuana laws in the United States. Read More |
NewsWhat Does 'We the People' Really Mean? A Constitutional Scholar Explains The Daily Signal caught up with Randy Barnett to talk about his book, "Our Republican Constitution," and the difference between a democracy and a constitutional republic. Watch the Video |
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Daily on Defense: Jeffries plots end run for Ukraine aid, Austin back working from home, Ukraine donor group meets, Russian warship sunk, Putin’s poor memory
Follow us on Twitter View this as website BY JAMIE MCINTYRE ADVERTISEMENT JEFFRIES: ALL LEGISLATIVE OPTIONS ARE ON THE TABLE: The pressure is on House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to find a way to bypass House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to bring the $95 billion foreign aid bill that sailed through the Senate 70-29 to a vote on the House floor, where it would surely also pass with a wide bipartisan majority. "There are clearly more than 300 members of the House of Representatives, the overwhelming amount of Democrats and a significant number of Republicans, who would support the national security legislation, were it to receive an up-or-down vote on the floor of the House," Jeffries said on CNN yesterday. Jeffries’s best bet is a long shot, a rarely successful legislative maneuver known as a "discharge petition," which would require at least four Republicans