Democrat AGs Targeting Climate 'Dissenters' Face Legal Demand to Disclose Ties to Environmental Groups

July 15, 2016
It's a somber morning in Washington as we pray for the victims of the terrorist attack in Nice, France. Follow @DailySignal on Twitter for updates. Meanwhile, a House committee gets tough with Democratic attorneys general as it probes collusion on climate change orthodoxy. Kevin Mooney reports. Senate Republicans don't seem interested in blocking President Obama's judicial nominees. Rob Bluey looks into why. Just outside the nation's capital, parents want to know more about the transgender policy imposed by their school board. Kelsey Harkness knows what's up. Plus: Kyle Stewart on conservatives' pre-election priorities, and Elizabeth Slattery on a Supreme Court justice's big mouth.
News Democrat AGs Targeting Climate 'Dissenters' Face Legal Demand to Disclose Ties to Environmental Groups "The attorneys general have appointed themselves to decide what is valid and what is invalid regarding climate change," says Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, speaking of AGs including New York's Eric Schneiderman, pictured above with Al Gore. "The attorneys general are pursuing a political agenda at the expense of scientists' right to free speech." Read More
News As This School District Sets New Transgender Guidelines, Parents Fight for Transparency The regulations allow transgender students to use the bathrooms and locker rooms they say correspond to their gender identity, and to participate in school-sponsored sports, clubs, and other activities in accordance with their gender identity. Read More
News How the GOP Senate Is Boosting Obama's Judicial Legacy If the Senate were to take no further action during the final six months of Barack Obama's presidency, he will have secured confirmation of 329 judges. By comparison, George W. Bush had 312 confirmed at this point in his second term. Read More
Commentary Ginsburg's Gabfest Suggests She's No Impartial Judge In an interview with The New York Times, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg commented that she "can't imagine" a Trump presidency and joked that if he is elected, it will be "time for [her] to move to New Zealand." Read More
Commentary Your First Amendment Rights Are Under Attack. Here's How We Protect Them. Last year, U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli confirmed that if the Supreme Court created a right to same-sex marriage, then the Internal Revenue Service would be empowered to revoke the tax-exempt status of religious institutions that maintain a traditional belief of marriage, write Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Rep. Raúl Labrador, R-Idaho. Read More
News Republicans Slip Ex-Im Language Into Appropriations Bill, Setting Up Fall Showdown Prominent Republicans in the House and Senate have resurrected a fight over the Export-Import Bank after slipping language into appropriations bills that would allow the contested agency to, in effect, approve transactions benefiting its largest beneficiaries. Read More
News Ahead of Election, House Conservatives Focus on 5 Issues "We want to spend more time on legislation that will restore and protect your freedoms, and we do have time to take action this fall," says Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio. "And the House Freedom Caucus is committed to doing so." Read More
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