Judicial Vacancies Are a Third Higher Than When Trump Became President. Here’s What the Senate Can Do.

Plus: Trump's 2020 Budget Seeks More Border Wall Funding, Work Requirements for Welfare

March 12, 2019
Commentary Judicial Vacancies Are a Third Higher Than When Trump Became President. Here's What the Senate Can Do. By Thomas Jipping As of yesterday, a total of 144 positions across the federal judiciary are vacant—35 percent higher than when Trump took office. We are in the longest period of triple-digit vacancies since the early 1990s. More
News Is a Restaurant Safe for Trump Supporters? New App Aims to Inform You By Grace Carr  A description of the app, 63red Safe, says it provides "reviews of local restaurant and businesses from a conservative perspective, helping [ensure] you're safe when you shop and eat." More
News Trump's 2020 Budget Seeks More Border Wall Funding, Work Requirements for Welfare By Fred Lucas  The $4.7 trillion spending blueprint for fiscal 2020 would cut nondefense discretionary spending by 5 percent across the board, for a total of $2.7 trillion in savings for taxpayers over 10 years. More
News Mike Pompeo Tells Embassy in Venezuela to Come Home By Jason Hopkins "This decision reflects the deteriorating situation in [Venezuela] as well as the conclusion that the presence of U.S. diplomatic staff at the embassy has become a constraint on U.S. policy," the secretary of state announces. More
Commentary Florida Set to Follow Congress' Lead on Criminal Justice Reform By Jacob Paolillo and Jonathan Zalewski Modeled after the First Step Act, which Congress passed with strong bipartisan support, the Florida bill includes only the "best ideas" from its federal counterpart, the Republican sponsor says. More
News 'Immediate Harm to Millions': AFL-CIO Tears Apart Green New Deal By Tim Pearce "We will not stand by and allow threats to our members' jobs and their families' standard of living [to] go unanswered," the nation's largest coalition of labor unions writes to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen.Ed Markey, D-Mass., the main sponsors of the Green New Deal. More
In Case You Missed It Here Are 5 Hysterical Environmentalist Claims in Modern History By Jarrett Stepman  Perhaps young Americans are more likely to buy into the extreme environmentalist doomsaying because they weren't around for the laughably wrong predictions of the past that never came true. More
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