On June 5, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, striking down the Sixth Circuit’s “background circumstances” rule that imposed a heightened evidentiary burden on majority-group plaintiffs in Title VII employment discrimination claims. This landmark decision, authored by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, clarifies that all plaintiffs—whether part […]
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Likelihood Of Swing Voters Supporting Democrats Declines By Double-Digits For House According To New Polls While Democrats cling to a historically modest lead in the latest generic Congressional ballot data — leading Republicans by just 2.5 points in the most recent average — the party is facing steep, double-digit declines in support among swing voters compared to 2018. New […]
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Senate Fiscal Hawks Hold Up Tax Cuts And Border Security Bill Over Debt Ceiling. Is The Debt Ceiling Essential To The Deal? “I want to see the tax cuts made permanent, but I also want to see the $5 trillion in new debt removed from the bill. At least 4 of us in the Senate […]
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Washington, D.C., has become so toxic and corroded in recent years that it should be named an Environmental Protection Agency Superfund site. But President Donald Trump’s new crew has put on their hazmat suits and headed straight into the thick of it, with last week offering several examples of where the crew is hoping to clean up. […]
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Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. We’re at four months now in the new Trump second administration. And a strange thing has […]
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American manufacturing has fallen victim to a “giant sucking sound,” according to an expert on energy and climate. There is a “a giant sucking sound of energy-intensive manufacturing leaving the West and going to China,” Diana Furchtgott-Roth, director of the Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment at The Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Signal. The prevalence […]
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Of the lower court judges who have blocked President Donald Trump’s executive orders and other administration actions since he returned to office in January, Democrat appointees have outnumbered Republican appointees by about 3-1. The ratio is evidence of a common practice called “forum shopping” that is done with highly politicized litigation. Forum shopping is where plaintiffs […]
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Obama Weighs in on Big, Beautiful Bill Former President Barack Obama stepped into the political spotlight again on Monday, wading into the fray regarding the budget reconciliation bill passed by House Republicans that is now being considered in the Senate. “Here’s something everybody should be paying attention to: Congressional Republicans are trying to weaken the […]
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Former Democrat vice presidential candidate Tim Walz is talking tough, even while remaining mum on his own political future. The Minnesota governor, whose second term runs through January 2027, claims to have a strategy for his fellow Democrats: “Bully the s— out of” President Donald Trump. “Maybe it’s time for us to be a little meaner, maybe it’s […]
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Trump pushes GOP to meet July 4 deadline for funding megabill President Donald Trump took to social media to urge congressional Republicans to “work as fast as they can” to send the massive budget reconciliation bill to his desk by July 4. This four-week deadline is a tall order, especially because the Republicans are facing significant […]