Author: Freedom Watch

Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade Lauds Lachlan Murdoch: “He Really Understands What’s Going On” The Hollywood Reporter May 16, 2020 “Lachlan is a fantastic guy,” the ‘Fox & Friends’ host said. “I’ve had more interaction with him than I had with Roger Ailes in 20 years.” Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade used an appearance on a podcast episode published Friday to laud the leadership of Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch, comparing him favorably to the late Fox News boss Roger Ailes. “Lachlan is a fantastic guy,” Kilmeade said. “I’ve had more interaction with him than I had with…

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Washington Post May 14, 2020 The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s conservative majority sided with Republican legislators and struck down on Wednesday the decision by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’s administration to extend a stay-at-home order intended to quell the spread of the novel coronavirus. The 4-3 decision limits Evers’s ability to make statewide rules during emergencies such as a global pandemic, instead requiring him to work with the state legislature on how the state should handle the outbreak. The justices wrote that the court was not challenging the governor’s power to declare emergencies, “but in the case of a pandemic, which…

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FBI serves warrant on senator in investigation of stock sales linked to coronavirus By Del Quentin Wilber Los Angeles Times May 14, 2020 Federal agents seized a cellphone belonging to a prominent Republican senator on Wednesday night as part of the Justice Department’s investigation into controversial stock trades he made as the novel coronavirus first struck the U.S., a law enforcement official said. Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, turned over his phone to agents after they served a search warrant on the lawmaker at his residence in the Washington area,…

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Rush Limbaugh Predicts A ‘Veritable’ Civil War — Could He Be Right? By Seth Cohen Forbes May 14, 2020 During his nationally-syndicated radio show this week, conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh gave an extended monologue about the current coronavirus-induced state shutdowns. In Limbaugh’s view, the Democratic-controlled ‘blue states’ are conspiring to keep shutdowns in effect in order to drive unemployment while the actions of the Republican-controlled ‘red states’ are trying to help expedite the country’s recovery. And of course, Limbaugh predicts that all of this is part of a conspiracy to get President Trump voted out of office. It…

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Will Trump win or lose at the Supreme Court? With John Roberts, possibly both By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer CNN May 13, 2020 Washington (CNN)Chief Justice John Roberts rebuffed legal arguments on Tuesday that would totally shield President Donald Trump from subpoenas yet voiced enough skepticism of Trump’s challengers to suggest orders for his financial records would not actually be delivered anytime soon. That could mean that Trump loses to some degree at the Supreme Court but actually wins. For instance, while the ability of the Congress and a state grand jury to…

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