‘She’s Going to Be Famous for a Long Time’

For many judicial nominees, a Senate confirmation hearing is one of life’s most grueling experiences—an hours-long job interview led by lawmakers who are trying to get them to face-plant on national television. Not for Aileen Cannon. When the federal judge who will oversee former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial testified in 2020, the Senate Judiciary Committee didn’t go easy on her so much as they ignored her. Cannon, then a 39-year-old prosecutor, appeared on Zoom alongside four other nominees, her face framed by a wall of diplomas on one side…

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What’s Really Going On With the Crime Rate?

Turn on a television in any state with a competitive Senate or gubernatorial race, and you’ll see that the criminal-justice reform agenda is under constant attack. Republicans are pinning higher crime rates on Democrats who have expressed sympathy for almost any aspect of the movement to confront racial inequities in the criminal-justice system. In New York, a conservative super PAC opposing Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul is slamming her for defending “the state’s disastrous cashless bail experiment” and refusing to “remove liberal prosecutors, like [Manhattan’s] Alvin Bragg, who too often downgrade…

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It’s a weird time in Congress with a war going on in Europe

<p>Besides the omnibus budget package, Congress is dealing with a few other issues this week, like postal reform. But it&#8217;s a short week, as the <em><strong><a href=”https://federalnewsnetwork.com/category/temin/tom-temin-federal-drive/” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>Federal Drive</a> with Tom Temin</strong> </em>learned from Bloomberg Government Deputy News Director Loren Duggan.</p> <blockquote><p><strong>Tom Temin: </strong>Loren, the omnibus packages that are coming forth to be voted on sometime during this week, presumably to get to the President&#8217;s desk, they have to finish those votes this week before they go on recess. So tell us what the schedule for that would look…

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The Sausage Making: Biden Says He And Manchin ‘Are Going To Get Something Done’

<p><em>Your intermittent briefing on negotiations over the reconciliation bill.</em></p> <p>President Joe Biden told reporters Tuesday that he still thinks “there’s a possibility of getting Build Back Better done.”</p> <p>When asked if Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) had broken his word, Biden opted for diplomacy.&nbsp;</p> <p>“Senator Manchin and I are going to get something done,” he said.&nbsp;</p> <div class=”wp-block-tpm-separator undefined TpmSeparator”></div> <h2><strong>No Bridges Burnt?</strong></h2> <ul><li>Biden isn’t the only one keeping lines of communication open with Manchin (“Some people think maybe I’m not Irish because I don’t hold a grudge,” Biden quipped.)&nbsp;</li><li>Rep. Pramila…

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Businesses Are Going Woke. Here’s What a Thoughtful Investor Needs to Consider.

More and more, it seems big corporations and even banks have become tools of the left. Americans have been fired from their jobs, deplatformed from social media, and have even seen their bank accounts closed, simply for not bending a knee to the left. This has prompted many conservatives to rethink where they spend and invest their money. John Coleman, a managing partner of Sovereign’s Capital, a values-driven private equity and venture capital firm, joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss a more thoughtful way of investing in the age…

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