Today in Supreme Court History: May 27, 1935
5/27/1935: Schechter Poultry Corp. v. U.S. decided. The post Today in Supreme Court History: May 27, 1935 appeared first on Reason.com.
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What does China want? History shows the answer
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In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to give readers the full picture. You can find our full list of In Focus pieces here. “China,” Napoleon Bonaparte allegedly said, is a “sleeping giant.” And […]
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Spencer Pratt Demands Investigation into Karen Bass for “Flagrant Violations” of Election Laws After Campaign Video Shows Illegal Electioneering (VIDEO)
Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt, incumbent Mayor Karen Bass's closest rival in the June 2nd open primary election, has filed a formal complaint with the Los Angeles City Clerk alleging that Bass violated election laws by campaigning near a ballot drop box. The post Spencer Pratt Demands Investigation into Karen Bass for “Flagrant Violations” of Election Laws After Campaign Video Shows Illegal Electioneering (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
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Startling numbers show voters 'increasingly concerned' Trump is too unhealthy for office
Questions about President Donald Trump's health and fitness have gotten urgent as he nears his 80th birthday, and Americans are increasingly concerned that he might not be up to the task.The 79-year-old president went Tuesday to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for his third checkup in 13 months, sparking new speculation about his health, and CNN's Harry Enten presented polling data that shows those concerns are widespread."I think the American people are having increasing concerns about the president's physical health, and these are just the numbers because we're just running the numbers here," Enten said. "You could see it right here, say Trump's physical health to be president is good enough. You go back to 2023, it was 64 percent, 2025, 54 percent, within the last month, look at this, down to just 44 percent of Americans who say that Trump's physical health is good enough to be president.""It has been on a steady decline," Enten added. "The American people are viewing with their eyes and what they're viewing they are not pleased with, and as you can see here, for the first time ever this year, less than 50 percent of Americans actually say that Trump's physical health is good enough to be president."Other presidents have been older than 70 while serving, and Enten compared public perception of Trump's fitness with those chief executives. "Other presidents in advanced age, why don't we look at those presidents who are over the age of 70?" he said. "Okay, you can see it right here, okay, highest share, I took the highest share of any poll for either of these, any of these presidents saying not good enough to be president. Now, the majority of Americans say that Trump's physical health is not good enough to be president, 55 percent. That's not as high as Joe Biden's was back in 2024, with 69 percent, but it's a whole heck of a lot higher than Ronald Reagan's was back in 1987, when it was 38 percent.""Of course, there were massive issues about about Reagan's mental and physical health back then, so at this point, what you're seeing here is Donald Trump, for the first time ever this year, the clear majority of Americans saying that his physical health is not good enough to be president," he added. "It's not Biden's levels, but it far exceeds Ronald Reagan's level."Two-thirds of Americans support age limits for presidents at 80 years old, and many would prefer that to be even lower, Enten said."The bottom line is this: Americans are increasingly concerned about Trump's physical health, and when you put it together with Biden, what they simply want is they want age limits," Enten said. "Going to be very interesting to watch the next presidential campaign, because now we've had two consecutive presidents by the end of next month who they've had presidents, at least 80 or north. Americans may want to choose someone actually younger for a change." - YouTube youtu.be
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'You never answered my question!' Conservative fact-checked over and over by CNN panel
CNN panelists ganged up on a conservative commentator for defending President Donald Trump's proposal to require federal workers to sign nondisclosure agreements.The Office of Personnel Management posted a draft notice of the unprecedented order, which the administration claims is necessary to prevent “unauthorized disclosures” to the media, and anti-trans crusader Terry Schilling argued the move was both necessary and routine."Look, no one has been betrayed or backstabbed or maligned and lied about more than President Trump," Schilling said. "I think that's undeniable."Democratic strategist Antjuan Seawright, who had been bouncing impatiently in his seat and smirking, was unable to contain himself any further."Come on," he said in response to Schilling's claims."Okay, the 'Russia, Russia, Russia' collusion hoax turned out to be a total hoax," Schilling insisted, as Seawright stared deadpan at the camera. "It was totally exaggerated, and it was all based on lies. We want to avoid things that are distractions. We want to avoid the noise and get back to the signal.""There are already laws that protect whistleblowers, right?" Schilling added. "So it's important that we protect the security of the United States. This is all coming in light of the new ballroom, by the way, which needs to have NDAs around it. It's a security measure for the White House. You can't know everything about the White House and its designs for it.""CNN This Morning" host Audie Cornish stepped in and busted Schilling's chops a bit."No, I like this," she teased. "You have 100 percent trust in the government at all times."Schilling insisted he didn't, which caused Cornish to burst into laughter, and she listed all the inspectors general – who handle whistleblower complaints – that Trump has pushed out before turning to a visibly restless Seawright."Loyalty is a top requirement to work in and around Donald Trump," Seawright said, and Schilling said that was true in any administration. "That's not true. Secondly, I would just add, it's clear that they are actively pursuing aggressively state-run media because any story or any reports contrary or anti-Trump, it becomes problematic, and so they're trying to suffocate and silent voices within government who want to reveal the truth."Schilling interjected to argue that NDAs were necessary to prevent liars from fabricating negative stories about the Trump administration, and Seawright pushed back."How would you feel if this was Joe Biden?" Seawright said, and Schilling insisted that frequently happened during his presidency. "When did the when did the Biden-Harris administration implement NDA signings or attempt to? In the four years that Joe Biden was president, you just tell me when, and I will agree with you."Schilling assured him that happened "a lot," and Seawright pounced."You never answered my question," Seawright said. "Because when did it happen?"CNN senior political analyst Ron Brownstein took a whack next."There were tons of leaks under the Trump administration, that's why this is happening," Brownstein said. "It didn't really happen under the Biden administration. I mean, this this this is a distillation of his view of the federal government. This is the distillation of his view that it is his it is the extension of his personal will. It has no independent statutory or constitutional obligations to the public." - YouTube youtu.be
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GOP primary suffers 'truly low turnout' as only MAGA voters show up to vote
When the Republican primary for Texas' 2026 U.S. Senate race was decided in a Tuesday, May 26 runoff, it wasn't even close: Incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) lost to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton by roughly 27 percent, the New York Times reported. Bloomberg News' Steven Dennis has a major takeaway on the primary's outcome: extremely low voter turnout.Dennis points to the turnout in Starr County, Texas, which is in the southern part of the state in the Rio Grande Valley, as a prime example. The Bloomberg reporter, on X, noted, "There are 66000 people who live in Starr County. John Cornyn got 24 votes."According to Daniel Nichanian, founder and editor of Bolts Magazine, Starr wasn't the only South Texas county where voter turnout was really low.On X, Nichanian posted, "Truly low turnout in some counties in South Texas. In Starr County, Trump got roughly 9,500 votes in 2024. 90 votes counted in the GOP runoff today. In Webb County, Trump got roughly 33,300 votes in 2024. Roughly 2,300 voters today."According to figures cited by Nichanian, the Webb County turnout in the May 26 runoff was a fraction of the Webb County turnout in the United States' 2024 presidential race.Webb County's largest city is Laredo on the U.S./Mexico border.Democratic strategist and insider Rachel Murphy Azzara had her own takeaway on the May 26 turnout, emphasizing that the most hardcore MAGA voters were the ones who showed up.Azzara, on X, observed, "A couple takeaways: Cornyn's turnout operation fell short and only the most activist MAGA base bothered to vote."Now that Paxton, who was endorsed by President Donald Trump, is officially the nominee, he enters the general election and is going up against the Democratic nominee: centrist Texas State Rep. James Talarico, a Presbyterian seminarian. And some well-known conservatives, including Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota) and veteran Washington Post columnist George Will, believe the Senate seat is in play for Democrats.Although Democrats perform well in Texas' large urban centers like Houston, Austin, Dallas and San Antonio, they haven't won a statewide race in the Lone Star State since 1994. But Paxton is a very controversial and divisive figure, even among conservatives — and Thune, during the Senate primary, warned fellow Republicans that Talarico would have a much harder time competing against Cornyn than he would against Paxton. Now, Paxton is officially the Republican that Talarico will be competing with in the general election, and GOP strategists are warning that their party will have to spend a lot money trying to defeat Talarico.
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'Malignant narcissist' Trump showing the thing he fears the most: scholar
President Donald Trump's stranglehold on the Republican Party is asserting itself in one GOP primary after another, with a long list of Republican incumbents he opposed losing to Trump-back challengers — including Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky), Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana), at least five Indiana state lawmakers and, most recently, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas). Massie, Cassidy and Cornyn won't be going to the general election, and many Republicans are afraid of doing anything that might offend Trump. But according to scholar/author Michael A. Cohen, who publishes the "Truth and Consequences" column on Substack, Trump is showing signs of the thing that he fears the most: weakness.During a late May appearance on The New Republic's podcast, "The Daily Blast," Cohen (not to be confused with Trump's former personal attorney and fixer) argued that as a "malignant narcissist," the U.S. president is terrified of showing any signs of weakness or vulnerability.When host Greg Sargent noted that Trump is "obviously deteriorating" both physically and mentally, he got no argument from Cohen."I mean, there's no question about it: You've seen a significant deterioration," Cohen told Sargent, a former Washington Post columnist. "I think one of the problems with Trump is that he's always been somebody who has never appeared to be the most coherent individual in the world. Certainly not the healthiest person in the world, either physically or mentally. But it does seem as though he's gotten significantly worse. And as he's gotten worse, the arguments that the White House is using to defend him against legitimate questions about this are even more ridiculous."Cohen continued, "I'm sure you saw this, but when he fell asleep at an Oval Office event, the White House tweeted out that he was just blinking when they caught him with his eyes closed. Like, are we that stupid? I mean, maybe some people are that stupid in this country. But I think most Americans are not that dumb. And they realize the man's falling asleep at public events."According to Cohen, one thing that "narcissists" like Trump "cannot accept ever" is "being seen as weak" — and when he's falling asleep at meetings, it flies in the face of the larger-than-life image he wants to project."He has to seem strong — not just strong, by the way, the strongest person," Cohen told Sargent. "Not just healthy — he's the healthiest person. What Trump has done is surround himself with all of these people who, basically, their only job is to stroke his ego.… And the political fallout, the ridicule that it leads to of Trump, is almost a secondary consideration for them. Because what matters to these people is keeping the boss happy, because the boss helps them keep their jobs. It is a ridiculous situation. It is like the emperor has no clothes come to life. That's what we’re basically seeing here."Cohen emphasized that when it comes to Trump, hardcore MAGA Republicans are much different from independents and swing voters.Cohen told Sargent, "Within the Republican Party, he still has this hold. But outside the Republican Party, that hold has disappeared completely. Among independents, his numbers are just atrocious. And I think you see this gap between the people who love Trump, which is a very small minority of the country at this point, and those who loathe Trump, which is a majority of the country."
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Spencer Pratt may be the answer: Joe Concha
Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha praised Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt for his campaign and passion to help his city. “Spencer Pratt is probably going to advance to the general election,” Concha said on Fox News’s Fox & Friends First on Tuesday. “His campaign isn’t about red versus blue or conservative versus liberal, it’s […]
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Trump administration wants federal workers to sign NDAs
US government personnel officials say non-disclosure agreements are part of an effort to stop leaks to the media.
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