Michelle Bowman votes against Fed half-point rate cut — first dissent since 2005
Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman on Wednesday became the first Fed governor since 2005 to vote against the central bank's interest rate decision, rejecting Fed Chairman Jerome Powell's apparent consensus at a critical juncture. All 11 other voting members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors voted in favor of lowering the Fed's policy rate […]
Colleges fail the free-speech test as students reject dissent
No one should blame students if they are seen wearing riot gear on college campuses this fall. Chances are, campus events and even classes will be canceled this semester because of the actions of some of their peers. Ironically, the more expensive college tuition is these days and the more “elite” the university's reputation, the […]
Congressional aides create dissent channel to protest Israel's war in Gaza
Parliamentary Aides Group Launched a public dissent channel Employees can voice concerns anonymously about the war between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The website’s homepage says the channel is a place where aides can “safely and anonymously express alternative or opposing views of Congressional policy or action.” The New […]
The Vance pick won’t mark a return to legitimate dissent
Donald Trump’s choice of Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) as his running mate for the 2024 presidential election has generated excitement among Republicans and condemnation from Democrats alike. In American politics today, polar opposites exist.collideTrump and Joe BidenworstThis is the first time in our nation’s history that a president has done so, and as a result, […]
‘There can be ZERO dissent’: Parental rights advocate blasts Newsom’s law forcing schools to keep kids’ transitions secret
California Democrats, and the LGBT activists among them, are stepping up a long-standing campaign to drive a wedge between parents and children. Alvin Louie, president of the parent advocacy group Courage Is a Habit, told The Blaze News that the state has long discouraged parents from informing them about their child’s signs of gender dysphoria […]
‘The Five’: Why Sotomayor’s presidential immunity dissent is ‘wrong’
‘The Five’ discuss the left ‘freaking out’ over the Supreme Court’s ‘brilliant’ presidential immunity ruling and its effect on special … source
‘The President Is Now A King’: Liberal Justices Express ‘Fear For Our Democracy’ In Trump Immunity Dissent
Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote dissents on Monday in which they vehemently objected to the court’s majority opinion in the presidential immunity case brought by former President Donald Trump. The majority held that presidents are entitled to “absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for actions within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional […]
Ty Cobb on Sotomayor dissent: 'A lot of screaming and no analysis'
Ty Cobb, President Trump’s former White House counsel, called Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s dissent from the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling “a bit hysterical.” “I thought her dissent was a little bit hysterical, no analysis at all, just shouting, no analysis at all, which was disappointing,” Cobb said in an interview with CNN on Monday. In […]
‘Must Be Reading From A Different Case’: Conservative Justices Drag Liberal Colleagues For Botching Dissent
The Supreme Court’s conservative justices suggested Thursday that their liberal colleagues completely misrepresented precedent that forms the foundation of their dissenting opinion defending an executive agency’s ability to act as “prosecutor, judge, and jury.” Justice Sonia Sotomayor, dissenting with Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson from the majority’s ruling in SEC v. Jarkesy, claims the […]
Jimmy Lai’s Imprisonment Is a Blueprint for How Authoritarians Use ‘National Security’ to Crush Political Dissent
Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes As Hong Kong slipped slowly into authoritarianism, media mogul Jimmy Lai did something extraordinary: he continued to resist Beijing. Today the 76-year-old Hong Konger remains in solitary confinement in a Chinese prison. When Jimmy Lai was a child working the streets of Canton (Guangzhou), China, in the 1950s, he received […]