Steve Bannon, former White House chief strategist and host of the popular show War Room, is extending an invite to the public to join him at an event in Washington D.C. on Thursday to celebrate President-elect Donald Trump’s forthcoming inauguration next week.
Mark Pulliam, a retired attorney and Misrule of Law blogger, shared his thoughts on how President-elect Donald Trump, once he assumes office, should handle the state of California and city of Los Angeles’ request for federal assistance following the ongoing wildfires which have since resulted in the death of 24 individuals.
The wildfires in California, which began burning on Tuesday, have since destroyed nearly 41,000 acres, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
Todd Bensman, a senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, said the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) quietly closed its case into the first known terrorist attack by a “border-crossing Muslim migrant” on a Jewish American victim last year without providing answers to questions still concerning the Jewish community impacted by the attack.
Todd Bensman, senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, said the media ignored the first known terrorist attack by a “border-crossing Muslim migrant” on an American victim last year in an effort to not influence the November 5 general election.
Pollster John McLaughlin said he believes President-elect Donald Trump’s “peace through strength” message will be as prominent as President James Monroe’s 1823 annual message to Congress which contained the famous Monroe Doctrine and will come to be known by Americans as the Trump Doctrine.
Tom Zawistowski, president of the We the People Convention, is continuing his call on President-elect Donald Trump to issue a pardon to political prisoners who were convicted on charges related to the January 6, 2021, protest at the U.S. Capitol.
Trump has vowed to pardon individuals accused or convicted of charges relating to January 6, telling Time magazine in December 2024 that pardons will begin “in the first hour” of him being inaugurated later this month on January 20.
Phill Kline, former Kansas Attorney General and current law professor at Liberty University School of Law, said he believes that the U.S. Supreme Court will grant President-elect Donald Trump’s emergency motion seeking to halt a criminal sentencing scheduled for Friday morning in the New York hush money case.
Tennessee U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) confirmed to The Tennessee Star’s CEO and Editor-in-Chief Michael Patrick Leahy on Tuesday that confirmation hearings for President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees for attorney general and director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are set to begin in the Senate Judiciary Committee next week.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is chaired by Iowa U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA).
The Senate Judiciary Committee is chaired by Iowa U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA).
Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said the Metro Nashville Police Department and Davidson County Sheriff’s Office, as well as any other law enforcement agencies who fail to report data to the Tennessee District Attorneys General Conference (TNDAGC) about illegal aliens arrested in the state, may face legal challenges for defying state law.
In May, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed HB2774/SB2158 into law, which, among other requirements, requires the TNDAGC to collect and analyze data from law enforcement agencies on the number of persons not lawfully present in the U.S. charged or convicted of a criminal offense in Tennessee during the previous year.
Steve Cortes, former senior spokesman and strategist for the 2016 and 2020 Trump campaigns and current head of the League of American Workers, has offered a solution in the debate among conservatives on the H-1B visa program which he believes can “satisfy” those on both sides of the issue.
Tennessee U.S. Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN-05) said House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA-04) must lay out and commit to a plan for how he plans to be fiscally responsible in the speakership role if he wants to be reelected.
Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said the way President-elect Doanld Trump’s Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi, if she is confirmed by the U.S. Senate, handles the Department of Justice’s legal fight to keep the Corporate Transparency Act in place will be one of the first “early tests” for Bondi in the role.
Michael Patrick Leahy, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of The Tennessee Star, is confident that Canada will not become the 51st U.S. state, considering the cultures of each nation are drastically different and would not bode well.
Tennessee U.S. Representative Tim Burchett (R-TN-02) said he expects that U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA-04) will be reelected in his role as Speaker next month and work to fulfill President-elect Donald Trump’s agenda “as best he can” given Republicans’ razor-thin majority in the House.
National political reporter Neil W. McCabe said President-elect Donald Trump’s presidency will have the “energy of the first term” with the “wisdom of a second term,” which may end up helping Republicans pick up seats in the 2026 midterm elections.
Dr. Carol M. Swain, a retired university professor who was tenured at Vanderbilt and Princeton Universities, has published her latest book titled, The Gay Affair.
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti said he believes that if the U.S. Supreme Court rules to uphold Tennessee’s state that bans irreversible gender transitioning treatments for minors in the case United States v. Skrmetti, the demand for such treatments across the nation will also see a halt.
Matt Kittle, a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist, said he believes President-elect Donald Trump’s lawsuit against Iowa pollster Ann Selzer and the Des Moines Register will have more of an effect than experts believe.
Liberty University’s School of Business Dean Dave Brat recently returned from a trip to Kiev, Ukraine, with religious leaders and academics to survey the country amid its ongoing war with Russia.
Brat said Ukrainian officials were attempting to woo his group of conservative Christians on board with funding the country’s fight against Russia during the week-long trip; however, he noted that his stance on funding the war “hasn’t changed.”
Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, stressed the importance that the Madison Police Department (MPD) in Wisconsin confirms or denies the existence of a six-page manifesto reportedly written by the 15-year-old Abundant Life Christian School shooter that is being shared by online personalities.
On Monday, MPD identified the shooter who killed two and injured seven at the Abundant Life Christian School as 15-year-old Natalie Rupnow.
Tennessee House Majority Leader William Lamberth (R-Portland) said the new universal school choice bill filed last month in the Tennessee General Assembly is a “win-win” for “everybody” on the issue, specifically for those in favor of a school choice program and those in favor of allocating more funding for public schools.