The politicization of the FBI is not good for the country and a sad day in the FBI’s proud history. Overlooked amidst the turmoil and allegations surrounding the firing of James Comey and Andrew McCabe, an important new detail has come to light on an old theme: the Obama Justice Department put unprecedented pressure on the FBI to not investigate or end its investigations of Democrat Party Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton (emphasis added):

The RNLA is pleased to announce that former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement will speak at the National Policy Conference on Friday, April 27.  Tickets and more information are available here.  Unlike previous years, walk-up registration will not be available this year.

Judges rule on the law, not based on their personal beliefs. Chief Justice Roberts famously analogized this to being an “umpire.” As part of the Democrats' attacks on those with strongly held religious or conservative beliefs, judicial nominee Wendy Vitter was attacked for having strong conservative values. Senator Mazie Hirono seemingly believes that judges who have personal views on issues of “life” cannot set aside those views when ruling on the law and cited another former Chief Justice, William Rehnquist, as an example for her beliefs.

Senate Democrats continue to force cloture votes on President Trump’s nominees that they support! When cloture is invoked, it ends filibusters. However, it still allows a “legislative day” of delay to “invoke” and allows up to 30 additional hours of debate. In other words each time Democrats force a cloture vote, they delay the Senate from working on the problems of the country or confirming the people who are nominated to work for the country.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before a joint hearing of the U.S. Senate Committees on the Judiciary and on Commerce, Science, and Transportation today, and he will testify before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce tomorrow.  With his usual acuity, Senator Ted Cruz highlighted some of the key problems with liberal social media companies' treatment of conservatives during his questioning (1:46:32 to 1:52:14):

Just over a year ago, Justice Neil Gorsuch was confirmed by the Senate as the 101st Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. 

The RNLA is very pleased to announce that Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie will be speaking at the 2018 National Policy Conference on Friday, April 27th.  Bossie and Lewandowski will be discussing their Wall Street Journal No. 1 best-selling book Let Trump be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency.

Ed Whelan, President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, is the latest legal scholar to destroy the Democrat Party’s unofficial election law professor Rick Hasen. (See Professor Brad Smith's recent rebuke here.) The problem for Hasen is that he seems to have given up on efforts at scholarship and is focusing on advancing Democrat Party agenda and liberal political ideology. Hasen’s latest attack is on conservative icon, the deceased Justice Antonin Scalia.

The Republican National Lawyers Association is very pleased to announce that we will be honoring Ashley Carter as our 2018 Betty Murphy Award recipient. This award will be presented to Ashley during the RNLA’s 2018 National Policy Conference on April 27, 2018.  

Charles Lane has good editorial entitled "This solution to gerrymandering is worse than the problem," explaining the dangers of why courts, even the Supreme Court, should not be involved in political redistricting. He likens it to the Supreme Court considering censoring “blue” or pornographic movies in the 1970s. Yes, it is distasteful but the alternative of the court deciding whether every film is “too blue” is not the best or appropriate role for a court.