The RNLA is pleased to announce that Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai will speak at the National Policy Conference next Friday. 

We are pleased to have Carrie Severino speak on one of our breakout panels on "Restoring the Rule of Law to the Judiciary" at RNLA’s National Policy Conference.  Carrie is one of the leading experts on the judicial confirmation process and the qualifications of federal judicial nominees.  Carrie has been in this role for years through both Republican and Democrat control of the White House and Senate.  A few of her recent views.

Tom Spencer has an article at the Daily Signal that makes a great point: “When It Comes to Protecting Our Elections, States Know What They’re Doing:”. While some have been screaming the 2016 election was hacked, the reality is that not a single vote was hacked and the states are doing a great job of protecting the security of elections from hacking. The states running elections is a good thing for cybersecurity as Tomexplains:

RNLA member and 2016 Vermont Republican Attorney General candidate Deborah Bucknam describes the importance of good election administration practices and how poor election administration and poor advice from state election officials disenfranchise voters:

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.