While Drudge Report and other places are reporting President Trump’s 50% approval rating, there is another number that many have missed that is much higher.  In another poll by Rasmussen nearly 90% approve of an accurate census and 66% approve of asking a person’s citizenship as part of the decennial census of 2020:

The RNLA is pleased to announce that former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey 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.

Yesterday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it would launch an internal investigation into possible Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) abuses by the DOJ under the Obama Administration during the 2016 election. Inspector General Michael Horowitz, an Obama appointee, will lead the investigation within the DOJ.

This morning, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Benisek v. Lamone, a First Amendment retaliation challenge to Maryland's 6th Congressional district lines.  This is the second partisan gerrymandering case the Court has heard this term, after Gill v. Whitford in October.  

Last week, Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Neil Gorsuch dissented from a denial of certiorari in Garco Construction v. Speer.  They would have granted cert to determine whether Auer v. Robbins and Bowles v. Seminole Rock & Sand Co., and the deference to agencies' interpretation of their own regulations and rules contained in them, should be overruled.  Their dissent is a succinct indictment of this deference to administrative agencies' interpretations and a defense of the separation of powers (internal citations and notes omitted):

Paul Baier, appellate lawyer and law professor at Louisiana State University, penned a glowing endorsement of his former courtroom adversary and friend Kyle Duncan recently in The Hill. Mr. Duncan was nominated by President Trump to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals back on September 28, 2017 and his nomination is pending a full Senate confirmation vote.

The Senate recessed today for two weeks and most people are focusing on the Omnibus. The government funding issue is important but so are the people who work for the government. Using obstruction tactics in unprecedented fashion, Democrats have fought against confirming Trump appointees to run the government. As Politifact recently reported:

On March 20, Senator Orrin Hatch, the president pro tempore of the Senate, delivered an impassioned speech about the current state of federal judicial vacancies under President Trump.

RNLA Executive Director Michael Thielen wrote today in The Daily Callerabout how Democrats are trying - successfully - to seize political control by using the courts to control redistricting:

In what is turning out to be a blockbuster term for the First Amendment (Janus v. AFSCME & Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky) and redistricting cases (more generally), today the United States Supreme Court heard another highly controversial case involving compelled speech and the First Amendment: National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra.