The Platform Committee began meeting today, in preparation for next week's Republican National Convention.  

RNLA Member James Bopp, Jr., wrote a nice informative blog post over at The Hill yesterday discussing convention delegates and the current RNC rules. Now, most familiar with the situation know that the idea of a revolt on the floor has been an impossibility for some time. Yet, the mainstream media and liberals continue to try and resuscitate the movement like voters from beyond the grave in California.

We have addressed the left’s persistent attacks on the first amendment frequently on this blog. Take a look back at Obama’s Lawyer, the attacks on Fox News, Ann Ravel’s unintelligible partisan dribble about her own agency, and even Attorneys General issuing harassing subpoenas on non-profit organizations for expressing a point of view.  The concerns are numerous and provide a grim picture of the underlying intent of the attacks.  

There is currently a high level of excitement and speculation surrounding potential running mates for the presumptive Republican Presidential Nominee Donald J. Trump. While no one outside the inner circle knows for sure what is going to happen, those who attended the RNLA National Policy Conference in 2009 received an inside look at the vetting process in an address by former Reagan White House Counsel Arthur B. Culvahouse, Jr., who is also in charge of the Trump VP vetting process.  

"Let me repeat what I have repeated for many months now," [Hillary] Clinton responded. "I never received nor sent any material that was marked classified."

As we described yesterday, Fox News was targeted by FEC Democrats for hosting a Republican presidential primary debate.  

Democrats in federal agencies continue the assault on the rights of U.S. citizens by forcing partisan policy through executive actions and regulatory overreach in place of actual legislation or the rule of law. The separation of powers has never been more crucial in our history than it is right now because of the recent regulation trends. As a citizen, regardless of your party affiliation, you should be paying extremely close attention to the Obama administration's continued attempts to circumnavigate and regulate the greatest of all of our freedoms: the freedom of speech.

On May 18, 2016, Donald Trump released a list of eleven names that he would consider as Supreme Court nominees. The list has been heralded as a who’s who of some of the best conservative judges in the country. We are going to be spending some time on this blog looking at the candidates.

In his dissent to the Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt opinion yesterday, Justice Thomas delivered a strong defense of the rule of law (citations omitted):

This is yet another case in a series of recent cases that we have discussed on this blog indicating a dangerous trend of politicizing justice. It has continued to be a favorite tactic utilized by the left while attempting to silence those with differing opinions. We discussed it when groups attempted to enforce the law of the land , again when the left went after Rick Perry,  then when a leftist AG harassed non-profits involved in scientific research, once again with the current DOJ attorney’s ethics violations in U.S. v. Texas and finally in the Planned Parenthood allegations against David Daleiden.