Following hours of testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday regarding her involvement in the General Flynn fiasco as well as her rather unprecedented refusal to defend President Trump's travel ban, Judicial Watch has filed a FOIA lawsuit against the Department of Justice seeking all of Yates' emails from her time at the DOJ. Per Judicial Watch:
A passenger fight broke out at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Monday night after angry Spirit Airlines travelers faced massive delays and flight cancellations due to labor issues with the carrier's pilot's union, which have resulted in over 300 flight cancelations over the past 7 days. Video posted online showed upset passengers confronting airline employees as Broward Sheriff's deputies were on hand attempting to keep order in the terminal after at least nine flights were canceled.
Last week we noted that Chicago's police officers were taking their own lives in record numbers...the devastating consequence of having to work everyday in the "war zone" that is Chicago (see: "Chicago Is A War Zone": Police Suicide Rate Surges To 60% Above The National Average).
Having been dealt a number of legal defeats at the hands of Obama-appointed judges in the early days of his administration, Trump is preparing to fill roughly 120 vacancies on lower federal courts around the country. The first of those new appointments will come later today in the first slate of 10 nominees, which will be followed by "monthly waves of nominations" according to a White House official quoted by the New York Times.
Authored by Robert Taylor via The Mises Institute,
Any state, no matter how powerful, cannot not rule solely through the use of brute force. There are too few rulers and too many of us for coercion alone to be an effective means of control. The political class must rely on ideology to achieve popular compliance, masking the iron fist in a velvet glove. Violence is always behind every state action, but the most efficient form of expropriation occurs when the public believes it is in their interest to be extorted.