Oct. 26, 2017
Good morning from Washington, where lawmakers appear on their way to putting a stop to the Obama administration practice of diverting the proceeds of legal settlements to political friends. Kevin Mooney reports. We’ve also got the latest on immigration enforcement and sanctuary cities, from Fred Lucas, and what conservatives hope to see in tax cuts, from Rachel del Guidice. Plus: Melanie Israel on that government-assisted abortion for an illegal minor, and we take you live to the beleaguered Peace Cross. Prepared to intern at The Daily Signal? Apply here for the spring semester.
President Obama's Justice Department created a "slush fund" of nearly $1 billion using legal settlements with banks and steered those funds to political allies on the left while excluding conservative groups, internal documents show.
Sonoma County jail wouldn’t give ICE custody of illegal immigrant Nery Israel Estrada Margos, who was behind bars for felony domestic battery. Two weeks after his release, he turned himself into police after beating up his girlfriend Veronica Cabrera Ramirez.
The young woman was approximately 16 weeks pregnant, meaning her baby was the size of an avocado, had started growing toenails, and had a heart pumping 25 quarts of blood per day.
A federal appeals court ruled that the cross, built in 1925, "has the primary effect of endorsing religion and excessively entangles the government in religion."
"I fundamentally think that our taxpayers, it's their money first," says Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa. "I never subscribed to that whole thing about giving it back to them. We shouldn't take it from them in the first place."
President Obama, father of two daughters, held hands with sleazeball shutterbug Terry Richardson while giving a big thumbs up and grinning from ear to ear.
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