Q: Does Kamala Harris support government-paid gender-affirming surgery for prison inmates and immigrant detainees? A: The government must provide medical care to prisoners and immigrant detainees. Vice President Kamala Harris expressed support in a 2019 questionnaire for “medically necessary” gender-affirming care, including surgical care, for federal prisoners and detainees. She has not detailed her position in the current campaign.

On 7 October 2023, Hamas launched an offensive into southern Israel to irrevocably shatter an unsustainable status quo. While the crisis that has now persisted for an entire year did indeed erupt on that day, it had been decades in the making. Israel's initial response was to unleash a genocidal campaign against the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip. Motivated by revenge and bloodlust, it was designed to not only kill and destroy on a massive scale...

It is somehow fitting that the High Holidays coincide with one of the grimmest anniversaries in Jewish history: That of Oct. 7, 2023, the day that thousands of Hamas terrorists invaded southern Israel, massacred almost 1,200 people with astonishing barbarity, kidnapped about 250 more and sparked a year of war that now threatens to spiral out of control. After 12 months of conflict and devastation, Israel’s people are traumatized and its economy battered. And as waves of...

One year ago this morning, Americans woke up to some of the most horrific images ever captured in the age of ubiquitous handheld cameras. We saw charred bodies; children’s beds drenched in blood; women stripped down, abducted, paraded through cheering crowds in the streets of Gaza. An army of Hamas terrorists had flooded into Israel from Gaza under the cover of thousands of rockets. They butchered babies, they raped women, they burned homes to the ground, they massacred attendees of a...

In a classic example of how political ads mislead viewers by using out-of-context quotes, a TV ad from former President Donald Trump’s campaign cites the New York Times as saying Vice President Kamala Harris “is seeking to significantly raise taxes.” Period, end of sentence. The rest of that sentence in the Times said: “on the wealthiest Americans and large corporations.” There’s more context that was left on the cutting room floor. The ad twice features a clip of Harris saying, “Taxes are...

The Supreme Court is set to hear a major case on Tuesday regarding the regulation of “ghost guns,” which are defined as untraceable firearms that can be assembled from kits sold online. In one of their first cases of the term, the nine justices are slated to weigh a 2022 rule issued by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives that aims to treat ghost gun kits and gun parts like other firearms. The so-called “Frame or Receiver” rule...

Under the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on presidential immunity, could President Richard M. Nixon have legally ordered his Plumbers to burgle the office of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist? Might they all have gotten away with it? It certainly looks that way to me, and I have a particular interest in this matter. As a young lawyer in the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office in 1971, I oversaw the burglary indictment of senior White House officials and White House operatives for...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear oral arguments in Garland v. VanDerStok, a case that promises to settle the question of whether weapon parts kits for “ghost guns” require the same regulation as complete firearms bought and sold at gun stores. The case hinges on a key question: Is a bundle of parts that can be readily assembled into a working firearm the same thing as a gun? As nine of the most powerful legal minds prepared to consider whether ghost guns qualify as firearms, Chris...

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