Remember when the Left used to go ballistic over President Trump’s propensity to lob rhetorical bombs into pending investigations and prosecutions?Good times, good times.Well, Trump is gone and, mirabile dictu, and we’re beginning to notice that the Left’s provocateurs are . . . lobbing rhetorical bombs into the most consequential prosecution in the nation — the murder trial of Derek Chauvin in the George Floyd case.Indeed, it is worse than that. For all the downsides of his unhinged commentary, Trump never took matters to the point of jury intimidation, as the preternaturally unhinged...…Remember when the Left used to go ballistic over President Trump’s propensity to lob rhetorical bombs into pending investigations and prosecutions?Good times, good times.Well, Trump is gone and, mirabile dictu, and we’re beginning to notice that the Left’s provocateurs are . . . lobbing rhetorical bombs into the most consequential prosecution in the nation — the murder trial of Derek Chauvin in the George Floyd case.Indeed, it is worse than that. For all the downsides of his unhinged commentary, Trump never took matters to the point of jury intimidation, as the preternaturally unhinged...WW…
by Andrew C. McCarthy, opinion contributor - 04/14/21 8:30 AM ETThe views expressed by contributors are their own and not the view of The Hill✕It is human nature that we tend to remember the bright side of history, especially when it’s the side that supports lessons we hope to apply in the here and now. It gives us comfort that the sky is not falling.So it is with conservatives and the Biden court-packing theater, also known as the . Court-packing, of course, became a major issue in the 1930s, when progressives were, as today, both ascendant and frustrated. They consolidated power...…by Andrew C. McCarthy, opinion contributor - 04/14/21 8:30 AM ETThe views expressed by contributors are their own and not the view of The Hill✕It is human nature that we tend to remember the bright side of history, especially when it’s the side that supports lessons we hope to apply in the here and now. It gives us comfort that the sky is not falling.So it is with conservatives and the Biden court-packing theater, also known as the . Court-packing, of course, became a major issue in the 1930s, when progressives were, as today, both ascendant and frustrated. They consolidated power...WW…
‘We have not seen evidence of any individuals affiliated with the Trump team in contact with [Russian intelligence officers].”How much wasted time on pointless investigations could have been prevented had Peter Strzok, then one of the FBI’s top counterintelligence officials who was spearheading the bureau’s Trump-Russia investigation, said this publicly one month into President Trump’s term?But no, it was a private note by Strzok, for consumption within the FBI, to debunk a Feb. 14, 2017, New York Times article. The news story, a compilation by five of the Times’ top reporters, working four...…‘We have not seen evidence of any individuals affiliated with the Trump team in contact with [Russian intelligence officers].”How much wasted time on pointless investigations could have been prevented had Peter Strzok, then one of the FBI’s top counterintelligence officials who was spearheading the bureau’s Trump-Russia investigation, said this publicly one month into President Trump’s term?But no, it was a private note by Strzok, for consumption within the FBI, to debunk a Feb. 14, 2017, New York Times article. The news story, a compilation by five of the Times’ top reporters, working four...WW…