Source: Fox News
“Former first son and convicted felon Hunter Biden agreed to be disbarred from practicing law in Washington, D.C., court records show. Hunter Biden filed an affidavit under seal on Tuesday acknowledging his ‘consent to disbarment,’ D.C. Court of Appeals records show. Biden was ‘suspended immediately from the practice of law’ in Washington, D.C., in June 2024 following his felony conviction in a Delaware federal court. Hunter Biden will officially be disbarred if the D.C. Court of Appeals accepts a disciplinary agency’s recommendation – and his own consent – for disbarment, according to the New York Post. The former first son’s Washington, D.C., bar member standing currently reads that he is under ‘Temp Disciplinary Suspension,’ Fox News Digital found on Wednesday morning. Hunter Biden has been licensed to practice law in the nation’s capital since 2007.” (04/02/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-biden-agrees-stripped-license-practice-law-dc-court-records
Source: Washington Post
by Eduardo Porter
“Protectionists have a long history of ignoring economics when it comes to trade. Unsurprisingly, their policies often end up mugged by reality, producing awkward unexpected consequences and failing to deliver on their stated objectives: promoting domestic production and jobs. Still, you have to hand it to President Donald Trump and his advisers. Kneecapping the domestic auto industry with a 25 percent import tariff and handing over the global market to Chinese brands will be a hard oopsie to beat.” (04/02/25)
https://archive.is/ArNe7
Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“None of the people applauding Trump’s war on Yemen because ‘the Houthis are attacking ships’ will tell you why the Houthis started attacking ships. The pundits won’t say, and the people don’t know. After two weeks of interacting with people who support Trump’s war I can confidently say that none of them know why the war is happening. They know it has something to do with the Houthis attacking ships in the Red Sea, but they never have any idea why those attacks started happening in the first place. They generally assume it’s because the Houthis are just plain evil and want to attack ships, or because Iran ordered them to do it in order to take over the middle east.” (04/03/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/04/03/they-tell-you-the-houthis-attack-ships-but-they-never-tell-you-why/
Source: CBS News
“New York City Mayor Eric Adams'[s] historic federal corruption case has been dropped. Judge Dale Ho has agreed to the U.S. Department of Justice’s request to drop the charges against Adams, but he did so ‘with prejudice.’ That means Adams cannot be re-tried on the same charges at a later time — a stipulation the Justice Department sought in its initial request to dismiss the case. … In the DOJ request to drop the case, prosecutors said having it hang over Adams interfered with his 2025 mayoral campaign and his ability to cooperate with the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration. The initial request to drop the charges made note that the decision was not based on ‘the strength of the evidence or the legal theories on which the case is based.'” (04/02/25)
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-corruption-case-dropped/
Source: Libertarian Institute
“Trump White House Gives Full Throated Support for Israeli War Crimes.” (04/02/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/kyle/coi-778-trump-white-house-gives-full-throated-support-for-israeli-war-crimes/
Source: Reason
by Jacob Sullum
“Tariffs ‘will always be the best way to max out our economic power,’ President Donald Trump declared during his first term, predicting that his trade war would ‘MAKE AMERICA RICH AGAIN.’ Not rich enough, apparently, because Trump is still touting the magic of tariffs, which he says will ‘pay off our debt’ and ‘MAKE AMERICA WEALTHY AGAIN!’ Judging from the dizzying array of tariffs that Trump has imposed this time around, he believes what he says. But his faith is rooted in claims that are logically inconsistent as well as economically implausible.” (04/02/25)
https://reason.com/2025/04/02/the-logical-contradictions-of-trumps-case-for-tariffs/
Source: Reuters
“Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared sympathetic on Wednesday to South Carolina’s bid to strip Planned Parenthood of funding under the Medicaid program in a case that could bolster efforts by Republican-led states to deprive the reproductive healthcare and abortion provider of public money. The justices heard arguments in South Carolina’s appeal of a lower court’s decision barring the Republican-governed state from terminating Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood South Atlantic.” (04/02/25)
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-supreme-court-mulls-south-carolinas-effort-defund-planned-parenthood-2025-04-02/
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Lora Karch
“As Syria begins to collapse into another civil war, western nations brace for the inevitable surge of Syrian refugees to their borders. Amid a national immigration crisis, America should consider how its own foreign policy perpetuates this problem. Over 1,500 people have been killed since the clashes earlier in March, including 1,000 civilians. Many call it the worst violence we’ve seen since Bashar al-Assad’s fall in December, yet it’s nothing new for those monitoring the situation since the Arab Spring. In America, immigration discussions among both political camps overlook how U.S. foreign policy contributes to the growing problem. Syria’s fourteen-year conflict demonstrates how American hard power intervention worsens conditions on the ground for civilians, prompts mass migration, and enables extremists to assume control.” (04/02/25)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/got-immigration-problems-fix-foreign-policy-first
Source: US News & World Report
“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to arrive in Hungary’s capital on Wednesday to meet with the country’s nationalist prime minister despite an international arrest warrant for the Israeli leader over the war in the Gaza Strip. Netanyahu’s four-day visit to Budapest is a sign of both his close relationship with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and the latter’s growing hostility toward international institutions, like the International Criminal Court, of which his country is a member. Orbán, a conservative populist and close Netanyahu ally, has vowed to disregard the ICC warrant against the Israeli leader, accusing the world’s top war crimes court based in The Hague, Netherlands, of ‘interfering in an ongoing conflict for political purposes.'” (04/02/25)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-04-02/israeli-leader-benjamin-netanyahu-will-visit-orban-in-hungary-defying-international-arrest-warrant
Source: Pioneer Institute
“Hoover’s Dr. James Lynn Woodworth on CREDO, NCES, & Data-Driven Policy.” (04/02/25)
https://pioneerinstitute.org/learning-curve/hoovers-dr-james-lynn-woodworth-on-credo-nces-data-driven-policy/
