Stephen Dinan
Articles by Stephen Dinan
Biden got 255,000 ‘excess’ votes in fraud-tainted swing states in 2020, study finds
President Biden received hundreds of thousands of "excess" votes in Democratic-controlled areas in the 2020 election, according to an academic study on voter fraud that suggests the push to relax voting standards created new opportunities for electoral mischief. Published March 28, 2022
Biden’s new budget would siphon unspent money from border wall
President Biden's new budget would take $2 billion in unspent border wall money and allow it to be spent instead on building roads or cutting down brush along the U.S.-Mexico boundary. Published March 28, 2022
IRS still paying pandemic benefits to dead people: Audit
The IRS is still paying pandemic benefits to dead people, the agency's inspector general has revealed in a new report that identified tens of thousands of erroneous payments. Published March 25, 2022
Supreme Court: Texas must accommodate condemned man, let pastor ‘lay hands’ on him during execution
A Texas man facing execution can request to have his pastor pray aloud and be touching him as the state carries out a lethal injection, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday. Published March 24, 2022
Biden to welcome 100,000 Ukrainians as U.S. becomes refugee safety valve
The White House announced plans Thursday to welcome 100,000 Ukrainian migrants fleeing Russia's war on their country, the latest in a series of moves to make the U.S. immigration system a safety valve for those fleeing global trouble spots. Published March 24, 2022
DHS finalizes plan to take over border asylum cases
Homeland Security released a final regulation Thursday taking control of decisions in border asylum cases, in a move analysts said is likely to lead to faster -- and more -- approvals. Published March 24, 2022
Democrats confident of Judge Jackson’s confirmation, accuse GOP of ‘conspiracy theories’ in hearings
Two days of headlines about Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's sentencing decisions for child pornography offenders don't appear to have derailed her path to the Supreme Court, according to Democrats who control her fate. Published March 23, 2022
Judge Jackson says she would recuse herself from Harvard admissions case
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said Wednesday that if she wins confirmation to the Supreme Court, she plans to recuse herself from an upcoming case involving race in admissions policies at Harvard University. Published March 23, 2022
Dems on defense, slam GOP for claims Judge Jackson is soft on crime, child porn
Democrats lashed out at Republicans Wednesday over their probing questions of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, saying the GOP was trying to tarnish the Supreme Court nominee and Black Harvard-trained woman with "conspiracy theories and culture war theories." Published March 23, 2022
Feds say EMS employee used his ambulance to smuggle illegal immigrants
A Texas emergency services employee has been charged with using an ambulance to try to sneak illegal immigrants deeper into the U.S. by trying to claim he was carrying a COVID-19 patient to a hospital. Published March 23, 2022
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson pushes back on scrutiny over light sentencing in child porn cases
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson vehemently rejected accusations of leniency toward child pornography offenders, telling senators Tuesday that she was following Congress' instructions when she habitually delivered sentences well below what guidelines suggested. Published March 22, 2022
GOP: Democrats hiding Ketanji Brown Jackson’s records on weak child-porn sentencing
Republicans accused Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee of hiding documents from them during the confirmation hearing Tuesday for Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson related to her sentencing of felons convicted of child porn crimes. Published March 22, 2022
Federal judge rules Biden’s lax deportation policy is illegal
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas broke the law when he wrote new rules limiting which illegal immigrants can be arrested or deported, a federal judge ruled Tuesday, slapping an injunction on ICE that will limit its ability to pick and choose whom to target. Published March 22, 2022
Ketanji Brown Jackson says having women on Supreme Court ‘supports public confidence’
Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said Tuesday it would be "extremely meaningful" for four women to sit on the Supreme Court should she be confirmed. Published March 22, 2022
McConnell warns of ‘utter meltdown’ at border if Biden ends pandemic shutdown
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell warned Tuesday of an "utter meltdown" at the southern border if the Biden administration ditches the Trump-era COVID policy allowing illegal immigrants to be expelled back to Mexico. Published March 22, 2022
Ketanji Brown Jackson refuses to weigh in on court packing
Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson refused Tuesday to weigh in on whether there should be more than nine justices on the high court, a move progressive activists have advocated for in recent years. Published March 22, 2022
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson cites originalism as judicial philosophy
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on Tuesday stressed her "limited" role as a federal judge, describing a judicial philosophy that resonated with even some conservative legal observers. Published March 22, 2022
Judge Jackson makes early overtures to Republicans during confirmation hearing
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson told senators Monday that she believes the Constitution grants a "limited" role to judges, kicking off her Supreme Court confirmation hearing with an early overture to Republicans who will decide how difficult a path she has to the high court. Published March 21, 2022
Documents show FAA ruled border drone ban illegal, then reversed the decision after DHS call
The Federal Aviation Administration had decided it was illegal to ban drones flying over the border in Del Rio, Texas, amid last year's surge of Haitian migrants, but imposed the ban after pleading by a Homeland Security official, according to emails obtained by House GOP investigators. Published March 21, 2022
Border Patrol union fears agents getting railroaded in DHS probe of ‘whipping’ Haitian migrants
President Biden was adamant after images of tense confrontations between horse-mounted Border Patrol agents and Haitian migrants emerged in September, vowing that the agents "will pay." Published March 19, 2022
