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Fox News reports: Attorneys general in 19 states are warning Costco “to end all unlawful discrimination imposed by the company through diversity, equity, and inclusion” policies to reflect President Donald Trump’s recent executive order booting DEI out of federal agencies and warning private sectors to do the same. “Racial discrimination is both immoral and illegal. Race-based employment hiring violates state …

ABC News reports: Buckley Carlson, a former Capitol Hill aide and the son of conservative media personality Tucker Carlson, is set to join Vice President JD Vance’s press office, sources tell ABC News. The younger Carlson is set to serve as Vance’s deputy press secretary, sources said. Buckley Carlson has worked as an aide on Capitol Hill since 2019, including …

Politico reports: Gov. Ron DeSantis wanted Florida to be the state that led the nation in enacting the MAGA agenda. But it seems the normally compliant Florida Legislature has other ideas. It’s a staggering turn of events for a governor used to getting his own way — and a test of his national staying power as he stares down the …

Jacksonville’s Fox affiliate reports: The Vice Chair of the Clay Soil and Water Conservation Board, and son of Clay County School Board Member Beth Clark, was arrested Sunday, January 19th in a child sex sting operation conducted by the Nassau County Sheriff’s Office. According to the arrest report, Harrison “Ted” Clark is accused of traveling to meet a child for …

Playbook reports: The House GOP will descend upon Miami later today for a policy retreat which will have seismic implications for Trump’s second term. Republican representatives are this morning boarding flights to Florida for a 48-hour retreat at — where else? — the Trump National Doral Miami. The guest of honor will be Trump himself, who is due to address …

Florida Politics reports: Consistent with Gov. Ron DeSantis’ request for legislation aligning with what President Donald Trump seeks from state efforts to fight illegal immigration, Spring Hill Republican Sen. Blaise Ingoglia filed legislation on Sunday that satisfies a robust range of crackdown targets. Senate Bill 2A offers a version of the “rebuttable presumption” DeSantis wanted, one that assumes detained illegal …

The Associated Press reports: The Trump administration has fired about 17 independent inspectors general at government agencies, a sweeping action to remove oversight of his new administration that some members of Congress are suggesting violated federal oversight laws. Congress was not given the legally required 30-day notices about the removals — something that even a top Republican is decrying. “There …

The Texas Tribune reports: Republicans are filing bills which aim to claw back vaccine requirements. There is even a House joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Texas Constitution that would preserve Texans’ right to refuse a vaccination. The proposal is among more than 20 bills endorsed by Texans For Vaccine Choice that have been filed, most of them before …

The New York Post reports: A Republican congresswoman is calling for the new commander in chief to be carved into the historic Mount Rushmore alongside fellow presidents Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Teddy Roosevelt. Florida Freshman Rep. Anna Paulina Luna echoed calls from conservatives and claims she will be introducing legislation to set it in stone. The patriotic …

Axios reports: Vice President Vance said in an interview aired Sunday that the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has “not been a good partner in common sense immigration enforcement” after the assembly condemned several of President Trump’s executive orders. A number of Christian organizations rebuked Trump’s immigration executive orders in the days after his inauguration, noting how they violate core …

“He had the legal authority to do it. But I fear that you will get more violence. Pardoning the people who went into the Capitol and beat up a police officer violently I think was a mistake, because it seems to suggest that’s an okay thing to do. “Biden pardoned half his family going out the door. I think most …

The Hill reports: Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.) is urging DHS to spare some migrants from Latin America and the Caribbean from being deported under the new administration’s immigration guidelines. She asked the acting DHS Secretary Benjamine Huffman to continue “protecting” Venezuelans, Haitians, Cubans and Nicaraguans who do not have criminal records and were permitted to enter and work in …

Politico reports: Speaker Mike Johnson on Saturday extended an invitation for President Donald Trump to address a joint session of Congress on March 4, the first in Trump’s second presidency. In a letter to the president, Johnson invited Trump to “share your America First vision for our legislative future,” thanking him for his “strong leadership and bold action” in the …

The Tallahassee Democrat reports: Florida voters have used the citizens’ initiative process in recent years to usher in medical marijuana, a higher minimum wage and voting rights for those previously convicted of felonies. But their ability to advance future changes wanted by most voters yet opposed or disregarded by state lawmakers could soon be eliminated — if Gov. Ron DeSantis …

“The purpose of the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause was to overturn the Dred Scott case, not to bestow citizenship on those present in the U.S. against the people’s will as expressed in law. “The executive order will be litigated until the Supreme Court decides the question, which it has never decided, of whether children born to illegal aliens get constitutionally-mandated …

Boise’s NPR affiliate reports: The House State Affairs Committee overwhelmingly passed a resolution asking the Supreme Court to overturn its 2015 Obergefell vs. Hodges decision, which gave same-sex couples the right to marry nationwide. The resolution was passed 13 to 2 and now goes to the full House for further debate. Rep. Heather Scott [photo above] defended the measure saying …

Via press release from Sen. Mitch McConnell: “Mere desire to be a ‘change agent’ is not enough to fill these shoes. And ‘dust on boots’ fails even to distinguish this nominee from multiple predecessors of the last decade. Nor is it a precondition for success. Secretaries with distinguished combat experience and time in the trenches have failed at the job. …

CBS News reports: The Senate is poised to hold a vote to confirm Pete Hegseth, President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as secretary of defense, late Friday evening. Hegseth lost the support of two Senate Republicans during that Thursday vote. Those two Republicans, Sens. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski, are once again expected to cast votes against Hegseth during a …

Florida Politics reports: In front of a national stage at the March for Life rally, Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has framed himself as a champion for the pro-life movement, was inconsistent on his own history regarding abortion legislation. DeSantis told the crowd he ran for re-election on the Heartbeat Protection Act and was proof that Republicans could get elected after …

The Associated Press reports: The Supreme Court agreed Friday to take on a new culture war dispute: whether the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school should be allowed to open in Oklahoma. The justices said they would review an Oklahoma Supreme Court decision that invalidated a state board’s approval of an application by the Catholic Church in Oklahoma to …