The Federalist Daily Briefing for 01/22/2020

Your daily update of new content from The Federalist Be lovers of freedom and anxious for the fray Is this email not displaying correctly? [View it in your browser](. January 22, 2020 [As The Impeachment Trial Begins, Democrats Are Losing Their Minds]( By John Daniel Davidson Having realized their impeachment gambit is failing, Democrats have resorted to accusing Sen. Mitch McConnell of a coverup and calling the trial 'rigged.' [Full article]( [Why I Love Bernie But Wouldn’t Vote For Him In 2020]( By Saritha Prabhu Sen. Bernie Sanders’ about-turn on illegal immigration is his Achilles heel, plus some of his followers scare the wits out of me. [Full article]( [Supreme Court To Decide If Atheism Can Keep Its Monopoly On K-12 Schools]( By Joy Pullmann Today the Supreme Court hears a case that could undo a century of decisions that have attacked and undermined religious beliefs by secularizing public education. [Full article]( [We’re All Ready For This Impeachment Schiff Show To Be Over]( By Kylee Zempel Just when you thought Adam Schiff had reached maximum sleaze, word breaks he likely mischaracterized evidence related to Trump's impeachment trial. [Full article]( [CMT Just Pledged To Play Male And Female Artists The Same, But Will It Matter?]( By Emily Jashinsky Country music should amplify the voices of 'flyover state' women, often women of faith, who lack proper representation in media and popular culture. [Full article]( [Bloomberg’s Plan For Black Americans Doubles Down On The Left’s Failures]( By Willis L. Krumholz Michael Bloomberg's new plan is a perfect example of the failure of center-left policy concoctions meant to help black Americans, invariably cooked up by rich liberals. [Full article]( [New York Times Endorsement Of Warren And Klobuchar Reeks Of Ignorant Pomposity]( By Sumantra Maitra The entire endorsement is a play for the 'we’re all winners' generation. To prioritize one candidate would require courage, which cannot be expected from the newspaper that pushes the ahistorical '1619 Project' for clicks. [Full article]( [Chinese Ambassador Attempts To Bully Sweden Into Ignoring Human Rights Abuses]( By Helen Raleigh Sweden has learned Beijing will not hesitate to use its might to coerce its will onto others, but Chinese diplomats' belligerent behaviors should be a wake-up call to countries all around the world. [Full article]( [‘One Child Nation’ Condemns Abortion Even If Its Director Thinks Otherwise]( By Kody Cooper Nanfu Wang’s opinion notwithstanding, ‘One Child Nation’s’ central message is not a celebration of autonomy. Rather, it is an exposé of evils of abortion. [Full article]( [What I Saw At The Richmond Second Amendment Rally]( By Todd Hester A large group of people assembled peaceably to air their grievances and to state that, unless something changes, our consent to be governed is being revoked. [Full article]( [Schiff Likely Mischaracterized Parnas Evidence During Impeachment Trial]( By Tristan Justice The lead House impeachment manager, Rep. Adam Schiff of California, likely mischaracterized evidence brought forward by Lev Parnas in a letter last week. [Full article]( [Adam Schiff Would Be The Last Person To Get A GOP Senator To ‘Cross Over’]( By Erielle Davidson If the Democrats want to garner crossover votes in the impeachment trial, Rep. Adam Schiff is the last person who should be managing the impeachment circus. [Full article]( [Trump Attorney Pat Cipollone: ‘The President Has Done Absolutely Nothing Wrong’]( By John Daniel Davidson In his scorching opening statement before the Senate, Cipollone said there is 'no case' against Trump, and that there is nothing to Democrats' allegations. [Full article]( [Impeachment Has Become A Dangerous New Normal]( By David Marcus For 187 years, the United States had only one president face impeachment. Since 1974, three have. This is a disturbing and dangerous trajectory. [Full article]( [Podcast: Impeachment Popularity Contests, Soleimani, And Threat Of War]( By The Federalist Staff Gene Healy, vice president at the Cato Institute, joins Ben Domenech on this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour. [Full article]( [Hillary Clinton: Democrats Don’t Have Enough Control Of Media To ‘Influence Americans’ Thinking’]( By Emily Jashinsky Hillary Clinton thinks Democrats lack power in media. She envies the right's alleged 'long game' success at 'really influenc[ing] the thinking of Americans.' [Full article]( [New England Patriots’ Benjamin Watson Producing Pro-Life Documentary]( By Chrissy Clark New England Patriots' tight end Benjamin Watson announced he is producing a pro-life documentary and interviewed Americans on both sides of the aisle. [Full article]( [New York Times Endorsement Virtue Signals Between Two Far-Left Female Senators]( By Tristan Justice The New York Times endorsed two female senators on opposite ends of left-wing radicalism who happen to be the only competitive women left in the race. [Full article]( [Hillary Clinton Shreds Bernie Sanders And His Dupe Supporters In New Docuseries: ‘Nobody Likes Him’]( By Chrissy Clark In a pre-interview leading up to the Sundance release of the new docuseries 'Hillary,' Hillary Clinton expanded on her problems with Sen. Bernie Sanders. [Full article]( CAUGHT BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE the ultimate outcome, the New York Times’s decision to make an unprecedented reality show out of their endorsement process this year seems all the more ridiculous. Here we have the most powerful old media entity in the country, at the peak of heightened access to any of the candidates for 2020, and after all that, they couldn’t make up their minds? But if failure is a choice, it seems clear that this choice was motivated by being caught between a rock and a hard place – what the Democratic partisan traditionalists at the Times wanted to send as a message, and what they know their readers want to see from the Times after several years of increasing dissatisfaction with their handful of intransigent centrists. Read more of The Transom by signing up for a [free trial]( today. [follow on Twitter](Twitter Account not yet Authorized) | [friend on Facebook](#) | [forward to a friend]( Copyright © 2020 The Federalist, All rights reserved. You are receiving this e-mail because you opted in to receive e-mail updates from TheFederalist.com. Our mailing address is: The Federalist 611 Pennsylvania Ave SE #247Washington, DC 20003-4303 [Add us to your address book]( [unsubscribe from this list]( | [update subscription preferences]( | [view email in browser](