The Daily Signal - The New Hampshire Primary, Trump Gag Order Stands | Jan. 23

Starting point is 00:00:00 I'm Brian Gottstein, and this is the Daily Signal Top News for Tuesday, January 23rd. Here are today's headlines. New Hampshire voters will head to the voting booth today. Following Florida Governor Ron DeSantis's exit from the Republican presidential primary, the Republican race has been narrowed to two candidates. Former President Donald Trump will go head to head with former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley. Trump won the Iowa caucuses by over 30 points last week with DeSantis. coming in second place and Haley and third.

Starting point is 00:00:45 The former president has a lead in the polls in New Hampshire, but regardless of the outcome, Haley is vowed to remain in the race. The political class and the media want to give Donald Trump a coronation, Haley's campaign manager wrote in a memo on Tuesday. They say the race is over. They want to throw up their hands after only 110,000 people voted in the caucuses in Iowa and say, well, I guess it's Trump. But that's not how it works, he said.

Starting point is 00:01:11 according to the Wall Street Journal, results from the race will start coming in around 7.30 tonight. The Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 on Monday that the U.S. Border Patrol has the authority to remove razor wire that's been placed by the state of Texas on the southern border to prevent illegal border crossings. Texas Governor Greg Abbott reacted on X Monday saying that he'll continue to work on stopping the flow of illegal immigration into his state. He posted, This is Not a New York. not over. Texas's razor wire is an effective deterrent to the illegal crossings Biden encourages. I'll continue to defend Texas's constitutional authority to secure the border and prevent the Biden administration from destroying our country. Other Texas lawmakers weighed in, too. Representative Chip

Starting point is 00:01:58 Roy, a Texas Republican, said that the state should still put up the razor wire. In an interview with Fox News Digital on Tuesday, he said that the state has a duty under the Constitution and every other norm of leadership of any sovereign state to protect its citizens, period, full stop. There's no exception to that. He went on to say that if the Supreme Court wants to ignore that truth, which a slim majority of the court did, Texas leaders still have the duty to defend their people. Justice's John Roberts and Amy Coney-Barritt sided with the majority in Monday's decision. Today, a Washington, D.C. Court of Appeals cited against former President Donald Trump and refused to lift a gag order on his ability to criticize witnesses in a criminal case about the

Starting point is 00:02:44 2020 election. According to Politico, the 11-member bench of the appeals court opted against reconsidering a three-judge panel's December 8th decision upholding the gag order. Trump has not commented on Tuesday's decision, but he said that the gag order is an infringement on his First Amendment rights. The court has argued that allowing Trump to speak would endanger the sanctity of the trial. Trump is barred from attacking witnesses, but not the prosecutor, special counsel, Jack Smith. Trump's only legal recourse now is an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. The New York Post reported on Tuesday that posters featuring pictures of the Hamas hostages have been defaced on the Harvard campus. Scribblings on the posters blamed Israel for the terrorist

Starting point is 00:03:29 attack on America on 9-11. The night before Harvard begins a new semester, every single Jewish hostage poster on campus has been defaced with vile anti-Semitism. Harvard Divinity School student Alexander Kestimbaum posted on X. This follows the disastrous House hearing regarding anti-Semitism on college campuses, in which now former Harvard President Claudine Gay and other college presidents seemed unwilling to criticize the pro-Hamas protesters. Gay resigned her position after the hearing, after she received intense criticism, and it was discovered that she had committed plagiarism throughout her academic career.

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The Daily Signal - The New Hampshire Primary, Trump Gag Order Stands | Jan. 23

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