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On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:

• The Biden administration is taking another step toward making “all vehicles, including gas-powered cars and heavy-duty trucks, cleaner and more efficient,” according to a White House Fact Sheet. 
• An economist says that “inflation is far from dead” after the consumer price index report showed inflation rose 0.1% in March, up 5% from March 2022, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Wednesday. 
• A Society of Family Planning report released yesterday found that an estimated 32,000 lives were spared from abortion between July 2022, a month after Roe v. Wade was overturned, and December 2022. 
• South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott has announced an exploratory committee for the 2024 presidential election, indicating he plans to run for President. 
• NPR is leaving Twitter 

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On Good Friday, a federal judge in Texas handed down a potentially historic abortion ruling. 

The case at hand revolves around the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone. In 2000, the FDA approved the use of mifepristone to be used along with the drug misoprostol to terminate a pregnancy. But some medical experts have argued the FDA's approval was rushed and unlawful. 

In 2022, a group of pro-life medical professionals and an organization represented by Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian legal organization, filed a lawsuit against the FDA arguing that it had improperly approved the abortion pill, and federal Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk for the Northern District of Texas agreed. 

“The Court does not second-guess FDA’s decision-making lightly,” Kacsmaryk wrote in his ruling. “But here, FDA acquiesced on its legitimate safety concerns—in violation of its statutory duty—based on plainly unsound reasoning and studies that did not support its conclusions.”

Denise Harle, Alliance Defending Freedom senior counsel, joins the show today to discuss what the ruling means and the likelihood of the case ultimately rising to the Supreme Court. Harle also breaks down a ruling the same day by a judge in Washington state in favor of continued access to the abortion pill. 

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On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:

• On Friday afternoon, a Judge in Texas ruled that the Food and Drug administration was wrong to approve the abortion pill mifepristone. 
• Fox News reports that the Biden administration was reportedly involved with the raid of former President Donald Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago on August 8 though officials were “stunned” when they found out about the raid.
• The Gang of Eight, which is a group of congressional leaders, now have access to classified documents from former President Donald Trump, President Joe Biden, and Former Vice President Mike Pence. 
• Fox News reports that the FBI recently sought to develop sources inside both Christian churches and Catholic dioceses as part of an effort to combat domestic terrorism. 
• Rep. Jim Jordan’s letter: https://twitter.com/Weaponization/status/1645478587741372431
• Sen. Josh Hawley’s letter: https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1645834023208452096
• Defense Department documents leaked 
• Louisville bank shooter live streamed attack on Instagram 

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The attorney general of Florida, together with a religious liberty legal group, is suing Jane’s Revenge for targeting and attacking pro-life pregnancy resource centers.

“If you use violence to injure or intimidate … pregnancy care centers across the country, you will be held accountable,” says Jeremy Dys, special counsel for litigation and communications at First Liberty.

First Liberty has joined a lawsuit filed by Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody against Caleb Freestone and Amber Smith-Stewart. According to Moody, Freestone and Smith-Stewart are members of the far-left group Antifa and the radical pro-abortion group Jane’s Revenge.

The Plano, Texas-based national legal group and Moody contend that Freestone and Smith-Stewart violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, accused of vandalizing three Florida pregnancy help centers after the leak last May of the draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade on abortion in late June.

“We believe that violence is never a lawful response to political disagreement,” Dys says, adding that the “law compels this lawsuit to hold them accountable.”

The suit is seeking $170,000 in penalties against each defendant who stands accused of vandalizing three Florida pregnancy resource centers.

Dys joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain how the members of Jane’s Revenge were identified and the consequences they could face.

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Judge Kyle Duncan, a conservative on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, arrived on the Stanford Law School campus on March 9. He was there to deliver remarks to students at an event hosted by the campus Federalist Society group, but Duncan never had the opportunity to deliver his talk. 

Upon entering the lecture call, students began heckling Duncan, preventing him from speaking. Finally Tirien Steinbach, associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion at Stanford Law, stood up and took the podium. For about six minutes, she spoke to the students and to Duncan. 

“For many people in this law school … your advocacy, your opinions from the bench land as absolute disenfranchisement of their rights,” Steinbach said. 

When Duncan tried to respond, Steinbach told the judge, “Please let me finish.” Multiple students began shouting, “Let her finish” as they pounded their desks. 

Duncan stood by and allowed Steinbach to complete her lecture. Now, the media watchdog group Accuracy in Media is calling on Stanford Law to dismiss Steinbach. 

“These crybullies throw metaphorical punches all day long and they never have to take one in return, and that's where we step in," Adam Guillette, president of Accuracy in Media, says. 

Accuracy in Media has a mobile billboard on the Stanford campus naming the students who heckled Duncan and calling for Steinbach’s termination.  

The law school did issue an apology and has placed Steinbach on paid leave, but has stopped short of terminating her. 

“These people, who think they know it all and seek to lecture federal judges, don't even apply the basic level of common sensewhich makes sense because they don't apply the basic level of civility,” Guillette says. 

Guillette joins "The Daily Signal Podcast" today to explain how Accuracy in Media is advocating that Steinbach be fired. He also explains how his organization has gone undercover in public schools to expose how classrooms teach diversity, equity, and inclusion. 

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On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:

• Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg may have violated former President Donald Trump’s 6th Amendment rights. 
• Three Democratic Tennessee state representatives may be removed from office for disrupting the chamber floor in an anti-Second Amendment rights display. 
• An exclusive report by Propublica claims Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has accepted multiple luxury trips from a wealthy businessman without disclosing them. 
• According to the Associated Press, more than 150 Catholic priests and others associated with the Archdiocese of Baltimore sexually abused more than 600 children over an 80 year time frame. 
• Grammy award-winning Country singer Travis Tritt announces he is removing Anheuser-Busch products from the list of items he asks for in his hospitality suit during tours. 
• Pope Francis washes the feet of a dozen people in a juvenile prison in Rome. 

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Angel Studios Co-Founder Jordan Harmon and filmmaker David Helling explain the surprise hit success of the Bible film "His Only Son," in theaters now. It beat out "Creed III" in theaters on opening weekend, hitting no. 3 at the Box Office.

Supporters have also purchased 16,000 tickets for other people to see the film.

Go to angel.com/son to purchase tickets, angel.com/pay-it-forward to purchase tickets for others, and angel.com/freetickets to pick up free tickets to see the film.

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The indictment of former President Donald Trump is unprecedented in American history. However, other former vice presidents and presidential candidates have faced legal problems.

Fred Lucas and Jarrett Stepman join The Daily Signal podcast to discuss the bizarre presidential election of 1920, when socialist candidate Eugene V. Debs ran for office from prison. They also touch on the treason trial of vice president Aaron Burr and other presidents and vice presidents getting in legal hot water.

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On today’s Daily Signal Top News, we break down:

• President Donald Trump has called to defund federal law enforcement agencies just one day after he appeared in New York City for his arraignment hearing. 
• State Representative Tricia Cotham announced that she was switching to the Republican Party during a press conference this morning. 
• Brandon Johnson won the mayoral election on Tuesday night. Johnson is replacing Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who lost her bid for reelection last month. 
• Milwaukee County Judge Janet Protasiewicz won a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court
• The police officers who responded to the mass shooting that killed three students and three faculty members at the Covenant School in Nashville spoke out for the first time since the shooting occurred. 
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5heod2B_hz8

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Passover begins with a Seder meal to “remember what our ancestors went through,” Rabbi Pinchas Taylor says.

“You do physical actions and experience physical tastes and motions and whatnot to … not only tell over the story, but reexperience the story as it took place,” says Taylor, the author of “Pillars of Faith” and “A Jewish Guide to the Mysterious.”

Passover begins at sunset on Wednesday, and in addition to celebrating the Jews’ deliverance from the Egyptians, Taylor says Passover is also a time to reflect on how we can each leave our “own inner-Egypt.”

“What are the things that are holding me back?” Taylor encourages all to ask during the week of Passover. “What is constraining me? What is limiting me in my life? And how can I make the proper steps to liberate myself? Because when a person takes that first step, God helps them along the way as well. God will split seas for those that walk courageously forward.”

Taylor joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss how the Jewish community continues to celebrate Passover and the symbolism behind the traditions.

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