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Dec 26, 2023
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Biden’s Lawfare by Other Means

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Hawaii aims to punish out-of-state companies for national — indeed international — temperature changes. Biden’s Justice Department is aiding it.
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Hawaii aims to punish out-of-state companies for national — indeed international — temperature changes. Biden’s Justice Department is aiding it.
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President Joe Biden gifted a lump of coal to the families of the victims of the 37 convicted killers whom he pardoned this week. And, on his way out the door, he’s using his power over law enforcement to drop coal lumps also on American industry and the economy — by making energy companies vulnerable to concocted legal theories about their supposed concealment of climate change.

Biden’s recent pardons underscore the presidency’s nearly absolute control over federal law enforcement. As the sole officer charged by the Constitution to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed,” the president not only sets ...

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