Josh Hawley – The News Desk

22Dec

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Josh Hawley Loves Lina Khan

Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley doesn’t hide his disdain for Mitch McConnell. But does he have to take Republican administrative agency appointees hostage to spite the Senate Minority leader?Mr. Hawley on Wednesday told Mr. McConnell in a letter that he would deny unanimous consent this week to confirm Republicans Andrew Ferguson to the Federal Trade Commission and Todd Inman to the National Transportation Safety Board. The Senate left town for the year without voting on the nominees. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

12Nov

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Hawley Aims at Wokeness and Misses

Nov. 12, 2023 12:51 pm ETConservatives celebrated when the Supreme Court ruled, in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010), that corporations have a right to free speech. Now Sen. Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) has joined Bernie Sanders to propose legislation that defies Citizens United. Mr. Hawley is up front about wanting to silence publicly traded corporations because he doesn’t like what some have to say. “Corporate America has funneled billions of dollars into elections in favor of politicians who favor their woke, social agendas,” he says in a press release. He wants to “hold mega-corporations’ feet to the fire and stop their dollars from buying our elections.” He exhorts: “To my conservative friends, listen, there is no reason we should want to empower these mega-corporations....

Josh Hawley’s Unoriginal Constitution – WSJ

7Nov

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Josh Hawley’s Unoriginal Constitution – WSJ

Since the Supreme Court unleashed independent political spending in 2010’s Citizens United v. FEC, progressives have forecast the ruin of American politics by corporate spending. More than a decade on, elections are competitive and no doom has come to pass, but the same false alarm is now making the rounds on the political right. Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley has introduced legislation to reverse Citizens United as a way to punish corporations whose progressive politics he dislikes. He told RealClearPolitics that his “goal is to get corporate money out of our politics,” and to stop companies from “controlling our elections.”Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

Joe Scarborough Shocked By Sen. Josh Hawley’s ‘Sick’ Move

2Nov

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Joe Scarborough Shocked By Sen. Josh Hawley’s ‘Sick’ Move

At a Senate hearing Tuesday, Hawley implied the DHS endorses antisemitism after one of its employees reportedly posted anti-Israel comments on social media following the attack by Hamas militants. Mayorkas called the suggestion “despicable” and informed Hawley that he was the “child of a Holocaust survivor.”After the hearing, Hawley tried to spin the exchange into a win. The senator doubled down with a “HAWLEY SMOKES MAYORKAS” caption on Instagram and a boastful appearance on Fox News show “America’s Newsroom.”Scarborough couldn’t believe Hawley’s response.“So what, burn? What? In the ovens, Josh? Is that what you’re saying? Seriously?!? Like, no shame,” said Scarborough. “That is sick, and that’s exactly how they get away with it.”Co-host Willie Geist said “anyone with any integrity” whe...

Josh Hawley Criticized For Dishonest Take On Trump Document Charges

28Jul

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Josh Hawley Criticized For Dishonest Take On Trump Document Charges

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), the former attorney general of Missouri, seemed to have a really tough time grasping why a third person had been indicted in the classified documents probe against Donald Trump, despite the senator’s legal background and claims from prosecutors.“Now, Laura, we’re down to charging random people — just throwing those into the indictment,” Hawley told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham on Thursday night.His comments followed news that Carlos de Oliveira, a maintenance worker at Mar-a-Lago, had been charged in the Justice Department probe, which is looking at Trump’s handling of classified documents taken from the White House to his Florida estate.Trump himself was hit with three additional felonies, bringing his total to 40 counts in the case. The former president and his aid...