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Oct 2024
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October 10th, 2024: Vindicated! Jack Phi...

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Josh Hammer explains the importance of the latest legal victory for the besieged Jack Phillips, owner of Lakewood, Colorado-based Masterpiece Cakeshop. When will SCOTUS finally put an end once and for all to these evil "bake the damn cake, bigot!"-style lawsuits? Today's "closing argument" then flags an important Mitch McConnell-penned op-ed railing against a new proposed judicial deep state power grab.

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