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May 29, 2025, edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom

HUGH HEWITT (FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR): I read the opinion this morning by Judges Katzmann, Reif, and Restani. The trade court is just another district court, it just has three district court judges hearing this. They're very good at trade matters, not so good at con law. It will be appealed to the federal circuit, it will eventually end up at the Supreme Court. I understand their ruling on the International Emergency Economic Powers Act but they don't do a lot of con law, and I do not understand why they did not stay their injunction, because they are messing up a lot of ongoing negotiation.

So, I think it was reckless in the extreme for three district court judges to mess up all these international trade issues. And I do understand the China trade tariffs as being national security. I can even understand the 10% international, the global 10% tariff as being related to a sort of tax on our defense budget that we do for the rest of the world. So, whatever the opinion of these three judges, they're just district judges. They're not very self-aware.

It's got to get up to the federal circuit. I hope it's stayed immediately. It's got to eventually go to the Supreme Court, because the IEEP has -- it's a case of first impression for this kind of question, the IEEPA of '77. So, it will eventually get to the Supreme Court. So, I just wish they had stayed it. And I hope the federal circuit stays it today.

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Meet the Press hosted NBC News contributor and right-wing radio host Hugh Hewitt this morning. Host Chuck Todd did not disclose that Hewitt has a financial tie to President Donald Trump: Last month, the Trump Make America Great Again Committee rented Hewitt's newsletter to raise money twice last month.

Hewitt is a pro-Trump hack who recently tweeted that “every Catholic, indeed every person of any faith, has to realize the left despises them and that the Democrats shelter this virulent bigotry and pretend it’s something else” (Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is Catholic). Hewitt also regularly turns over his radio program to guest host and unhinged bigot Kurt Schlichter.

Hewitt is the host of a program on Salem Radio Network, a columnist for The Washington Post, and a commentator for NBC News. He is a pro-Trump and Republican hack who recently tweeted that “every Catholic, indeed every person of any faith, has to realize the left despises them and that the Democrats shelter this virulent bigotry and pretend it’s something else” (the Democratic presidential nominee is Joe Biden, who is Catholic).

The Daily Beast reported last year on how “Hewitt has fallen in line with the rest of the conservative media ecosystem as a reliably Trumpian defender of the president’s bizarre and potentially criminal behavior.”

Hewitt also regularly turns over his radio program to guest host and unhinged bigot Kurt Schlichter.

Media Matters subscribes to Hewitt’s email newsletter, which is run by Salem and sends paid advertising. In September, “Trump Make America Great Again Committee, a joint fundraising committee authorized by and composed of Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. and the Republican National Committee,” rented Hewitt’s newsletter twice -- on September 2 and September 21 -- for fundraising emails.[doc]  Trump messages state that they’re “brought to you by The Hugh Hewitt Show” along with the disclaimer: “Occasional messages from sponsors allows us to provide our content at no cost to you. This message reflects the opinions of the advertiser alone, and not necessarily the opinion or editorial position of Salem Media Group.”

Meet the Press host Chuck Todd did not mention Hewitt’s financial tie to the Trump campaign. During his appearance, Hewitt stated that “this has been a week of enormous relief. I've interviewed a dozen Republican senators and the vice presidential debate really turned it around for a lot of Republicans, as did the president's sort of powerful energy on conservative media, getting back out there.” He added: “I believe the president is down in double digits but closing nationally.” 

Hewitt has also done advertisements for Keep America America, a project of the pro-Trump **Job Creators Network** that aims “to activate the conservative base and boost turnout.” (Meet the Press didn't disclose that financial connection either.)

Hewitt has had other conflict of interest problems related to former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt; the Clean Water Act; and the anti-LGBTQ hate group Alliance Defending Freedom. 

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mma week in dumb:

dingdong!  maybe gotta like the loyalty, but old hh is losing his 180 cred

https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/heres-ridiculous-spin-conservatives-want-you-believe-about-scott-pruitts

ere's the Ridiculous Spin Conservatives Want You to Believe About Scott Pruitt's Scandalous Resignation

The scandalous EPA administrator is the subject of more than a dozen investigations.

By Cody Fenwick / AlterNet July 5, 2018, 12:50 PM GMT

As conservative darling and EPA administrator Scott Pruitt collapsed under the weight of his own mountain of corruption and scandals Thursday, conservative media figures were already working to spin the Cabinet member's long-overdue resignation as some kind of nefarious liberal plot.

"Well funded and media coordinated #bootpruitt movement finally gets its scalp," tweeted Mollie Hemmingway, an editor at The Federalist. "Would have taken hours, not months, in a typical GOP admin but now that it has had its success, expect it to be repeated with other Trump cabinet officials."

Kimberley Strassel, the relentless defender of President Donald Trump at the Wall Street Journal, wrote: "Lesson to other Trump officials from Pruitt resignation: Give the left/media/organized greens any molehill and they will turn it into K2. Most of the accusations were overwrought, but the barrage was overwhelming. Let's hope an equally reformist successor denies them a repeat."

Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt agreed with Strassel.

"Scott Pruitt is a good friend and a very good man, caricatured by left and MSM. I hope he sets to work on a memoir ASAP and deals out a tenth of what he took. He’s a man of great faith and perseverance so he probably won’t, but the attacks on his family were unconscionable," he wrote.

The spin was preposterous. News agencies did what they're supposed to do: uncover wrongdoing by people in power. When they investigated Pruitt, they found a lot — so much that he's the subject of at least 12 different investigations.

Trump and White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, who are typically vociferous critics of the media, never actually called the reports of his abuses and corruption "fake news." Sanders repeatedly said that the White House was looking into the charges against Pruitt.

When even Trump and Sanders think the accusations against a Cabinet member are credible, we know it's bad.

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Hewitt is an ethical nightmare. Politico reported that Hewitt arranged a meeting between EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and lawyers from Hewitt's law firm. After that meeting, the project the lawyers wanted to greenlight suddenly was on the EPA's list of projects. Media Mattersinvestigative reporter Eric Hananoki uncovered multiple instances of Hewitt praising Pruitt without disclosing that Hewitt's law firm does business before the EPA. In response, Washington Post Editorial Page Editor Fred Hiatt told Hananoki that Hewitt would no longer be permitted to write about Pruitt. (This entire episode followed Hewitt loudly defending Pruitt amid Pruitt's cavalcade of scandals. Oh, and Hewitt's son also works as a top aide to Hewitt.)

But that's not Hewitt's only job. Hewitt also hosts a show on MSNBC, and Hananoki uncovered another conflict of interest between Hewitt's law firm and what he talked about on the MSNBC show. Questions are now being raised about why MSNBC lets him host anything at a

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Washington Post repeatedly allowed Hugh Hewitt to write columns praising Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt without disclosing that Hewitt’s law firm does work before the agency. Washington Post Editorial Page Editor Fred Hiatt told Media Matters that Hewitt would no longer write about Pruitt. 

Hewitt is a conservative radio host who also works as a host for MSNBC and a contributing columnist for TheWashington Post. Off air, he is a partner at the law firmLarson O’Brien.

That law firm position presents numerous potential and real conflicts of interest for Hewitt’s media roles. Larson O’Brien stated in a May 5, 2017, press release that the firm will be opening a Washington D.C. office and “is currently representing clients before the US Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Environmental Protection Agency.” The press release touted Hewitt’s relocation to the Washington area as a reason for the firm to “have a permanent presence in the District”:

Larson O’Brien is currently representing clients before the US Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Environmental Protection Agency.

Larson O’Brien partner Hugh Hewitt recently relocated to the Washington area where he hosts an award winning radio show during the morning drive-time hours. “With Hugh moving to Washington and our significant client work in the Capital, it made sense for us to have a permanent presence in the District,” said Stephen Larson.

Politicoreported on May 7 that Hewitt brokered a meeting between Pruitt and lawyers at Larson O’Brien concerning efforts of the firm’s client Orange County Water District to get the EPA to devote resources to cleaning up a polluted site in the district. From the report, which is based on “emails released by EPA under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the Sierra Club”:

Hewitt, a resident of Orange County whose son James works in EPA’s press office, emailed Pruitt in September to set up a meeting between the administrator and the law firm Larson O’Brien, which employs Hewitt and represents the Orange County Water District. Pruitt had been planning to meet with the lawyers in California a month earlier, but cancelled the trip to undergo knee surgery.

“I’ll join if the Administrator would like me too or can catch up later at a dinner,” Hewitt wrote in his Sept. 18 message. Hewitt added that the issues surrounding theSuperfund site were “Greek to me but a big deal in my home county.”

Pruitt’s aides responded within minutes and quickly confirmed an Oct. 18 meeting for the lawyers and a project director.

Six weeks after that meeting, on Dec. 8, the Orange County North Basin site appeared on Pruitt’s list of 21 contaminated areas to address. A month later, Pruitt proposed listing the site on EPA’s National Priorities List, a move that could make it eligible for long-term federal cleanup funding from the federal government if the responsible polluters cannot be identified and forced to pay for its remediation.

Politico noted that Hewitt has been a vocal defender of Pruitt on MSNBC. Several journalists have criticized MSNBC for the blatant conflict of interest; The New York Times’ Michael Barbarotweeted: “Um, it's not okay for a cable news contributor to ask the EPA administrator for favors like this and still be on TV talking about him. At. All. CC: @MSNBC.”

Hewitt’s conflict of interest problem has also extended to The Washington Post, which repeatedly allowed Hewitt to praise the EPA and Pruitt in opinion columns for the paper.

Hewitt himself referenced his work on issues related to the EPA in the Post. On January 4, 2017, he wrote: “I’ve worked for real estate developers on huge projects for three decades. My law practice was built on helping them figure out and comply with complex statutory and regulatory regimes and knowing how the Environmental Protection Agency, Army Corps of Engineers and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service worked.”

The following are instances in which the Postallowed Hewitt to discuss the EPA without disclosing his conflict of interest:

The Post did not disclose that Hewitt’s firm works on issues related to EPA regulations in those pieces. The paper has also not been consistent in disclosing that Hewitt’s son works for the EPA. According to his LinkedIn page, James Hewittjoined the agency in July 2017. Hewitt's July 4 and September 19 columns disclosed that connection while his August 19 and February 22 columns did not.

In an email to Media Matters, Editorial Page Editor Fred Hiatt wrote: “I was disturbed to learn this morning that Hugh Hewitt had intervened with EPA administrator Scott Pruitt on behalf of Hewitt’s law firm as he was writing about Pruitt in a column for The Washington Post. Hewitt, who has not written about Pruitt since September, has agreed not to write about him going forward and has assured us that similar incidents won’t occur in the future.”

The Washington Post also employs megalobbyist Ed Rogers as a contributor despite countless conflicts of interest relating to Roger’s lobbying firm. Over the years, the Posthas repeatedly allowed Rogers to tout his clients’ interests without disclosure.

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Hugh Hewitt (born February 22, 1956) is an American radio talk show host with the Salem Radio Network, lawyer, academic, and author. Aconservative and a Catholic,[1] he comments on society, politics, and media bias in the United States. Hewitt is also a law professor at Chapman University School of Law, and a regular political commentator on MSNBC and CNN.

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Hewitt is the son of Marguerite (née Rohl) and William Robert Hewitt.[2][3][4] He attended John F. Kennedy Catholic High School[5] in Warren, Ohio, and Harvard University, and graduated cum laudewith a B.A. in government in 1978. After leaving Harvard, he worked as a ghostwriter for Richard Nixon in California and New York, before studying at the University of Michigan Law School, where he was inducted into the Order of the Coif. Hewitt received his J.D. degree in 1983, then moved toWashington D.C. to clerk for Judges Roger Robb and George MacKinnon on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1983–84.

Hewitt worked in many posts in the Reagan administration, including Deputy Director and General Counsel of the Office of Personnel Management, General Counsel for the National Endowment for the Humanities, Assistant White House Counsel and Special Assistant to the **Attorney Genera**l.[6]

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He returned to California in 1989 to oversee construction of the Richard M. Nixon Library as the library's executive director from groundbreaking through dedication and opening. In 1990, Hewitt sparked controversy by proposing screening of researchers wishing to use the library resources. Hewitt suggested refusing admission to researchers deemed "unfriendly" – specifically Bob Woodward, whom he characterized as "not a responsible journalist." John Taylor, a spokesman for Nixon, overturned Hewitt's decision after two days; it became the subject of editorial rebuke in The New York Times.[7]

When he left the library to practice law, Hewitt began a weekend radio talk show for the Los Angeles radio station KFI, where he broadcast from late 1990 to 1995. In the spring of 1992, he began cohosting L.A. PBS member station KCET's nightly news and public affairs program, Life & Times, and remained with the program until the fall of 2001, when he began broadcasting his own radio show in the afternoons. Hewitt received three Emmys for his work on Life & Times on KCET, and also conceived and hosted the 1996 PBS series Searching for God in America.

He used to be a weekly columnist for the Daily Standard (the online edition of The Weekly Standard) and World. He also occasionally appears as a political/social commentator on programs such as The Dennis Miller Show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Larry King Live, The O'Reilly Factor and The Today Show. On 24 April 2006, Hewitt appeared as a guest on The Colbert Report.

Hewitt has been criticized by Andrew Sullivan, who calls him a "Christianist."[8] When Sullivan appeared on Hewitt's radio show to promote his book The Conservative Soul, a lively exchange ensued and Hewitt criticized Sullivan's book as intellectually messy.[9]

Hewitt also became a Professor of Law at Chapman University School of Law during that time. He currently teaches constitutional law.[10] In addition to his contributions as a professor,Professor Hewitt founded and continues to guide the legal scholarship of the Nexus Journal of Law and Policy.

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Although Hewitt's background is in law, government, and politics, he also covers American cultural trends and the entertainment industry. He frequently critiques the mainstream media on air, often inviting journalists to defend their work on the show. Interviews with Mark Halperin of ABC News and British historian Andrew Roberts lasted for the entire three hours of the show.Hewitt's nationally syndicated radio show, The Hugh Hewitt Show, is broadcast from California from 6 to 9 am ET on weekdays. The show appears on more than 75 stations[11]and is syndicated by the Salem Radio Network. Beginning April 4, 2016, the show moved to a morning drive timeslot.[12]

His regular contributors include law professors John C. Eastman, former Dean of Chapman University School of Law, and Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of UC Irvine Law School (whom Hewitt calls "The Smart Guys"), James Lileks, Mark Steyn, United States Naval Academy English professor Dr. David Allen White (who does a monthly Shakespeare showcase)[needs update], and Congressman David Dreier (R-CA), as well as frequent callers from around the country. He used to spend the 15th hour of the week discussing movies with "Emmett of the Unblinking Eye".

Hewitt's show is also marked by its interaction with listeners through Twitter. During the broadcast, the show's producer, Duane Patterson, communicates with listeners using thehashtag #hewitt. Hewitt refers to those using the #hewitt hashtag as Tribbles, in reference to the harmless, annoying, and constantly multiplying alien race from Star Trek.

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Hewitt is a longtime promoter of what he and other conservative pundits call the new media (talk radio and blogs) as a means to balance what they regard as liberal bias in the mainstream media. Hewitt was described as one of the five "best-read national conservative bloggers" in a 2007 memo from the National Republican Senatorial Committee.[13]

In early 2006, in an article for The Weekly Standard titled "The Media's Ancien Régime," Hewitt outlined his belief that traditional journalism was supplanted by the ease of information exchange on the Internet.[14]

There is too much expertise, all of it almost instantly available now, for the traditional idea of journalism to last much longer. In the past, almost every bit of information was difficult and expensive to acquire and was therefore mediated by journalists whom readers and viewers were usually in no position to second-guess. Authority has drained from journalism for a reason. Too many of its practitioners have been easily exposed as poseurs.

Hewitt frequently invites members of the mainstream media to his show and quizzes them about their political beliefs and why they think those beliefs should remain a secret. Eric Black of theMinneapolis Star Tribune, Helen Thomas of the White House Press Corps and Mark Halperin ofABC News, among others, have appeared on Hewitt's show and debated whether they should be obliged to disclose their political beliefs. During a 2006 exchange with Hewitt, longtimeWashington Post reporter and columnist Thomas Edsall said that Democrats outnumberedRepublicans 15-25 to 1 among members of the mainstream media.[16]

A recurring theme on Hewitt's show is accusing the mainstream media of liberal bias and lack of transparency, and the unwillingness of reporters to answer questions about their own political beliefs. Hewitt has said that the modern paradigm of reportage, whereby journalists make a claim to objectivity while never answering questions about their own beliefs, allows a deep-seated culture of liberal media bias to be perpetuated. He has said that financial reporters are never allowed to write about companies in which they have an interest, but political reporters routinely refuse to answer questions that might reveal their own political positions and thus allow the reader to adjust for any bias, whether conscious or subconscious, their reporting might contain.[15] He credits the right-wing blogosphere with destroying the presidential campaign of Sen. John Kerry in 2004.

After Hewitt wrote the book A Mormon in the White House?, Robert Stacy McCain of The Washington Times wrote that "Hewitt finds himself under suspicion of being a cheerleader for the Romney campaign."[17] Hewitt donated $2,300 to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign in 2008, as well as many other Republican candidates over the years, including U.S. SenatorNorm Coleman and President George W. Bush. In the leadup to the February 5, 2008, Republican primaries, Hewitt became known for the slogan "A vote for Huckabee is a vote forMcCain."[18]

In February 2016, Hewitt wrote that, despite being publicly insulted by him, he would supportDonald Trump should he become the Republican nominee for President.[19] Among the six reasons Hewitt would support Trump over Clinton, Hewitt singled out Trump's daughter Ivankafor having an "extraordinary intellect" and for having a Svengali-like influence over her father.[19]

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Hugh Hewitt is the "host of a nationally syndicated radio show heard in more than 70 cities nationwide, and a Professor of Law at Chapman University Law School, where he teaches Constitutional Law," his Townhall.com bio states. He is the author of seven books. Hewitt has received 3 Emmys during his decade of work as co-host of the PBS Los Angeles affiliate KCET's nightly news and public affairs show Life & Times.

He is a weekly columnist for The Daily Standard, the online edition of The Weekly Standard. He serves as Executive Editor of Townhall.com. His radio show is syndicated bySalem Radio Network, the parent company of which also owns Townhall.com.

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Email: hugh AT hughhewitt.com

Website: http://www.hughhewitt.com

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The Victory Caucus, created in February 2007 by right-wing bloggers, "artificially pumped up its traffic statistics by collectively and repeatedly linking to it, and then excitedly pointed to that traffic as evidence that they had tapped into latent though powerful pro-war sentiment among Americans which was spawning a new online movement.[1] That ruckus, in turn, caused easily manipulated reporters[2] to write articles[3] and broadcast stories[4] touting this new, exciting, surging Pro-War online Phenomenon," Glenn Greenwald wrote February 24, 2007, in Salon.[5]

Since, in his September 13, 2007, address to the nation, President George W. Bush appears to have dropped "victory" from his goals for Iraq, and has substituted "success" in its place,[6] will The Victory Caucus go through yet another metamorphosis and rename itself "The Success Caucus"?

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Continue the war in Iraq petition

Following the September 10-11, 2007, testimony before Congress by Lt.Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker, The Victory Caucus posted a petition on its website entitled "Stand By the American Mission in Iraq".[7]

"The Victory Caucus has joined with a coalition of other pro-victory groups to sponsor the Stand by the Mission petition below," it states. "We ask that you add your signature to the petition so that we can demonstrate to Congress and the world that the American public is committed to victory."[7]

"In addition to signing the petition, we urge you to contact members of Congress directly," the petition page requests. "Call 1-877-222-8001 to be patched through directly to your members of Congress."

However, this phone number DOES NOT connect callers directly with members of Congress. It is the SAME phone number used by Freedom's Watch in its phony call-in campaign beginning on August 22, 2007.[8]

Background

First launch

The Victory Caucus website was launched in mid-February 2007 in response to the success of the left's MoveOn.org.Hugh Hewitt, a member of the board of governors, wrote on February 16, 2007, that he was "seeing tremendous traffic for a site that is five days old, and an impressive commitment of resources from virtual volunteers around the country."[9]

"The effort to recruit, support, and elect victory Congressmen is going to require a great deal of effort," Hewitt wrote. "The first set of tools are there, and the Victory Caucus is not going to pursue any other agenda except victory in the war."[9]

Relaunch

The Victory Caucus web page was relaunched with a new format in late July 2007.[10]

"Rather than haranguing Republicans out of expressing doubts about the war, the 'new' idea is to become 'a one-stop-shop for anyone interested in learning about what's really going on in the war.'

"What's really going on, of course, is that US forces are winning a brilliant victory against the combined forces of Ahmadenijad, al-Qaeda, Fidel Castro, and the Cobra Commander but the liberal media is covering it all up," Matthew Ygelsias wrote July 24, 2007, in The Atlantic.[11]

Non-profit

On April 18, 2007, a viral email announced that The Victory Caucus was then "in the process of incorporating as a 501c4nonprofit entity. After consideration among the Board of Directors, we concluded that the 501c4 structure was the best choice for TVC's mission, as it allows us to accept unlimited contributions from donors to fund our goals of educating and informing the public on the need to support Victory. ... Donations will be used to fund media campaigns promoting victory; to pay for education and outreach efforts, and to generally fight the battle of ideas in the American media marketplace against those who are espousing the politics of defeat."[12]

Victory Caucus political action committee

The Victory Caucus also announced in April 2007 that it would "not be participating in is direct funding of political candidates, which our 501c4 status will prohibit. But if you are interested in helping identify and fund victory-oriented candidates, there is a new Political Action Committee being formed that will fund candidates and also needs your help." VictoryPAC[13][14] was "launched by Marc Danziger, also known as Armed Liberal, who blogs at Winds of Change[15]."[12]

In a June 21, 2007, posting by David Weigel at Reason Magazine, comes the following information:

The PAC "never launched" and Weigel "checked with the FEC and the IRS and while there already is an organization called the 'Victory PAC,' it's been around for years—it's not the pro-war group."[16]

Board of Governors

The Victory Caucus board of governors are:[17]

Beliefs

The Victory Caucus states that its beliefs are the following:[17]

Mission

The Victory Caucus states the following as its mission.[17]

Contact information

URL: http://victorycaucus.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=201

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References

  1. :{Jump up:(style="-webkit-user-select:none;top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important"):}:↑ Glenn Greenwald, "Feel the surge of the Victory Caucus" (with updates), Salon, February 22, 2007.
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  4. :{Jump up:(style="-webkit-user-select:none;top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important"):}:↑ Tucker Carlson, Transcript: 'Tucker' for Feb. 20, MSNBC, February 21, 2007.
  5. :{Jump up:(style="-webkit-user-select:none;top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important"):}:↑ Glenn Greenwald, "The corpse of the Victory Caucus" (with updates), Salon, February 24, 2007.
  6. :{Jump up:(style="-webkit-user-select:none;top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important"):}:↑ "Bush redefines 'victory'," Los Angeles Times, September 14, 2007.
  7. ↑ ^Jump ^up to:7.0 7.1 "Stand By the Mission," VictoryCaucus.com, accessed September 13, 2007.
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  9. ↑ ^Jump ^up to:9.0 9.1 Hugh Hewitt, "The Victory Caucus," HughHewitt at Townhall.com, February 16, 2007.
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  12. ↑ ^Jump ^up to:12.0 12.1 "Victory Caucus to Become Non-profit," The Victory Caucus (Blackfive.net), April 18, 2007.
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  14. :{Jump up:(style="-webkit-user-select:none;top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important"):}:↑ Note: The VictoryPAC website has been inactive since April 27, 2007, the last posting date.
  15. :{Jump up:(style="-webkit-user-select:none;top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important"):}:↑ "The Victory Caucus," Winds of Change Blog, February 17, 2007.
  16. :{Jump up:(style="-webkit-user-select:none;top:-99999px;clip:rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);overflow:hidden;position:absolute !important;padding:0px !important;border:0px !important;height:1px !important;width:1px !important"):}:↑ David Weigel, "Declare Victory and Go Home," Reason Online Hit & Run Blog, June 21, 2007.
  17. ↑ ^Jump ^up to:17.0 17.1 17.2 About, VictoryCaucus.com, accessed August 16, 2007.

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Freedom's Watch (FW) registered September 17, 2007, with the Secretary of the U.S. Senate as a non-profit lobbying organization.[1] Lobbyists listed for Freedom's Watch are Bradley A. Blakeman (identified as having served within the past two years as "Deputy Assistant to the President, Presidential Appointee to the US Holocaust Museum") (Blakeman stepped down as Freedom's Watch president in March 2008[2] amid reported "internal dysfunction" within the group[3]) ; Michael Leavitt (identifed as having served within the past two years as "Staff Asst & Regional Rep, [NC State] Senator [John] Snow");[4] and Matt David (identified as having served within the past two years as "Director of Rapid Response; White House Special Asst. to Director of Policy, Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance").[1][5]

Carl Forti joined Freedom's Watch on March 26, 2008 [6]. He is a former communications director at the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) who worked for Republican Mitt Romney's 2008 presidential campaign team.[7]. Chris Cillizza commented that "Forti's hiring should quiet some nerves among Republican strategists who saw Freedom's Watch as largely without a clear mission with just eight months until the 2008 general election. The departure of former president Bradley Blakeman earlier this month was a clear sign of the discontent among donors and others affiliated with the group. (The group has not yet filled Blakeman's vacancy.)"[8]

Freedom's Watch has been described by critics as a front group for White House policy and a "neo-conservative 'slush fund' supporting the views of Vice President Dick Cheney",[9][10] "came out of" a December 2006 "event"[11] at the American Enterprise Institute when retired Gen. Jack Keane and AEI scholar Frederick W. Kagan "talk[ed] about the need for atroop increase in Iraq, "a plan adopted by" President George W. Bush in January 2007.[12]

Freedom's Watch, the "$200 million mouthpiece for military action",[13] was "hatched" in March 2007[12] at the "winter meeting" of the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) in Manalapan, Fla., where keynote speaker Vice PresidentDick Cheney[12][14] "accused the Democrat-led House of Representatives of not supporting troops in Iraq and of sending a message to terrorists that America will retreat in the face danger."[15][16] The RJC was described in 2005 as "a big money pro-Israel lobby group[17] linking Jewish-American neoconservatives to the Christian Right and Israel's Likud government."[18][12][19]

Freedom's Watch "denies coordinating its activities with the White House",Don Van Natta Jr. wrote September 30, 2007, in the New York Times, although "many donors and organizers, including Ari Fleischer, the former White House press secretary, are well-connected" to the Bush administration.[12] It should also be noted that in November 1998 the Republican Jewish Coalition took then-Texas Governor George W. Bush on his first tour of Israel, with "the 43rd president [emerging] as one of the most pro-Israel figures in American political history."[18][20][21][22]

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Other members of the Chapman Law faculty include Constitutional law and legal ethics scholar

Ronald D. Rotunda.[23] Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, the author of Painting the Map Red, The Fight To Create A Permanent Republican Majority and A Mormon In The White House, 10 Things Every American Should Know About Mitt Romney, is also a Professor ofConstitutional Law.

Also notable is Professor Larry Rosenthal, a former Supreme Court clerk for Justice John Paul Stevens, who as Deputy Corporation Counsel for the City of Chicago argued the case of Chicago v. Morales, 527 U.S. 41 (1999), among other cases, and Professor Danny Bogart, a property law expert and member of the American Law Institute. Visiting Professors have included progressive international law scholar Richard A. Falk,[24] W. H. (Joe) Knight, Jr., a noted scholar and member of the American Law Institute, and controversial law professor and former Bush Administration official John Yoo.

The Honorable James E. Rogan has served as an adjunct professor at Chapman Law for many years. While a member of Congress, Rogan was one of the lead prosecutors in the United States Senate impeachment trial of President Clinton in 1998-1999, and later served as U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and as Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. In 2006 Governor Schwarzenegger appointed Rogan to the Superior Court of California.[25]

Chapman Law's faculty includes four former U.S. Supreme Court law clerks,[26] including Professors Rosenthal and Campbell (above), as well as former Dean Eastman, and former Associate Dean Celestine McConville.[27]

John C. Eastman, former Dean of Chapman University of Law and current professor of constitutional law is the Chair of the Board of the National Organization for Marriage, a non-profit organization committed to preventing the legalization of same-sex marriage. Eastman publicly opposed the granting of a law license to Sergio C. Garcia, the first undocumented immigrant to be admitted to the California Bar. Eastman said, "He's here unlawfully. He's not gone back to his home country and sought to apply like everybody else who had waited in line."[28]

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