WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The FBI says Shamsud-Din Jabbar acted alone when he killed at least 15 people in the early hours of New Year’s Day, but questions remain about his motive and how the military veteran was radicalized. Plus, what happens if Mike Johnson fails to win another term as House Speaker as the 119th Congress begins?

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The Justices take up an expedited challenge to a law that could ban TikTok on Jan. 19, unless the social app agrees to divestment from Chinese ownership. Why did the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals uphold this ultimatum passed by Congress? Plus, Donald Trump files a brief asking the Supreme Court to pause the law, though he's making less of a legal case than a political one.

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Jimmy Carter, who won the Oval Office after the Watergate scandals by portraying himself as an earnest evangelical, dies at age 100. The 39th president served only one term, which was marred by an energy crisis, economic woes and a failed hostage rescue mission in Iran. But how will he be remembered for what he did while President and afterwards? 

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The president spares 37 of the 40 inmates facing the federal death penalty, commuting their sentences to life in prison. Is this an appropriate use of the pardon power, issuing mass clemency based on policy disagreements with the law? Will this action in Biden's last days in office, so soon after he pardoned his son Hunter, add to the arguments for a constitutional amendment?

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Donald Trump has seemingly put the expansion of the United States on his agenda with threats of reclaiming the Panama Canal, acquiring Greenland, and wanting to make Canada the 51st state. How much of this should be taken seriously, and what does it say about the worldview of the next administration? 

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Congress passes a bill to fund the government, narrowly averting a shutdown over the holidays, but what did Donald Trump and Elon Musk accomplish by going nuclear on the initial legislation? Is this a bad omen for 2025, when Republicans will take control of Washington and begin negotiations on their priorities? And can Speaker Mike Johnson muster the votes to keep his gavel?

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On this episode of All Things, Kim Strassel looks back at some of the podcast’s 2024 all-stars, including candidates who correctly predicted their own victories, as well as at experts who called the issues that would lead Donald Trump to the White House and a Republican majority in both the House and Senate. Guests include Sen. Ted Cruz, Senator-elect Tim Sheehy, pollster Scott Rasmussen and Faith and Freedom Coalition Founder and Chairman Ralph Reed. 

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On this episode of All Things, Kim Strassel looks back at some of the podcast’s 2024 all-stars, including candidates who correctly predicted their own victories, as well as at experts who called the issues that would lead Donald Trump to the White House and a Republican majority in both the House and Senate. Guests include Sen. Ted Cruz, Senator-elect Tim Sheehy, pollster Scott Rasmussen and Faith and Freedom Coalition Founder and Chairman Ralph Reed. 

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Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, who was Donald Trump's first choice to be Attorney General, denies illegal wrongdoing, but a House investigation into his past conduct finds "substantial evidence" of drug use, prostitution, and statutory rape, vindicating the GOP Senators who looked skeptically on his cabinet nomination. Plus, Trump promises that the GOP will take on Daylight Saving Time.

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Speaker Mike Johnson scrambled to avoid a government shutdown, after Donald Trump and Elon Musk blew up his first deal and a floor vote on a slimmed-down alternative failed package failed. What will be the final outcome? Plus, in a blow to the Democrats’ strategy of lawfare, Fani Willis is disqualified from Donald Trump’s election interference case in Georgia. 

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