A contemporaneous news report completely contradicts a tale View co-host Sunny Hostin told about being a holdout juror in an infamous 1989 New York City murder.

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Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger quietly issued an executive order over the summer that changed the way state agency regulations are developed and reviewed by the executive branch. The action was required by June 30 but went under the radar because it was announced with only a vague news release.

The new executive order eliminates the Office of Regulatory Management, which was created by former Gov. Glenn Youngkin in 2022. The goal of that department was “to make his state’s regulatory regime more efficient, less burdensome, and, above all, accountable to the people of the Commonwealth of Virginia,” as Benjamin Paris wrote for The Heritage Foundation that year.

Spanberger’s policy “directs agencies to evaluate regulations individually, on a case-by-case basis,” Christopher Newport University economist Rik Chakraborti told the Daily Signal. “Agencies are supposed to consider whether a regulation is legally authorized, necessary, understandable, supported by evidence and designed to achieve its objective cost-effectively. Existing regulations must also be reviewed periodically to determine whether they should be retained, amended or repealed.”

When Youngkin took office, he set a goal of slashing regulations by 25%. Three years later, his office announced that it had trimmed 26.8% of regulatory requirements in the commonwealth.

Chakraborti reviewed and compared both approaches at the request of the Daily Signal.

“The more difficult question is whether the number of requirements eliminated accurately measures the policy’s real benefits,” the economist said about Youngkin’s policy. “The administration also did not release—or I could not find—enough detailed information for the public to independently verify all of its claimed savings.”

With that said, Chakraborti added that “Youngkin’s system had useful features that should not be entirely discarded, in my view, including centralized oversight, regulatory planning, permitting reform and greater attention to compliance costs.”

He expects the new tack to have pluses and minuses as well. “Gov. Spanberger’s approach has the advantage of avoiding an arbitrary quota that may encourage agencies to eliminate requirements simply because they are easy to count. However, eliminating the central regulatory office and its analytical framework could weaken accountability unless the Department of Planning and Budget has access to, and makes use of, sufficient expertise, independence, and resources to perform rigorous reviews.”

The governor’s office did not respond to requests for comment from the Daily Signal. However, Libby Wiet, Spanberger’s communications director, told the Richmond Times-Dispatch that the current administration “has heard from agencies and others who look to regulations for direction on how the last administration’s regulatory policies made it harder for state agencies to update their regulations and guidance documents meaningfully.”

Chakraborti recommended blending the policies of both administrations, as well as enacting laws instead of executive orders, which can change every four years as administrations change. “The General Assembly could establish a permanent, professionally staffed regulatory-review office; require transparent cost-benefit analysis; publish the specific requirements added, changed or removed; track permitting times; and require retrospective evaluation of whether major regulations actually worked.”

He told the Daily Signal that the goal “should be creating a stable process that survives changes in administration and consistently asks three questions: What problem is the regulation trying to solve? Do its total benefits justify its total costs? And is there a more effective or less burdensome way to achieve the same result?”

Codification into law “would provide greater continuity than governing through executive orders while preserving the flexibility needed to respond to new economic, environmental, and technological challenges,” the Christopher Newport economist said. Lawmakers may take up the idea when they return to session in January. Chakraborti plans to post a fuller look at the regulatory changes on EconAF, his Substack page.

A24 has released an official trailer for the new documentary You Can See Everything.

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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A new survey exclusively obtained by the Daily Signal reveals that Generation Z is becoming increasingly religious and spiritual after being ranked among the least faithful generations in the United States.

According to the new Harris Poll, Gen Z is now ranked among the most religious generations in the country, with 88% actively practicing their spirituality.

In the poll, roughly 33% of Gen Zers identify as religious, compared to 19% of millennials, 22% of Gen Xers, and 18% of baby boomers.

Twenty-four percent of those 33% also identified as both religious and spiritual.

Twenty percent of millennials, 21% of Gen Xers, and 23% of boomers self-identified as neither.

The poll also noted that 67% of Gen Zers pray, 54% read Scripture or religious texts, and 49% attended a recent religious service, such as Mass or other worship.

Comparatively, all other generations fall 7% to 11% behind Gen Z in all three categories, except boomers and Gen Xers, who pray more than Gen Zers by at least 5%.

The results of this poll indicate a potential reversal of a trend. A 2022 survey by the American Survey Center found in 2022 that Gen Z was the least religious cohort in American society, with 34% reporting that they were neither spiritual nor religious.

As noted by The College Fix, mass baptisms and interest in Christian campus ministries have emerged among Gen Z on college campuses.

Christian campus ministries, including Campus Crusade for Christ, have seen higher-than-usual conversions and attendance in recent years, The College Fix reported.

In a statement to The College Fix, Dan Allan, campus director for Campus Crusade for Christ, said that the organization has seen, for three years in a row, “a higher percentage of students coming to faith when someone shares the gospel with them.”

Jay Richards, a senior research fellow on social and domestic policy at The Heritage Foundation, told the Daily Signal that while it is hard to determine the cause of this upward trend in faith among the younger generation, it could indicate that young people are rejecting the secular material being pushed on them by older generations.

“Decline is not inevitable. If we look at the long sweep of history, we find that our current descent into godlessness is an aberration,” Richards said.

“The logical flaws and social consequences of secular materialism are now obvious. So, it makes sense that the generation that has experienced its darkest effects would be the first to reject it,” he added.

Richards continued that if the trend continues, it could serve to “debunk the idea that bad trends continue forever.”

“It’s probably too soon to say exactly what is happening with the religious views of Gen Z, but recent news that they are becoming, on average, more religious (rather than just vaguely spiritual) is encouraging,” Richards added.

Glock and NSSF have filed separate federal lawsuits challenging Connecticut’s new “convertible pistol” law, which is scheduled to take effect October 1.

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On Wednesday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) argued that “there’s been a lot of rot within DHS for years, and that’s how you have this leadership that kind of stuck around.” Gallego said, “[W]hat we

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