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My column discusses the contortions of language and common sense required by the dissent in Mullin v. Al Otro Lado. Here, I’ll add another angle. In...
This morning's Supreme Court decision in Blanche v. Lau is probably the least of the three immigration cases that remained on the Court's...
A northern Minnesota election judge was sentenced to 30 days in Hubbard County Jail for accepting 11 ballots from unregistered voters in the 2024...
Unfortunately, in its order list this morning, the Supreme Court declined to hear RMS of Georgia, LLC d/b/a Choice Refrigerants v. EPA, the...
Donald Trump turned 80 on Sunday. When Joe Biden was president, 80 was too old for the job (even if people who mocked Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole, and...
The Supreme Court this morning granted certiorari to hear Genalo v. Black, a petition by the Trump administration seeking to overturn a Second...
I was running some numbers while working on my book, and while the history is a staple of the best commentary on the period, putting it in graphical...
Nobody would confuse this morning's Supreme Court decision in Keathley v. Buddy Ayers Construction with a big case. In yesterday's roundup...
The current Supreme Court may not be the most sympathetic to violent criminals, but it has been vigilant in policing abuses by overly creative federal...
I don't have that much to add to our editorial and what Jeff and Jim have written about California's shoddy, shady, perennially slow-moving...
The great American historian Gordon Wood died yesterday at age 92 — not of the usual complaints of age, but because he was hit by a car in a...
In January, I took on "The Silliest Venezuela Take You Will Read Today" from M. Gessen of the New York Times. Well, Gessen is at it again,...
It turns out that Donald Trump isn't immune to the ordinary forces of political gravity. Sure, Trump's actions in his second term often...
Let’s consider a list of some of the things Donald Trump and his administration have been in the news for recently: The massive $1.776 billion...
It may not be the largest of steps, but the Supreme Court's decision this morning in Havana Docks Corporation v. Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd....
Bill Cassidy is free now. That's the downside of targeting sitting members of a narrow caucus in primaries over relatively rare deviations from...
It hasn't attracted as much attention as the donnybrook in Virginia, but the epic battle between Utah's Republican-controlled legislature...
As I explained ten days ago, the Fifth Circuit had a strong basis to stay the 2023 Biden FDA ruling that allowed the abortion pill to be dispensed...
I've written often about the mounting radicalism of progressive plans to bulldoze central props of our constitutional order, such as packing the...
Ted Turner has died, at 87. Much like our current president, Turner was one of those classic American characters, a tycoon who was larger than life...
We’re on a journey, and that’s exactly how I think of our declaration, right? I mean, those three big ideas in the declaration that all of us are...
The Supreme Court this morning decided First Choice Women’s Resource Centers v. Platkin, a case at the hot-button intersection of abortion, free...
President Trump says, “I don’t want to rush it. I want to take my time,” while Pete Hegseth said, “we have all the time in the world, and...
The Justice Department has dropped its investigation into Fed chairman Jerome Powell, just in time for the Senate to confirm Kevin Warsh as his...
One of the great lines in Disney/Pixar’s The Incredibles is early in the film when the superhero Mr. Incredible complains: “No matter how many...
Reading through Jim Geraghty's characteristically thorough compendium of the personal baggage of Ruben Gallego, I am reminded once again of how...
Dems’ ideas laid to ‘waste’
Are foreigners and other outsiders stealing our housing? That seems to be yet another growing area of agreement between the populist right and the...
Having collected tariffs illegally for over a year, the Trump administration now has to pay them back: The U.S. government is set to launch an online...
Justice Sonia Sotomayor has apologized publicly to her colleague Justice Brett Kavanaugh, in a statement released by the Court: “At a recent...
I'm freshly back from vacation; before I left, I went on Henry Olsen's Conservative Crossroads podcast to debate the Senate filibuster with...
You may be wondering why Democrats and their pundit class have turned so swiftly on Eric Swalwell. The California representative, a longtime fixture...
The midterm elections ought to be the best of times for Democrats. But they’ve learned nothing from 2024.
The cease-fire in Iran, which seems likely to be the end of the war for all practical purposes, fails my simple test for victory: There is not a...
I rounded up the arguments here and here this morning on the birthright citizenship case, Trump v. Barbara, that was argued this morning. It was...
My column looks at the constitutional birthright citizenship issue facing the Supreme Court in Trump v. Barbara. But even if the Trump administration...
There's increasing buzz out of the Trump administration about possible deployments of ground troops in or around Iran. Several different missions...
Rich and the rest of The Editors podcast crew had a good, well-deserved kick at Jimmy Kimmel for mocking Markwayne Mullin on the grounds that Mullin...
Timothy Nerozzi has an excellent and compelling look in the Washington Examiner at how Western-style progressivism has suffused Taiwan (or at least,...
My latest Daily Mail column looks at the fraying of NATO in the heat of the Iran War, as both Trump and the leading Europeans talk out of both sides...
The bigger they are, the longer it takes them to fall.
Andy notes the ridiculousness of Tucker Carlson's claim that "unconditional surrender means foreign troops get to rape your wife and...
As I argued on Thursday, the case for Republicans enacting the SAVE Act (or SAVE America Act) without 60 votes in the Senate ignores the substantial...
Does the Trump administration have a grand strategy at work in Iran and Venezuela? Maybe. It's hard to say what this administration is thinking,...
There’s something of a contradiction in what we are seeing in Iran right now. On the one hand, this looks like an offensive aimed at eliminating the...
First, this is awesome. It's the United States of America in all of its righteous glory against a terroristic tyranny that has been attacking us...
Sometimes, big turning points in our history announce themselves loudly and clearly. But not all do. The period around 1830 marked a hard turn in...
My latest column is on the SAVE Act fight. I remain skeptical that the bill is worth passing, much less that it is so valuable as to justify changing...
The State of the Union address last night was long on spectacle, and long, period. Political history will little note nor long remember what Donald...
This is the fifth installment of my series on today's big tariff decision -- see here, here, here, and here for the first four. The main dissent...