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Collusion and Hypocrisy in Mullin v. Al Otro Lado

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...

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Supreme Court Makes It Easier to Exclude Criminal Aliens

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...

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Today in ‘Things That Never Happen’

A northern Minnesota election judge was sentenced to 30 days in Hubbard County Jail for accepting 11 ballots from unregistered voters in the 2024...

22.06.2026 5

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Today’s Action at the Supreme Court on Nondelegation, Race, Child Murder, and Confessions

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...

22.06.2026 3

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80-Year-Olds Should Not Be President

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...

15.06.2026 10

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BREAKING: Supreme Court Takes Case on How Long Criminal Aliens May Be Detained

The Supreme Court this morning granted certiorari to hear Genalo v. Black, a petition by the Trump administration seeking to overturn a Second...

15.06.2026 10

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Partisan Sectional Polarization and the Civil War

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...

12.06.2026 10

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Justice Thomas, Standing Athwart Judge-Made Law

Nobody would confuse this morning's Supreme Court decision in Keathley v. Buddy Ayers Construction with a big case. In yesterday's roundup...

11.06.2026 10

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Unanimous Supreme Court Restricts Prosecutorial Venue-Shopping

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...

11.06.2026 10

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Jungle Primaries Are Still Stupid and Corrosive

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...

09.06.2026 10

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R.I.P. Gordon Wood

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...

08.06.2026 8

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The Silliest Hungary Take You Are Likely to Read

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,...

03.06.2026 10

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Trump’s Anti-Weaponization Fund Died Because Political Reality Still Exists

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...

03.06.2026 8

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Ignoring the Voters Will End Badly

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...

28.05.2026 10

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The Supreme Court Tightens the Screws on the Cuban Regime

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....

21.05.2026 10

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Bill Cassidy Unchained

Bill Cassidy is free now. That's the downside of targeting sitting members of a narrow caucus in primaries over relatively rare deviations from...

19.05.2026 10

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Utah Republicans Get Their Scalps

It hasn't attracted as much attention as the donnybrook in Virginia, but the epic battle between Utah's Republican-controlled legislature...

15.05.2026 10

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The Supreme Court, Like Trump, Goes Wobbly on the Abortion Pill

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...

14.05.2026 10

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Kamala Harris Dials Up the Democrats’ Radical Assault on the Rules of American Democracy

I've written often about the mounting radicalism of progressive plans to bulldoze central props of our constitutional order, such as packing the...

14.05.2026 10

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R.I.P. Ted Turner

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...

06.05.2026 20

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A Conversation with Justice Gorsuch

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...

04.05.2026 20

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A Unanimous Supreme Court First Amendment Victory for Crisis Pregnancy Centers — but Not Only a Win for Pro-Lifers

The Supreme Court this morning decided First Choice Women’s Resource Centers v. Platkin, a case at the hot-button intersection of abortion, free...

29.04.2026 20

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Time is on Trump’s side versus Iran, but not forever

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...

24.04.2026 20

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The Powell Investigation Was Everything Wrong with Trump’s Second Term

The Justice Department has dropped its investigation into Fed chairman Jerome Powell, just in time for the Senate to confirm Kevin Warsh as his...

24.04.2026 20

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Help Us Defend America’s Greatness

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...

24.04.2026 10

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Heckuva Job, Kari Lake

Reading through Jim Geraghty's characteristically thorough compendium of the personal baggage of Ruben Gallego, I am reminded once again of how...

21.04.2026 10

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Why give Democrats more tax money to burn? They’ll just waste it again or let their friends steal it

Dems’ ideas laid to ‘waste’

20.04.2026 20

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Are Foreigners and Outsiders Stealing Our Housing?

Are foreigners and other outsiders stealing our housing? That seems to be yet another growing area of agreement between the populist right and the...

16.04.2026 10

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Tariffs Will Be Refunded — but Not to Consumers

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...

16.04.2026 10

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A Telling Apology from Justice Sotomayor

Justice Sonia Sotomayor has apologized publicly to her colleague Justice Brett Kavanaugh, in a statement released by the Court: “At a recent...

16.04.2026 10

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Debating Busting the Filibuster

I'm freshly back from vacation; before I left, I went on Henry Olsen's Conservative Crossroads podcast to debate the Senate filibuster with...

13.04.2026 20

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Democrats’ Incentives to Turn on Eric Swalwell

You may be wondering why Democrats and their pundit class have turned so swiftly on Eric Swalwell. The California representative, a longtime fixture...

13.04.2026 20

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Just in time for midterms, the left reminds voters why they dislike Democrats

The midterm elections ought to be the best of times for Democrats. But they’ve learned nothing from 2024.

10.04.2026 10

New York Post

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Nation-Probation Wars Are Worse Than Nation-Building

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...

08.04.2026 10

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No Big Surprises at the Birthright Citizenship Argument

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...

01.04.2026 20

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Birthright Citizenship: The Statutory Problem

My column looks at the constitutional birthright citizenship issue facing the Supreme Court in Trump v. Barbara. But even if the Trump administration...

01.04.2026 20

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Not All Missions with Ground Troops Are the Same

There's increasing buzz out of the Trump administration about possible deployments of ground troops in or around Iran. Several different missions...

30.03.2026 10

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Jimmy Kimmel’s Unearned Snobbery

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...

29.03.2026 20

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Can Taiwan Defend Itself as a Nation Without a National Identity?

Timothy Nerozzi has an excellent and compelling look in the Washington Examiner at how Western-style progressivism has suffused Taiwan (or at least,...

27.03.2026 20

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Is NATO a Partnership or Just a Series of Deals?

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...

19.03.2026 20

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Sexual predators can get off the hook if they are progressive enough — just look at Cesar Chavez

The bigger they are, the longer it takes them to fall.

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New York Post

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Myths of Unconditional Surrender

Andy notes the ridiculousness of Tucker Carlson's claim that "unconditional surrender means foreign troops get to rape your wife and...

09.03.2026 20

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The Judicial Filibuster’s End Is No Case for Altering the Legislative Filibuster

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...

03.03.2026 30

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Grand Strategy in Iran and Venezuela

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,...

02.03.2026 30

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The Dog That Isn’t Barking in Iran

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...

01.03.2026 30

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My Three Quick Takes on Striking Iran

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...

28.02.2026 30

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1830, a Turning Point

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...

27.02.2026 30

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Yes, Fraud Can and Does Invalidate Elections

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...

27.02.2026 40

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There’s No Pivot to the Economy

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...

25.02.2026 30

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Learning Resources Tariff Case: the Kavanaugh Dissent

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...

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