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Republicans Shouldn’t Ask Judges To Strike Obamacare When Congress Won’t

Striking down the law through legal fiat would represent judicial activism at its worst—asking unelected judges to do what elected members of Congress took great pains to avoid.

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How Potential SCOTUS Pick Brett Kavanaugh Wrote A Roadmap For Saving Obamacare

Which is worse: An unelected judge opining on how a mandate to purchase a product could meet constitutional muster, or giving Congress instructions on how to ensure it will? Kavanaugh did both.

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Tomi Lahren’s Position On Roe v. Wade Makes Absolutely No Sense

It's not especially her political apostasy that’s the problem. It’s weakness of her arguments.

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Why It’s Ludicrous For Chuck Schumer To Claim Brett Kavanaugh Threatens...

The idea that the Supreme Court might strike down Obamacare, and that a Justice Kavanaugh would cast the deciding vote to do so, ranges from implausible to ridiculous.

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Confirming Kavanaugh Will Not Fix The Problem Of Judicial Supremacy

Even if Brett Kavanaugh turns out to be a tremendous originalist justice, the courts still represent a major threat to the republic.

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John Roberts Is Wrong. America’s Courts Are Obviously Politicized

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts’ attempt to defend the independence of the judiciary, in light of President Trump’s comments that courts are politicized, did more harm than good.

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How Overturning Roe Could Expand Abortion Inside The United States

In the event Roe gets overturned, it won't be the win for abortion abolition that pro-lifers claim. We must strategize accordingly.

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Why I Won’t Stop Asking Judicial Nominees If They Will Follow The Constitution

All too often, lower courts have used a bad legal doctrine to stop states and local governments from protecting the unborn, even when Supreme Court case law would allow it.

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The Supreme Court Is Not The Final Say On The Constitution

The judiciary’s rulings are not the supreme law of the land, even rulings from the Supreme Court. The judiciary is not the only or even final arbiter on the Constitution.

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Court-Packing Is Democrats’ Most Dangerous Attack On The Republic

Prior court-packing shows the practice can have disastrous, perhaps unforeseen results, and poses potential threats to our civil liberties.

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Wisconsin Supreme Court Battle Pits Grassroots Conservatives Against 2020...

While his opponent hopes to bring her focus on social justice to the state Supreme Court, Justice Dan Kelly wishes to ‘assiduously patrol the borders between the branches.’

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Cotton: If John Roberts Wants To Write Laws, He Should Resign And Run For Office

“If the Chief Justice believes his political judgment is so exquisite, I invite him to resign, travel to Iowa, and get elected," Cotton said.

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7 Times John Roberts Was A Leftist Hack

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is a politician — a politician who consistently makes laws, inconsistently applies the Constitution, and can't be voted out of office.

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The History Of Contentious SCOTUS Fights And How A New Justice Transforms The...

Ben Domenech and Ilya Shapiro discuss the history of contentious court fights and how they transitioned from an insulted political conflict into the public square.

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‘Republicans Pounce’ On Democrats’‘Hypothetical’ Plan To Destroy Judicial Branch

Whatever newsworthy event Democrats have caused is overshadowed by the fact that Republicans are attacking them for it.

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The Right Should Be Relieved SCOTUS Rejected Judicial Activism In Texas v....

After Texas v. Pennsylvania, conservatives must rediscover their opposition to judicial overreach. A Warren Court of the right is not the solution we need.

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Leftists Are Also Attempting To Court-Pack From The Bottom-Up

Leftist judicial activists have made calls to add as many as 250 judges between the district and appeals court levels.

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Post-Dobbs, The Abortion Battle Hits Activist State Courts

Abortion extremists have been working for years to ensure that if Roe and Casey were overturned, abortion-on-demand would remain the law of the land.

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As If Biden’s Border Crisis Weren’t Bad Enough, His Admin Is Booting...

A member of MS-13 received a lighter sentence after committing murder due to the overburdened judicial system.

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String Of Unanimous SCOTUS Decisions Confirms Proliferation Of Activist Lower...

Justices’ agreement suggests lower courts — not the highest bench in the land — are the judicial bodies that have ‘gone off the rails.’

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