Judicial Activism And Charles Murray’s Call For Civil Disobedience
Charles Murray has a knack for sparking conversations. His last book, Coming Apart, inspired a lengthy conversation on the center-right about economic mobility, wage stagnation, and inequality which...
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Gay Marriage Is Here – Now What?
Reactions from Newt Gingrich, Mike Lee, Ilya Shapiro, Heather Wilhelm, Hunter Baker, Eric Teetsel, Robby Soave, John Davidson, Rachel Lu, D.C. McAllister, Leslie Loftis, Amy Otto, Daniel Payne, and...
View ArticleIt’s Time To Make The Supreme Court Boring Again
In the second presidential debate, Hillary Clinton described her ideal Supreme Court Justice: someone who “understands the way the world really works, who ha[s] real life experiences.” During...
View ArticleTo Fight Assisted Suicide In The Courts, Stop Arguing Federalism
The Supreme Court recently granted the “transgender bathroom” case, another reminder that the court has a say in such diverse questions as how long Tom Brady’s September vacation should be to who can...
View ArticleWhy Judges Should Forget About Finding Legislative Intent
One of the most important achievements of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s career is the emergence of textualism as an accepted method of statutory interpretation. The basic concept is fairly...
View ArticleChuck Schumer’s Attacks On Neil Gorsuch Are Un-American
If Democrats want to filibuster Donald Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, they’re entitled to do it. In fact, Democrats are free to try and stop the Neil Gorsuch confirmation for any reason they...
View ArticleDoes Gorsuch’s Respect For Precedent Mean He Will Never Strike Roe?
Progressives are not known to highly value tradition, nor do they much care what prior generations thought. It is thus a curious spectacle when every few years, after a Republican president nominates...
View ArticleWyoming Censures Judge For Marriage Beliefs Even Though No Law Requires Her...
Earlier this month, the Wyoming Supreme Court handed down a 3-2 decision in the case of Judge Ruth Neely from Pinedale. Writing for the majority, Justice Kate Fox said, “Judge Neely violated Rules 1.2,...
View ArticleWhy You Shouldn’t Cheer Every Time Courts Do What You Want
People who oppose a given government policy often cheer when the judiciary intervenes to stop it. Take the Americans who disliked President Trump’s first executive order on immigration. They were...
View ArticleThe Left’s Contempt For The Law Is Destroying Public Trust
When I clerked for a federal district judge, I observed the entire process of several trials in our court. The jury selection. The judge’s opening remarks to the jury. The opening statements by the...
View ArticleFederal Judges Set A Dangerous Precedent By Blocking Trump’s Military Orders
Monday a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to accept transgender people for military service starting January 1 as court cases about this Obama-era policy move forward. Last week, another...
View ArticleOregon Court Holds Bakers Responsible For How People Feel About What They Say
The Oregon Court of Appeals decided unanimously this week to uphold a $135,000 fine against the owners of a local cake shop who declined to use their artistic skills to create a custom cake for a...
View ArticleLeft Finally Admits They Pack Courts With Politicized Judges, And Plan To Amp...
Still smarting over the election of President Trump, some on the Left have concocted another scheme to gain the arbitrary and unlimited power they believe they deserve. One of the writers pushing the...
View ArticleRepublicans Shouldn’t Ask Judges To Strike Obamacare When Congress Won’t
On Thursday, a group of Democratic attorneys general received permission to intervene in a lawsuit filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and other Republican officials. That lawsuit, originally...
View ArticleHow Potential SCOTUS Pick Brett Kavanaugh Wrote A Roadmap For Saving Obamacare
In a 2015 dissent to an Obamacare case, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia famously opined that the court had concluded “that this limitation would prevent the rest of [Obamacare] from working as...
View ArticleTomi Lahren’s Position On Roe v. Wade Makes Absolutely No Sense
Tomi Lahren recently made the case that conservatives were doing their cause a disservice by openly advocating for a challenge of Roe v. Wade in the wake of Donald Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh...
View ArticleWhy It’s Ludicrous For Chuck Schumer To Claim Brett Kavanaugh Threatens...
So much for subtle. On Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) placed health care at the top of the list of reasons to oppose Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, throwing in...
View ArticleConfirming 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.
View ArticleJohn 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.
View ArticleHow 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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