The Wisconsin Supreme Court race that saw Dane County Judge Susan Crawford defeat Waukesha Judge Brad Schimel was a reality check to Republicans nationwide and saw Wisconsin liberals continue to maintain a majority left-leaning State Supreme Court for the near…
Dear American Spectator Readers (or as it says on a coffee mug that I received for attending one of TAS’s annual dinners, other “proud members of the vast right-wing conspiracy”): I apologize for having been AWOL for a while, but I…
The 85 essays that comprise The Federalist Papers are in great measure concerned with the principle of the separation of powers — that “the legislative, executive and judiciary departments ought to be separate and distinct,” since the “accumulation of all…
The constitutional crisis Democrats are decrying is the one they intend to create. It is part of the campaign to delegitimize Trump that they have been waging for the last decade — from his first campaign to his first term, to…
Sometimes when running through seemingly settled arguments, we can’t see the forest of clarity for the trees of minutia thanks to bumping our faces into their distracting limbs. So, before we get to those trees, let us look at that…
“Who is James K. Polk?” his opponents in the 1844 presidential election mockingly asked. Two centuries later, the question is asked again more quizzically. For one thing, James K. Polk proved a president can be both a big-picture visionary and…
In Federalist 70, Alexander Hamilton wrote that “Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the community against foreign attacks. It is not less essential to the…
Donald Trump’s whirlwind of action in the first seven weeks of his second term provokes mouth-agape admiration from the right and flat-footed bewilderment on the left. From slashing 83 percent of USAID to transforming border crossings from firehose to garden…
Say what? The Constitution of the United States is crystal clear. Section 1 of Article II opens with this sentence: “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” Period. End of instruction. The…
