In a previous article in these pages, I nominated Clinton v. City of New York as “one of the worst Supreme Court decisions in history.” In that 1998 case, the Supreme Court held unconstitutional the line-item veto, which had allowed…
President Joe Biden’s swap of a birdbrained basketball celebrity who refused to come out of the locker room for the playing of the national anthem — whom, risibly, he called “the best of America” — for the world’s most notorious,…
The House of Representatives’ struggle to elect a speaker has been repeatedly defined as “chaotic” by mainstream media outlets. Apparently, deliberation and debate are signs of disorder and are not to be desired in our society. While the phrase “threat…
Criticisms of originalism are nothing new. The frequency and intensity of originalism’s critics, however, have multiplied since the latest blockbuster Supreme Court decisions on gun rights and abortion. Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky has added another salvo in his new…
On Monday, Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered approximately 140 51-star American flags to be flown along Pennsylvania Avenue for Flag Day in support of statehood for the District of Columbia. Bowser’s directive is a violation of the U.S. Flag…
Our national life found its sure basis on a conversation. The Constitution captured the favor and the assent of the American People whose voice it invokes through an extended conversation carried on in the newspapers of the day and yet…
It’s Christmas in America, and we just got our present. Although West Virginia is coal country, its Democratic U.S. senator, Joe Manchin, actually blocked the monstrous sack full that Biden and the Democrats planned to dump on us this Christmas….
For many Americans, Santa Claus arrived early this year — though instead of descending the chimney, he appeared in living rooms courtesy of Fox News Sunday, in the form of Sen. Joe Manchin. As widely reported, Manchin told host Brett…
The U.S. Supreme Court for the second time in two months declined to stop a state vax mandate for healthcare workers pleading religious objections. The court declined to intervene to halt New York’s radical governor, Kathy Hochul, in her stunning denial…