In a previous American Spectator article, “Dems to Supremes: Shape Up or Pack Up!,” I examined the lessons to be drawn from Franklin Roosevelt’s failed 1937 effort to pack the Supreme Court by raising the number of justices from nine…
After the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 ruling Thursday that invalidated California’s practice of demanding that charities disclose their largest donors to the state attorney general, lawyer Casey Mattox of the conservative Americans for Prosperity Foundation marveled at the coalition…
It seems like it was only yesterday that liberals were declaring the imminent end of America over the replacement of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Eight months on, the kvetching from the Left has…
Sacramento In their zeal to promote unionization, California regulators and lawmakers have long taken a lackadaisical approach toward property rights, which shouldn’t surprise anyone who follows the antics of California’s progressive government. One of the best examples was the California…
Whatever leftists hope to accomplish with Trump’s impeachment, it is not the unity Biden espouses. By ignoring Biden’s call, leftists are throwing down a gauntlet and demanding he choose between them and unity. Whether they admit it or not, the…
On Tuesday, 45 senators stood up to declare the impeachment proceedings against someone not holding office to be unconstitutional. No reasonable person can imagine that anyone who believes that the whole proceeding is illegitimate will ever vote to convict someone…
Social conservatives have spent the 48 years since Roe v. Wade in a tug-of-war with liberals, trying to appoint Supreme Court justices who can finally shift the balance on abortion. The effort has failed spectacularly (thus far), as subsequent rulings,…
Amy Coney Barrett isn’t the only jurist on President Trump’s list of potential successors to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court, but she is certainly the most feared by the Left. This became clear in 2017, when Trump…
Three elections ago — all the way back in 2008 — Joe Biden talked a lot about “kitchen table issues,” the questions that faced American families that were so important that they talked about them around the kitchen table. They…
