On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in the case of Trump v. CASA, Inc. Though the case arises out of President Donald Trump’s January executive order on birthright citizenship and the 14th Amendment, Thursday’s oral argument had…
Last week, after their absurd attempt to make a martyr of Salvadoran deportee Kilmar Abrego Garcia, some Democrats seemed to realize they had committed a political blunder. As Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) put it, “I don’t know if that’s the…
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…
As an old political science professor speaking to law-school oriented Federalist Society students, I had long offered a course labeled “The Real Constitution” to distinguish mine from the one taught in law schools. Recently, the title attracted two Federalist chapter…
Sigmund Freud dies and goes to Heaven, where he is met by a frantic Saint Peter. “Dr. Freud, we desperately need your help!” “Why?” asks Freud. “What’s the problem?” “It’s God. He’s having delusions of grandeur,” Peter replies. “He thinks…
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…
At his 2005 Senate confirmation hearing to be chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, John Roberts famously invoked America’s national pastime in describing his view of the judicial role in our constitutional order: “Judges are like umpires. Umpires…
America, unfortunately, has long been suffering from a crisis of civics. Put simply, many Americans are woefully ignorant about the structure and features of their government. But every so often, an opportunity emerges to reteach some basics. The media’s predictable…
In response to recent Supreme Court decisions, President Joe Biden has proposed landmark reforms, which he claims will improve the court’s ethics and transparency. Critics argue this is another attempt to inject politics into the courtroom and increase control over…
