I received a text yesterday from House majority leader Steve Scalise, not exactly personal to be sure, but one whose message resonated. “I am still fuming over the disgraceful Trump trial,” said Scalise. So, of course, am I and every…
“The idea that we need to choose between justice and safety is false,” George Soros wrote in 2022. “They reinforce each other: If people trust the justice system, it will work. And if the system works, public safety will improve.”…
I attended UCLA School of Law from August 1990 to May 1993. I was chief articles editor of the UCLA Law Review and then moved on to clerk for a brilliant (I add: most brilliant) federal appeals court judge, the…
The Democrat double-standard machine is in sixth gear, its default position when it concerns Donald J. Trump. Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan slapped a gag order on the former president in his so-called hush-money case. Merchan accused Trump of making “threatening, inflammatory, denigrating” comments about…
O.J. Simpson acted as a transracial figure prior to June of 1994. Post–June 1994, he acted as a racially polarizing figure who did more to stoke resentments against African Americans than any other person. Some African Americans, angered over the…
WASHINGTON — “Biden nominates union lawyer, Muslim American to U.S. appeals courts,” read the Reuters headline in November when President Joe Biden tapped Nicole Berner and Adeel Mangi for federal judgeships. I lead with the headline because I don’t want…
Israel is fighting for its life. The Hamas war means that terrorist rockets are still raining down on Israeli civilians. The war may yet spread to Lebanon thanks to Iran’s other main Iranian proxy force, Hizballah, which has been making…
Jury duty gets a bad rap and for good reason: It’s time consuming, disruptive, and often means being away from seemingly more important things. But juries are critical to the American legal system and to the concept of justice in…
In 2020, a small group of Montana minors filed a lawsuit to force Montana officials to consider climate change when they approve fossil fuel projects. Their lawsuit, Held v. Montana, argued that children are “uniquely vulnerable” to climate change; hence…
