The Democrats are casting themselves this week as the great custodians of democracy, chasing away the apostates in its temple. Never mind that the whole point of their partisan exercise in the Senate is to remove a democratic choice from…

Joe Biden has said that he will only appoint “living” constitutionalists to the courts. Unless they find unstated rights in the Constitution, he won’t name them: “I would look to judges, potential nominees, they would have to acknowledge the fact…

Conservatives are interested in conserving things. The past has meaning in the present. Anti-conservative rhetoric often dismisses this interest by arguing that the past is merely a dead hand and it must be left behind. The proper reply to such…

The Wednesday Wall Street Journal takes Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch to task, and deservedly so, for his incredibly living-constitution opinion in Bostock v. Clayton County. In the jaw-dropping opinion Gorsuch wrote, one which could have been dictated by any one…